So Daulton is now a teenager. He was with Michelle all day, so we just did presents and cake and then headed to our friends Mike and Jessi's place to watch fireworks. They live on the bay and have a great view. Daulton spent much of his time playing the video game Rock Band, but I think he saw some of the fireworks from the living room.
I participated in the Relay for Life again this year at my high school. The event, held all over the country every year, benefits the American Cancer Society and their fight to find a cure for cancer.
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Our annual trip to Florida was delayed last year, so we headed down in March this Spring. The weather, to say the least, was much more favorable in March than it has been in August past years. The photos are samplings of all we did there this year.
Daulton has been grounded from video games for a while, so he's also been coming up with some great activity ideas. We finally had the time and snow to head outside and pummel each other with the cold white stuff. These photos are of the boys, but I will proudly say I took a lot of snow shoved in my face, thanks to Daulton, and I lived to tell about it.
we headed downtown to the art museum last Sunday. because we were so close we drove to the dock to see the frozen bay and ice fishermen. Daulton asked if we could drive to the opposite side on the peninsula, so we headed west. there is a new roller coaster going in down by the peninsula opening, and it actually crosses a bridge over the road, so it was neat to see the progress they had made. we got so far on the peninsula and I remembered how I had always wanted to walk on the bay, so we parked and followed some other non-icefishing people out onto the ice. Daulton and I walked out pretty far, Chris stayed back and took these photos.
Michelle took this photo of Daulton with her mancoon cat, Bailey. As you can tell, the cat is huge. I think it's funny because her other cat, Lacey, is so tiny she still looks like a kitten. I refer to them as 'extra-large' and 'extra-small'. Not really clever, but very fitting.
My drive to work is about 50 minutes door to door, but it's almost all highway driving, so I really don't mind it much at all. I get to listen to music or talk radio and just kind of relax.
So Daulton got a Spiderman puzzle for his birthday last year. After much prompting from me to get him to start it, I finally started it myself sometime in November. The three of us finished it rather quickly, and Daulton actually seemed to get some enjoyment out of it, much to his surprise I'm sure.
Chris and I planned a 'German night' for New Year's eve this year. Daulton was NOT happy about the prospect of saurkraut, so he didn't eat too much of the kielbasa we cooked, but Chris and I enjoyed it with potato latkes and applesauce—and plenty of wine! We all enjoyed a German chocolate dessert bar sometime later (compliments of the grocery store).
Well, it's long overdue, but here is a bit about how our 2007 wrapped up. Daulton spent Christmas Eve with Michelle, so Chris and I spent it at my parents' house. My brother and his fiance and my sister and her boyfriend were all in town, so we played board games and had visits from friends, too.
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