http://blog.webefranklin.com A fly on the wall in the Franklin house Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:04:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Emily brought home her 3rd grade school picture today.  Isn't she stunning? We've been waiting for hers so we could post both of our school kids' pics. Here's Timothy's Kindergarten picture.  What a good looking guy! :) http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/11/04/school-kids/ Came across this at Scott's Aunt's place.  It seemed simple and fun enough, so I thought I'd do it too!   Open up the pictures folder on your computer, choose the fourth folder and then the fourth photo. Viola. 4×4. Try it.Here is my picture:   Aw.  My ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/11/02/4-x-4/ We spent most of the week dreading Halloween night.  Not because we don't like Halloween.  We usually enjoy letting the kids dress up and go trick-or-treating, but this year we found ourselves pulled in several directions.  There were a couple houses that I'd promised to bring the kids to, Trunk-a-Treat ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/11/01/an-angel-a-transformer-and-a-clone-trooper/ Yesterday, Zachary and I went to the pumpkin patch with Timothy and his class.  Being a small, private school, they do not take busses on field trips.  Instead, they depend on parents to travel with them to the destination.  So I loaded Timothy, Zachary, and three of Timothy's classmates into ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/10/30/pumpkin-patch/ When I got my jobs, I immediately began looking for a "school" for Zachary.  I didn't want to put him in a daycare, but in a school.  In a perfect world, I would have found a place like where he was last year in Lubbock.  There are really three ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/10/30/life-with-zachry/ Timothy started playing flag football this week.  It really is quite comical to watch a bunch 4, 5, & 6 year olds play football.  Unlike t-ball, there is quite of bit of education that the kids need to play football.  In t-ball, the kids need to know to hit ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/09/20/plainview-redskins/ * August 30 Holy moly!  My oldest child is 8 years old today. As you know, we already had her party.  We celebrated her birthday at school yesterday with cookies.  Today, we went to Lubbock while Emily went to a friend's party and we did some shopping.  Then we met ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/09/19/happy-birthday-emily/ * August 25th Emily started 3rd Grade today!  I can't believe it.  It seems like just yesterday that I was taking her to Kindergarten.  She is attending LaMesa Elementary.  This is the same school she attending for 1st grade, and she is just delighted to be back to the ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/09/19/back-to-school/ * August 23 We had Emily's 8th birthday party last night.  When we started planning the party, we were still living in Lubbock.  Emily knew she wanted to invited her two best friends from Plainview and a group of friends from school / church in Lubbock as well.  She wanted ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/09/19/party-at-gatti-land/ * August 21 Happy Birthday Scott!  I love ya! Today is Scott's 32nd Birthday.  In case you're wondering, that's 100,000 in binary.  He says his next "cool" birthday is 64 -- age 1,000,000.  He started class yesterday by telling all his students that he would be 100,000 years old today. ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/09/19/100000-years/