http://blog.webefranklin.com A fly on the wall in the Franklin house Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:38:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Besides the new house, here's some more excitement that I don't want to fail to mention! My facebook friends have already seen these... Timothy's first hit off the machine in baseball. Emily's presentation at the PTA Reflections Awards. Her newsletter without illustrations (we didn't get it scanned after she drew the pictures) Zachary's ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2009/04/26/bragging-rights/ Well, it’s been a few months since my last post.  Rather than telling you why, let me show you what we’ve been up to…. We’ve admired this house from the outside for 8 years and had often thought that one day we’d like to build one that looked just ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2009/04/25/dreams-do-come-true/ For the past few months, we have been in the process of trying to find a home to buy. We are really hoping to find a house with 4 bedrooms so that each of the kids will have their own room, and have found that there just aren't many ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2009/02/07/fruit-basket-turnover/ Well, it's been a couple months since my last post. Rather than trying to relive the holidays and get caught up, I am going to just start back up from here. The holidays were great, but I don't think I could give a very accurate retelling at this ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2009/02/01/radical-cartwheels/ Zachary's birthday was last Sunday, December 7th. He has been looking forward to turning 4 for quite some time. For the last year, any time anyone would have a birthday in which they would turn anything over age 3, he would inform us that he was still three ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/12/13/celebration/ Happy Birthday Zachary! I knew from the first day that life would be more fun with you around. Thanks for making us laugh!The week long celebration came to an end tonight with a trip to the North Pole on the Polar Express.    A full account with LOTS of pictures to come ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/12/07/four/ Tonight was Timothy's School Christmas Program. It seems that their teachers' still believe that they are angels. As you'll see in the video, Timothy had a little trouble keeping his halo on. It didn't stop him from singing though! If that doesn't put you in the ... http://blog.webefranklin.com/2008/12/02/a-host-of-angels/ 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/