Sunday, January 29, 2012

Weekly Email

Hi Mom and Dad,
We've spoken a few times is week so I don't have much to report.
Theresa and I are watching "Moneyball" on DVD tonight (in between loads of laundry). The girls are downstairs watching "Mean Girls".
The winter ball and sleepover went fine for Chloe. She followed through with everything she agreed too. I called the mom of the sleepover early in the afternoon to make sure it was all on the up and up. And then met the both the parents when I dropped Chloe off.
Megan had a sleepover too last night across the street at Whitney's house.
Theresa and I sang in the praise choir this morning. After church she went grocery shopping and I practiced music for the men's retreat. Megan had her second guitar lesson tonight at 6pm as well.
Good win by Missouri yesterday. Tough day for Kansas and Arizona. We did watch the end of that UofA game. Too bad!
Well that's about it.
Luv u,
Jeff

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Weekly Email

Hi Mom & Dad,

We caught up a little last night so I don't have much new.

The girls are down at Flatiron Crossing looking for a dress for Chloe for the winter ball in Feb.  I'm kinda watching the football game in the background.

We didn't end up watching a movie last night.  We watched a reality tv show called 'DC Cupcakes' - they made a one ton cupcake to break the world record.  Then we all played one game of spite and malice.  I won  Then the girls played WII and Theresa and I went upstairs and watch an episode of Mad Men.

I've signed up for the men's retreat at Calvary Feb. 10-12.  It's the first time I've gone in many years (maybe 4 or 5 years).  I'm also helping out with the music.  Should be a good time.

I started doing my taxes early this morning.  I don't quite have all the paperwork yet though so I can't finish it.

We've had some amazing winds this past week.  Fences and trees blown down all over the place.  We lost a tile out of our patio table on the back deck that shattered into pieces.  But, nothing worse than that.  Other than that, just several nights of no sleep, and grumpiness the next day :-(

Well, nothing much else interesting to report on.  So I'll sign off.  Until next week!

luv u,

Jeff

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Weekly Email

Hi Mom (and Dad)
Once again I've left this 'til late and I'm running out of steam on a
Sunday night. So this will be short and sweet.
I watched the Broncos get pummeled yesterday. Oh well, it was a good
season. Earlier in the day I watched the Tigers beat Texas. That was
fun. We watched the movies Red w/Bruce Willis on Friday and Zookeeper
w/Kevin James tonight - both were pretty good. Theresa is watching
Downton Abbey Season 2 on PBS right now. She really enjoys it - don't
know if you've seen it.
I played at church this morning and Theresa worked. So, we were a
little disjointed. Chloe dropped Megan off for first service and then
drove herself back for second service. Megan walked home. Chloe has
been finding any excuse to drive everywhere. Basketball games,
lunches, friends houses etc.
We had fun at Bring It On The Musical. It wasn't very 'deep' but it
was up beat and positive and the girls really enjoyed it. We didn't
home and in bed until midnight on Wednesday - too late for me.
Other than that it was a normal busy week. BSF in Monday, I actually
hung out with a friend on Tuesday night instead of Theresa going to
girls night out, Wednesday was the musical, and music practice on
Thursday. Megan is going strong in Fiddler on the Roof - she told me
she has a solo as a Russian girl in one of the songs.
I got the part for the garage and it did the trick. Yeah! $30 and
we're back in business.
We are scheduled to return electric blue on Tuesday morning. It sure
has been nice having and I will be sad to see it go. With Chloe,
driving it's been nice to have 3 cars. I imagine at some point we'll
have to figure out something for her. Although I added her to our
insurance of an extra $800/year (compared to $1,200/year for BOTH
Theresa and I).
Well that's about it for now.
Luv u,
Jeff

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Weekly Email

Hi Mom and Dad,
Whew - it's been a hard, busy week after a lovely vacation. Tough to get back into the swing of things. Just the normal routine though.
Of course our big news is Chloe passing her driving test. She drove to pick up Megan from school and also to the BHS b-ball game on Friday night, out to a party in Erie on Saturday night, and then to Target today. Anything to just drive :-). Our garage door opener broke yesterday so that has been a real pain. I ordered a new circuit board off of EBay today for $30 that hopefully fixes it. It won't arrive until late next week. Until then we have to manually heft the door up and down.
I went for an eye exam on Thursday morning. I'm officially old and had to go buy some 'readers' from Walgrens. My LASIK is still holding up though - 20/20 far away.