Archive for the 'holidays' Category

christmas with the McKirdy Family +

Happy-Cheesy-Smile-Christmas from the McKirdy/Blase/Keyzer/Kato/Vanderzee/Broadbears!
Yet another awesome smile from the kid on Christmas #2.

: )

Listening: Vampire Weekend (the new album - BUT, I just can’t stop thinking that this is the new “Your Mom’s Favorite Band” - which makes me not really want to listen anymore)

merry merry!


christmas with the Blase Family

Happy-Cheesy-Smile-Christmas from the Blases.

: )

guest post : from grandpa (pawbaw)

Last night Desley and I were babysitting H when a near disaster happened.
Des was cooking and inadvertently let some oil get too hot in a pan and added water. A flame-up resulted and lasted until Des could turn the gas burner off. Harrison and I were at the other end of the kitchen. After the [...]

thanksgiving, oh what have you done to my son?

We had a lovely, lovely turkey day with Finn’s family. Absolutely one of the best t-day meals I have ever had. Thank you to you all for letting us crash.
There was football on upstairs and while we were waiting for dinner H and I crawled up to take a peek. We were maybe in front [...]

good grief!

Halloween started off harmless enough. I quick trip to Etsy to find some kind of costume - because there is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that I am ready to start MAKING HALLOWEEN COSTUMES like you crazy I mean, craftily-inclined people out there (and that includes you mom)!
Charlie Brown t-shirt - check. Shorts - check. Socks [...]

true love

I knew that the love one feels from their grandparents is pretty great, but, I gotta say, Great-Grandpa-Love is unrivaled. We got to spend a few days around Christmas with Marc’s parents and Great-G-Pa Blase, who gushes over his great-grandson and looks at him with beautiful, warm, loving eyes and holds him with such sweet, [...]

photos!

Some photos from Christmas - finally! - including this one where he is practically tripping over his eyelashes:

Listening: Surf City

the holidays are over

We made it back from our “vacation” - 3 weeks with family in California. My plan was to take a day or two to relax and then leave the kid with any grandparent, aunt, uncle, or nice looking stranger I could find so that Marc and I could get out of the house, see some [...]

merry germ-infested cliche

We took the kid to the mall (gasp!) on Christmas Eve (yikes!) in Bakersfield (ugh!) to get his photo taken with the jolly, red-suited, fat-guy. We luckily timed it perfectly - got there a short while before Santa arrived - the whole experience only took about 40 minutes. 40 minutes was, however, long enough for [...]