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It was another busy, but productive day at work. I stayed a little later working with my director on some month end reports that had variances. Then I drove home and Nicole was making some spaghetti for dinner. We had regular spaghetti noodles, but she also made some “squash noddles” as a substitute to the regular noodles. I stuck with the regular noodles, spaghetti sauce, meatballs, and garlic bread. Nicole said she wasn’t very impressed with the squash noodles, but thought they tasted better after she baked them a little more. Zac loved his spaghetti and of course Parker ate great. (I think he might have eaten more than I did!)

After dinner we played Guess Who?!, which was one of the new board games we got the boys for Christmas. I wish I would have taken video of the boys playing against each other and asking questions…”Does your guy have glasses”/”Is your guy bald” haha. Zac was especially funny to listen to the way he asked the questions. I think I’ve been caught off guard by how well Parker understands how to play the game…he can play without any of our help. He knows that if I say my person is wearing a hat, he should close all of his characters that aren’t wearing a hat, and so on. I’m sure that’s normal for a 4 and a half year old to be able to do, but sometimes it feels like the transition of him being able to do more and more on his own is happening so fast. It seems like it was not long ago at all when he was still asking if he was putting his shoes on the right feet (haha), or struggling to put together a puzzle (now he’s a pro!). Zac won’t be far behind…even in just the past few months his sentences have gotten much better/advanced (with the exception of continuing to say “me” instead of “I”, but that’s still cute for now).

Time goes by twice as fast once you have kids…

After our games of Guess Who?! we watched a little TV (Happy Feet) before taking the boys up to bed to read a couple books. Not a very eventful day today, but still a great day!!

I didn’t take any pictures today, but here’s an old one of Parker eating a Skyline 3-way to help give an idea of how much he enjoys spaghetti 🙂

Back to work today! I worked Monday and most of last week, but there were a lot of other people that have been out of the office and returned to work today. It was nice to have the office a little more quiet and very few meetings which allowed me to catch up on work over the past week. Work is the busiest it’s ever been for me right now and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down anytime soon…but that’s OK with me. Today was another busy day with “month end” in full swing.

Today was Nicole’s last day of Christmas break and she watched Logan during the day for Michael and Megan while they were at work. Nicole sent me pictures throughout the day and it looked like they had a fun last day of break. Parker, Zac, and Nicole had haircut appointments at 4:45 so I came home in time for them to leave to go to the appointments and watch Logan until Megan came to pick him up. He just slept in his rocker, but I’m always thankful for any time I get to spend with my nephew.

Megan picked up Logan and then I left to go pick up our new chair that we bought to put where our rocking chair used to be before we got our new floors. The chair is more of an “accent” chair and it ended up fitting perfectly where we put it. Of course the boys, fresh from getting their haircut, had to try it out as soon as they got home..they both approve! Their shirts were “itchy” from haircuts and just had to come off haha

Nicole and I had a late dinner while the boys relaxed and watched their tablets, since they already ate earlier. They were already tired from another full day of playing so it was an early bed time tonight. Probably best since it’s back to school tomorrow!

Not a bad second day of 2019 🙂

The Blog is back!

I decided a few months ago that I wanted to get back into blogging, but didn’t know if it would be worth it or if I’d have enough interesting topics to talk about.

With some encouragement from my best friend, my wife, and others I’m excited to announce that the blog is back!
I turned 32 this past Saturday, November 10th and decided that this is the right time to make my first blog post on the new www.jeffkblog.com website.

The format is still being decided and will evolve, but I think it will be a mix of personal/family posts, home maintenance/projects posts and random thoughts/events.

This first post will be somewhat short and just a recap of a great birthday weekend.

Nicole took Parker and Zac to the store so they could both pick out a present on their own for me…those always turn out to be some of the best presents. While they were out, I went to Starbucks to order my “free birthday drink”…a Venti Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino with 1 pump of peppermint. (tip: when given a free drink choice from Starbucks, always be sure to upgrade to Venti)

I watched some of the UK football game in the downstairs family room while Parker decorated for my birthday party. I wasn’t allowed to come up until he was finished, and he did a great job!

My mom, dad, brother, sister-in-law, nieces, and new 6 week old nephew all came over to our house for dinner on Saturday. Nicole made some queso dip, little smokies in Montgomery Inn BBQ sauce, and buffalo chicken dip appetizers and we ordered some Larosa’s pizza…a perfect birthday dinner!

We ate birthday cake from Whit’s Frozen Custard in Independence, and also had fresh, homemade cookies. My mom made Cowboy cookies (my favorite) as part of my present!

The kids all ran around the house playing, having a fun evening. They all made it a great birthday! I’m looking forward to another great year!

Oh, my presents from the kids:

• Parker picked out a portable snow shovel to keep in my Jeep
• Zac picked out an ice scraper/brush to keep in my Jeep

Bring on the ice and snow!! 🙂

• And Nicole gave me a book about blogging!

Future blog articles:

• Our 5 year wedding anniversary trip back to Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun
• The process of painting our kitchen cabinets
• How we decided on a back deck, six years after moving into our home
• Updating our back patio door and replacing our flooring through the first floor
• Our first adventure into the kids playing organized sports: Soccer