Thursday, December 29, 2005
Trevor Levi Brancheau
Here are some pictures of Jeremy & Jessica's new son Trevor Levi. He was born last night at 11:03pm weighing 8lbs 11oz & was 22in long. Everyone is doing fine.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Holiday Weekend Update
Well it is over for another year. Christmas was ok this year. It was good, but it seems that as I get older it just isn’t as fun as I always remembered it. It could be the stress of being an adult, having a family, juggling all the different family gatherings, or maybe it is just life in general. Life has been pretty stressful this year. Getting a dog, moving to a new house, & having a baby, just to name the big things & all to a person who doesn’t deal well with change. My resolution for the New Year is to relax, slow down & spend some more time with my kids. We have a wonderful yard to have a blast in. Logan & me are going to take up gardening.
This was the year of the train for Logan. He got some train track from Grandma & Grandpa Perkins & Elicia & I got him a train table set.
He got a bunch of learning stuff from Grandma & Grandpa Brancheau. He is really smart & loves the leapfrog videos. I got some hunting stuff & a very nice, very warm carhart coat to go with my coverall’s. Elicia got some perfume, & a really cool bird feeder. I can’t wait until it is warm again so I can install it. This is Iowa so maybe I will get a change next week. This wonderful state hasn’t seen a white Christmas in over 5 years & it only takes an inch of snow to qualify as a white Christmas. I miss the Michigan winters. My theory: if it is going to be cold then there ought to be snow in the ground. Maybe next year we will pack up & go to Michigan to grandmas for Christmas.
My grandparents are coming out this week to see us & they have decided to come to all of our houses. So that has sent me into a spin trying to get things in order before my grandpa comes. I told Elicia yesterday that it seems like there is never a shortage of projects with an old farmhouse. Every time I walk through the house I spot something new that needs fixed of changed to suit us. I am just going to start a list & slowly cross them off as I complete them. I love doing that kind of stuff. To me that is what makes a house a home. It is what makes it your own home.
I have pictures of Christmas & I will try to get them up this week.
This was the year of the train for Logan. He got some train track from Grandma & Grandpa Perkins & Elicia & I got him a train table set.
He got a bunch of learning stuff from Grandma & Grandpa Brancheau. He is really smart & loves the leapfrog videos. I got some hunting stuff & a very nice, very warm carhart coat to go with my coverall’s. Elicia got some perfume, & a really cool bird feeder. I can’t wait until it is warm again so I can install it. This is Iowa so maybe I will get a change next week. This wonderful state hasn’t seen a white Christmas in over 5 years & it only takes an inch of snow to qualify as a white Christmas. I miss the Michigan winters. My theory: if it is going to be cold then there ought to be snow in the ground. Maybe next year we will pack up & go to Michigan to grandmas for Christmas.My grandparents are coming out this week to see us & they have decided to come to all of our houses. So that has sent me into a spin trying to get things in order before my grandpa comes. I told Elicia yesterday that it seems like there is never a shortage of projects with an old farmhouse. Every time I walk through the house I spot something new that needs fixed of changed to suit us. I am just going to start a list & slowly cross them off as I complete them. I love doing that kind of stuff. To me that is what makes a house a home. It is what makes it your own home.
I have pictures of Christmas & I will try to get them up this week.
Monday, December 19, 2005
Death, Gloom, Despair & Agony…
A perfect record was tarnished yesterday. The chase for a perfect season ended. The colts lost to the chargers 17-26. I am totally convinced that they lost because I wasn’t there to watch the game. I did watch part of the game while I was out to lunch. It was early in the game & it wasn’t looking good then so I made peace that this could be the game that they loose. You had to know that someone was going to beat them sooner or later, although we haven’t had an undefeated season since the 1972 dolphins.
This last week has been really busy. I have been trying to catch up since coming home from Michigan. I am the only one who does my job & my employer thinks I am superman & that they only need one person to do my job, so I am really backed up.
I spent this last weekend with my in-laws for Christmas. My cousin/future brother in law was here from Michigan for the week, so we had Christmas a week early. My father in law decided to get back into the deer business again this year so I help process some deer. Seeing all the massive racks hanging, renewed the buck fever in me. Today starts late muzzleloader in Iowa. It runs until 1-11-06 & I have some holiday weekends coming up, so I am hopeful.
We went to see The Chronicles of Narnia last night. It was slow starting but I was impressed, I really liked it. I hope they keep the series going.
This last week has been really busy. I have been trying to catch up since coming home from Michigan. I am the only one who does my job & my employer thinks I am superman & that they only need one person to do my job, so I am really backed up.
I spent this last weekend with my in-laws for Christmas. My cousin/future brother in law was here from Michigan for the week, so we had Christmas a week early. My father in law decided to get back into the deer business again this year so I help process some deer. Seeing all the massive racks hanging, renewed the buck fever in me. Today starts late muzzleloader in Iowa. It runs until 1-11-06 & I have some holiday weekends coming up, so I am hopeful.
We went to see The Chronicles of Narnia last night. It was slow starting but I was impressed, I really liked it. I hope they keep the series going.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Great Memories.
Sorry I haven’t written anything in a few days. Work has been very busy after the long weekend & December is always a busy time in the corporate world. Everybody is trying to finish the year’s work & stay on top of things for the holidays. Between work & a video job I am doing it seems like I hardly have time to eat. Oh well.
It seems to be the week of death in my family this week. Elicia’s great grandma died on Monday & the funeral is tomorrow. My dad called me today on his way home from seeing my grandpa & his time is very short. My grandpa’s death I think will be very hard. I think it will be the first person to die that is close to me. Any other death that I have experienced has been people or family that my parents knew or were close to & didn’t have the effect on me that my grandpa will. I heard that hospice said that if my grandma was going to have Christmas to have it now. It sounds like my dad is going to go back up there after the weekend. If the family is getting together for a last Christmas than I may try & leave next week to go be with them. I told myself that I wasn’t going to go up there until he died, but the more I think about it I think I really want to see him again. I would love to have him hold his grand daughter, only the second Brancheau girl. I would love to hug him again & tell him that I love him. Life will be very different with out him. What a horrible time of year to die. I think my best memories of him were at Christmas time, the old farmhouse on Manning Hill, snow on the ground & the smell of wood smoke from the chimney. I can remember waking up to the sound of my grandpa banging pots & pans & the smell of grandma cooking breakfast. We would come downstairs & sit on the giant vent from the wood stove to warm ourselves, Christmas music playing, the whole family was there including Jimmie (Grandpa’s somewhat adopted child). Breakfast was always good, we would open our gifts & play with our toys, watch Christmas specials on TV, & grandpa would pin us to the ground & wrestle us & our parents would have to call us in from sledding or playing with our toys for Christmas dinner. That is the way I always want to remember him. I will always have those great memories to hold on to.
Well we got 3-4 inches of snow last night. I was kind of excited because I wanted to see how the snow fell & drifted at the house. We didn’t have a lot of wind with this storm so I couldn’t really see how well my snow fences work. My philosophy is if it is freezing cold than there ought to be snow on the ground. So I don’t mind a little white, beside it’s Christmas time & you need snow for Christmas.
It seems to be the week of death in my family this week. Elicia’s great grandma died on Monday & the funeral is tomorrow. My dad called me today on his way home from seeing my grandpa & his time is very short. My grandpa’s death I think will be very hard. I think it will be the first person to die that is close to me. Any other death that I have experienced has been people or family that my parents knew or were close to & didn’t have the effect on me that my grandpa will. I heard that hospice said that if my grandma was going to have Christmas to have it now. It sounds like my dad is going to go back up there after the weekend. If the family is getting together for a last Christmas than I may try & leave next week to go be with them. I told myself that I wasn’t going to go up there until he died, but the more I think about it I think I really want to see him again. I would love to have him hold his grand daughter, only the second Brancheau girl. I would love to hug him again & tell him that I love him. Life will be very different with out him. What a horrible time of year to die. I think my best memories of him were at Christmas time, the old farmhouse on Manning Hill, snow on the ground & the smell of wood smoke from the chimney. I can remember waking up to the sound of my grandpa banging pots & pans & the smell of grandma cooking breakfast. We would come downstairs & sit on the giant vent from the wood stove to warm ourselves, Christmas music playing, the whole family was there including Jimmie (Grandpa’s somewhat adopted child). Breakfast was always good, we would open our gifts & play with our toys, watch Christmas specials on TV, & grandpa would pin us to the ground & wrestle us & our parents would have to call us in from sledding or playing with our toys for Christmas dinner. That is the way I always want to remember him. I will always have those great memories to hold on to.
Well we got 3-4 inches of snow last night. I was kind of excited because I wanted to see how the snow fell & drifted at the house. We didn’t have a lot of wind with this storm so I couldn’t really see how well my snow fences work. My philosophy is if it is freezing cold than there ought to be snow on the ground. So I don’t mind a little white, beside it’s Christmas time & you need snow for Christmas.
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