Ian Joseph Horenziak

We have a new nephew!!

Congratulations to Tom and Katie for the birth of their son, the first grandson. Very exciting. He was born last night and from what i hear, is doing very well.

Also, Marian told me that Steve and Jen may be having their son tomorrow. I hope everything goes well.

Asia's Birthday pics

i have been accused of not posting any pics from Asia's birthday. i think that i am liking using this blogger for posting pics, unless of course an event requires alot of pictures, like camping, then i will post those to the website. well, thats my plan at least.





the random bell pepper picture is my first red pepper out of the garden. i put it next to a store bought pepper for comparison. i think i am putting it in the salad tonight.

First day of KINDERGARTEN!!!!

Today is Anya's first day of Kindergarten. She has school from 12:30-3:10. She said she was very nervous about going, but her BF Reagan is in her class so she should do fine. Mike and I have reservations about this class because there are so many kids and only 1 teacher. From what i understand, there are 25 in the AM and 23 in the PM and state regulations say there should only be 22. oh well. i also heard that they will pull kids that need more help out of the half day classes and place them in the all day kindergarten. anyway, thats the big news for the day.

mission completion

we are down to three boxes of cereal.

mom said she made a big sacrafice by eating the fruity cheerios and fruity star cereals. i think she really liked them. =)

Happy Birthday to the birthday Girls

Asia had a good birthday. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the festivities. =)

Aunt Chris came down to help celebrate. They shared a kitty cake. We didn't have enough candles to light for aunt chris though. so there were only two.

Anya and Asia both had a good time opening presents. Anya was big on 'helping' Asia. unfortunately, asia got sick and threw up all over one of her new thomas the train shirts. good things she got two. =) Asia also has a favorite book that i would reccomend to parents with young children... Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard. give it a read.

cereal mission

when mom got here, mike gave us a mission....

to reduce our number of open cereal boxes from 9 down to 4.

this is a perfectly attainable goal, we hope. we were down to 6 but i had to open a box of Reese's Puffs. i know that will be gone soon. we still have
-cheerios
-honey nut cheerios
-rice krispies
-fruit loops
-fruity cheerios
-raisin bran
-reese's puffs
on the completed cereal list is
-rice chex
-little einstein's cereal
-princess flakes (mom's fav)

mom said she likes have goals that can be reached =)

October 15, 2007

Still two months to go and our move date has been pushed back due to construction. i am just hoping for a move before halloween.

i feel very handy

our bathroom sink has been draining slowly for quite some time now and it gets really annoying when mike shaves and we end up with tiny little hair covering the entire bowl. well, i called maintenance to come and fix it, but then i decided to try to take the plug part out. that is stuck in there but i noticed a bunch of nastiness around it. so i took a wire coat hanger and cleaned it out, and ta-da, the sink works fine now. =)

also, they havent mowed our lawn in a while so i called to complain. i think they havent mowed cuz there isnt any grass anywhere to mow except in a perfect circle around my garden where i water almost daily. so, 8 o'clock this morning, the mowers parked in front of the house and mowed our lawn. wasnt that nice of them =)

Asia's birthday is coming up and to celebrate, since aunt chris is going to be here too, i was thinking about making a kitty cake. it is out of the betty crocker's cookbook, circa 1978. we will see how it turns out. =)

my cake

i forgot....

when we stopped by aunt chris' office on the way home to say hi and pick up the meat, she had made me the coolest cake. isnt she sweet. when we stopped by her house on saturday, she was too sick to make me a cake. What a great aunt! now i have to make her an ever better cake for her birthday... hhmmm.... any ideas?

back in civilization

we got back from our camping trip yesterday and we are now settling back in. the laundry is almost done. i have to take the sleeping bag to the laundromat and then thats it. is it a bad sign when flies are attracted to your pile of dirty laundry? i dumped out all of the dirty laundry on the patio because it was soo stinky and flies came to enjoy the stink. anyway, here is a recap of the trip.

saturday morning we drove to Washington DC to spend some time with Tom and Rachel. They are both getting stationed overseas in germany soon and we havent seen them in forever. we went to the international spy museum. it was pretty cool, but huge. we were late for our dinner at Medieval Times in Baltimore. they let us switch out tickets to the later show, which worked out fine. after dinner, we drove up to Aunt Chris' house for the night. its a good thing they dont eat much because i filled up the fridge with all of out stuff from the cooler. bad news was that i forgot the lunch meat and butter.

sunday morning we drove up to the Poconos to go camping. we got our tent sent up just in time for the big huge thunderstorm. we were stuck in the tent for almost two hours while it rained and alot got in the tent because we didnt stake down the rain fly. we ended up sitting on a huge puddle. so after the rain stopped, mostly, we moved the tent and everything was fine, really damp, but fine.

Monday we did some hiking. ~5 miles worth. we saw lots of waterfalls and bubbling streams. it was alot of fun.

Tuesday we went to the beach and while asia and i took a nap, mike and anya went hiking again.

Wednesday we hiked a 3.5 mile trail, each way, to see Boulder Field. it is a bunch of big huge boulders with pine trees lining the sides. very weird. that was a long day because the trail was really bumpy and asia didnt want to walk that much.

thursday we went to the beach again and while i tried to get asia to nap, mike and anya went fishing.

friday we packed up out stinky stuff and headed home.

thats a pretty quick recap of the week. i have tons of photos to post but give me a little time first.