Thursday and Friday

Yesterday I went for a long run, but had to walk the last two miles because my ankle was bothering me.

We are petsitting for our neighbors and they dropped off their dog Luna around noon.

We all left the house around 4:30.   Morry, Evan, and Noah met Jake and his dad at the movies to see Wonder.  I met Deborah at a different theater to see Downsizing.

After the movies, Evan and Noah spent the night at Jake's house.

I went out to dinner at Mad Greens with Deborah and then met Morry at home.

This morning Morry and I picked up the kids at Jake's house at 10am.  They had a good time.

From there, we got breakfast at Biderman's.

Then, we went to the travel agent next door to get some ideas for a vacation for Morry and me this summer.

Evan had football practice at 2:30 today.  Morry took Chewie with them.

At 5:30 we picked up Grandma and Papa and went out to dinner with their friends and their friends' son and girlfriend.  We went to Fresa's, a chicken/tacos place.  It was very good.

We went to Grandma and Papa's for a little bit before coming home.

Now the kids are getting ready for bed.

Crazy Saturday

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning started early.  I got up early and drove over and picked Evan up from his friends at 7:15am after his sleepover.  We drove and picked up donuts at Donut Taco Palace I.  Then we went over to his 8am basketball game.

Evan's team lost for the first time this season.  The other team was quite a bit taller.  Evan had to guard a kid that was at least 4 inches taller than him.  Evan actually did a pretty good job.  The boy wasn't able to do much.  Evan was able to grab one rebound over top of him.

After basketball, we came home for about an hour.  Then Evan and I left to go to his first practice of the season with the Nationals.  I'm the assistant coach on that team.  It was nice to see how our draft turned out.  We seemed to get quite a few good kids on top of the 4 we had returning from last season.  Evan had one of the best practices I have seen him have in a while.  He seemed confident and really enjoyed himself.

After baseball we came home for a few hours.  Evan wanted to watch Spaceballs (the tv-edited version without the bad language).  At 4pm we had Marauders practice.  Evan looked very tired.  I left him on the couch and went to practice without him.  Practice went very well.  We didn't have too many kids as the Oak Hill season started so everyone seemed to have multiple practices going on.

From practice I drove to Zayde's house.  Rachel and the boys met me there.  And then we went to a place called Quality Seafood for dinner.  Evan got salmon and Noah had calamari and lox.  The boys seemed to have a good time.  I think everyone had fun at dinner.

We came home and the boys are in their rooms now.

Until next time...

Evan's Night Out

This morning we walked the boys to school and then I did a long run.  I ran 6.2 miles.

Morry and I went to Wholy Bagel for lunch.

We walked to get the boys from school.  We were home for just a little bit and then we took Evan to a birthday party, a sleepover birthday party.  He's been really looking forward to this.  It's a kid in his class.  They are going to GattyTown and then sleeping over at Kyle's house. 

We let Noah pick where to eat for dinner.  He chose Logans. 

We went to Fiesta after dinner.  We thought it would be fun picking out different fruits and ethnic foods.  We only got a few things.  It was somewhat disappointing.  It was a small Fiesta and they didn't have that many rare items.

Noah just had a bath and now he's ready for bed.

Beautiful First Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Well the "sleepover" was a success last night as Evan and Noah both slept well in the game room in their sleeping bags.  I don't know what time they got up because they let us sleep but I think it was a bit later than normal.  I don't think I heard any noise until after 8am.  We did put them to bed early tonight given that they were up so late last night.

When we did get up, we saw that today was a beautiful day.  It was supposed to be sunny with a high of 65.  We decided to drive to the lake and walk around the trail.  We brought Lizzy.  When we got out, we forgot to grab a tennis ball for Lizzy so we didn't end up letting her swim.  We knew she'd just bark at us to throw her a ball but we didn't have one.  The walk was very nice and everyone enjoyed it until Noah declared he was too cold near the end.

When we got home, Noah and Evan had quiet time until the Steelers game started.  Evan watched the whole game with me and Noah watched most of it.  During every Steelers game, Evan has me throw the football to him.  Today he drew on a piece of paper a play that he wanted to run.  We recorded it so you can watch it.  It's very funny.



For dinner, we just had leftovers from last night.

The boys are in bed now.

Until next time...