Category: Family

Family news, announcements, etc.

Finally… some relief!

Holy smokes. It looks like we’ll finally be able to sleep upstairs in our own bed tonight. It has been scorching around A2 the past several days. It was nice leaving work this afternoon, it was not yet 80, as opposed to nasty mid 90s with 90%+ humidity. Right now it’s a very manageable and mostly cloudy 83. Nice that it cooled down today also, as we have to go out this evening for Nick’s t-ball game. Last week it got rained out.

And speaking of rain, you know how bad things get when it’s 95, 90% humidity, and then it decides to rain? Might as well pour boiling water over your head. It sure doesn’t do anything towards cooling things down that’s for sure.

When it gets real hot and humid, we usually have to sleep downstairs. The air conditioner is in the front room and it does a good job of keeping the living room and the kitchen cool. The kids rooms don’t ever seem to get hot, even when we didn’t have the air conditioner. Here’s the catch… If we want the living room to be cooler, we have to close the windows upstairs, and our only means of cooling the upstairs is two windows and a fan. When we keep the windows closed upstairs, it gets extremely bad. So much so that it often doesn’t ever cool down at all overnight. Not only is our room upstairs, but the office is upstairs also. Becky can usually only work until around noon, then it just gets too unbearable up there.

Anyway, we haven’t been kicked out of the upstairs yet today (it’s almost 4pm here) so that bodes well for actually sleeping in our own bed tonight. And it was nice to give the AC a little rest this morning as it seems like the thing’s been running for 40 days and nights. I don’t think we’ve had a summer this bad since we’ve been out here, and definitely not in the last 2 years. It’s usually this bad a few days in August, and even less in September, but it’s never been this bad this early since we’ve been here. The rest of the week looks similar to today though. Whew! Can’t wait for Friday to get here when the forecast high for that day is 79 right now. Of course, Becky thinks that would be a great opportunity to clean out the shed. Nnnnnooooooooo. :(

Welcome Home Josh!

In just about 4 hours, Josh will be touching down at Sky Harbor Int. in Phoenix. Congratulations on completing 25 months of service in Paraguay as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We’ve missed you and we’re glad your coming home.

You can check out his adventures over in his section of the main Sun Eagle site (link is also to the right). And yes, I’ll be sure to continue working on getting the sections archived that I haven’t got to yet (mostly 2003).

So welcome home! Be sure to catch the Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man 2 (maybe the first one also, can’t remember if you were home or not for that one), and Star Wars Episode III. Let’s see how long it takes him to start talking “normal” English again.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Stephen as he moves out of the ranks of high school and on to bigger and better things… At least we hope on to bigger and better things.

Your presence will be sorely missed on the campus of Camp Verde High, especially by its female population.

Any inventors out there?

So we were all at the park the other day. Of course we were pushing the kids on the swings. Becky wondered why in the world don’t we have electric swings. I know they have ones for infants, but why nothing for regular swings at playgrounds? We figured about 90% of a parent’s time at a playground is spent pushing a child on a swing. If we had those electric swings, parents could actually sit down and enjoy the outdoors a little more.