Matthew

Amanda on August 27th, 2012

Ian and Matthew started weekly swimming lessons in April at the Tonawanda Aquatic and Fitness Center.  They went Saturday mornings for 30 minute lessons in the big pool. While Ian seemed to show some improvement over the course of the session, Matthew seemed to lose ground.  After the first class, Matthew jumped into the wading […]

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Amanda on June 22nd, 2012

I had off of work for Good Friday and the Alts were in town so we decided to dye some Easter eggs.  Of course, as everyone walked in the house, I spilled two entire containers of dye all over the dining room.  Gaaah!!!! I’ve scientifically proven it’s impossible to get a picture of four children, […]

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Amanda on June 21st, 2012

Matthew’s class sang at church in March for Sunbeam Sunday. Waiting for the festivities to begin.     The children have arrived!   Matthew is in the middle row, fourth in on the left (to the left of the girl in the yellow dress): Waving to Papaw: The applause was too loud, apparently!   Here […]

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Amanda on May 5th, 2012

Back in October or November, I got an email letting me know the Monster Jam tour was coming to the Roger’s Centre in Toronto in January.  Since the boys were interested in Monster Jam again and knowing that January – March tends to be an ugly time in my life, I thought it might be […]

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Amanda on March 10th, 2012

(and the last of my 2011 posts! woo!) Christmas morning started off a little slow.  Mike and I were  up well before the boys and we actually had to send Matthew in to wake Ian up. We weren’t really upset they were sleeping in but we had my family coming over for brunch and we […]

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