Archive for the ‘Family’ category

Costco

September 3rd, 2008

I love Costco. Does that sound weird? I also love shopping at Walmart (especially the superstore in Gilroy) but that’s a different story.
Last night after me and Marty got showered and dressed, we took the kids to the local Costco store. We’ve been members of Costco since 2004 and used our Executive membership heavily when [...] Read more »

Great America

August 27th, 2008

I had planned on taking Memphis to Great America this month. But I wasn’t able to do both Great America and Gilroy Gardens on our budget. We managed to do GG for his birthday. The next best thing was to suggest to my in laws that they take all of us to Great America when [...] Read more »

Happy 7th Birthday, Memphis!

August 12th, 2008

Ok, this post is a day late. But that’s ok.
I was worried for a few weeks because we’ve been on a tight budget. In fact, we’re behind on several bills. We just barely paid our rent today. Anyway, I wasn’t sure we were going to be able to afford to do anything for Memphis’ 7th [...] Read more »

Memphis was sort of sick the day before. And yesterday it got worse. He’s been coughing and blowing his nose constantly throughout the day. I’ve been religiously giving him medicine every 4 hours and applying Vicks on his neck and chest at night to help him sleep better. It seems to work.
We made the stupid [...] Read more »

Tyler’s Birthday Party

July 21st, 2008

Let me tell ya, my little brother is spoiled. More spoiled than I was at that age. Hell, he has his very own cell phone before he even turned 10. Mom and Nelson take him to all kinds of places, more recently a whirlwind week-long vacation to DisneyLand, Marine World (or was it Sea World), [...] Read more »