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One Year Ago Today…

Today is Daddy’s Birthday and unfortunately he is traveling and isn’t home so we can celebrate. As Mommy was thinking about it she realized that today we have been in North Carolina for 1 year. WOW, how time flies. We are truly happy to be here and don’t regret making the big move one bit. [...]

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Matt’s Surprise 40th Birthday Party…

From 2008-10-18 40th Birthday Party

Well, Mommy did it!! She wanted to surprise Daddy with a 40th Birthday party and has spent weeks planning and scheming and keeping secrets and last night was the big party.  Thanks to Jim, Maureen and the boys for coming up with a reason for Daddy to get out of the [...]

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The Real Birthday…

Today we celebrated Tallmonster’s real birthday, Hampton Inn style. We’re on our way to Memphis for Uncle John’s wedding so we stopped just West of Nashville, TN. Tallmonster was pretty excited about the Leathermann Daddy and Smallmonster had picked out for him. Mom gave the final OK after stipulating that he can only have it [...]

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Birthday Round One…

Tallmonster is close to turning 10 years old. We celebrated a little bit early, because we will be pointing the bus West and heading to Memphis over the next couple of days. We let him pick a restaurant, and Fire Mountain was chosen for our fine dining event. Daddy can’t be allowed into an AYCE [...]

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Our Baby Turns 6 Today…

After a week of Smallmonster asking if it was his Birthday yet, the big day finally arrived. Mommy and Daddy are still amazed that it has been six years already. He awoke with a room filled with balloons (a tradition). Luckily, we weren’t jolted awake in the middle of the night with the sound of [...]

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Colby turned 14 years old today. It doesn’t seem possible, that he can be that old. It seems like only yesterday he was screaming through the house in his baby walker. It doesn’t age us quite as bad as his older sister driving a car and having a part time job at Winn-Dixie.
Because the Floridian [...]

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Tallmonster officially turned nine years old today. The day was all about him, which he gently reminded us all day. We wanted to get Tallmonster a new bike for his big birthday present. It isn’t easy picking out a bike that he will like so we waited to bring him with us so he could [...]

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We headed over to Grandma and Pap-Pap’s house to celebrate Tallmonster’s birthday and to visit with the Southern Carmichael’s. Maureen and the boys made the trip up to visit with the family up North.
There were plenty of activities including a 4th of July trivia game, that made all of the adults feel really dumb. [...]

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The Birthday Cake…

This year Tallmonster wanted a dragon birthday cake he saw in the latest edition of Family Fun Magazine. Here is a link to the recipe.
Mommy is always up to the challenge of making up a new cake design while Daddy just scratches his head and prepares to go to the bakery and buy a cake with [...]

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Happy Birthday Zack…

Holy cow the boys are nine…
Nothing ages a parent more than a child growing up. So Zachary eat lots of cake and goodies and have a very Happy Birthday from the jmonsters up North.
We can’t wait to see them for a big birthday blow out bash at the end of July! Loads  of birthday [...]

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