November 21, 2009

Shameless parading of my sons natural adorableness…

~ Mom

October 13, 2009

Is that…music?

This is Jonah’s elmo/cookie monster radio….

These are AA batteries…

This is Jonah’s Radio on drugs…

…Any Questions?

September 14, 2009

Should I stay or should I go? (Camping that is…)

Morning…

and evening…

September 13, 2009

Jonah Van Gogh

Saturday afternoon, Jonah and I decided to do some painting.

We went into the basement, put on our grubbies and got to work. This is what happened! You can hardly tell I helped, or that Jonah stepped on it!

Until next time,

Gaberham

September 13, 2009

Family Camping! (8-29-09)

Daddy-O took off Friday so he could get in some quality familytime before Lake Michigan freezes over. Speaking of Lake Michigan, THAT’S where we went!

Here are a bunch of pictures of Van Buren State Park, the town of South Haven and our campsite. It was wet…really wet. :)

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August 22, 2009

July 4th LATE post

Here’s a short snippet of our Family Reunion on July 4th. This video is from underneath the trampoline. Don’t worry, only kids less than 30 LB’s were bouncing :)

Abe

August 22, 2009

New Playground Equipment

The elementary school next door is installing some brand new “safer” playground equipment! Jonah and I decided to try out the finished portions.

Kiddie SwingYou may now go back to ordering beanie-babies.

Abe

August 2, 2009

Bikes and Babes!

Wow, have we had an adventurous weekend! There are two subjects in this post. These involve bikes and babes (Jonah (and Jessie ;) )).

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We’ll start with the babes. This is our new kiddie pool. At first Jonah was wading in his t-shirt and diapers like I had planned on, but then I turn my head for one second and find him sitting down! It was too late at that point to go inside to grab his swimming trunks so I just let him play in his diaper and crocks. Suffice it to say that those storebought diapers can hold a volume of liquids that UI had not witnessed until today. Enjoy the show… .

So, onto the bike… Back when I was at the moped rally, I had told one of the guys that my bike doesn’t hit the speed after 10 minutes from a stop like it does the first 5 minutes. He said “you should check the transmission fluid level.” Here we are, August 1st, and that was in May. I finally got around to “changing” the fluid. I looked up the directions online and found out what type of fluid to get, along with specific instructions. Very handy. I had also noticed that my bike drips a fluid underneath it. I had just assumed it was oil. A puddle started accumulating quite rapidly this week and i noticed that the throttle was a little sticky.

(I had tightened all the bolts in various locations on the moped, with Jonah’s “help,” yesterday and noticed that I was missing a couple of bolts on the tranny. hmm….that’s odd.) I replaced one and will go to the store this coming week.

So tonight i proceeded to follow the directions from online that i had recieved and prepared to take the nut out of the bottom of the transmission to let it drain out the fluid. I loosen, unbolt and expext a quick pouring of red liquid…I got nothing. I had been running really low and empty for I don’t know how long. So, I put in the proper amount and Voila! no more sticky throttle and the engine sounded really really happy.

Also I replaced the rear tire a couple of days ago. Here’s a picture of it next to the front tire, and next to the new rear tire. One of these things is not like the other. : )

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Til Next Time,

Father Abraham

July 25, 2009

independance day @ brace family reunion 09′

July 25, 2009

Fun day with Uncle Joe.