a weekly log of our everyday life
The main highlight of this last week was visiting our respective parents for the weekend. Jake went home to see his parents and Cindy went home to see hers. Cindy’s trip was planned weeks in advance and Jake’s was more of a last minute plan. We both had a really great time at our own […]
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The highlight of our week was playing tennis with Cindy’s sister and her sister’s boyfriend. For some reason, the time just flies by when we play tennis. Before we knew it, we were on the courts for nearly 2 hours! What an easy and fun form of exercise! We played a few doubles matches and […]
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H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! ! ! We had a very busy & action packed weekend. Uncharacteristic of what our life in 2020 has been like, but classically characteristic of what life pre-2020 was like. December 31st, 2020 We actually spent New Year’s Eve apart this year. […]
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Losing things loosely captures the theme of the week. Caterpillar In our post last week, we shared how we found a caterpillar and took it home to keep as a pet and watch it turn into a butterfly or moth. Well…we lost the caterpillar. It somehow escaped the vase we were keeping it in. Cindy […]
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Not much happened this week. Not much has been happening for the past few weeks… But the big highlight of our week was….Jake’s brother visiting us! Here is a picture of Jake and his brother playing video games. Other highlights of the week…. Jake wore his cowboy hat and pretended to smoke a cigar (which […]
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Not much happened this past week. Jake had a conference he was running on Friday, so he spent most of the week preparing for it. And Cindy spent some time with her parents. They came to visit twice this past week! Other than that, we started finishing up Gilmore Girls together. Cindy started the series […]
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It’s been a while since we’ve had such an eventful weekend! All the family time and fun was very refreshing. We were so tired by Sunday night from all the fun that we knocked out early and had one of the best sleeps ever. Friday Our weekend started Friday night with a Trivia Night, at […]
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We spent this past weekend in Cindy’s hometown for an early birthday celebration for her mom!! We couldn’t really do much because most places are still closed due to COVID and the air quality is pretty bad from all the fires. On Friday night, we watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2: Sword of Destiny. Cindy’s […]
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The title of this week’s blog says it all. The biggest highlight of our week was Jake getting the OK to walk again!! When Jake came home from his follow-up appointment, he pretended to crutch around before he dramatically threw down his crutches and started walking. Cindy was so shocked! Originally, the surgeon had said […]
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The big highlight of this past week was Jake’s diploma arriving in the mail! He gets one after 2 years through his PhD program (as long as he takes this one specific course). It was a bit anti-climactic. He got an email some time last month saying he earned his Master’s degree. And then several […]
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