Going for Orange!
Every year around this time, karate class becomes much more serious and focused, in anticipation of the annual promotion test. Because of our moving the last couple of weeks, Jacob…
Moving ahead with the moving in…
Today I accomplished my goal of clearing all the boxes off the dining room table, loading the first 5' x 18" x 72" shelf with books and stowing it in…
Black Friday
In the history of the Heidmann Family, there has never been such a thing as a Black Friday. Our family tradition has always, from the very beginning, involved a lazy…
Thanksgiving 2011 – Part 2
Thanksgiving Day 2011: Mass at Ss. Simon & Jude with Bishop Olmsted presiding. Got to sing in Spanish, English and Latin today. Woohoo! Off to Sun Lakes in two vans…
Thanksgiving 2011 – Part 1
I'm up early.... couldn't sleep past 4:21. The intermingling smells of maple pecan sweet potatoes and fancy creamed corn in the slow cookers, as well as the spiced cran-apple sauce…
Birthday Fun!
I can't remember how many years it has been that the Grands have been spending their winters here in AZ and we have been going down to Sun Lakes on…
ROC Costume Party!
Great were the preparations today for the SSJ middle school youth group's fall costume party! We hurried through school in the morning and then spent the afternoon painting the cane…
That which has been, and which is yet to come…
So to wrap up that week long poll I had running here, the clear frontrunner at this point in the primary season is Herman Cain. I am afraid that being…
Shots in the Dark
After the park we drove by the house again, but those magnificent hard working wall builder dudes were still there, so we drove onward to meet Paul at Del Taco…