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Will-7.0

dpal — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:46:57 +0000

As mentioned in the last post. Will, our youngest, has reached 7 years old. While his birthday was officially last Monday, we basically celebrated the whole weekend. Some time ago, he had asked if we could take him to the local Golden Corral for his birthday. Not exactly sure why he chose that particular restaurant, but I know he and Brian have gone a few times with their grandparents…

Soooo, Saturday, we treated him to Golden Corral and the 7PM showing of Star Wars: Clone Wars. He had been so psyched to see this movie. Since he first saw the preview for it a few months back, he has basically been counting down the days until opening day. Anyway, both boys really enjoyed themselves. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the movie, but the boys seemed to like it quite a bit.

Monday, we actually had his party… nothing fancy… just us, the grandparents, and Tita Angie. In lieu of an actual single birthday cake, Victoria made a cupcake-cake instead.

Then it was decorated with a ton of DragonBall-Z miniature action figures that Amy found on Ebay.

Everything turned out really well and fun was had by all. Will ended up scoring some great loot! Check the photos below to see what all he got.

Quick update

dpal — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:24:02 +0000

Yeah… I’m alive. Still have a ton of stuff that I want to post:

Will’s birthday was this past Monday. I need to upload pix.
I have a couple of movie recommendations and a book too.
School starts here on Monday.
Facebook is slowly taking over my life…(not really)

Oh, and not to mention that I changed the theme of the blog… AGAIN.
Right now, I’m trying to un-clog one of the worst toilet clogs ever(ewww)! Wish me luck!

Month-by-Month Round-up: April Edition

dpal — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:33:50 +0000

Here are the quick highlights of what happened with the family during the month of April in Headline format:

Water Heater sets itself on fire; then puts itself out.

Invasion!!! Termites’ top two meals: Wood and Money.

Holy Smokes!!! After decades of being hooked, David and Amy set down the Cigs for good.

It may not sound like much, but it was enough to keep us busy for the whole month… and then some. By the way… did I mention that Victoria and Justin got engaged?

Still Alive…

dpal — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:40:18 +0000

Just a note to say that this blog is still alive… I just took a small hiatus, that turned into a medium-sized hiatus, that then turned into a 2-and-a-half month hiatus….

Life just got kinda busy, I promise to update… lots of stuff to write about.

More site changes

dpal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:27:10 +0000

OK, the site is going through somewhat of a facelift. I grabbed a bunch of plugins late last night.(Thanks Planet3rry) And also a number of different themes… So if you are browsing the site and things look a little different from one day to the next, you haven’t gone wonky(or maybe you have), it’s just me testing some of my new toys. One of the plugins I found was AJAXed WordPress (or AWP). This will add some different web-2.0-ish things to the site…. but I’m still in the process of testing compatibility with the theme.

Speaking of which, I have a different theme up… not as “dreary” as the fog theme, but still a little dark. I also don’t like the way the style for any hyperlinks are displayed in this theme - they aren’t underlined and the color for a previously visited link is the same color as the default text. Still contemplating this… I might just bite the bullet and try to create my own whenever I get the time. However, I think I will try to get all the kinks knocked out of my current setup before I do any more theming.

What do you think? Click the comments and let me know….

Success Sunday

dpal — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:33:56 +0000

“Your life is an occasion… Rise to it!”
–Dustin Hoffman as Edward Magorium in Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

The Lil’ Sis and the Bro-in-Law have been doing this for quite some time now, and I’s thought I might join the bandwagon. We saw this movie some time last week. While the movie itself was decent, the quote immediately struck me as profound.

Find out How to Post your own Success Sunday!

Site Changes

dpal — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:03:29 +0000

I just finished upgrading to Wordpress-2.5, which was a rather large update for me. I had previously been stuck on a much older version because I really liked being able to use the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, but the new version had some really nice features… so I took the plunge. Along with the software upgrade, I changes the default theme of the blog as well. It might take some time to get used to… and keeping the theme is completely up in the air.

So… use the comment section to tell me what you think of the changes.