Our Fun Family

As I am working on closing down our family website, I have been re-visiting a lot of our old pictures. While I won't be bringing all of those albums over to this blog site, I did want to bring over enough to serve the purpose. One of the fun things I just did was to go through and watch Grace grow, month by month. Wow. For an adult, months pass by as a predictable unit of time. We often measure our progress in these terms. For example, starting my new job, it took me approximately 3-4 months to get assimilated and feel fully productive. I know I am 2-3 months from being in the full swing of Spring, so I know what projects I need to layout in order to prepare. What does the pool need, what does the landscaping need, etc... Time is relative, and while for me the last 17-18 months have flown by, there has been a tremendous amount of change going on in this little girl! To see her expressions come alive, to watch her hair grow, watch her go from a fairly stationary newborn, to ...

This series of pictures is from back in December, but they are some of my favorites that I never got around to posting on the website. I like the second picture the best because it looks like Grace is actually reading the Tollhouse recipe on the back of the bag. Grace has always been a great little sous chef in the kitchen. From the time she was just a few days old, she liked to hang out on the kitchen cabinet and watch us cook. Long before Santa Claus brought her kitchen, her favorite toys were cups, kitchen spoons and strainers from the kitchen. Ask Gram what Grace's favorite place is in her kitchen and its a safe bet she will say the Tupperware drawer, or the wash stand which is home to the flour, sugar and sifter at Gram's house. I can't help but wonder if any of this will make an impression on her later in life. Are there flat cakes with lumpy icing in our near future? Or "mistake" cookies, where she used salt instead of sugar? Somehow I am pretty sure of i...

So... ever taken a 17 month old to a RV show? Really, it wasn't all that bad. Grace was really good. We spent a lot of time taking Grace out of the stroller and putting her back in. She did seem to enjoy checking out all the different travel trailers we were looking at. This was the first RV show we have been to with Grace... well, sort of. Brenda was pregnant when we went to the last one. On that particular trip we went and gawked at all the massive and opulent 5th wheel trailers for full-timers. This trip was mostly confined to what we may practically consider in the next several years. Mostly we looked at Hybrid trailers (solid side travel trailers that have "tent" beds that fold out from the front, back and/or side) and some "bunkhouse" models of light weight trailers. No, we aren't likely to buy one anytime soon, but it is fun to look. One day, hopefully after 1 or both of the vehicles are paid off, we may give it more thought. We would probab...

February 13, 2007 - Happy Anniversary Gramma and Grampa! I am not getting any better about this am I? It has been a couple of months since I updated the website, I apologize. If only I could find some way to get my thoughts onto this page in an automated fashion, life would be so much easier. So what is new at the Cornish house? Lots! We had a wonderful holiday season. Believe it or not, we managed to NOT run ourselves into the ground with parties and shopping and such. We managed to enjoy time together as a family and enjoy time with our extended families here in Round Rock and in Tyler. Here are some highlights: - Mema wearing her bright fuscia Crocs (we have sucked Mema into the wonderful world of cloud walking). She is in fine fashion now, sporting her "laissez faire" style in the usual stark, conservative fashion halls of the Rosewood Senior Living. - Santa Claus hit the ball out of the park with Grace's new kitchen. She is decked out with the finest Little ...

We will be ending our current website soon, opting instead for this weblog that we hope will be easier and cheaper to maintain. If you would like to visit our website while it is still active, you can do so at http://www.ourfunfamily.net/ .