Month: September 2005

The missing photos

This photo was taken about three weeks ago at the Saline Fair. This is the second straight year we’ve attended as they have a Preschool day where you can bring your kids, park for free, pay a discounted admission fee, and the kids can ride the rides for free from 11-2.

coaster
Ashlee getting ready for her first roller coaster ride

If you like the picture, you should see the video. I’ll have to post the short clip. It’s pretty funny.

A respite

Apologies for the brief break. I’ve been slammed this week with homework (3 separate assignments plus a quiz all due earlier this evening) and Becky’s been slammed with two kids and a puppy (I think she’s busier than I am). So I’m much behind in posting. Anyway, I thought I’d throw out a couple of ideas I’ve come up with for the site.

First up, my next “project” as soon as school allows me is to integrate the look of our main page into second mesa. Same color scheme, same graphics, etc. Now, here’s the main idea I’ve been tossing around. I’ve been thinking on and off since I started messing with WordPress (the software that manages our blog) that I may move this over to the main page and just have our whole site be the blog. Now, some of you may be thinking, what about our individual sections? Well, I could handle this two ways. The first would be to make all our separate sections into categories. Although technically we wouldn’t have our own sections anymore, all someone would have to do is click the Becky & Jere category to get all the posts about Becky and me. Although this is great as posting is tons easier and searching for old posts is tons easier, it kind of takes away our own sections. After all, I think it’s better for large photo galleries that often get posted to be on their own page and not part of the blog in general.

Next idea, is to move second mesa over to the front page of the whole site, and keep our individual sections separate. As I sit here and think about it, I’m kind of leaning toward this idea. Besides, it’s been awhile since I posted any “announcements” on our main home page as they tend to get posted here first. I think the easiest way to do this is to just have the main page redirect to the blog. Actually, I think I just talked (or is it wrote) myself into the second idea.

Anyway, just thinking out loud.

In other news…

The house is done, and I told Pops I’d try and get the pictures up this week. So I’ll try to get the pictures up this week.

Look for another rendition of “The missing photos” soon. I think I may make this a category also.

And finally, thanks again to all of you who generously donated to our diabetes walk. We were overwhelmed with the amount of donations this time around and we really appreciate it. And yes, I’ve got pictures, they’ll go up soon.

On her way home

Meet Stella. She’s going to be the newest member of our family. Becky and Ashlee are on their way home with her right now. They had to make a 2 1/2 hour drive to pick her up. She’s been staying at the Sanilac County Humane Society in Carsonville (south east of Saginaw). She’s part of an early birthday for Ashlee. Tazzie is gong to have the biggest adjustment to make. But we’re sure when she comes out of hiding in 2 weeks she’ll be fine.

I’m sure there will be tons more pictures to come. I think we’re taking her on the Diabetes walk tomorrow.

“…an amazing save…”

The first game of Nick’s second season of soccer was last Saturday. His team this year is the Storm. We tried to get him on the same team he played on last year but AA Rec made a mistake and by the time we figured it out, we had already gone to the first practice and Nick didn’t want to change teams. There is a bit of a difference from last year as there isn’t so much running around free for all. The kids are decent at playing their positions.


The face of determination


Nick throwing the ball to a teammate after one of his spectacular saves

The excitement came in the fourth quarter with the score tied 1-1. Nick got to play goalie and he made several diving saves to keep his team from being defeated. Becky couldn’t believe that is was our little boy diving into the face of danger to make some of those saves. No save was more spectacular though than his final one. With less than two minutes to play, one of the opposing forwards broke free with the ball. From the left side he fired a shot on goal. Nick dove to his right for the save, grabbed the ball in his hands, and rolled a couple times on the ground cradling the ball securely. Sorry, no picture on that one; it’s hard to get a good picture while you’re cheering. Anyway, he got a ton of applause and compliments from the parents and his teammates. But the best compliment he received was when his coach came up to him just as we were headed for the car and told him that the coach for the other team wanted him to say, “Tell your goalie that that was an amazing save at the end of the game.” Becky and I felt really proud of Nick on the way home.

Rebecca Freeman’s Fundraising Page!

Every year since we’ve known about the walk for diabetes held by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, we’ve tried to participate. The purpose of the event (which is held in many locations across the US) is to help raise money for research to help find a cure for Type I diabetes (the kind Becky has).

We are walking this year on September 18th. If you’d like to donate to the cause, please click the following link to go straight to the page Becky has set up for online donations.

JDRF – Welcome to Rebecca Freeman’s Fundraising Page!

Thanks a ton to everyone that has already donated. Even though we’ve reached our goal, we can still collect donations. And if you need to find the link quickly after this post is no longer on the front page, we’ve put a link on the right hand side of the page under Favorites, “Support Team Freeman!”. We’ll post a picture after we walk.

Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites

I think I mentioned before about Google Maps and how much I like it over MapQuest or Yahoo Maps. Anyway, this past July, in honor of the 36th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, Google created Google Moon, a map of all the moon landing sites. The map works just like the those found on Google Maps (zoom, click-and-drag, etc.).

Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites

Clicking on a particular site will give you some brief information about that landing site. Also, don’t forget to zoom all the way in for a special treat!