Kevin Minnis

This weekend has been pretty quiet. It’s been a while since we’ve just stayed around Ankeny and did very little. Friday I had off from work. It appears that Pioneer is becoming more of government than a business as we get the third Friday off in March now instead of Good Friday. Not sure what that’s all about. Oh well, at least they still give us time off.

Anyway, on to the fun stuff. I think it was the week of February 6th, 2006 that I started to grow a goatee to get ready for Broox’s mustache party that he had on March 17th. Lucky for me that my hair is leaving the top of my head so I could win the entry for longest/most hair for a mustache. Here’s a picture of me starting out. I think it’s with maybe a week’s worth of growing. Here’s a picture with my full goatee and finally, a picture with the mustache and “handle bars”. haha. The party was a blast and I’m glad that I got to go. Saturday I had to shave it off. Not because Kim wanted me (she hated the facial hair), but because it was annoying to have. The initial itching was done, but I just hated it being around my mouth. It was weird shaving it off as I felt like I was naked. Even just shaving off the middle of the goatee made my chin feel cold, but now that it’s all gone, I really feel the difference. I can actually feel the wind hitting my chin. haha. Oh yeah. And the Gillette Fusion that I won at the party works awesome!

Here’s the full set of pictures for the mustache party. Thanks for the good time Broox!

We can now breath a sigh of relief. Jayden is now walking on his own…to a certain degree. He won’t get up from sitting without grabbing on to something, but once he’s standing up, he can walk on his own if he decides to. He’s done with physical therapy for now but will be getting some shoe inserts to see if we can correct his ankle from turning in. He had his 18 month doctor visit with the a different pediatrician on Wednesday. We’re glad we switched doctors for him. The new doc is much better and takes the time to listen and actually hears what we’re telling him. Jayden’s now starting to say a few more words: Car, meaow, truck, yuck (pronounced ggaayh and also refers to the trash can), Dada, Mamma (when mad), done and maybe a few more that I can’t remember.

Let’s see what else…oh yeah. Work’s been okay. I now have an appreciation of why corporations don’t perform. I can’t complain on my end, but it sucks that the only way management sees groups better interacting is to split up people between two groups to “make” everyone get along. Pretty stupid way of trying to increase productivity if you ask me. Oh well, I guess I have a job yet.

Baby number two is coming along nicely. Kim seems to be not as tired as she was first starting out. She usually makes it till 10 instead of the normal 9:00. haha.

Merry Christmas to you all. Jayden just wanted you to know that he’s been a good boy and likes to get presents. We’ve had fun with the Wagner side, now it’s time to have some fun with the Minnis side. Hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas.

More pictures can be found in the Christmas 2005 Set

 
 
 

This year was pretty fun for Halloween. Jayden got to wear his racing costume and rode his “bike” around to get his treats. His favorite part was getting back home and eating his cheetos (Thanks Nehru and Karisa). He also is a big fan of twizzlers. Another food item that he all of a sudden started eating is bananas. The last time we shopping for food we decided to pick him up some bananas, but we should have picked them up at the end, because he thought he wanted to eat one in the store. It took a while to get him to forget they were in the shopping cart.

This weekend was a fun time of playing out on the farm in search of the great pumpkin. We managed to find the pumkin patch we were looking for near Cumming, IA at the Howell’s Farm. Jayden found the perfect pumpkin for himself and picked one out for us too. I think it will become a tradition to go and visit Howell’s each year. They offer a lot of cool things for kids to do.

Our garbage disposal took a dump on us, no pun intended, this weekend. So, Jayden helped me out in getting the new one ready to go.

You may also have noticed that the above picture links are all pointing to flickr.com. I decided to go the faster route in getting a better gallery going by utilizing flickr. They really do have a cool thing going and it’s easy to manage all our photos. So, check out all of our pictures at flickr.com.