Archive for April, 2009
Spring 2009
by Brad Johnston on Apr.24, 2009, under family, kaitlyn
I suppose I should write more. But why when we have Twitter and Facebook? After all, does anyone really want to more about what I’m doing than one or two sentences at a time? Get real!
Well, life has been a blast. As always.
Katie turned FIVE, yes, FIVE this February. It still seems strange that I’m a father let alone a father of a FIVE year old. FIVE! She has been successfully enrolled into Kindergarten this fall into an Eden Prairie elementary school near her daycare. Given her entry into the Eden Prairie school system, Kieran will be enrolled without any worries of being rejected as we were with Katie …. given that we live outside that school district. Here we see her with her favorite (only) Uncle, Corey visiting us this Easter from Sioux Falls.
Kieran is still a sassy little punk, just like his daddy. He turned 3½ a day before his sister turned… FIVE. Kieran got a Lightning McQueen bike this Spring and has been begging us about every night to get out and ride it. It’s just now been warm enough for him to ride around with it so he’s no longer stressing about it like he had been when it was cooler out.
Brandy is still at United Subcontractors and working harder than ever. She enjoys working for the smaller than ADC Telecommunications company that she was laid off from last fall. She feels as if her efforts really do contribute to the success of the company more than being just another employee at ADC.
Brad is still employed with NWA/Delta. It’s been tough to see a lot of co-workers go and getting dealing with a lot of “survivor” guilt.
Yesterday was Take your Kid to Work Day. Brad took Katie and Brandy got Kieran. Katie joined a preschool gang of girls dressed in pink. They harassed the various departments until they wrote on all the post-it notes and drained them of all their candy. Kieran joined a gang of similarly aged boys at Brandy’s office and caused equal havoc. Consequently, Kieran went back to daycare after lunch. All involved parties had a lot of fun but were all happy that the day was over and collapsed into a coma shortly after the day ended.
