Cleaning out the phone photos

So we have these fancy photos and videos from our smart phones, but we have not shared them with our people.  So here we go....

A couple of week's ago, on the way home from work Joe got into a fight with a gaggle of Turkeys. 

Papa Dubow visted last week and she had a little helper in the kitchen.  The two cooks made tasty cookies. 

After about 5 weeks of saying the horse outside the grocery store was broken, Joe finally caved in and let Kate ride the horse.  Mechanical horses are like crack for kids.  Kate was more than disapointed when the 30 second ride was over. 

Riding stationary elephants can be as fun as quarter driven horses

We had a cornbeef and cabbage feast on St. Patrick's Day.  The feast included homemade green beer....yup that's Miller Genuine Draft 64....gotta watch the waist line

Here is out little Kerri Strug

Typical Saturday at the Dubows

5:45 am - Wake up to Kate and/or Tommy saying "can we go down stairs now"
5:50 am - Wake up again to "DADDY CAN WE GO DOWN STAIRS NOWWWW!!!"
6:30 am - Walk in to living room, step on Lego with bare foot, scream "CHEESE & RICE!!!", throw out Lego piece
8:00 am - Take a LONG walk with the dog
8:45 am - Take Kate to gymnastics
10:30 am - Return from gymnastics and take Tommy to karate
12:00 pm - Attempt to feed the kids something with nutrition (just hope they take a bite of the fruit or vegetables)
12:15  pm - Calm the kids down after the dog eats their lunch that they were not eating
12:20 pm - Re-make lunch due to the dog eating the previously made lunch
12:40 pm - Allow the kids to feed 2nd non-eaten lunch to dog
1:30 pm - Go to birthday party of some kid with a name that ends in yden (Cayden, Ayden, Jayden, etc)
3:30 pm - Curse 'yden's parents for giving a gift bag full of candy
3:42 pm - Watch kids melt down from having too much candy
3:50 pm - Convince kids to take a rest on the couch while watching a Pixar/DreamWorks/Disney movie
4:23 pm - Clean human pee off of floor
4:50 pm - Pour 1st glass of wine
5:30 pm - Pour 2nd glass of wine, tell kids to stop fighting, start making nice dinner
6:00 pm - Pour 3rd glass of wine, tune out fighting kids, continue making nice dinner
6:15 pm - Serve nice dinner
6:20 pm - Listen to kids say "This is disgusting"
6:25 pm -  Pour 4th glass of wine. Make kids peanut butter and jelly sandwich, chicken nuggets, Ramen noodles, mac n cheese or Eggo waffles
6:45 pm - Pour 5th glass of wine, enjoy conversation with spouse, while kids destroy living room
7:02 pm - Wine bottle is empty! What the eff? Why did we only get one bottle of Wine?
7:30 pm - Walk in to living room, See mess, Think "How did my living room turn into a 3rd world county in the matter of 10 minutes"
7:32 pm - Ignore mess, turn on music, wash dishes
8:00 pm - Give kids a bath
8:20 pm - Read books to kids
8:30 pm - Discuss with spouse watching an adult movie once the kids fall asleep.
8:30 pm - Turn off lights, lay in bed with kid,wait for kid to fall asleep
8:45 pm -  Keep waiting
10:20 pm - Wake up, get out of kids bed, stumble to big bed, hope kids stay in their own bed all night
1:34 am - Wake up to little person snuggling next to me.....when the heck did he and/or she come into the big bed.  Determine it is easier to fall asleep with a foot in the rib cage then put the child back into their bed.

Lather, Rinse and Repeat 6 days later

And now for some pictures....

Brent stopped by the other day.  We told Tommy, Brent was stopping by later.....Every five minutes it was where is Uncle Brent, when is Uncle Brent coming over, how much time until Uncle Brent arrivea.....he finally arrived.  Brent is like crack to Tommy.  He really enjoys when he stops by. 

Check out our little karate kid.....I bet he could kick Ralph Macchio's butt

We also have a little gymnast. The next Nadia Comăneci or this

A week in review

• Real men don't eat quiche....but Joe was up until 1:00 am making quiche to feed 100 people last Thursday.   Why you ask....at Joe's work every Friday three employees make breakfast for everyone at the site.  He made quiche, fruit salad, granola to go with bagels, muffins and doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts.
• A lot of Whitney Houston has been playing in our house.  Check out the T-Man gettin' down to "I'm Every Woman".

• Our little Kate has some style.  Check out the before and after.  Amy wants everybody to know Kate dressed herself in each of these pictures. OK ;).   I love the belly shirt, side pony, lepord print pants and male shoes on the wrong feet. 

• We love the matching Packers PJs.

• ..and even more when they go to sleep

Valentines Day

Tommy refused to be photographed for his party, but Kate was all smiles!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone

The Fam

A self portrait by the Dubow clan.

Valentines Sweet Hart

Our little girl got dressed up for the early Valentines Day party at her school.  She sure is a little fashionista. 

She said she had a special Valentines Day surprise for Evan.  I wonder what that could be.  She already tried to ride off into the sunset with him. 

Cleaning out the closet

About 2 weeks ago, Tommy dumped a root beer float on our laptop. After taking it a part and drying out the components in bags of rice, the computer started back up, but it wasn't quite right.  The space bar, delete and enter keys no longer worked and the left click button also did not work.  Thus, we purchased a new computer.  The incident also made us realize that we should probably back up all our pictures.  We purchased an external hard drive, pulled the pics off the lap top with sticky keys and also pulled the pictures off the old desk top computer that has been in storage for 4 years.  It was fun taking a look at all the old pics.  Below are a few old ones.  We will post more in the coming weeks.

Thanksgiving 2004.  This was the first time the Dubows and the Rodgers met. 



June 2005 -Trevi Fountian in Rome (Honeymoon). 

June 2007 - Tommy is about 3 weeks old in this pic.  We love how the pants need to be rolled at the top.