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We may be in New Hampshire now, but we will always be K-Staters!!

Go Cats!

Jackson's new office

We have a desktop computer that we needed to move. We decided to move it into Jackson's room. We were excited about the idea because Jackson loves to play computer--uninterrupted--namely, by Cooper. He also needs somewhere to go for some good quiet, alone time. Jason and Jackson went to Target and picked out a small computer table on which to put it. It fit in the corner of his room next to his bookcase which created a cozy little office nook for him. Good thing, Jackson is needing to pull his weight around here!

The agenda for his first day at "the office" looked a little like this:

7:30 am: Walk into mom and dad's room all set to go in his "work shirt"(Jackson calls any collared polo a work shirt)
8:30: after a hearty breakfast of toaster strudels, head up to the grind.
8:45: Call his assistant, Mommy up to get him all set up with his work for the day.
9:00: A call from his boss, Daddy, letting him know that there was an urgent email waiting in his inbox.
9:00-10:00: Working on his urgent assignment from daddy.
10:00: Meeting at Robin Hood Park

Jackson only worked a half-day today. He finished strong with success on the "math arcade" game that daddy sent him.

Feel free to contact Jackson Incorporated
jaxendacott@gmail.com (really, he'll love it!)

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I Caught the boys doing a little singing after dinner tonight. It's not unusual to hear Cooper walking around singing his rendition of the ABCs or Twinkle Twinkle. Thought I would capture a little bit of the show for you. Note: My kids' faces and clothes are extra goobery. I hope you can stomach it!

Monkey Muffins

These are some pretty sad looking muffins...But don't let looks deceive you! These are probably the yummiest banana muffins we have ever had, thanks to the 3 Endacott men.


They were a hit with Jackson!

Lunch at the Beach

....And we're back! The camera is fine. You know when you take your car into the shop and tell them you hear a rattle or a funny sound, and they take it out and they don't hear it? Yeah, that's what happened with the camera. I was showing it to Jason, insisting that it was broken, and he turned it right on. Typical.

A whole year living in New Hampshire and we still had not been to ANY beaches. We had plans with friends Alli and Brooke and we decided it would be fun to go to Spofford Lake beach. Not the ocean....but still a beach. So we set out on an "iffy" at best day. It was mostly cloudy. By mostly cloudy, I mean sun poking through the clouds and providing warmth every 20 minutes or so. We had packed lunches and were ready for a fun day at the beach. When we got there, it was a bit chilly. That didn't stop Jackson from donning his water wings and bathing suit and sprinting to the water. Coop and Brooke were a little more timid as far as swimming went. Cooper waded a bit, but he and Brooke stayed safely on shore for a good part of the trip building and destroying sand castles.

Jackson immediately swam out to where some boys were playing and introduced himself. He is quite the social butterfly...."Hi, I'm Jackson. Do you want to play?" So he ended up playing for most of the time with these other kids. Don't know what they were playing, but I did occasionally hear Jackson trying to change the rules to whatever game it was.

Cooper did decide after a bit to get in the water, but he still had his clothes on Soaked. I was finally able to lure him to put on his suit, though. Brooke warmed up to the water as well, and they chased each other around the shore splashing and laughing it up.

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We are experiencing technical difficulties!

....Just another day around here.

I was getting ready to post pictures of our AWESOME day at Spofford Lake. You see, this is how I de-stress at the end of the day. So I go to turn on the camera....IT WON'T TURN ON!! Yes, there are fresh batteries in it. Guess what? It's broken. Now I'm stressed. Jason just shakes his head at me.

So needless to say, until we can get a new camera--hopefully soon--there won't be any pictures.

Blueberry Season!

It was the perfect day for blueberry picking! We loaded up the boys and headed off to Westmoreland to High Hopes Farm.

Flashback to last year's trip to High Hopes: Last year's outing didn't go so well. Oh, we got plenty of blueberries, but because of an unknown hole in Jason's shorts pocket....his keys dropped out who knows where in the vast field of blueberry bushes. The owner was so accomodating, that he let us use his Volvo, and his grandchildren's carseats to drive home to retrieve our spare set of car keys (we had to break into the house to get them out). The next day we received a call from the owner, letting us know that Jason's keys had been found by his mower!!

After making sure that Jason's shorts were free of snags and gaping holes, we started picking. We got 2 large buckets full. Cooper actually ate more than he dropped in the bucket....BUT it was better than last year in that he ate them directly off the bush, rather than off the ground. Baby steps. Jackson focused on not picking the green berries--apologizing to each green berry that ended up in the bucket for ending its life so prematurely.

We stopped by the raspberry bushes on the way out and filled 3 pint baskets full of beautiful red berries. This is the tail end of the season for raspberries, so we lucked out. I think more raspberries ended up in my belly this time.

We left the farm WITH the keys and without any incident, with visions of fresh raspberry pie and blueberry muffins dancing in our heads.

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Blueberry Picking 8.2.08