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June 2005 - Posts

• Luton Town - League One Champions 2004/2005

  For anyone following British football, this news is a little late. My brother emailed me to let me know that my home town team are now the champions of division 1 in the league. LTFC , also known as "The Hatters", are now just a short hop from entering Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:39 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Parenting - Day #4

  Today was the first day of my two week parental leave from work, so I went down to the hospital this morning to spend the day with Lisa and Isabella. Mom and baby were originally due to check out today, but ended up staying another day on account of Isabella's Read More... Posted Friday, June 24, 2005 12:27 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Parenting - Day #2

  Lisa is still in the hospital, and is due to check out on Thursday of this week. I went to visit both her and Isabella yesterday evening after work. It's quite amazing how much I missed them both in less than 24 hours. In a really short space of time Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:33 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• ..and then there were 4

  Lisa and I have been blessed with a baby daughter, and Simon a new sister. Isabella Rose Garrett was born at 1:45pm on 6/20/05. Her APGAR scores were 7 and 9, she weighed 7lbs 12 ounces and was 20 and 3/4 inches in length. Mom and baby are doing fine, Read More... Posted Monday, June 20, 2005 7:44 PM by Rob Garrett | 4 Comments

• Child car seats

  I like to think myself as an intelligent being, and a handy one at that, which is why I chose to install the child safety seats in my car. Today, the dealer, where my wife purchased her car, were doing a free certification check for child safety seats, Read More... Posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:08 PM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments

• The meaning of "Daddy"

  I used to think that "Daddy" was the word for "me", but I recently found out that it's Simon's word for any guy that is using a power tool. Every workday Simon runs to the door at 6pm to greet me and I hear him run down the hallway shouting "Daddy, Daddy, Read More... Posted Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:01 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Horse Visit

  Our neighbors came over to see us this evening on horseback. The bay (brown) horse is Nanza, and is being ridden by Jennifer. Jennifer is Nanza's keeper, and she lets me ride Nanza in drill team. The flea-bitten gray is Bella and is being ridden by Nicole Read More... Posted Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:32 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Storm

  When I got home this evening the heavens opened up and dumped a ton of bad weather on us. It was raining so hard that the rain was coming in on our deck - time I cleaned out the gutters. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:52 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Devil Eyes

  I knew there was some devil in him Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:43 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• My wife is reading...

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. A story about an 83 year old war veteran who dies and awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. The people Read More... Posted Sunday, June 05, 2005 12:38 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Baby G - Version 2

  Okay, it's official. Lisa and I have received our appointment for a scheduled C-section birth of our second child (if you want to know the date, you'll have to email me, so that the whole Internet doesn't know). Our son Simon was born C-section 2 years Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 10:37 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments