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By Moose Admin on 3/15/2009 6:27 PM

It looks like a long weekend is almost over.  Grace went to a retreat, and I had King’s Auction to work on.  I am very thankful the weekend is over, even though I may not be looking forward to working tomorrow.  It almost seems like I need a weekend to recover from my weekend.

Grace got back today from her retreat, and she is napping.  I think this weekend wore her out too.  She left Friday at around noon for her retreat.  I took the day off from work to watch the kids, but ended up doing about 3 hours of work from home.

Friday night we went to the bank and then to Alfy’s Pizza.  The pizza was great, and the kids love Alfy’s because of the video games there.  Then we came home and cleaned the house before playing about three hours of Wii.

I dropped the kids off early Saturday morning at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.  Needless to say we didn’t get our morning chores done.  I had to be at work by 10am and that meant I had to have the kids ready to drop off at 9ish.

I just want to break away from the weekend narrative to just say, “Grandma and Grandpa Taylor are the best!”  The Taylor’s are a wonderful family and they love our children very much.  We are so blessed that God brought us to North Creek Baptist Church, where we met the Taylor’s.  The Taylor’s love our family just like we were flesh and blood.  It has gotten to the point where it doesn’t even seem like they aren’t family.  They’re family and that’s pretty much all there is to it. 

The kids had a blast as always.  They had fun with Josh and Christa who are just like an uncle and aunt, and Elizabeth spent a lot of the weekend cuddling with Grandpa.

I worked at the Lynnwood Convention Center pretty much from 10am to midnight and got home around 1:30am.  King’s Auction went well and none of the computers broke down.  Praise God!

On Sunday I went to church and the kids all looked great.  Grandma and Christa had done all the girls hair, and they did AWESOME on Elisha’s hair.  She looked very beautiful.  She is growing up so fast and is starting to look like a young lady.  

The other cool thing was that the church was having a pot-luck lunch after church, so I didn’t have to try and figure out lunch for the kids.  I would have been okay either way though, because Grandma T invited us over to lunch before she realized it was pot-luck Sunday.

Last but not least, Momma (Grace) got home around 4pm and we are all glad she is back.  She said she had a great trip, and had a good time with Mrs. Schopf.  (the Pastor’s wife)

So there you have it.  That was our weekend.  I am still tired, but I am happy that the Lord took care of us through the entire weekend.  It will be nice though to get back to a some what normal life.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 3/12/2009 11:34 PM

I am pretty excited today.  I just finished hooking up my new computer.  With income tax return, I ordered two computers from Dell, and yesterday mine came in.  One day earlier Momma’s PC came in the mail, and I got that all set up for her.

The bad thing about my computer coming in the mail yesterday was that I didn’t get a chance to set it up.  We have church on Wednesdays, and I couldn’t see skipping church just to set my computer up.  So long story short, my computer is up and running and I am happy.

I am typing this blog entry from my new install of Windows Live Writer!!

Well that’s about it.  Have a great weekend all.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Michael)

By Moose Admin on 3/7/2009 10:11 PM

I found out that hosanna was the best Wii Boxer in the house, and I got to see her in action a couple nights ago.  She was dancing and swinging, and it was very cute.  The bummer part was that I didn't have my camera at the house to video tape her.

Last night I remembered to bring my camera home and I video recorded my daughter playing Wii Boxing.  The object is to punch a punching bag until you know it off the hook.  You have so much time to knock as many bags off the hook as you can.  As far as I know, Hosanna still holds the record in our family.  See below to see just how she does it.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Michael Silva)

By Moose Admin on 3/5/2009 7:30 PM

Today I got a small dose of reality.  Yes I am getting old.

This weekend we bought the Wii for our family.  We bought it because it is very family friendly and provides a little more action than the normal video game console.  We have had a blast playing the Wii and it has given us yet another thing to do together.  We already play cards and board games, and now we have something to add to those.

Okay now to the small dose of reality.  Two days ago I was playing Wii Baseball with the kids, and I was really putting all my effort into it.  I was hitting homeruns and everything!  The only problem is that today I noticed I was VERY sore from playing the Wii so vigorously.  Isn't that sad?  I am getting old, and out of shape.

Oh well, I still having a blast playing games with the kids.  Maybe I will just put some ice on my baseball injury and in a few days I will be back in the action!

~MykkMoose (Dad) (Michael Silva)

By Moose Admin on 3/3/2009 6:03 AM

I should have posted this a long time ago.  A couple weeks ago I found out that Grace is pregnant. 

This will be our 7th child.  I am praying and hoping it is a boy, but either way he or she will be a blessing.  The children are all excited and all of them have hopes of their own.

• Dad wants a boy
• Mom just wants the baby to be healthy
• Isaiah wants a boy
• Gabe wants a boy
• Elisha wants a boy
• Hosanna wants a girl
• I think Elizabeth wants a girl
• Jubilee has no thoughts one way or another about it

In other news, Jubilee has bee struggling with a fever and could use a lot of prayer.  For the last week she has had on and off fever.  Other than the fever she seems to be fine.  She is happy and playful until she gets a fever for about a couple hours.  Then it goes away and she is good again.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 1/15/2009 6:09 PM

As of late, all the kids have been sick.  I have spent many nights in bed with one of the children, and have spent many hours holding Jubilee.  She likes to be held and cuddle when she is sick.  I love it when she puts her head on my shoulder as I carry her around.  As you will see in the pictures below, we got to spend some good cuddle time together.

 

 

Well there it is .  Jubilee and me.  She sure is a cute thing.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 1/1/2009 10:58 AM

The other day I was walking into the living room and I saw my daughters playing.  It was Elizabeth and Hosanna, who we have dubbed the "Mei Mei's" which means little sister in Chinese.  We are not sure whether that is Cantonese or Mandarin, but we are sure of the meaning.

It was fun watching them play when they didn't know they were being watched.  If you listen carefully you will hear them both say some funny things, and you will see toward the end of the video that one of the figures out she is being recorded.

I know I have been doing a whole lot of videos on the blog lately, but I have been enjoying recording them and posting them.  I hope you all enjoy them too.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/30/2008 6:12 PM

Things are getting back to normal here in the Northwest.  The rain came back and melted most the snow.  The roads are better to drive on with the exception of the street in our neighborhood, but even that is getting better.  We were so excited when it snowed, and we loved playing in it, but it does seem more natural to be back to the old rain of winter.  There is something almost therapeutic about the rain.

Now that the snow is about gone all we will have is pictures.  Praise God I have a LOT.  I looked through our snow pictures and below are my favorites.

  

  

I hope you like those, and just so you know, I have a lot more which you can view all of our December pictures here.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/29/2008 6:24 AM

My last post was about the boys and how well they are doing with their tin whistles, and I didn't include Elisha.  Elisha didn't feel comfortable about playing her tin whistle, but she did want me to video her playing her flute.  She has been playing the flute for less than a year and she has improved a lot.  I remember when she started the flute, I was worried that she would give up because she was having such a hard time with it.  She struggled through and is now doing much better.

So here is a video of Elisha Michele Silva playing her flute.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed listening to her get better and better and better.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/28/2008 7:12 AM

This year I spent time deciding what instrument I wanted to play.  After a lot of research I decided on the tin whistle.  The day I brought my tin whistle home, the kids were very interested of my choice.  They all wanted to play my tin whistle.  After seeing that they liked it so much I decided I would get them all tin whistles for Christmas.  I ordered them some Clarke Sweetones tin whistles and put them in their stockings. 

On Christmas morning the children were very happy to get their tin whistles.  They started playing great music the same day they got them.  I was sort of jealous because in one day they could play better than I could and I have been practicing for a month.  Below I have some videos of the boys playing their tin whistles.  I hope you enjoy their music.