The Wilson Avenue Adventures

Came across this post and needed to share it on mine. About Michael  Michael Mitchell is an (almost) thirty-something dad who blogs daily tips and life lessons for dads of daughters at  lifetoheryears.com . He spends his days practicing the arts of fatherhood and husbandry, while attempting to be a man of God and a professional raiser of philanthropic funds. On the rare occasion he’s not tied up with the aforementioned and other pursuits of awesomeness, he enjoys fighting street gangs for local charities and drinking from a cup that’s half full. Bookmark  Life To Her Years , follow Michael on  Twitter , and “like” him on  Facebook  for more “rules”. 1. Love her mom. Treat her mother with respect, honor, and a big heaping spoonful of public displays of affection. When she grows up, the odds are good she’ll fall in love with and marry someone who treats her much like you treated her mother. Good or bad, that’s just the way it is. I’d prefer good. ...

The voting has come and gone, and we were not crowned winners of the Nuk contest.  I thought that we had an awesome chance.  19,000 video views on Youtube, lots of Facebook support, me posting links all day.  But we never knew about "vote exchange"  It appears the winner was well aware of it!  We will definitely bring it next time!

The holiday season has come and gone.  Man o man is it quite a bit different with the twins to haul around!  This year I am sure didn't really matter to them, too little to know what is going on.  We will have to see how next year goes.  Travelling with the twins is quite a feat.  We had to take 2 vehicles so that we had room for all of our stuff, and then to take the kids gifts back home with us. Christmas seemed a bit different this year.  It really didn't seem like Christmas at all.  I don't know if it was because of there being no snow.  Or because of the kids, or who knows.  It just didn't feel like it.  Heck, we are still waiting to have one of the families parties yet!  It will definitely be good to see everyone that is for sure. The only thing that has been going on lately with the Garski family is trying to get votes to win an Ipad2 and a trip to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.  I know we have promoted the heck...

By now many of our family and friends are probably sick of me spamming their Facebook walls and inbox's with requests to vote for our sons video.  I submitted this video last month for the chance at being a finalist and for our family to win a vacation.  I honestly did NOT think that we would actually be chosen!  Ryan's video "GigglePants" was 1 of 5 videos chosen in the "Laughing" category.  I could not believe it when I got the email saying that we were picked.  So now I have been begging family and friends to go to the Nuk Facebook page and vote for our video.  It doesn't take much time, and just think, your one vote a day could land us in the Bahamas at the Atlantis resort!  Ryan and Violet would love it! Here are the details.... Please help us win a trip to the Bahamas for our family. You can vote once a day per Facebook account! Thank you to everyone w ho has voted and continues to vote! Make sure to "like" the Nuk page and then you w...

First of all thank you to everyone that prayed for us last week while Darlene had her surgery.  Everything went great.  Darlene is doing well.  Still a little sore sometimes, but hopefully on the fast track of recovering!  Last time it was arthroscopic procedure.  This time it was actually an incision.  So there is more healing time needed now. The hardest thing now is Darlene being around the kids when she can't pick them up for a few weeks yet.  It is killing her that she can't pick up an hold her babies.  She does as much as she can, bathing, changing, feeding.  So she is at least getting some good time with them.  But it isn't the same.  She plans on being able to persuade the Dr. when she goes in for her check up to ease up on the lifting restrictions.  Nothing over 10lbs currently.  Violet is at 15lbs and Ryan at 18lbs!  They get so big, so fast.

Darlene is going under the knife again.  This will be the 6th surgery she has had since we have been together the last few years.  6 too many if you ask me.  You would think I would be a little used to it by now.  But it is almost the opposite.  Seems like I get more worried now. I would be absolutely lost without Darlene.  My wife, my friend, lover, mother to our beautiful children.  And so much more. A person tries not to think of the worst, but obviously you have to think about some things, and the worst always pops in there. So do me a favor and pray for us tomorrow morning. Thank you.

I have been using some vacation time and such the last few weeks to stay home on the weekends to help out with the kids and whatnot.  I gotta say, it has been pretty nice.  The Sunday after Thanksgiving we went out to  Hess Tree Farm .  We got a perfect little tree to put on a small table in the office area.   Here is a video of us decorating it!  It is amazing the things you can do while holding a baby! It smells so good in the front room now.  The twins love looking at the lights on the tree. I think I have everyone's Christmas gift taken care of.  Looking forward to everyone opening their gifts now. Lots of things coming up as well.  December 15th is a big day.  I graduate!  Time to start applying more for other jobs!  Darlene is also going in for her hernia surgery that day.  Hopefully that goes well.  She won't be able to lift the kids for 6 weeks.  That is going to be interesting.....  Going...