James Dodge

Man, I always have good intentions to keeping this blog stuff going, but it is always hard for me!! I can’t believe it was June that I last posted something. A lot has happened since then, so I am going to take some time this weekend to try and post a few different things and some photo albums to show what we’ve been up to. Check back here next week to see (hopefully) a better update.

It’s really been bothering me that I haven’t taken the time to get Briana riding her bike, so finally we decided to just take her out and get her riding. It didn’t take her long to get the hang of it although she is still having a hard time remembering how to stop. She is loving not having her training wheels on – check out the photos for more pics of her riding around!

Well it’s official now – both Teresa and I are driving Ford’s. The Yukon was starting to act up again and we’ve had it for almost 5 years now, so we decided to trade it in before it died on us. We would have loved to go with another GMC, but Ford was offering better incentives at the time, plus I’ve been riding in Kurt & Elena’s Expedition for a while and I love it, so we decided to go for it. Check the Photo Albums for more pictures of it.

Well, Audrey’s off to England!! Audrey had the chance to go and visit Marsha and Jason over in England, so we took her to the airport today to fly over there. Here’s a picture of the plane she was on – it’s huge!! We almost didn’t make it because of a mix up at the passport office, but her passport got delivered early this morning. I’m posting this less than a week after she left and I miss her so much!! She can be contacted by her e-mail address and I’m sure she would like to hear from everyone. Her address is ADodgeRose@aol.com.

Yeah, I know – you’re reading the title of this over and over and thinking to yourself…….I can’t be reading that right. But it’s true!! On June 12, 2008, Jeff walked on stage and accepted his diploma from Legacy High School. I know it seems unlikely, but he made it!! All joking aside – we’re very proud of Jeff and were very happy to see him get his diploma. For a graduation present, he got his own Apple MacBook – so being looking for his website soon!! Check out the photo albums to see part of the slide show we put together for Jeff’s graduation party.

Well, I thought I would be posting to this thing a lot, but I guess I’m just too much out of the habit!! It’s been 2 months since my last post!! I’ve had several things I have wanted to post, but then I guess I just get lazy and don’t do it. So – I am going to try to catch things up a little bit. I am going to go through and post pictures of things that have happened in the last couple of months, and also put in some additional blog entries. Check back in the next couple of days for more pics and entries!!

This game was released today and I wanted to post this to let everyone know how awesome this game is!! It reminds me of some good times – you know the ones; Jason, Rob & I battling it out – Jeff running out of the room upset that he can’t win (not much has changed there!) I didn’t really like the Gamecube version of this game, but I really like the Wii version. Now they have it so you can play online with your friends also, so you know what that means!! Everyone has to get a Wii so that we can play online. That is, if you guys think you could handle it!!

The spring soccer season kicked off today. Both Briana and Tyler play in different age groups. Both teams are orange and go by the name The Orange Crushers. Elena coaches both teams (and a 3rd also!) and I get to help her for all 3 teams. It’s always a lot of fun – I love being out there with the kids!! They have been playing for the past 2 years and both of them seem to enjoy it a lot.