Luke’s birthday celebration
We took the opportunity this past three-day weekend to make a jaunt to Salt Lake to visit with family. We stayed with Vickey’s parents and also spent half of Sunday with Brian and his...
Author: Pete Codella II
Coglianese family: load one
This afternoon I helped my good friend, Mark Coglianese, load up his first of many moving trucks with his family’s belongings. He has been accepted into a doctorate program at BYU and will begin...
Dominic is cleared for all activities
Vickey took Dominic back to Dr. Stewart’s office this morning, the pediatric orthopedic surgeon, to have yet another x-ray of his left femur. The doctor was very pleased with the results. He said Dominic...
Best wishes, Mitt Romney
I hate to say I saw it coming, even though I did. Our country just needs more time to ponder what it would mean to vote for Mitt Romney for president. I’m sure he’s...
Kids will be kids
What’s furniture for if it’s not for disassembly and hiding from your parents? And who said stairs were only for climbing? And why can’t kids make cookies too? And yes, sometimes even dads get...
Dominic’s Christmas tricycle
A couple weeks ago we unpackaged Dominic’s new tricycle he got for Christmas. After he broke his leg I wasn’t planning on buying the trike we had planned to get him, but Grandma Snow...
Charley Snow, artist extraordinaire
Vickey’s younger brother is a professional artist. And by professional I mean he actually supports himself through his art – a pretty impressive feat if you ask me. Grandpa Snow recently sent a link...
Another tooth bites the dust
Eliana called me yesterday afternoon to tell me that her second tooth has fallen out. She actually pulled it out herself. She called my mobile phone and work phone just as I was leaving...
What’s in a name?
Today’s Dominic’s name day. I know, many of you are wondering, “What’s a name day?” It’s a little way I pay homage to my Italian heritage. You see, as I’ve written about before, Italians...
Eliana’s first cheerleading performance
Ellie was so thrilled a couple weeks ago when she received notice in school that she could go to a couple hour cheerleading clinic at Coronado High School, learn from the high school cheerleaders,...