Catch up

It's really sad. That is exactly what it is. Becoming new parents was exciting and new. And three years later when the second child shows up, well things are as new anymore. Or maybe they are just a lot busier.

Lola had her pictures taken as she grew in a total of about 8 times before Sid came along. With Sid added to the photo shoot, we have had two visits to the studio. Sad. Blogs are the same way. You can see the trend of many posts up until 2007 and then we dropped....drastically. Hopefully, the new blog will help us keep you a bit more updated!

Lola is 7, going on 12. She just finished 1st grade. She is so stinkin' smart yet so sassy. Wonder where she gets these traits?

Sid is going to be 5 in about a month. He is just as big as Lola! He is funny. He has his moments. Maybe he feels that he needs attention? And maybe rightfully so as I stated above.

We just got back from visiting Nana and Pepe in France. We had a GREAT time! Maybe I can work on spreading some of those stories - like the Meltdown 2012 on the Champs Élysées.

Kids in the south of France.

The new cheztiar!

This just posted on cheztiar.com:
Sorry for the short notice.  Cheztiar.com, obsolete as it has become, will be going away shortly.  I migrated the contents for posterity at http://cheztiar.blogspot.com but migration of photos from here to there was too big a project to tackle in the time available.  You'll find lots of broken links there.  We have all the photos and videos archived at home anyway, so fear not.  Perhaps, given time, we'll start blogging there again someday soon.  Thanks for joining us!

OK, well...

With a few tricks, I was able to add my Facebook posts to this blog, but due to my privacy settings on there, you couldn't view photos or video or comments, and the formatting was dumb, with the post title comprised of the same text as the post itself.

Back to the drawing board...

Hello?

Let me dust off the cobwebs and break out the broom.  Tinkering to see if I can feed Facebook updates into blog posts here.  No guarantees...does anyone still look here?  Please comment if you do!

Finally...and some changes

Finally I am taking a moment to post to this blog. Until people comment about how we never post anymore, I am reminded that it needs to be done. Facebook has really taken over as our ways of communication and picture posting - especially  since Marc slipped into the rabbit hole the end of last year! And now my magnificent, wonderful, and geeky husband  has linked out Facebook pictures to the blog. You can find a link on the home page at the top! With even more technology at our fingertips (we got iphones) we seem to be posting more photos and being even better about documenting!

To catch you all up:

Lola started kindergarten. She LOVES it. Loves it so much she won't leave line to come back and hug or kiss me. She is is reading...lots. We just finished out first chapter book together. She wants to write everything herself and jumps on the one homework assignment she gets a week as soon as she is home. I can only hope that her enthusiasm for learning continues as strong as we have seen it so far.



Sid is three now! He is talking a mile a minute and is quiet entertaining! He is part time with a home sitter and will be starting preschool in a month. He is excited to be going to school.  He has had several hair cuts since we finally cut it all off. We currently gave him a pretty short buzz cut!



Marc and I are good. We recently co-located with the Sleep Shop who sells organic and eco-friendly mattresses, bedding, pillows and more. (For those out of town - we can ship a # of these awesome beds right to your door!) It is awesome! As another mom and pop shop, we all get days off and have actually had time to spend together as a family and have even squeezed in a camping trip.

I'll be better as there is lots to talk about...chickens, chicken massacre, business news, visitors, trips and more!

Stay tuned!

San Diego pictures

Woo hoo!  Marc got some photos posted in a timely manner!  We hit San Diego for a few days recently, the zoo, a few beach visits (not hot enough to bask or swim, just play), and a couple breweries for Dada were among the highlights.  As per my previous post, no captions anymore, so if there' s something you're curious about, just ask!   You'll find pictures in a new album in the gallery.

Next big adventure chez Tiar...the chickens are in the coop.

A few new pics

Finally got around to clearing off the camera, added the cream of the crop to the Lola album, the Sid album, and a new album!  Since I was having a hard time trying to figure out in which album to put pics where both kids figure prominently, I created a new album called "Both our kids" for those kinds of shots.  I'm not going back through old ones to move previously-filed-under-one-kid-or-the-other-when-it-had-both-kids-in-it pics into the new album, but still.

And, in an effort to do this more often, I'm giving up on my lame captions.  Pictures are worth 1000 words already, you don't need my dumb commentary.

Ran out of time today, but I've got a bunch of videos to post as well, hopefully tomorrow.  Also in an effort to streamline things, for starters, to get caught up, I'm just going to mash them all together in one big stream of consciousness kidfest.  It's been so long since I've done this routinely, I can't even remember all the steps and processes I used to go through, so I'll probably be looking for more effortless ways to post video as well.  We'll see what happens.

wow

Three months plus since we last posted here.  We're still here, still living our little lives.  Still struggling, loving, fighting, and having fun.  Mostly have moved a lot of commentary onto Facebook.  I'd still like to keep this site viable.  Stay tuned, maybe I'll get back into the swing of things soon...

Snow Day in Reno

It has been snowing since yesterday. They say we have had about a foot. Libraries are closed, but Marc braved the roads to open the store. We'll see how long that lasts.

We bundled up the kids to play while Marc shoveled the driveway. We didn't last long, but it was fun. It is bringing back memories of early 2005.

Videos!

It's obvious I can't keep up with the Sid and Lola pages on this site.  So for now, some embedded Flash video for your viewing enjoyment.  Please, take a stroll through the last YEAR of inactivity in the video department with this brief sampling of fun...

Lola sings Jingle Bells, December 2008
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Sidney gets fit on the Wii, January 2009
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Sid dances, January 2009
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Road trip with Paigey and Grandpa, not sure where we were going...March 2009
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Ring around the rosie, August 2009
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Lola sings "sticky", August 2009
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Sid rolls in on his Spiderman scooter, August 2009
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Sid bonds with Tasty, October 2009
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And the masterpiece, the grand finale, Lola presents a classic of our time, Don't Stop Believin', October 2009
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