May 19, 2009

Things have been quiet at the Gallagher house, I am on Facebook alot thanks to my friend Jen who got me started on Facebook.  So I have been keeping in touch with friends and family through facebook.  My grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago now and last weekend was her funeral and she will be missed.  Well here are some new pics of the kids.

April 4, 2008

It has been a busy time here on the Gallagher ranch, with Kate starting at Lesly College and a with me still in school I have little time for posting.  Recent news, I joined facebook the other day and I am getting addicted to it quickly.  Other news, my sister Mary finally has a working computer and is now able to view this website so that is pretty cool.  Updates on the kids are as follows, Thomas is showing great inprovements in his speech and physically seems more strong.  He is doing great in school and is now back to sleeping in his big boy bed.  Torri is beautiful and she is growing in leaps and bounds.  Well here are some pictures of the kids.

February 16, 2009

I have been keeping very busy, while I am still unemployed I am currently enrolled in A+/Network+ certification at millienium training institute.  I have had an exam just about every day and I have a better understanding of binary.  Computers really are just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.  I want to update everyone on the kids.  Torri is walking and has about 10-12 word vocabulary.  Thomas is doing really great and I cannot underestimate great, he is really starting to talk and even ask for things like food and drink.  Kate is doing really great, she loves working at Bate’s School over at Salem, MA as a teacher’s aid.  Kate has been asking me to do a throw back picture of the two kids side by side and finally I got around to doing it today so here it is.  Can you tell who is who?

December 21, 2008

Here are some pictures of the kids playing out in the snow.

 

December 20, 2008

Things have been going pretty well for us, I am still unemployed but I am taking some computer classes through unemployement and the school I am attending has a 95% job placement rate.  So I am hopeful that I will have a new job but I will be unemployed till at least the end of Feb 2009 which is when my class ends.   Kate loves her new job as a teachers aid and really enjoys working with the kids.  Thomas is swimming on Sundays and Horseback riding on Saturdays and going to speech and language sessions during the week.  Victoria is now walking all over the place and starting to each people food and not the baby food.  With an organizational person that has been coming into our house and really organizing our house things are hopefully going to settledown for next year.  My mother-in-law has been great setting us up with the organizational person which was the best thing to happen to our house, my mother and step father have been great taking Thomas swimming every Sunday, buying the kids new shoes and just helping out with great advice.  We are very fortunate to have great and wonderful parnets, Christmas is all about giving and god gave us two sets of great parents.  Well enjoy the picture below I sure enjoyed having it taken.

November 17, 2008

Below is Thomas’s school picture in three different views which were taken earlier this month enjoy! I absolutely love this picture!

October 31, 2008

The past two months I have been unemployed and trying to decide on a new career path that doesn’t involve banking I haven’t had a chance to post on the site.  Right now my thoughts on a new career are working on computers and taking some classes to get my A+ certification and then try getting back into the work force around March.  It really has been a blessing that I have not been working because I have been able to get our house and affairs in order and with Thomas being austisic it has been a busy couple of months. 

It was October 31, 1994 when Kate and I first went out and so Halloween is a special day for us.  Thomas and Torri both went out trick or treating up and down the street.  Then Thomas played on the porch with me for a while passing out candy.  On that note here are some pictures from Halloween tonight:

September 22, 2008

I was let go from Equity Bank a couple of weeks ago and I am currently looking for new work that is why I haven’t posted in a while.  That and my family were in town last week from New York and Oklahoma so I was entertaining them all last week. 

Today is the 7th anniversary for Kate and I and yesterday my mother bought us tickets for the circus o lay which I know I didn’t spell correctly but still we had a great time.  This time 7 years ago who would have known that Kate and I would have 2 wonderful kids and a house to our own.

Here are some new pictures for your viewing pleasure from the past few weeks:

(Carol on the Left is my birth mother and Mary on the right is my birth sister)

(On the left is Al my birth father and Carol is in the middle and Mary on the right)

(Mary, Al, Carol on a Battleship in Boston, MA)

(The Saugus Iron Works)

August 11, 2008

On Saturday Kate and I went to Canobie Lake Park up in Salem, NH as a late birthday gift from my mom.  My mom and John were also kind enough to volunteer to watch Thomas and Torri while Kate and I actually went on a date without the kids for the first time in I can’t remember.  Even though both of us missed the kids alot we had lots of fun and we did some scouting about for rides that the kids might like to go on next time we go there.  Here is a picture of us on a water ride sharing a boat with two strangers, the ride was called the log flume: 

August 8, 2008

My new job has been great, I have been learning all new things like residential loans and consumer loans as well as refreshing up on commercial loans.  The people I work wih are great the 7 minute commute is even better.  Here are some new pictures of the kids: