Pictures from Sandra's Birthday and Reckless Kelly

We took a limo bus for Sandra's birthday to see Reckless Kelly. Had a great time. It's always good to see Reckless Kelly play, although I'm feeling my age because it is starting to kill me when the band doesnt play until 9 or 1o pm. Never thought that day would come...

Here are a couple of pictures and the link to the rest.

Link to all the pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34694493@N02/show/

Chromosomes, Modeling Clay and Red Wine…..

These things do not necessarily mix. Go figure. Last night Zach had a project to do where he had to create a model of a chromosome. Now this is my regular Tuesday night, ritual where I watch “The Biggest Loser” and drink wine. (Yes, I really do, it makes me feel better about myself.). So after glass #2 and a couple of hours of hard work, he gets the thing complete (and is VERY proud of himself for his work) and asks me what to do with it. Now, my first thought is…. to put it in the oven??? Yes for some reason, I assume that will “cook it” and harden it. Since I’ve never done pottery in my life, I’m thinking I must have come up with this notion based on many hours of HGTV. However, note to self, the FRONT of the package, specifically says that the clay WILL NOT harden.

Unfortunately, I did not read this until after I took the smoking melted first “chromosome model” out of the oven much to the severe dismay of my extremely unhappy child. He did go to bed calm and happy though, since we were able to “recreate” the original fairly quickly with both of us working on it. And no matter what you may think after you look at it below, YES, it is a CHROMOSOME.

The Big Debate

So this is the big debate around here at this moment. Zach took these pictures of me last weekend in the car when I got my contacts. I kept looking at the pictures and trying to determine who I thought they looked like, when it dawned on me. I think I look exactly like Zach in these pictures (or, he looks like me), but Chris said that he doesnt see it at all....what do you think?

**Try to see beyond the dumb look on my face as I was trying not to laugh while he took the picture, but he was cracking up, which made it difficult.

Black Monday around here....

Needless to say, things did not go well in the game. We just kept wondering when the heck the Eagles were gonna show up to play?? We're still wondering that....

I was also reminded this weekend, that Phildadelphia is so important to my goofy son, that when he went to Ireland and Scotland a couple of years back, Philadelphia was the layover, and he ranked that stop as part of his favorites about the trip! Hhhmmm...Ireland and Scotland 3 week trip on one hand....layover in Philadelphia on the other....you wouldnt think it would be even close, but it is for him.

I'm trying to find his "painted up" picture from the Eagles/Patriots superbowl and will post it as soon as I do since it is really funny and shows how far into this his heart is....poor guy.

Football this weekend

Cross your fingers, pray, visualize...do whatever you do for the Eagles. Zach is on pins and needles over his beloved Eagles. All they have to do is make it through and they're SUPERBOWL bound. The last time they were in the SB, I had no idea that it was as big of a deal as it is, and it had been a long weekend and we had absolutely no plans on doing anything for the game. Chris was gonna go to a friends house, and I had just planned on staying home with Zach and watching all of the game commercials.

Chris left the house and Zach was back in his room for awhile, and came out dressed in jeans (only), with black and green mardi gras beads (don't know where those came from) that he had made into belts, necklaces, headbands, etc. He brought me paint and instructed me what to paint on his back, WORD FOR WORD, so I did not make any mistakes. He then asked me what I was making for snacks and what we would be grilling. I asked him if he realized that it was only he and I for the game, that we werent having a SB Party? He informed me that if the Eagles were in the SB, it WAS a party, and even if it were just he and I, I needed to get busy and make us some game snacks.

Needless to say, we ran the gamut that game on emotions especially since the EAGLES did not prevail over the Patriots. Let's hope for better luck this weekend!

Arctic Freeze.....

Supposedly we're getting another one of these. Yuck. I am definitely not a snow bunny. When we ski, I spend most of the time in the lodge (read: bar), but at least the kids would love it. This is what it looked like the last time if you can believe it (in November this year) and they had a field day making snowmen and having snowball fights. Before this, I cant remember the last time we had snow in Texas!! The funny thing is that we were in short sleeves the next weekend. This has been the craziest hot/cold/hot/cold "winter" we've had.

Happy Holidazeeeeeeeee!!

I hope everyone had a great holiday! We definitely did and the time off has flown by! I haven’t been feeling great this week and finally went to the Dr. and they said that I had the beginnings of strep throat so I guess no fireworks for me this evening, but hopefully Chris and Zach will save me some. They should end up with plenty, since it was all guys that went and bought them and males seem to lose ANY and ALL sensibility when standing in front of a fireworks stand!

And for those of you that weren't at my house Christmas night, Jett is super into sticks so Maegan thought it would be HILARIOUS to wrap up a box of sticks and see what he did when he opened it...he was fired up! Loved it! So far all those people that think you need money to entertain kids...well there ya go. Although I was babysitting the next day and told her she could throw them right in the trash on her way out as I'm sure my dogs would never have survived the wrath. He already spends most of his time berating and bossing them around while he's here so god help them if he had sticks!

Happy 2009 to everyone!!

(The pictures above are Jett, Ethan, Abbie, Jett and his sticks :), and Capt Wonderful Jr. )

Yes...He's gonna kill me....

But that's what Moms are for right :) And Renee..in case you were wondering, I guess either he or the dogs found it from the hurricane :)

Stoney and Happy Birthday Derek!

We went downtown and saw Stoney Larue last night and he rocked it as usual!! Was definitely an awesome show and our seats were killer. It’s first time we’ve seen a show at House of Blues but I would definitely recommend it because you can actually SEE who’s playing. Although $7.00 beers is nothing to write home about. Dang economy J

On another note – HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEREKKKKKKKKKKK on Christmas Eve!!! We love you & miss you and can’t wait until you’re home! Be safe !!

Hellloooo Brace Face

Zach got his braces yesterday and I'm sure he will be extremely sick of that name in two years, but it's good payback for what he did to Maegan. At dinner the night before we asked him what color rubberbands he was gonna get and he said green and black for Philadelphia (Eagles). He is a die hard after all. Chris specifically told him that was dumb and not to get those colors.....take a look at the picture..notice the colors....? Go figure.

The next Tiger Woods

Zach got 2nd place in his freshman/JV golf tournament yesterday! It’s only his 3rd tournament for the year and we were hoping he would “settle down” and get used to the whole tournament atmosphere, so hopefully this is a good sign of more to come :)

Not ANOTHER birthday...they just keep coming!

Holy Cow – Zach turned 15 over the weekend. I can’t even believe it….I had a small meltdown on the first day of school this year, but that was nothing compared to this! It’s unbelievable to me to realize that after this year he will only be home for 3 more years before leaving for school and we’ve already started getting college info in the mail…where does the time go? He has been dying for a ping pong table so we got that for him and I have a suspicion that it will be the demise of many an adult who forget that they have become “limited” in their older age and are easily goaded by the boys…:)

Run, deer, run...

So Zach went hunting with his dad and shot his first deer for the season. I wasn’t too sure how he would do, as some years he’s more into it than others, but he was super fired up about it, so I guess this is an “on” year. When my comment on the subject was “Poor deer” I received a speech about the necessities of hunting to avoid overpopulation...from a 15 year old, no less. I’m still rooting for the deer. My guys seem to have gone hunting crazy, as we are also the proud subscribers to the Outdoor Channel now, and let me tell you, that is a real treat. An entire channel devoted to killing anything that moves. Run, deer, run…

They're never too old for pumpkin carving!!

No matter how much they protest that they ARE! Actually, their pumpkins get better and better with age. Here are a few from the weekend of Zach, Blake and Saylor carving it up. Can’t you just feel the “hero-worship” radiating from those two!

I'll send out the link that has the rest of the pictures if you guys wanna check them out~

My VERY shy child....

So, we all know what a goofball my attention starved child is. The other night he came in from golf and I was at the table working and he sat down opposite from me to do homework. I had the TV on Sirius radio just listening to music from earlier, so I decide to change it to “chill out” music so that he can concentrate better. Um, yeah, not so much. He sits there for a bit and then proceeds to get up (none of this I’m paying attention to, btw, because I’m trying to finish what I’m working on), walks over to the back door, puts on Chris’s boots, and bust out with these major dance moves in true “Chris” form. I think the best part is the big finale at the end, where he makes the dog bark and then breaks
into whatever the bodyroll/wave thing that is.