Julia, Dax and I went to the play area at the mall with Mekenzie and Laura
MBI had the summer office party at Smokies field last weekend. We ate ballpark food and enjoyed about 3 innings of a minor league baseball game. It was cap night.
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17 July 2008
Camera Dump
We leave today to go to Raleigh, NC for my cousin Amy's wedding. I keep a camera in the diaper bag to use when I forget or just don't want to bring my Nikon. I usually forget to take the pictures off of it in a timely manner. To keep you busy until we return ...
Julia, Dax and I went to the play area at the mall with Mekenzie and Laura
MBI had the summer office party at Smokies field last weekend. We ate ballpark food and enjoyed about 3 innings of a minor league baseball game. It was cap night.
Julia, Dax and I went to the play area at the mall with Mekenzie and Laura
MBI had the summer office party at Smokies field last weekend. We ate ballpark food and enjoyed about 3 innings of a minor league baseball game. It was cap night.
02 March 2007
Julia Meets Mekenzie
We met up with Laura and Mekenzie at Michael Brady yesterday for lunch. Laura used to work at MBI on Dave's team and her daughter, Mekenzie, is four months older than Julia. I've been trying to make sure we go eat with Dave once a week and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do that and show off the babies! We had a good time, even though Mekenzie was a little freaked out by Dave. Whenever he held her, she started crying. It was pretty funny. Mekenzie was captivated by Julia and wanted to touch her. Very cute. I can't wait until the weather warms up and Laura, Mekenzie, Julia and I can have some fun times at the Knoxville Zoo! (I didn't bring my camera because it was raining so hard and I don't have a case yet. So I stole this picture off the Herring's blog!)
After lunch, Julia and I headed over to Gresham Middle to help Carole set up the book fair. Everyone thought Julia was precious (of course). We didn't get home until 4:00 pm! Poor Julia was zonked. She had hardly slept all day. We had a hard time waking her up for her bedtime bottle! :)
After lunch, Julia and I headed over to Gresham Middle to help Carole set up the book fair. Everyone thought Julia was precious (of course). We didn't get home until 4:00 pm! Poor Julia was zonked. She had hardly slept all day. We had a hard time waking her up for her bedtime bottle! :)
17 December 2006
This and that
Not much has really been going on lately. Well, doctor's visits and such (next one is Thursday morning), but the information we're getting now seems a bit personal to be posting on the Internet for everyone to see. If you're curious, give me a call or send an e-mail and I'll tell you. If I know who you are.
We did go to Dave's team Christmas party on Friday night. The associate on his team has done this each year that Dave's been a part of the company. We had a really good time. Last year, the team members drew names and had to make an ornament for the person whose name was drawn. Then, the ornaments were exchanged at the party. They did the same thing this year as well. Laura drew Dave's name and made him an ornament that was actually three ornaments in one! Score!
She took a set of baby bottles and filled each one with something to represent the three members of our family.
And the three closeups (click on each one for a bigger view):
Dave's bottle is filled with nuts and bolts therefore making it way too heavy to actually hang on a tree :) Jo's is filled with tiny books. The Peanut's is filled with cute ribbon and confetti. We'll have to find some toy nuts and bolts made from plastic to put in Dave's bottle so we can actually hang these from our tree ... someday when we have a tree.
Of course, we haven't completely wasted our time these past few weeks. We've been working on nursery stuff, thinking about packing bags for the hospital and discussing names for The Peanut. None of that stuff makes for very thrilling pictures, though. So, since Echo is always dressed and ready to be photographed (and can't refuse even if she's not), here are some cute pictures of her:
This is her favorite spot during the day.
You can see that she sits for so long keeping an eye on her front yard that she squashes the pillow flat.
Our big challenge right now is trying to teach her that she doesn't have to bark at EVERYTHING that moves.
She has trouble deciding where to go to sleep when she's tired.
Dave's side of the bed ...
or curled up on Jo's side.
And here is a typical Saturday morning scene at our house.
We did go to Dave's team Christmas party on Friday night. The associate on his team has done this each year that Dave's been a part of the company. We had a really good time. Last year, the team members drew names and had to make an ornament for the person whose name was drawn. Then, the ornaments were exchanged at the party. They did the same thing this year as well. Laura drew Dave's name and made him an ornament that was actually three ornaments in one! Score!
She took a set of baby bottles and filled each one with something to represent the three members of our family.
And the three closeups (click on each one for a bigger view):
Dave's bottle is filled with nuts and bolts therefore making it way too heavy to actually hang on a tree :) Jo's is filled with tiny books. The Peanut's is filled with cute ribbon and confetti. We'll have to find some toy nuts and bolts made from plastic to put in Dave's bottle so we can actually hang these from our tree ... someday when we have a tree.
Of course, we haven't completely wasted our time these past few weeks. We've been working on nursery stuff, thinking about packing bags for the hospital and discussing names for The Peanut. None of that stuff makes for very thrilling pictures, though. So, since Echo is always dressed and ready to be photographed (and can't refuse even if she's not), here are some cute pictures of her:
This is her favorite spot during the day.You can see that she sits for so long keeping an eye on her front yard that she squashes the pillow flat.
Our big challenge right now is trying to teach her that she doesn't have to bark at EVERYTHING that moves.
She has trouble deciding where to go to sleep when she's tired.Dave's side of the bed ...
or curled up on Jo's side.
And here is a typical Saturday morning scene at our house.06 December 2006
Open Drains, Open Bar ...
We are proud to announce that as of around 4:00 pm yesterday, we have TWO functional bathtubs, TWO functional bathroom sinks and TWO functional toilets. Yes, we finally had the plumber out to the house to dislodge the gunk that had accumulated in our drains. Gross.
He's also going to give us an estimate on replacing the pipes underneath the house which should really help our water pressure issues. Dave has to call him to explain what we want done because I had no clue. I basically just requested an estimate for complete replacement of all the pipes and then nearly fainted when he said it would be around $3700!!! Eek!
We also went to a Christmas Open House given by a company here in town. We always RSVP a big YES for free food. It was a pretty impressive bash. They had vendor booths set up showing off various building products, but I just ignored them. I concentrated on the buffet: pasta bar, cheese and fruit tray, stuffed mushrooms (two kinds!), spring rolls, spinach dip, chicken kabobs, and a carving station with roast beef! Plus about a dozen different desserts were up for grabs. AND a very well-stocked open bar. There was around two hundred people there which meant no one noticed how often you went back for more food! :) My type of party.
He's also going to give us an estimate on replacing the pipes underneath the house which should really help our water pressure issues. Dave has to call him to explain what we want done because I had no clue. I basically just requested an estimate for complete replacement of all the pipes and then nearly fainted when he said it would be around $3700!!! Eek!
We also went to a Christmas Open House given by a company here in town. We always RSVP a big YES for free food. It was a pretty impressive bash. They had vendor booths set up showing off various building products, but I just ignored them. I concentrated on the buffet: pasta bar, cheese and fruit tray, stuffed mushrooms (two kinds!), spring rolls, spinach dip, chicken kabobs, and a carving station with roast beef! Plus about a dozen different desserts were up for grabs. AND a very well-stocked open bar. There was around two hundred people there which meant no one noticed how often you went back for more food! :) My type of party.
14 September 2006
Some things to think about ...
1. Dave has his big meeting today. Do good, baby!
2. If anyone has some spare time available, try to come up with a meat-flavored allergy medication. Poor Echo has licked her left front paw bloody because she's allergic to something, but we can't get her to take the Benadryl tablets suggested by the vet. We've stuck them in cheese, hot dogs, liver treats ... nothing. She eats around them. I've even bought the liquid medicine for children, but you have to use so much of it and it smells so bad, she won't take it. I hate to put the e-collar on her, but I can't think of anything else to do. She just looks miserable and keeps watching me with those sad, puppy eyes wondering why I'm not helping her. Poor Echo dog.
2. If anyone has some spare time available, try to come up with a meat-flavored allergy medication. Poor Echo has licked her left front paw bloody because she's allergic to something, but we can't get her to take the Benadryl tablets suggested by the vet. We've stuck them in cheese, hot dogs, liver treats ... nothing. She eats around them. I've even bought the liquid medicine for children, but you have to use so much of it and it smells so bad, she won't take it. I hate to put the e-collar on her, but I can't think of anything else to do. She just looks miserable and keeps watching me with those sad, puppy eyes wondering why I'm not helping her. Poor Echo dog.
27 July 2006
Volleyball Dave
On Tuesday, lured by the invitation of free food afterwards, I went to watch Dave play volleyball with his team from work. All the pictures I have of him hitting the ball, he's sticking his tongue out. It's how you can tell he's a good player. All that intense concentration. (His team won two out of three games.)09 July 2006
Work is fun sometimes
We went to Dave's company BBQ on Saturday. The party was held at Mike's house up in Norris, TN. I took my camera, but left it in the truck like a goob. No pictures. We had fun talking with Cindy, Mike's wife, and hanging out with the people from work. We didn't win the sponge toss competition and didn't even enter the three-legged race ... pause for you to get a good look at the great picture in your head of the two of us in a three-legged race ... or the sack race. Nor did we win any of the door prizes. The enormous piles of food from Buddy's BBQ went a long way towards healing our disappointment. I even remembered sunscreen so we left nearly as lily white as we arrived. (If anyone wants to hear me brag on Dave and go on and on and on about the great things his bosses said about him, just give me a call.)
15 December 2005
Who would want this on their tree?
One of Dave's team members at work invited everyone to a Christmas party at her house. Several weeks before the party, the team members drew names and had to make an ornament for the person drawn.
Here is the ornament Dave received:
Apparently he is known around the office for shooting rubber bands at people. (Even his team leader, when he saw the ornament, said "Rubber bands ... that must be for Dave.") It's good to know your husband's strengths.
The rubber band ball has a black boa and sparklies glued on because the team member who drew Dave's name had also made ornaments for a contest earlier in the month. Several of her ornaments were red balls decorated with black sequins, black ribbon and fuzzy, black boa hats. Dave saw them and commented that they looked like "French Whore Ornaments" (I saw them at the party ... he came up with an accurate description [edited: I have never known a French Whore nor have I seen what they use to decorate their Christmas trees.]). So, we are now the proud owners of a French Whore Rubber Band Ball Ornament.
Really puts you in the Christmas spirit!
Here is the ornament Dave received:
Apparently he is known around the office for shooting rubber bands at people. (Even his team leader, when he saw the ornament, said "Rubber bands ... that must be for Dave.") It's good to know your husband's strengths.The rubber band ball has a black boa and sparklies glued on because the team member who drew Dave's name had also made ornaments for a contest earlier in the month. Several of her ornaments were red balls decorated with black sequins, black ribbon and fuzzy, black boa hats. Dave saw them and commented that they looked like "French Whore Ornaments" (I saw them at the party ... he came up with an accurate description [edited: I have never known a French Whore nor have I seen what they use to decorate their Christmas trees.]). So, we are now the proud owners of a French Whore Rubber Band Ball Ornament.
Really puts you in the Christmas spirit!
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