Ice

Columbus, Oh got quite the ice storm 3 days ago. Freezing rain all night long and guys at the airport said it was taking an entire de-icing truck to de-ice one plane. Here's a pic of my parents house.

Refridgerated Dog Food

I give this an "Oh Brother"

Wrestling Move of the Week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYFVXgObatg

Love and Hate V

Blue Cheese. Love it.

Captain Zoom

Scan and Zoom pic of Inauguration

3rd Coast

Bartholomew Cubbins

Wendy's

Mario Bros

Mixed

I ( not my kids) just put this in my cart. I'm ashamed and proud in
the same breath.

24 hours of world wide air traffic control

The Hatch

I think I stumbled onto the set of Lost.

Down by the Creek

Injured bad

Let's get a list of injuries going that would keep me company if I sat
down like this.

It's the law?

Somewhere someone's job is to create pictures for state signs. Not
too shabby.

Breakin' 2008

Groovaloos

Furniture and Corruption

A co-worker sent this ad to me that was published in the Chicago Tribune.

Taco Takedown

Dear diary,

The time is 12:35pm and I do not feel well.

Al Pastor, Barbacoa, Chicharron, Tripa, Carnitas

Options as I stood in line for tacos at El Paisa.
I asked the cashier. "Qual es Tripa?" She pointed to her stomach and said "Intestine".

Um..no thank you I thought and I smiled as if to thank her for her honesty. Falsely assuming that nothing could taste worse I ordered Chicharron.

Dry Salt Cured Pork

The term "cured" referencing meat. Not good.
Like hey this pork used to have leprosy but now it's cured.

Sanhedrin or Sewers?

Larson: "Mom....I forget....is Nicodemus in the Bible, or....is he a Ninja Turtle?"

Donatello,
Michelangelo,
Leonardo,
Raphael,
Nicodemus.....it could fit.

Thank you secret Santa

If it's broke don't fix it

Few things in life better than the busted water fountain that could
shoot a hole through the roof of your mouth.

Drunk Russian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNCVH4Rau4

All Was Merry and Bright

We had a great holiday season! We spent Christmas with my family, and then Ryan's family came down for New Year's. It was so fun to spend time with (almost) everyone, and now that we are back into routine, it seems far too quiet around here!

The kids LOVED Christmas this year....it made it so much fun for us.

Larson has been asked a few times what his favorite gift was and without fail he has answered "Spiderman toothpaste", or "Spiderman mints". Easy to please, that kid!

We also spent time doing what it seems every other American family did this Christmas...playing the Wii.

We did have a brief bit of drama in our Christmas when on Christmas Eve, I wound up in the emergency room. Thankfully, the baby is fine, and I am fine, so after a brief stay I was sent home with strict resting orders. Our families were WONDERFUL as they basically babysat me & the children for a week!

Erik & Yuriko have even come over just to read bedtime stories to the kids! We are going to miss them when they leave!

The Files came in on the 31st and we had a great 6 days with them!

Tech played Old Miss in the CottonBowl on the 2nd. Ryan, Preston, and Natalie all graduated from Tech, and Elizabeth goes to Old Miss, where Glenn also went back in the day! So, the game was a bit of a family affair.

We even got the Larson and the Files clans all together a few times!

And, we did what Linda, Lesley and I do best.....we went SHOPPING! Yes, I did say that I was on strict resting orders, but that didn't slow us down - we went ahead and rented the scooter for the Dillard's New Year's Day sale - complete with the loud BEEP!BEEP!BEEP! every time I had to back up.

Yes, I have pictures.

No, I will not post them.

It is always so fun to shop sales after Christmas, especially when the sales are better than we expected! We pretty much stayed in control of ourselves, unless you consider Lesley laying down a mannequin to take off the item of clothing that she needed 'out of control'. It was worth it...she got a great deal!

We also discovered that we like Bubble Tea. Ymmmm. The perfect shopping refreshment.

Hope you all have had a great start to 2009!

My Adidas

My Adidas - Run DMC

The Original Something Plaid

Love and Hate IV

Hate it.

Cotton Bowl Trash Can

True Story Part III

I love cheese. That's important later in the story.

At the age of 16 I joined the American workforce as a pizza making, dish scrubbing, bus boy at Mr. Gattis pizza palace in Abilene, TX. During my first week at closing time the manager asked if I wanted any of the uncooked pizzas.

Pause.

My whole life up to this point I've never had a pizza with enough cheese on it.

Unpause.

So I combined the toppings from six pizzas onto one, loaded it in the oven and 13 minutes later after two bites dispelled the notion that you can't have too much of a good thing.

Mr. Gattis also introduced a new level of pain and soreness the time I wore strength shoes for entire shift while busing tables. (I was trying to make the basketball team)

The moral of the story is: You can learn a lot about life at the pizza parlor.

Jacked Up