Emmett's Birthday Pictures Are Up!

Jeff posted some awesome pictures of the kids and family at his site on Smugmug. Check it out and see how cute all of our kids are!  :)

Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

Wow, what a week!  Thanksgiving was awesome (sorry, no pictures).  Eva kicked butt with her turkey, and everyone brought EXCELLENT food!   Mom, Layne, Grandma (GG), Ryan, Emily and Kadi (from Ryan's school) came to our house to celebrate.  And it was wonderful.

Earlier in the week we got good news and bad news.   Bad news is Ryan is going to be deployed to Iraq with his Navy reserve (he switched from Coast Guard a couple months ago) unit in February.  He will be doing customs checking on soldiers on their way home.  It's hard to digest all at once, but our support goes with him and our hopes for a quick and safe tour.  Law school will go on hold until he returns next December.  Good news is Ryan and Emily are going to get married in December!!!  December 30, to be exact.  It is going to be a much smaller event then originally planned (it is kind of on short notice due to the deployment) but I think it will be very awesome!  Keep an eye on their blog for pics and stuff.  :)  Congrats, Ryan and Emily!

Finally, we had a party for Emmett!  He is already 1 year old (OMIGOSH!) and we had a little family shindig to celebrate.  He and the family had just returned from Michigan to celebrate Thanksgiving with Jill's family, and they were all (finally) rid of various sicknesses.  He is getting SO big!  And what a happy kid!  Clara was just adorable, and was trying hard to convince everyone that it was 'her birthday, too.'  We had homemade pizza and yummy pear cake and just a blast.  Thanks, Jeff and Jill for inviting us, and I will link to pictures from that party when Jeff posts them on smugmug.  Anyway, gotta go to work.  Need a break from all of this partying.  ;)

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We are having a big gathering at our house this year.  Mom, Layne, Grandma, Ryan, Emily, Kady (Ryan's friend from Law School) and a friend of Kady is coming to join us.  It would be much better if Jeff and Matt and their families were here, but we hope they enjoy their day with Jill and Karen's family.

 

Top things I am thankful for (I know it is cliche, but humor me):

1. Family (especially Eva, Quinn and Kallen)*
2. Friends (you know who you are)*

• My house (not a mansion, but great for us)
• My car (2007 Acura TL Type S) vrrroooom!
• My job (yay!  games!)
• Video Games (I love you, guys!)
• Good food (Eva's cooking, Indian, Thai, etc. etc.)
• Good beer (although I get to enjoy it less and less - stupid diet)
• Good music (one day I will talk about that)
• Graham crackers
• Spicy popcorn
• Sour candy
• A new shirt
• Comfy shoes
• Long naps
• Short naps
• Sunday mornings
• Saturday nights
• Funny Internet videos
• Cheese sandwiches
• Volleyball
• Good books
• Good comics
• Space travel

*These are the only two in order.  Everything else is just random.

Enjoy your holiday!

Little geniuses

Eva was off with Juliet at her wine club, and the boys and I tackled their homework for the week.  They did awesome!  I asked them to each take a picture of each other, then Quinn insisted on taking one of all three of us.  Can't you just SEE the intelligence in their faces?  It's obvious they got that from their mother.  :)

Happy Veterans Day

The kids are out of school today, and I get to enjoy this blustery day huddled in a 5 hour meeting about the PC Version of Gears of War.  I can't complain too much when my meetings are about games.  :)

Yesterday we watched Evan Almighty.  It was funny and heart warming and we all enjoyed it.  The end credits were hilarious, too!

Anyone have any suggestions for my gout?  It has been pretty consistent in my right foot for almost 6 weeks now, and is driving me crazy!  No drug treatments have worked yet, and it's not like I eat a lot of sardines.  :(  People are calling me Mr. Hop-A-Long now, cuz I am always limping.

Art critic

Mom sent me this paper of some guy going off on art drawn by little kids.  It is a bit over the top, and you may not like this type of humor (Eva didn't find it that funny) but I think it is hilarious and laughed out loud (or "LOL'd") a number of times.  If you want to check it out click here. (Note, swearing involved).

 

Oh, and Super Diamond pictures are up.  Check out Emily and Ryan's blog!

Construction Boys

Recently, the boys and our neighborhood friend, Austin, have found it quite fun to nail together pieces of scrap wood in the shapes of jets and rocketships.  They spent a good 2 or 3 days in the past couple of weeks working on their 'projects'.  I will have pictures of the creations later, but here is one of the artists.

Congrats Matt

Mom told me that Matt got a great promotion at work!  Something like a Vice President or something!  That is AWESOME!  Congratulations, Matt!  You rock!

Oh, and make sure to check out the super cute pics of Matt, Karen, Gavin, Abe and Ella at their blog.  Nice Hallowe'en costumes, gang! 

Super Diamond was Super

We had a great time at Super Diamond!  We met Ryan and Emily and Jeff and Jill and Mom and Layne and a number of friends from Ryan's Law class at Benihana before the show.  It was awesome! 

The band Stay Tuned started the show.  They were a lot of fun!  They play classic 70's and 80's TV Show themes ('Gilligans Island', 'Silver Spoons', 'GI Joe', etc) and rock 'em up a bit.  Good times!

I know that Emily and Ryan took a lot of pictures (there were probably upwards of 30 people there for Ryan by the time the show started) so keep an eye out on their blog for updates.

Hallowe'en horror!

Don't these give you chills of awe and terror (at the same time?)

Quinn as a Kick-A** Jedi Padawan.

Kallen as a horrific EMPORER of EVIL!  (Capitals are mine).

Like the decorations in the back?  We (Eva) are awesome.  :)