On the way

On our way to MO for Thanksgiving we saw these cool clouds in Tennessee during sunset.

Maybe some gold?

On the way home we saw this rainbow. Hopefully it shows up.

(Edit: looks like it came out ok. It was actually REALLY bright and the colors were extremely vivid. You could also see both ends of it. It was the most intense rainbow I've seen in a really long time.)

Welcome Jacob to our family!!!

I was able to meet Jacob this weekend when Debra* and Ben came to visit. Ben lives about 3 1/2 hours away so they were able to fit us into their very busy 'tour'. Jacob is now 2 month old. He loves to bounce and has a fixation on ceiling fans! Debra looks great, of course! and It was great to meet Ben.

Welcome to our family!


(*Tony Edit: For my family that doesn't know who Debra is, she is one of Jennifer's cousins that live in New York/New Jersey.)

No, He isn't mine!!! :)
Jennifer getting some well needed practice and
appreciation for my quiet time right now!

Debra on Mommy duty! Jacob loves baths and Debra is getting good at baby bantering moms must do!

Debra with a baby!

Wow who would have thought! :)

Bye Jacob! We will miss you.

Grow big and strong.

Keep mom on her toes!

One of my co-workers gave me this picture of the three of us. We can't do Halloween at our school but we had a storybook parade. (Yes there were spidermen and Dora's among our preschool crowd!) So we decided to dress up as Eric Carle books. Karen was the Grumpy Ladybug, Jane the Very Hungry Catepillar, and I was the Very Busy Little Spider. We had a great time. Some other Storybooks were The Three Little Pigs, The littlest Scarecrow(s) and more we had a great time!

Clown Car

Not sure how this will show up. I was following this car and it was made up to look like a toy car, complete with the thing you would twist to make it go. That thing actually spun around too.

I know it's a little late. I do have an excuse though. There comes a time when you have to reload the operating system on your computer. This past week was that time. I just finished it all up this weekend so can now post some pictures from Halloween. This first one is of Levi dressed up as a ninja. He kinda reminds me of Sub Zero from the Mortal Kombat games.

Here's Emily dressed up as a Princess with her glowing wand. She was more intrigued with the glowstick than she was her original wand so she just used it instead.

This one is of Bryson (Brandi and Cam's son. They are some friends of ours we met through Tom and Gretchen) dressed up as Dash from The Incredibles.

Beauty and the Ninja?

New Awning

Well we've got our new Sunsetter retractable awning installed now. Jennifer's dad and stepmother came up from around Columbus, Ga. to help us. It actually wasn't too bad to put up, surprisingly. We were very thankful for their help.

Here it is finally

I am finally posting the picture I was talking about from the hockey game this past Saturday. We were kinda far away for my camera phone. It was nice to be at an NHL game again.

Well, it obviously didn't go through. Saturday I had gone to the Atlanta Thrashers home opener with my cousin Aaron. I had taken a picture with my phone during warmups and tried sending it from the arena. I thought it had gone through but I never did get a confirmation back saying that it had posted. Turns out, it's because it hadn't! I'm at work right now and do not have a cell signal in my building but after work, I'll try posting that pic again. Was a great game. Thrashers ended up winning 8-1 over the Washington Capitals. They were up 5-1 in the third period with about 10 mins to go. At that point there was a pretty cool fight. Actually there were 3 different fights going on at the same time. One fight even ended up underneath a goalie net. After the fight Aaron and I left for the Marta (same as the Metro-Link for those of you back in MO.). While waiting for the train I got a text message with the final score. The Thrashers had scored 3 more times in those last 7-10 minutes. Oh well, at least it wasn't like Washington came back to win it or something.

Oh, interesting note for those of you that follow Blues hockey. Found out that a couple ex-Blues now play for Atlanta. Scott Mellanby and Ronald Petrovicky. Mellanby had at least 1 goal and an assist in the game and he is actually the Thrashers' captain as well. Hmm, maybe I can do like I did with getting a Drew Cardinals jersey to wear to Braves games. I can get an old Scott Mellanby Blues jersey to wear to Thrashers games!!

Baby shower for friends

Our small group was having a baby shower for some friends. They are having twins. The whole Thor and Diesel thing is an inside joke. It's not the babies real names. Those would be Preston and Landon.

Here are some of the pictures taken at Levi's soccer game yesterday. The first is right at the beginning of the game. The last few were just some I took of Tom (Levi's dad and my uncle) while he was coaching. Thought I would have a little fun with him. Not sure who the unofficial winner of this game was. Levi's team scored alot the first half but the other team scored alot the second half. So I guess...call it a tie.