Just throwin' a shout out to my dad and father-in-law on Dad's Day.
We had a fun weekend. We went to Lake Charles with some friends and gambled the night away. Played some poker and blackjack at the Isle of Capri Hotel and Casino, a classy, upscale (LOL) establishment. We've been there several times before, but something strange happened this time...we actually came back with more money than we went with. Seriously, that never happens. We all did pretty well at blackjack. Nancy won a shocking amount of money considering her aversion to betting anything other than the table minimum. I even got lucky and won a few hands on $2-5 No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em.
Since we are getting way too old to have that much fun, we came home today and were completely worthless. I don't think Nancy moved from the couch or I from the recliner all afternoon. And we really enjoyed it.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Good Times and Crabs
The beach was a blast. We stayed in Surfsaide Friday night and Saturday night. Even got to mis work, which I don't get to do that often. My boss works me like a dog. The house was nice and we had a really good time. It would have been nice to stay the whole week, but two days was better than nothing.
I would post some pictures, but all of the people who promised to send me pictures have so far failed to do so.
Logan loves any kind of critter. Crabs, jellyfish, spiders, insects, fish...you name it. So we went crabbing last weekend in Surfside, which Logan of course, loved. He wanted to keep every crab that we caught. If you've never done it, it's actually pretty fun. We bought some chicken necks at the store, tied them to a long string, and dangled them in the water. The crabs just latch on and ride all the way up into the net. We also took Logan fishing, but he was much more interested in playing with the bait than actually fishing. That, and we didn't actually catch anything to keep him interested.
I think Brynna and Makinley also enjoyed the beach. Since Makinley hates her swimming pool, Laura and Scott were pretty sure she would hate the ocean. But it was the exact opposite. She ran right in.
Tomorrow we are heading to Lake Charles with some friends to lose some money at the casino, and I've got to actually work tomorrow...so I'm off to bed.
I would post some pictures, but all of the people who promised to send me pictures have so far failed to do so.
Logan loves any kind of critter. Crabs, jellyfish, spiders, insects, fish...you name it. So we went crabbing last weekend in Surfside, which Logan of course, loved. He wanted to keep every crab that we caught. If you've never done it, it's actually pretty fun. We bought some chicken necks at the store, tied them to a long string, and dangled them in the water. The crabs just latch on and ride all the way up into the net. We also took Logan fishing, but he was much more interested in playing with the bait than actually fishing. That, and we didn't actually catch anything to keep him interested.
I think Brynna and Makinley also enjoyed the beach. Since Makinley hates her swimming pool, Laura and Scott were pretty sure she would hate the ocean. But it was the exact opposite. She ran right in.
Tomorrow we are heading to Lake Charles with some friends to lose some money at the casino, and I've got to actually work tomorrow...so I'm off to bed.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Beach
I'm going to actually skip out on work Saturday so we can go to Surfside Beach for the weekend with my family. They rented a beach house for the week. Unfortunately, I can't take the whole week off, but two days is better than nothing.
The last time we went (two years ago), I opened the cooler to grab something to drink. I had had plenty of beer the night before, so that was not particularly appealing at the time. So I grabbed a soda. It happened to be a Caffeine-Free Pepsi. Now that in and of itself is not that unusual. My mom drank Caffeine-Free Dr Pepper for years and years, so I just figured she was branching out. It wasn't half bad, so I had another later on. Then I may have had 6 or 7 more over the course of a couple of days. On the last day Nancy and I were there, as I reached into the cooler for another, I found that there was only one left. No worries. There were still lots of Diet Cokes, Dr Peppers and the like for everyone else. So I cracked it open and took a sip.
Laura looked at what I was drinking, got an evil, angry look on her face, and yelled, "You're the one who drank all my Pepsis!! I brought those for me!! Those were MINE!!"
Whoah! Easy there. I didn't know they were hers. She has never drank Pepsi in her life, let alone Caffeine-Free Pepsi. I felt kind of bad, but hey, there were still plenty of other options in the cooler. But she was mad at me the rest of the day, and kept bringing it up over and over. I even offered to pay her back for them. And we had brought plenty of food and drinks, and she was welcome to whatever she wanted of our stash. No need to be so stingy. I even told her to write her name on what she brought so that no one would make the mortal mistake of touching her precious property, since obviously she wasn't in the sharing mood.
Well, it turns out, a few weeks later we find out that Laura is pregnant with Makinley. She and Scott had known when we went to the beach, but had not yet shared the information with the family. So that was why she went the Caffeine-Free route. Evidently you are not supposed to drink Caffeine when you are pregnant. So Laura drank a lot of water after I unwittingly polished off the last of her only other option. Oops!
This year, I am going to ask before I eat anyone else's food or drink anyone else's drinks. Never know who might be pregnant. But the moral of the story is not to keep secrets from your family.
The last time we went (two years ago), I opened the cooler to grab something to drink. I had had plenty of beer the night before, so that was not particularly appealing at the time. So I grabbed a soda. It happened to be a Caffeine-Free Pepsi. Now that in and of itself is not that unusual. My mom drank Caffeine-Free Dr Pepper for years and years, so I just figured she was branching out. It wasn't half bad, so I had another later on. Then I may have had 6 or 7 more over the course of a couple of days. On the last day Nancy and I were there, as I reached into the cooler for another, I found that there was only one left. No worries. There were still lots of Diet Cokes, Dr Peppers and the like for everyone else. So I cracked it open and took a sip.
Laura looked at what I was drinking, got an evil, angry look on her face, and yelled, "You're the one who drank all my Pepsis!! I brought those for me!! Those were MINE!!"
Whoah! Easy there. I didn't know they were hers. She has never drank Pepsi in her life, let alone Caffeine-Free Pepsi. I felt kind of bad, but hey, there were still plenty of other options in the cooler. But she was mad at me the rest of the day, and kept bringing it up over and over. I even offered to pay her back for them. And we had brought plenty of food and drinks, and she was welcome to whatever she wanted of our stash. No need to be so stingy. I even told her to write her name on what she brought so that no one would make the mortal mistake of touching her precious property, since obviously she wasn't in the sharing mood.
Well, it turns out, a few weeks later we find out that Laura is pregnant with Makinley. She and Scott had known when we went to the beach, but had not yet shared the information with the family. So that was why she went the Caffeine-Free route. Evidently you are not supposed to drink Caffeine when you are pregnant. So Laura drank a lot of water after I unwittingly polished off the last of her only other option. Oops!
This year, I am going to ask before I eat anyone else's food or drink anyone else's drinks. Never know who might be pregnant. But the moral of the story is not to keep secrets from your family.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Surgery Videos
I told you I was going to post random videos. I am doing some filming of common surgeries for a web project I am working on. So far, I have a spay and a neuter, so I figured I would post them in case anyone wanted to see them. Nancy's mom was interested in seeing them, so I thought someone else might be. These are rough videos, without any voice over narration or fine-tuning yet...just the original audio. I did edit for brevity.
**Note: In the spay video, the whimpering dog is NOT the one we are doing surgery on. She is asleep. It usually works better that way.
WARNING: Blood and guts.
**Note: In the spay video, the whimpering dog is NOT the one we are doing surgery on. She is asleep. It usually works better that way.
WARNING: Blood and guts.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
It's Been a While
I am hoping to get back into this blogging thing, since I haven't blogged in almost a month. I just need some inspiration, I guess. Or a more exciting life.
We flew up to Dallas this weekend for Derrick and Tiffany's engagement party. It was a lot of fun to see everyone and hang out for a while. We also are officially preparing ourselves for our trip to Costa Rica next month. This was a practice run to see if our old bodies can still survive acting like a college student. I'm happy to say we all survived.
We started the night out at a wine tasting. Not really my thing, but it was good to see Derrick's family and meet Tiffany's. From there, we went to a sports bar right across the street. I say sports bar, only because the average person would assume a place called Xs and Os Sporting Tavern was indeed a sports bar. Well, not so much. True, they did have a few tvs tuned in to various sporting events (our only visible tv on the outdoor patio happened to be a continuous loop of a 30 minute interview with Omar Visquel). However, about the time that Derrick was nearly arrested for wearing a baseball cap inside and they cranked up the Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson and Vanilla Ice was when we realized a Sporting Tavern in Southlake, TX may not actually be the same as a sports bar in other, less uppity parts of the world. They also had a dance floor. In my world, one of the defining characteristics of a sports bar, which differentiates it from other types of bars, clubs, lounges, etc is the absence of a dance floor. That, and it is more casual (as in you can wear a baseball cap) and void of lame music. This place was more like Night at the Roxbury with a few plasma screens showing ESPN.
Nevertheless, as we often do, we persevered and managed to have a great time anyway. As the time at the bar started winding down, it was on to the after-party at Derrick's apartment.
Since the very first time that Derrick met Nancy, he has teased her constantly about the events of the night they met. Nancy was less than sober, so Derrick and Chad were giving Nancy and I a ride to her friend's apartment. Only Nancy was talking on the phone, acting a fool, and basically doing everything but navigating to her friend's apartment. And the navigating that she did provide was not exactly correct. Thus, a 5-minute drive turned into an hour, as we drove around in circles on a wild goose chase following Nancy's incoherent and incorrect directions.
Fast forward 6 years to Saturday night. Tiffany, Derrick's fiancee', was less than sober and giving her friend directions to Derrick's apartment where she also lives. Bjorn and Devin were also along for the ride. We got to Derrick's 15 minutes after leaving the bar. Nancy was sober this time and our trusty little Tom Tom One found the way. Tiffany, Bjorn, Devin, and friend, however, were nowhere to be found 30 minutes after leaving the bar. It seems that Tiffany, in her altered state, had not only gotten them lost on their way to her apartment, but had erroneously thought that she and Derrick lived somewhere just east of El Paso. Thus, they drove a loooong way in the wrong direction. An hour after leaving the bar, they finally made it. The look on Bjorn's face as he walked in the door was very familiar to me. It was the same look on Derrick and Chad's face 6 years ago on that fateful night. I only wish I had been along for the ride on this one.
It was a fun night. It is always fun to hang out with friends I don't get to see nearly often enough anymore. Luckily, this was just a warm-up for next month. I won't know what to do with myself with 5 days off of work.
Here are some pics from last night at the "sports" tavern:
Derrick and Tiffany
Derrick's sister Kara and her bf Ryan
Bjorn and Devin
Derrick's bubba David and his wife Nikki
Me and Bubba
Nancy and I
We flew up to Dallas this weekend for Derrick and Tiffany's engagement party. It was a lot of fun to see everyone and hang out for a while. We also are officially preparing ourselves for our trip to Costa Rica next month. This was a practice run to see if our old bodies can still survive acting like a college student. I'm happy to say we all survived.
We started the night out at a wine tasting. Not really my thing, but it was good to see Derrick's family and meet Tiffany's. From there, we went to a sports bar right across the street. I say sports bar, only because the average person would assume a place called Xs and Os Sporting Tavern was indeed a sports bar. Well, not so much. True, they did have a few tvs tuned in to various sporting events (our only visible tv on the outdoor patio happened to be a continuous loop of a 30 minute interview with Omar Visquel). However, about the time that Derrick was nearly arrested for wearing a baseball cap inside and they cranked up the Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson and Vanilla Ice was when we realized a Sporting Tavern in Southlake, TX may not actually be the same as a sports bar in other, less uppity parts of the world. They also had a dance floor. In my world, one of the defining characteristics of a sports bar, which differentiates it from other types of bars, clubs, lounges, etc is the absence of a dance floor. That, and it is more casual (as in you can wear a baseball cap) and void of lame music. This place was more like Night at the Roxbury with a few plasma screens showing ESPN.
Nevertheless, as we often do, we persevered and managed to have a great time anyway. As the time at the bar started winding down, it was on to the after-party at Derrick's apartment.
Since the very first time that Derrick met Nancy, he has teased her constantly about the events of the night they met. Nancy was less than sober, so Derrick and Chad were giving Nancy and I a ride to her friend's apartment. Only Nancy was talking on the phone, acting a fool, and basically doing everything but navigating to her friend's apartment. And the navigating that she did provide was not exactly correct. Thus, a 5-minute drive turned into an hour, as we drove around in circles on a wild goose chase following Nancy's incoherent and incorrect directions.
Fast forward 6 years to Saturday night. Tiffany, Derrick's fiancee', was less than sober and giving her friend directions to Derrick's apartment where she also lives. Bjorn and Devin were also along for the ride. We got to Derrick's 15 minutes after leaving the bar. Nancy was sober this time and our trusty little Tom Tom One found the way. Tiffany, Bjorn, Devin, and friend, however, were nowhere to be found 30 minutes after leaving the bar. It seems that Tiffany, in her altered state, had not only gotten them lost on their way to her apartment, but had erroneously thought that she and Derrick lived somewhere just east of El Paso. Thus, they drove a loooong way in the wrong direction. An hour after leaving the bar, they finally made it. The look on Bjorn's face as he walked in the door was very familiar to me. It was the same look on Derrick and Chad's face 6 years ago on that fateful night. I only wish I had been along for the ride on this one.
It was a fun night. It is always fun to hang out with friends I don't get to see nearly often enough anymore. Luckily, this was just a warm-up for next month. I won't know what to do with myself with 5 days off of work.
Here are some pics from last night at the "sports" tavern:
Derrick and Tiffany
Derrick's sister Kara and her bf Ryan
Bjorn and Devin
Derrick's bubba David and his wife Nikki
Me and Bubba
Nancy and I
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy Mother's Day
Just wanted to send a shout out to Mom on Mother's Day. I know all of you have great moms, but I really think my mom is the best. She is the most selfless person I know, and is a great role model to us and her grandchildren. Happy Mother's Day Mom!
Also wishing Happy Mother's Day to my awesome Mother-In-Law Doris. Thanks for making me feel like a part of your family, and most of all, thanks for birthin' that hot chick I married.
Everyone knows I like gadgets and toys. Well, we just bought a video camera "for the clinic", and I have been playing with it all weekend...so don't be surprised if I start posting random videos on the blog.
Just warning you ahead of time.
Also wishing Happy Mother's Day to my awesome Mother-In-Law Doris. Thanks for making me feel like a part of your family, and most of all, thanks for birthin' that hot chick I married.
Everyone knows I like gadgets and toys. Well, we just bought a video camera "for the clinic", and I have been playing with it all weekend...so don't be surprised if I start posting random videos on the blog.
Just warning you ahead of time.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Cheesiest Wedding Photo Update
We won!
Nancy went on the radio today to graciously and humbly accept our prize, lame as it may be. Can't wait for that Cosmo gift bag to come in the mail. I'll be counting the days.
Nancy went on the radio today to graciously and humbly accept our prize, lame as it may be. Can't wait for that Cosmo gift bag to come in the mail. I'll be counting the days.
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