josh

So i'm leaving at 4 am for Oprah and my fingers are melting off and i'm sporting an eye patch. Yup...big piece of gauze taped over my left side of my face. Woke up last night and evidently my eye lid had adhered itself to my eyeball. Opened up my eyes ripped off a layer of my cornea. Lots of screaming, moaning, and ugly crying going on. God bless chris. At 3am he-and pete the dog because he wouldn't leave me alone because i was bellowing like a dying cow-drove an hour round trip to his office to get me eye numbing drops. Still hurts. Abby will be here in three days!!!! Erin and I are going to spend the night with jen and abby so i can see my niece and help jenny. She's exhausted. More later!!!

Check this out...too damn funny

play time

Jake in action! he's such a great soccer player. bless his heart it was so cold it snowed!






while jake played soccer, erin had a play date with friend alison. good times...

more catch up...

between christmas and new years i went to my first bowl game-VT v. Georgia-in atlanta. we went with our friends the smiths and had a ball. here we are waiting for the marta...

one night before the game we went to ESPN ZONE where thry were taping a "meet the falcons" segment. here are brett and christopher meeting the falcons....
look at how team spirited we are! the smiths brought lots of tech accessories so we were set. i even have a sparkly VT on my cheek!

we had awesome seats! right in front of #51 is frank beamer. after a great lead, tech unfortunately lost. kristen and i both think it was the kisses that got laid on us by some hunkey-and i mean fine!-20 something georgia fans while we were out in the smoking section that turned the game around.

we came home new years eve day ready to party that night at the smiths. here are our beauty queens (megan roberts,loghan campbell,bridgette smith, and erin). they were decorating new years hats and decided to bejewel themselves...













me and my girls...kristie, patty, and kristen.note the snazzy earings kristen got out for us to wear. we opted for the single jewel on the forehead. we actually supposed to be doing "2 legit to quit"...but kristen looks like she's the only one hip enough to get it right with her "L". patty's fot three fingers up...i have one. were so cool it's scary...





lastly, todd and chris show us how it's really done...now that's scary!

Testing....

it's been so long i've forgotten how to do this! catch up later...but for now, check out the results of lot's of hard work from my girlfriend kristen and i for walsingham's auction. this is the 4th grade (christopher's-or "chris" as he's known in school :( - class project. it's an outdoor bar. the students etched the tile. for some reason they turned brown in the kiln. we lovingingly and painstakingly assembled them onto the bar. additionally there's a close up shot and a photo of chris's ( :( ) tile.



next is the 3rd grade class project. it's a potting table with tile that each student painted. the galvonized tub to the right of the table is erin's class project...thumbprint art.

lastly, the outdoor beverage cart. 8th graders painted grids of van gogh's "starry night" and another painting i can't remember. a very cool modern piece.

Welcome Home!!

My partner in crime and Loghy are finally home after a two week stint in the big apple!! Loghan was doing her modeling thing and was very busy (look for her on the cover of the Talbot's christmas catelogue!!!). We are all thrilled to have them back-especially Erin. She's really been missing her BFF Loghalina! Shane still has a couple more weeks of camp and then he'll be home and then Christopher will be leaving shortly after that for two weeks for his camp.



Thank you Kristie and Loghy for erin's adorable dress from Chinatown!!!

Happy Late Birthday to husband number two!!!!


We grownups had a great time at Busch Gardens last night celebrating!! It was a perfect night. Actually it was a perfect day. Kristie and i slept in til noon. then we all went to the pool (kids too)and got some great sun and good swimming in. then we went to Busch and hit all the great rides and then had dinner in Italy with a Big Band performance to entertain chris. Then we wrapped up our perfect night with a stop for ice cream at Brewsters.
AAAAAnd...the best part of the whole day was when I paid $5 to have the guy at Busch Gardens guess my (hell no, not weight!!!) age and he said I was twenty sixxxxx!!!

And the summer fun has begun...

Here are Christopher and Erin. Christopher has completed a week of tennis camp and is fresh out of a week of William & Mary baseball camp in this picture. Erin was in school a week later, so in this picture she is fresh out of a week at "camp Meema's" and starts tennis camp today. Not sure what christopher is starting this week. I'll get back with you on that one.

Look what daddy bought while out shopping with Erin...

Just what she needed-more scrunchies!!!



And if you've got em...might as well use em righttt...






















*Major Scrunchie Alert!!!!

Meet Tanner Olivia!!!

Isn't she beautiful!!! And good size too!!!

In case you're wondering why Campbell isn't in the family photo it's because she did not want to partake. Here she is though in her big sister shirt!

Erin and her newly acquired scrunchie...

Some of you may not be familiar with this version of the scrunchie. It's made by tying many pieces of cut ribbon around a rubberband. Quite simple actually if any of you dare to try.

I must say though, she looks adorable. And it was a very sweet gift from her buddy Reilly, who she spent the day with.

*scrunchie alert!!