Abby's Survey

This past Thursday Abby and I had a date at her preschool - "Pops and Pizza". We had plenty to eat and made and painted an airplane. The best part of it was the toy and survey that Abby had made for me. Here are a few samples of the survey:

"My mom calls my dad 'M'."
"I call my dad 'con boo boo'."
"My dad's favorite game is 'caboose'."
"For work, my dad 'makes money'."
"My dad drives a 'he crashed his car'."
"My dad's favorite show is 'American Idol'."

So, I don't know when I was last called "M", or when Abby called me "con boo boo", or what the game "caboose" is. And, I'm a little embarrassed that we watch American Idol enough that Abby thinks it's my favorite show, but there you go.

Been tagged

So Verity tagged me and wanted me to post 6 things that people may not know about me. I'm not sure I'll leave this post up, so enjoy it while you can. Here's my go at it:

1. I've said a lot of dumb things in my life, but one of the more embarassing ones happened when I failed or didn't score well on a math test in college: "But I was math club president!" followed by some kind of pouting. Just mull it over, and I think you can think of any number of ways that this was just plain lame. You're probably embarassed just having read that.

2. I've also done a number of dumb things in my life, but perhaps one of the worst was when Amy and I had just been dating, and I was invited to go to dinner with her mom and some of her family. We were at dinner at a nicer restaurant and everyone was talking about things that I had nothing to say anything about (or I was nervous out of my mind). So I pulled out a letter I had gotten that day from D-rock and started to read it. I didn't think much about it at the time, but Amy was mortified that yes, I was her boyfriend - you know, the guy that doesn't have social skills. I may as well have picked my nose.

3. I can/have thrown discs for disc/frisbee golf over the length of a footbal field, but I can rarely make a put in from 20 feet away. grr.

4. My favorite car of all time was my '89 Nissan Sentra that was nick named "Tin Can". I must have sunk over $5k in repairs for a car that I bought for $1500, but I loved it. I've missed it so as I've been looking for another car... *sigh*...

5. I only have 2 solo quarterback sacks that I can remember from highschool, but it was the same guy both times, just one year after the next.

6. I have a mishapen hair-line. I'm widow-peaking on one side and not on the other.

Some pictures for your review...

So I've finally put some pictures out there. Forgive me, but they're up on flickr. I think there's some really good ones though, so enjoy the few sets that we've got available.

Take it easy!

flickr Pictures

Brief Update

First, sorry I haven't posted any pictures in a while, and another sorry that I won't be posting any right now. We've been incredibly busy over the last few weeks, with the car wreck and all. For those of you who haven't heard the story the shorthand story is simply that I ran a red light - at the time, I thought the Chevy Silverado was running the red light, but as soon as the world stopped spinning, it was very obvious to me that I had ran it. The second part to this story is I'm very thankful for a wife that ensured that we get more than liability-only insurance. As it turns out, we're going to be getting back more than we expected from the insurance. We're not out of the woods just yet, but we're thankful nonetheless that we were prepared for such an incident.

The other thing that has taken over our lives for the last month or two is some serious spring cleaning/reorganizing/redecorating. Amy's gone crazy with craigslist, selling off almost everything in this house that we haven't used or have had "tucked away" thinking that we would use again, but never have. I don't think we'll ever garage sell again. Put simply, CRAIGSLIST = AWESOME.

We've also purchased and painted bunkbed's for Abby's and Collin's room, plus additional furniture for their room, repainted Abby's room a light yellow color and made it play room, repainted the guest room/nursery a baby blue color, repainted our room to be a tan "macadamia" color, purchased and put together new furniture for the nursery and play room, created a slip cover for a little chair of Abby's, repainted a few lamps, got a sewing table for Amy, and have made some serious headway on Evan's quilt-to-be. To summarize, we have a 4 bedroom house, and thanks to Amy's nesting phase of pregnancy, none of them look the way they did when we got back from Christmas vacation.

Add on to this, our neighbor convinced Amy to help her make jam - Jalepeno jam, or more correctly, candied jalepenos. I thought she was nutty for even agreeing to help, seeing the heartburn that she gets during pregnancy, but she did it, and would you believe it, it's pretty dang good - especially with cream cheese... mmmm...

We also managed to go to the "Nut Tree" in Round Rock - or rather, what the Nut Tree in Vacaville may have looked like if it remained in the middle of no where and was not kept up aside from a bit of paint every 10 years or so. It was pretty fun, but no where near as nice as the Nut Tree.

Anyhow, between all this, we have taken some pictures, hopefully some good ones, but I just don't have the camera right now. :) Lame excuse, I know, but I should really get back to preparing my lesson for tomorrow. Take it easy! Thanks for checking the blog! We promise to post some pictures soon, hopefully no later than this weekend... unless Amy has me repaint and tile the kid's bathrooom...