Old Desks, New Technology

Just had to post a picture of the rolltop desk we fixed up. It was my parents' when they were married and has now come into my possession. It is now a very fancy computer desk for the kids!

Spooky Halloween Baking

Monday we spent the afternoon baking some halloween sugar cookies. Tristan liked eating the black sugar. He looked pretty spooky. I also attached some video and pictures taken on our trip up to Madison Springs. Tristan is getting to be a little performer.

Minor Disasters...Shelves Not So Sturdy

Today I had a pretty rough day with the marketing scene. After a day of getting many rejections I picked my boys up and went to the grocery store. I actually had the idea earlier in the week that I should be going around to these "minute clinics" in drug stores that are staffed by nurse practitioners and do a little networking there. So as I am in Publix this lady randomly walks up to me and hands me the info about "The Little Clinic" that is there in Publix. So I got to drum up a little business there in Publix. Kind of serendipitous.

So we go home and I am trying to get groceries unloaded and get outside for a little time with the kids. I put all of the apple cider on the top shelf of my pantry. There were already some heavy things up there and we definately found out the strength of our adjustable albeit seemingly sturdy shelves. This is the end result...





So I have spent the entire night trying to put that back together. I guess we should look on the bright side. I needed to go through the shelves anyway and see what I could throw out. What a mess. This is the end result of my re-org!

Note apple cider now on bottom shelf!

I can't believe that this is the biggest news of my day. I used to be such an interesting person. :) Today I tested the strength of both my pantry shelves and my husband's heart as I was a raging "Beeee-ach" today. He was his normal patient self and didn't take the bait. Lucky I am to have this sweet family. More posts on them to come.

I Miss Larry

We need Larry Munson to call the game this weekend. Can somebody please bring him out of retirement!? I have been wondering this week what is going on in the Florida locker room after our very unsportsman like behavior last year in Jacksonville. Found this online and thought it was interesting. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3665398

Soccer Stars

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Catching Up

Thought I should write a little about my actual life! This weekend was really low key after a kind of stressful week. Finalized our plans to head out to Seattle. We moved into our new office last week and it is beaufiful. Starting to see some actual patients so that is nice. I have been driving my guys to school since I am pretty slow at work right now. Then Molly was in a bad wreck in the morning going to school. She is o.k. but it is one of those things that gives you pause about how delicate our lives are. Tristan has been so excited about the potty these days we thought we would try a little potty training this weekend. I think he is still pretty young but Saturday he did awesome. Only used two diapers the whole day. Sunday was a little different. Even Adam was having issues after being trained for well over a year. He has had some accidents the past couple of days which is very unusual for him. He told me that he did it on purpose when I asked him. Said that he was frustrated. We talked a lot about jealousy. I don't know if we should be working on all of this right now but when your 19 month old can say "Pee pees coming out" it might be time to try I guess! Tried to catch up this weekend on some scrapbooking. I was horrified to realize that I hadn't scrapped anything since January!! How did it get to be October?? I was looking through all of our pictures back to when Adam was little. It is all going by so fast.

Rapping it up

Comic Relief

Corbin's 2nd Birthday

On Saturday the 4th we headed up to Liz's Mom's place in Marble Hill to celebrate Corbin's 2nd birthday. It was a beautiful day and fun was had by all. Adam was with Daddy at his soccer game. Tristan was a party animal as usual. Kristen and Marc were there with their big kids. Hard to believe that Kara is 11!! Also met Liz's neigbors and their three kids who are really sweet. Happy birthday Corbin!

Bail outs and other crises

We are having a fun week despite personal and public crises. Monday the house rejected a bail out bill. The senate is supposed to vote on it this evening so we are watching with fingers crossed on that one. It is amazing how this issue has been so politicized and distorted. It has set up sort of a perfect storm for our economy and it is quite scary. Robert has been explaining a lot to me in detail and it is amazing at how there is so much misinformation out there. It seems to me that what happens here and what happens in a month with the election will determine the course of country for sometime. It seems like we are on the brink and it is hard to tell what is on the other side. Could be disaster, could be rebirth.

Despite the turmoil it is nice to know that little ones continue unjaded by our self inflicted drama. Adam continues to fight his nap and his brother. Monday we went to the park with our friends Clara, Isaac and Alondra. Tuesday I was home with Adam on a sick day. He had a fever that started Monday night and we were up all night. I got about one hour of sleep. Although I was sad for Adam to be sick it was kind of nice to slow down for a minute. He vegged out in front of the T.V. and slept a bunch and I got a ton of work done in the house.

This morning we went to Peachtree Ridge park over in Suwanee which is really nice. There are so many nice parks in Gwinnett. It is a glorious day with a high of about 71 degrees. Nice change of pace since it has been so warm.