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Life Pictures, part 4 (I think…)

Just started looking through my phone pictures and figured it was time for another installment of my random life. I enjoy the camera in my phone more than just about any other piece of technology. It allows me to capture those little random moments in life that I would probably forget otherwise. So, you might not enjoy these as much as I do, but hey… This blog is more for me than you anyway!

Pumpkin Patch

Kayce and I took a day off last week to go with Parker on his preschool class field trip to the pumpkin patch.  This is always one of my favorite times of the year, we all have fun and I get some great pictures.  Here are some of the best of the 450 that I took.  I shot a ton of closeups of the different gourds they had and they turned out really well.  I won’t put those up here becuase I think I can sell them to a stock photo site I’m on.  Thanks.

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Parker’s Artwork

Parker is loving preschool. Tomorrow is his second field trip and Kayce and I are going along.  I brought some of his artwork with me to work today and scanned it.  We thinks its pretty good, but, of course, we are totally biased.  Take a look at a sampling of 4 year old painting below.  Enjoy.

Life Pictures, Part 3… or 4

Just some random pictures from our life, along with some random video.  In this installment… We camped out in the backyard for one crazy night.  It was so hot and humid, I thought I might die.  Kayce and Carson were plenty comfy inside the house, however.  Tennessee’s weather is pretty lousy for camping.  The picture of Parker’s painting is Manny the Mammoth that he took for show and tell day.  He’s actually been the featured artist of the week a few times this year.  Enjoy Carson’s song in the video below.  Not sure what all he’s saying, but it was cute.  He just came home one day and started singing this song.  Funny kid.  Don’t ask about the winter coat thing… I have no idea what that was about. As for the check engine light… I’m going to have to get that checked.  I know I have a brake issue, ABS problem with the passenger side rear brake, probably a fouled plug, and a slight oil leak, but no clue about the light.  Seems to b running ok for now…  I’ll let you know if it blows up.

Ok, enough with the Dilberts!

I know that’s what most of you are thinking, but I can’t stop…  These are just too funny!  Today’s was great.

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I have a feeling people are saying that behind my back sometimes… It’s been awhile since I’ve updated anything on my blog, so I’m uploading everything at once. Coming up soon… Life Pictures, Part 3 (or 4, I can’t keep up).

Pre-“School Days”…

Well, the boys have been in preschool all week.  This is the first time either of them have been in a regular daycare (even though they don’t like to call it daycare anymore).  It’s always been either Mommy or Nina watching them, so this is a big change for them.  Parker is doing great.  He has a real shy side that comes out in public.  Today for instance, is his class’ turn to swim.  We got to school and I saw everyone else already had their swimsuits on, so I asked him if he wanted to change…  Perfectly reasonable to me.  He looked scowled at me, and in his most hateful/offended/embarrassed/lips- pursed voice said, “No, I’m not going to”. Woah!  Sorry, I brought it up.  Well, maybe its just being 4, who knows.  Carson, has been crying every morning when I drop him off, but by the time I take Parker to his room, he is fine.  We had a note come home with the boys with two pieces of construction paper, asking for us to make a picture collage for the boys.  Well, we don’t have any pictures printed out, and I didn’t want to have to run to Walgreen’s to pick them up, then cut them out, and glue them on the paper… So, being me, I went alittle overboard and used a puzzle piece vector I had made a year or so ago to create the collages below.  Enjoy. 

 

Bob, Larry, a Mouse, and Coffee

Well, the Susong crew made a trek to Lifeway on Saturday to meet Bob and Larry.  We had a good time, but sorry Lifeway, we didn’t buy anything.  Nice try, though.  Carson would not go near Bob or Larry.  And he wasn’t even too excited to see Parker see up to them.  He walked behind Parker just to make sure Parker was ok, then came back to us.  It was pretty funny.  Carson likes his big Bubba and didn’t want the giant tomato or cucumber to get him.

Kayce is starting back to school next week, and the boys had their first day at preschool.   Things have really began to pick up around here.  We had a crazy week last week, with all the network issues and change over at church.  At the same time, Kayce was trying to get her room done at school.  She tried taking the boys, but that never ends up well.  So, I would go to work at 7am and then go over to school at 6pm and watch the boys while she worked.  It was a very LONG week.  The whole reason we had so many network issues turned out to be a mouse that had chew completely through our fiber optic cable that ties the buildings together.  One little mouse brought everything to a grinding hault.  We (and by “we”, I mean the awesome guys that we brought in to replace the damaged length of fiber), finally got the network up and going this afternoon.  That’s 3 days of no network.  Not good in this day and time, not good at all.  But, now that I know some of our weak points, I’m on a mission to make sure we have a backup and some redundancy in place in case something else goes wrong.  What a mess.  Glad its over.

Speaking of a bad week.  I found this picture in my phone and thought it was funny.  I snapped this while we were driving home from my parent’s home a month or so ago.  It made me laugh and thirsty at the same time.  Oh, what I would give for a giant tanker truck full of coffee.  Too bad it was just a gas truck advertising some gas stations nasty coffee.  Oh well. 

Firepit Fun

So, I lost my mind today and decided to build a fire pit.  I’m not sure what started it, or why I had to do it today (It was really hot, and humid).  But we have a huge amount of firewood, which we burn during the winter in our wood stove downstairs.  But we keep getting more and more wood, and we never use it all anyway.  So, I’ve had this idea for a few weeks.  I had several old concrete pavers, and plenty of large stones laying around, so I did it.  Below is the result.  I think it turned out pretty good.  I did go to Lowe’s and get some river rock to put around the large stones to fill in the cracks.  All in all, pretty good Saturday project.  It will get alot more use in August when it starts to cool down.  Even now it is so hot and sticky outside, you have to really want some s’mores to brave the heat of a fire.  But it was fun, Kayce and the boys liked it.  Parker really wanted to make s’mores, even though he wouldn’t eat one.  He just ate the marshmallows “plain”, as he calls it.Â