The Mermaid Party

Sunday we went to the Garcie's for Cadi's 5th birthday. The girls had a great time dressing as mermaids, going down the giant inflatable slide, eating cake and playing in the sand.


Below are all the kids from the party. In the back you can see the cake Cari made.

Eureaka!

So I found the cable to the camera! Hurray! Tim had cleaned and it ended up in one of his famous "I thought that would be a good place to put it" spots. Alot has happened since we moved, so I will just post some of the pics I have taken.

Here is Natalie in her "Yoda" outfit. She designed it herself.


This is Riley watching "The Fox and the Hound". She was really into the movie. You can also see behind her that I was able to get some plants in the ground in the backyard.



Here are the girls in their "Hook'em Horns" ballon hats that they got while we were tailgating at the UT game a couple of weekends ago.




Tim's birthday. He needs a lot more air now that he is 41. . .


and help too!


This is my awesome mom in her awesome gardening outfit.



Well, that's it for now. I will take a picture of the backyard disaster before the deck guys come this weekend!!

WHY I HAVE NOT POSTED PICTURES!!

Why? Because I cannot find the cord to connect the camera to the damn computer! If anyone has seen it around my house or packed it by mistake let me know.

I Couldn't Have Said It Better

Today Riley came home sick from school. Tim found out that she didn't even want to go out to the playground.

Tim: Riley why didn't you go out to the playground?

Riley: My legs wouldn't let me.

Tim: What do you mean?

Riley: Just what I said. My legs wouldn't let me get up and walk.

The Big Fall Fling

This past weekend, Mom joined her childhood friend Nikki Ann in Bryan, TX. Nikki Ann's daughter Catherine was married over the weekend, so all of The Women came together for a Big Fall Fling.
Mom said, ". . .these are pretty bad of me but thought you would enjoy seeing them; they were taken after we all danced and danced to shout!"

Cowboy Logic

A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brionisuit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSLtie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his CingularRAZRV3cell phone and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBCconnected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP Laser Jet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says the cowboy.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows... this is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my dog."

Settling In

Just in case you thought we fell off the map. . . we have not. We are in the midst of settling into the new house and both Tim and I started back to work this week. I hope to have some pictures up this weekend.