Dad had collected a ton of orders for flowers from Totten Hall and I thanked him. Here's his reply!
"Believe it or not I remember when I was in Little League there was a contest each year on who could sell the most cans of salt & pepper for our fund raiser. Whoever did got their entry fee waived. My dad took it to Whirlpool a couple of years and I think everybody at Whirlpool bought cans of each. I don't know if I ever had to pay a fee when they had that incentive. Oh, the good ole days!!"
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
An email from Dad today
I don’t know if you have talked to your mom this afternoon but I stopped by the apartment right after the girls laid down so I went in to say hi to them before they went to sleep. Abby was sitting up and Ally was lying down. When they saw me they started talking but Ally never did sit up, I think she was ready for her nap. But Abby just started jabbering and when I told her I had to go back to work as your mom and I was closing the bedroom door she yelled papaw – when I turned around she had her thumb sticking up. It was hilarious. That girl is something else.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Giants stun the Patriots 17-14
I think I'm more depressed tonight than when the Colts lost in the playoffs… It's so sad to see the Patriots lose the last game of a perfect season. I feel sooo badly for Mom and Jake. I wanted sooo badly to be able to say I saw a history-making team play. They were the first team in 35 years to go undefeated for the whole season. The last team to do that was the 1972 Dolphins who went on to win the Super Bowl. It's just so hard to believe that it's over and they lost! How can this happen? The Giants defense was absolutely flawless. They sacked Brady like 5 times, hurried him like 12 times, and seemed like they had 3 extra guys on the field on every play! I think Greg said the Patriots were a 21-point favorite, so this was probably one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history. We all went to Greg's house to watch the game, thinking it was going to be a fun-filled afternoon and a cake-walk game, but it didn't turn out that way at all…
It's a sad, sad day…
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Missy started her new job today!!!
Missy had her first day at Escalade Sports today and it sounded like she had a very exciting day and is going to love it there. She went from meeting-to-meeting all day and really "hit the ground running!" She is already the owner of the SharePoint project and is getting very involved in the launch of the new Goalrilla website that DBD created for them. They are supposed to launch this Friday and have a big celebration party for the whole company and she's even going to go in on her "day off" for the event! She got a very sweet Dell Latitude laptop and a PIMP Blackberry Curve phone. She had her face in the phone reading email most of the evening tonight! I'm not so sure I'm going to like that every night? J I am very proud of her and think she's going to really shine in this position. I can tell she was very excited to be around *people* again and getting involved in the decision-making process. I can't wait to see her excel there and show everyone else (what I already know, which is) how talented she is! I sent her some flowers late last night to congratulate her and wish her the best on her first day, but I wasn't sure they would get to her! I forgot to tell them on the phone that she was a new employee and/or she worked in the IT department, so I was afraid the delivery person would get there and tell them they were for Missy Patterson and they'd send them away saying there was no person with that name in the company! But they arrived safely, and they were beautiful, and Missy was very happy to receive them.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Kids
11/26/07 - For the past 2 school days, Jack has left school crying because Nico Brougham couldn't come home with us after school. Both he and Nico were there with coats on looking at me like "aren't you going to take both of us". So, I finally told Jack that I would call Nico's Mom. As soon as we got home, he was on me to call her. I called her and we decided that I'd bring him home the Monday after Thanksgiving. Well, the kids were off for 5 days and Jack asked every day if it was time yet. Finally, it was time! I picked Jack and Nico up from school and they just came home and played. Jack really enjoyed it and wanted to know if he could come back tomorrow!
12/4/07 - Jack has been asking to stay at after-school daycare for a couple weeks now. I finally decided to let him try it! So, today, he took his lunch (jelly sandwich, Cheetos, chocolate pudding and a juice box) and was prepared for the day. He was VERY excited. I picked him up at 4:10pm and he was playing away. He was happy to see me and said he was ready to stay again soon. We decided he'd stay every Tuesday since that's when his friend Colton Pence from his class stays. He's getting too big!!
12/6/07 - Well, Jack is one popular boy! Last night, Grant Shoulders' Mom called me and asked if Jack could go home with Grant and Nico Brougham today. Jack was very excited. She picked all 3 boys up from school and took them home to play until about 2pm. She's brave! He said he had a good time. Apparently they played charades because he keeps wanting to play that!
12/8/07 - Abby got a babydoll from Emily for Christmas. When I asked Ally what her name was, Ally said "Ashley"! She has an Ashley in her ballet class so I guess that's where she heard that name!!
The girls have been potty training. The best thing for them is to leave them naked from the waist down and the little potty chair in the living room. They are peeing very good and Ally has pooped quite a few times.
Abby calls Santa "Ho Ho".
Ally is becoming quite the tattle-tell.
Jack is practicing for his Christmas program in which I believe he has a pretty big part!
Ally's still doing great in ballet class. She loves it!
We're going to Nashville for Devyn's tournament this weekend. We're going to go to the hotel, etc to see the Christmas displays.
12/4/07 - Jack has been asking to stay at after-school daycare for a couple weeks now. I finally decided to let him try it! So, today, he took his lunch (jelly sandwich, Cheetos, chocolate pudding and a juice box) and was prepared for the day. He was VERY excited. I picked him up at 4:10pm and he was playing away. He was happy to see me and said he was ready to stay again soon. We decided he'd stay every Tuesday since that's when his friend Colton Pence from his class stays. He's getting too big!!
12/6/07 - Well, Jack is one popular boy! Last night, Grant Shoulders' Mom called me and asked if Jack could go home with Grant and Nico Brougham today. Jack was very excited. She picked all 3 boys up from school and took them home to play until about 2pm. She's brave! He said he had a good time. Apparently they played charades because he keeps wanting to play that!
12/8/07 - Abby got a babydoll from Emily for Christmas. When I asked Ally what her name was, Ally said "Ashley"! She has an Ashley in her ballet class so I guess that's where she heard that name!!
The girls have been potty training. The best thing for them is to leave them naked from the waist down and the little potty chair in the living room. They are peeing very good and Ally has pooped quite a few times.
Abby calls Santa "Ho Ho".
Ally is becoming quite the tattle-tell.
Jack is practicing for his Christmas program in which I believe he has a pretty big part!
Ally's still doing great in ballet class. She loves it!
We're going to Nashville for Devyn's tournament this weekend. We're going to go to the hotel, etc to see the Christmas displays.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Gas leak scare!
We had a pretty scary weekend at the house this past weekend. Jack and I were playing "Chutes and Ladders" in the living room and I was laying on the floor by the fireplace. Suddenly I noticed the smell of gas, so I opened the fireplace doors and smelled around here there, but didn't smell anything. I finally smelled the little valve in the floor and that's where it was coming from. I called Vectren and told them about it and the lady on the phone took all of my information then told me she was going to "read some safety precautions to me." It went something like this: "Do not turn on any appliances... Do not turn off any appliances... Do not light any candles... Do not turn on or off any lights... Do not answer the phone... Do not hang up the phone... Grab your cell phone and get your family out of the house immediately. Good bye." Needless to say, I was TERRIFIED! Missy was in the shower, the girls were taking a nap, and Jack was laying on the couch watching TV!!!
Well, we chilled out for about 20 min. and then Vectren arrived. The guy went in and checked the valve on the floor, and sure enough, we had a gas leak! He told me all he had to do was "make the situation safe" and turn off our gas, but that would mean we'd have no heat and no hot water until we could fix the problem! So I asked him if there was any way he could just turn off the gas to the fireplace since we never used it. He said maybe there's a valve on the pipe that leads to the fireplace and if so, you could shut it off there. So I said, "OK, that sounds great!" So he said, "OK, go under the house and check it out!" And I said, "Huh? Isn't that your job???" And he said, "Uh no. That's YOUR job!" YIKES!
The guy looked just like Santa Clause and was very funny. He kept telling me everything I needed to do to fix it. He was talking about plugs, unions, nipples, check values, etc. and I finally stopped him and said, "I'm sorry. I have no idea what your talking about." He looked at me real funny and said, "What line of work are you in anyway?" I said, "Computers." He said, "OK, that explains it!"
So anyway, I had to put on the coveralls and crawl under the house to check out the gas pipes.. I was pretty scared going down there b/c I'm not crazy about going under the house anyway, but I was VERY nervous going under there with a gas leak. Unfortunately, there was no valve on that pipe so he had no choice but to shut off the main gas supply to the house... We were going to the RC Christmas Party that night and Mom was supposed to come over to our house to watch the kids, so it was a very hectic afternoon trying to sort all that out. We ended up taking the kids to Lori's house so she could watch them and then spending the night there too.
Greg came over the next morning and helped me (actually, he did all the work!) put a plug on the pipe that goes to the fireplace. There was a "union" there (I finally learned what that means through all this) so all we had to do was disconnect it at the union and screw in a plug. It was pretty scary working down there knowing there was stray gas in the area, but everything worked out great and we got the gas back on in a couple of hours. Jack even went down there with us and he was pretty proud of himself!
Well, we chilled out for about 20 min. and then Vectren arrived. The guy went in and checked the valve on the floor, and sure enough, we had a gas leak! He told me all he had to do was "make the situation safe" and turn off our gas, but that would mean we'd have no heat and no hot water until we could fix the problem! So I asked him if there was any way he could just turn off the gas to the fireplace since we never used it. He said maybe there's a valve on the pipe that leads to the fireplace and if so, you could shut it off there. So I said, "OK, that sounds great!" So he said, "OK, go under the house and check it out!" And I said, "Huh? Isn't that your job???" And he said, "Uh no. That's YOUR job!" YIKES!
The guy looked just like Santa Clause and was very funny. He kept telling me everything I needed to do to fix it. He was talking about plugs, unions, nipples, check values, etc. and I finally stopped him and said, "I'm sorry. I have no idea what your talking about." He looked at me real funny and said, "What line of work are you in anyway?" I said, "Computers." He said, "OK, that explains it!"
So anyway, I had to put on the coveralls and crawl under the house to check out the gas pipes.. I was pretty scared going down there b/c I'm not crazy about going under the house anyway, but I was VERY nervous going under there with a gas leak. Unfortunately, there was no valve on that pipe so he had no choice but to shut off the main gas supply to the house... We were going to the RC Christmas Party that night and Mom was supposed to come over to our house to watch the kids, so it was a very hectic afternoon trying to sort all that out. We ended up taking the kids to Lori's house so she could watch them and then spending the night there too.
Greg came over the next morning and helped me (actually, he did all the work!) put a plug on the pipe that goes to the fireplace. There was a "union" there (I finally learned what that means through all this) so all we had to do was disconnect it at the union and screw in a plug. It was pretty scary working down there knowing there was stray gas in the area, but everything worked out great and we got the gas back on in a couple of hours. Jack even went down there with us and he was pretty proud of himself!
Ally-speak
Ally is doing such a great job talking and it is sooo cute watching her learn how to put words together. We got this email from Lori today:
I forgot to tell you...the other night when I had the kids....I had a really bad belly ache. So, I kicked back in the recliner, I had my shirt up, and was rubbing my belly.....well, Ally would come over to me and say..."NO RI-RI....SHIRT DOWN!!" So, I said you dont like my belly. I said, Dylen is in there...and she goes..."BELLY SCARE ME!!!!!!"
I also heard her say her first 4-word sentence yesterday: "Jack Hit Face Me" !!!
Precious!
I forgot to tell you...the other night when I had the kids....I had a really bad belly ache. So, I kicked back in the recliner, I had my shirt up, and was rubbing my belly.....well, Ally would come over to me and say..."NO RI-RI....SHIRT DOWN!!" So, I said you dont like my belly. I said, Dylen is in there...and she goes..."BELLY SCARE ME!!!!!!"
I also heard her say her first 4-word sentence yesterday: "Jack Hit Face Me" !!!
Precious!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)