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pub and more

i dont really remember how, but for some reason our discussion brought us to the subject of fleece vests. jeffry lee, a proud owner of two, ran upstairs to get them so he could give us a fashion show! you know what they say: 'sun's out, guns out!'

freddie, keith, diana, and barbara all chilling out at the guy's kitchen table.

we had a special guest join us for the night out- our good pal chris! he was really sick, but was willing to give it the ol' college try anyway!

i think barbara's favorite part of the night was meeting and petting aaron's pet cats!

diana felt that the house needed a little womanly touch, so she drew a pretty flower arrangement on their white board. also, note barbara's fantastic portraits of their cats...

girls versus boys

bubba leafs through the menu to see what he wants. since when has he been able to read a menu?!?

aves tagged along too for this guys lunch, but she fit in easily- and she made a bigger mess than any one else!

this one is bubba's great photographic handy work- smile, papa!

bubba didnt want me to feel left out of the pictures, so he took one of me too.

book fair decor

each year our school has a book fair. hundreds of books are brought in from scholastic books and we have a book sale, who's profits go to keep our library fully stocked. the scholastic company always picks a theme for the year's book fair, and i am enlisted to compliment that theme with some of my own home made decorations to fill the hall that the books are put in. the theme this year was '50's diner'.

when turning the corner to arrive at the book fair, i put this juke box welcome.

assorted through out the hall was a bunch of records (full length and 45's) as well as a bunch of milk shakes.

i will admit that this is not some of my finest work, but it turned out ok- and the book fair was a success, so it must have been alright!

(previous book fair decorations: '09, '08)

showtime

bubba, deep in thought, as he challenged me to a game of checkers!

diana spend almost an hour in the girls room. i peeked in there to try and figure out what she was doing with them. i got this picture, but i never did figure out what they were up to... girls are so weird!

after our checkers tournament, mema and bubba went downstairs where mema showed bubba how to play 'chopsticks'!

diana and tweets enjoying 'cloudy with a chance of meatballs'!

one last present

the kids quickly tore into the packages! its been a month and a half since christmas, but they seemed to remember pretty well how to open presents!

they loved them! aves and tweets got some pink girly stuff, tiaras and bracelets and other things, and bubba got an ABC bingo game!

bubba wanted to try out the game right away, so we set it up and all three of them played it. i dont think aves quite understood how it worked, but the game involved stickers, so she was all for it!

sunday afternoon

aves, still not feeling so good, found a nice cozy place to lay- right under papa's foot rest!

we ran out of places to sit, so mom had a seat on the floor.

diana trying to keep herself warm. its not the fact that mom and papa's house was cold, being cold is just her default mode...

bubba getting some quality time in with his mom.

timmy was entranced by the game on tv.

ouch.

my little momento of the night at chicago dr. pub. thanks, jeffry lee!

shirt optional

rex, giving his best smiley face, and jeffry lee seems to be chomping on something that is trying to get out of his mouth...

myself, diana, and jeffry lee all fearful of the random hand coming right toward us!

aaron was very excited, and i guess i was mad at him about it for some reason.

the score at this point: jeffry lee= 1, dignity= 0

i would like to submit this photo into evidence to be used against jeffry lee at a later date...

hair and a meal

its a bit blurry, but diana was excited for mexican. she even got desert!

barbara, with her cute new haircut, sharing a drink with nick- aw, how cute!

not to be outdone, i wanted to have a cute picture with nick too!

blu ray upgrade

i'm pretty excited to get this thing- i've been saving up for it since summer!

looks nice in its new home, huh?

goodbye old dvd player, you gave me 9 good years. now go off into that big media center in the sky! you will be missed...

poco on the job

like most chihuahuas, poco has bad teeth. a couple years a go he had a bunch of teeth pulled out, and they seemed to have been all on one side. the result? his tongue has a way of hanging out the left side of his mouth... which leaves us with funny moments like this!

while we were gone in florida, poco spent the week with diana's dad. when we got him back we forgot some of his stuff at dad's place, so he shipped them to us. when we got the package poco could smell that there was something familiar inside. when diana opened it up, he went crazy! look at that tail wag!