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Busy Saturday

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Today was a busy day. First, we went to a Fall Festival at church. It’s a fund raiser for their pre-school, which is the school that Abby went to last year. There were hay rides, jump houses, games, and face painters. Everyone was amazed that Emily would go up and down this giant blow-up slide by herself. She loved it and kept sliding down over and over again. As the picture to the right shows, Emily got very contemplative during the hay ride.

Later, we had a baby sitter come over to watch the kids while Jennifer and I went to see a musical, Miss Saigon. It was really good, especially when you have second row seats. I originally saw Miss Saigon on a trip to New York thirteen years ago. Back then I saw it from the second row from the back of the balcony. Makes quite a difference being that close.

This was the first time we had a baby sitter come in and watch both girls since we moved into our house. It’s nice to have a regular baby sitter and we hope to use her more so that we can go out occasionally.

Finally, the Texas Longhorns crushed the Colorado Buffalo 31 to 7. It wasn’t looking too good during the first quarter after Vince Young threw two interceptions. Colorado was actually winning 7-0 after the first quarter. It was good that Vince didn’t panic. He brushed himself off and had two very good solid drives which started the steamroller which ran all over Colorado.

Cotton Candy

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It’s been a pretty normal week and not much to talk about. A typical week consists of constantly cleaning the girls’ play room as seen in this picture. Jennifer says that it seems like she’s cleaning it constantly all day.

Yesterday the girls had a Halloween party at church that they went to. Jennifer said that Abby finally got to have cotton candy. Last 4th of July I promised Abby some, but the place we went to watch fireworks at didn’t have any. All the sugar propelled Abby to the bounce house that was there. It had a giant plastic slide and Abby was jumping straight into the air and roll all the way down.

We continued our losing streak in softball yesterday, with a record of 0-6. We were winning 8-1 after the first inning and we were starting to think if the Boston Red Sox could break their curse, then perhaps we could break ours. We got too confident and we couldn’t recreate the bats of the first inning as we lost 16-9. I actually batted really well: 3-4 with 2 runs and 1 RBI and fielding was good in spite of the infield being as hard a concrete. Maybe next week. At this point I just want us to win one game.

Block Party

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Today the neighborhood had a block party. Jennifer spent all morning making cup cakes with Abby helping out for Halloween sprinkles on top of the cup cakes, or as she calls them “pup cakes”. It was nice meeting some of our other neighbors, but we pretty much hung out with all the neighbors that we already knew. A fire truck from the local fire station arrived and Abby got to climb through and sit in the driver’s seat.

Today’s picture is another one from The Picture People. This time it’s the Mermaid Princess sitting alone.

The Rose and Mermaid Princesses

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Well, my Astros were not successful at making it to the World Series. They put up a great fight and once again I’m watching the NLCS go to a game seven where the Astros were not successful. The last time was in 1986 against the Mets. Hopefully they will be able to retain Beltran and Clemens and try at again next year.

A couple of days ago the girls went to The Picture People and had their picture taken in the Halloween costumes. Today’s picture is of the Rose Princess and the Mermaid Princess together.

We’ve had a couple of problems with Emily taking off her clothes after she goes to bed. We go into the girls’ rooms to check on them when we go to bed and the last couple of days we’ve discovered Emily buck naked, cold butt up in the air. Well, we had the same problem with Abby when she was Emily’s age. The solution: put some tape over the weak Velcro tabs on her diaper so that it’s tougher for her to open up her diaper.

Another Softball Loss

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Frenchville was down a couple of days ago as I moved the web site to a new host. Our last host was $19.95/month for only 100 MB of web space. I was having to delete some of the old pages because I was going over the drive space limit. The new host, VizaWeb, was only $5.95/month for 1 GB of web space. It wasn’t too hard of a choice. Ten times the web space for $14 less per month. I think I’ll go with that one. We should have plenty of more room for growth.

Today was a big softball game against the other team from where I work. There’s actually two softball teams: Tiburon and EA Sports. I’m on the Tiburon team. So, you can image the trash talking that was going on before the game. Well, unfortunately, we lost 15-11. I had some pretty good fielding as several balls were hit my direction. My batting wasn’t that great. I went 1-3, two fly outs. The last hit was an error on the first baseman, my former boss, the Development Director on Madden. I popped it up again, but he wasn’t able to make the catch.

Today’s picture is of Jennifer and Emily at Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party.

Longhorns & Astros Win

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Today we didn’t do much that was out of the ordinary. We went to our usual Saturday morning breakfast. Abby went to one of the neighbor’s 2nd birthday party. Emily wasn’t feeling too good so she and I stayed at home and watched the Longhorns and Astros.

The Longhorns were victorious today over Missouri 28-20. Overall I didn’t think they looked all that great. Their passing game was horrid, with Vince Young throwing two interceptions. Perhaps I’m still bitter over the loss to OU.

The Astros were also victorious over the Cardinals 5-2, but the Cardinals are still winning the series 2-1. Clemens pitched a great game all the way into the seventh inning, which is where the Astros pitching was failing in the last two games. Beltran is awesome. He has had at least one home run in every game against the Cardinals. Hopefully the Astros will be able to sweep the Cardinals at home and then win one more in St. Louis to go to the World Series.

Mickey’s Not So Scarry Halloween Party

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Today we went and toured the RDV Sportsplex for a new place to go work out. Tiburon is moving to a new building in December which is directly across the street from the place where the Orlando Magic train. This gave them an opportunity to bring their gym up to the level of other EA studios. Currently Tiburon subsidizes our YMCA membership, but this will end once the deal with the RDV starts. It looks like we are going to cancel our YMCA membership and I’m going to join the RDV by myself since it is going to be pretty expensive for the kids to join.

Tonight was our trip to Disney’s Magic Kingdom for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. The kids get to dress up in their costumes, ride the rides, get candy, and watch some fireworks. This year Abby was a Rose Princess and Emily was a Mermaid Princess. The weather turned out to be great as it is starting to turn cooler. The fireworks show was amazing as we had a good spot right in front of Cinderella’s Castle. Abby and Emily both had fun, but the evening was pretty much a bunch of errors for the parents. First we got a quarter of the way to Disney World and we realized we forgot the tickets, so we had to turn around during rush hour traffic and go back and get them. The kids got tired of wearing their costumes and we brought Emily’s clothes, but we didn’t bring any for Abby, so we had to buy a T-shirt and shorts from the gift shop for Abby. Then, I forgot to put the kids’ juice in the ice chest, so this led to buying some juice in the park which ended up spilled in the bottom of the stroller, getting everything wet. Besides all that, overall it was a great night. Emily passed out in Jennifer’s arms around 10:00 so we started taking turns riding some rides with Abby and then headed home around 11:00.

I Poopie

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Abby has the whole week off from school so I took the whole week off from work as well. It’s been nice just being at home and hanging out with the family. It’s like having a nice long extended weekend.

Yesterday there wasn’t much to do because it rained all day. For dinner we packed up into the Sequoia and went to Chuck E. Cheese’s. The kids enjoyed running wild. It’s like this place has become the only restaurant that we can take the kids to.

Today we started by going to work out at the YMCA. Later on, I stayed home with the kids while Jennifer ran some errands. It’s amazing how communicative Emily has gotten. Today she walked up to me and said, “I poopie”. I said, “All right, let’s go change your diaper.” She walked off to her bedroom and started to climb up onto the diaper changing table herself. I suppose the next thing I need to do is train her to change the diaper herself.

Today’s picture is more from Sunday’s putt-putt excursion. This is pretty much how the game went, Abby and Emily running around trying to get the golf balls into the hole.

Putt Putt

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Today we went and played putt-putt golf. Abby did pretty good for her first time playing. Emily didn’t do too bad either. We had a huge group of seven people ahead of us who we deemed “The Slowest People in the World”. Emily really wasn’t equipped with the patients to wait for them to play.