Singing at Church

Posted on July 18, 2004 by Jason

We had a nice quiet weekend. We mainly just stayed around the house cleaning. My aunt will be arriving next Sunday so we’ve got to keep the house clean, a pretty big feat with two small children. On Saturday, Jennifer cleaned both of the cars inside and out. Abby and Emily donned their bathing suits to help for a little bit.

On Sunday, as the final part of her Vacation Bible School, Abby sang in front of the church with all the other kids. We didn’t think we were going to get her to go up there. She was complaining that her tummy hurt. However, when it came time and all the other kids started heading towards the front of the church, she got right up and just sang away. She did a really great job and impressed both of us. Today’s picture if from the event.

Pizza and Football

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Jason

After work today I met the family at Chuck E. Cheese so that the girls could run around and have fun. For the first time Abby was really into watching the animatronic Chuck E. Cheese show. She watched the show instead of running around and getting tickets from all the games. Emily is getting more vocal. She exclaimed “bubble” when someone walked by with some balloons. Pretty much anything round is “bubble” to her: bubble, ball, balloon. Not bad for 18 months old.

Today was the day our company store got NCAA Football in. Took it for a test drive this evening. Still just as good a previous years. I beat North Texas 17-14. It wasn’t really that close as I ran the ball all over them gaining almost 200 yards on the ground. I’m going to once again attempt to take Texas to the National Championship. Last year I was able to do it in one season and the previous year it took me two seasons. I got a copy for George and we will be starting up our Strange Brew College Football League (SBCFL) which we’ve been doing for many years now starting with Front Page Sports Football on the PC.

Today’s picture is another one that my grandparents took while the girls were up at their place in Lindale, Texas.

Weekend Catch-up

Posted on July 12, 2004 by Jason

Trying to get caught up with what all has been happening over the last few days. A lot of resting a relaxing, except for Saturday morning. I went and played flag football with some of the guys at work. They play on a regular basis and I’m going to try and make it when ever I can, so I can get some sort of exercise. Even though we played 10 a.m. until noon, it was sweltering hot. Near the end I was dragging my feet before and during plays. Had lots of fun and have been very sore and sun burned for the past two days.

To relax the past few days I’ve just been playing Jak II and Jennifer has been working on Emily’s baby scrap book. We go upstairs and work up in the office. That has lead to trouble with Abby sneaking out of her room and getting into trouble. Friday she snuck out and got into Jennifer’s make-up. She spilled it on the floor and then blamed it on Emily even though Emily had been asleep for a couple of hours.

I saw Kill Bill, Volume I this weekend. Quentin Tarantino is an amazing director. Some of the shots are astonishing. The way he blends the music to what is going on in each shot is perfect. Can’t wait until Volume II comes out on DVD next month. It’s already in my Netflix queue.

Today Jennifer and the girls started attending Vacation Bible School up at church. Jennifer is doing games with the kids while Abby attends the classes. Emily is staying in the nursery. Because of the problems we are having with Abby about getting out of her room at night, she hasn’t been getting a good night’s rest. This morning, she was tired and kept crying at Vacation Bible School. She had to sit up with Jennifer for a while until she calmed down and then she joined her class later.

Today’s picture is from the set of pictures that my grandmother sent me from when Jennifer and the girls visited them in East Texas last month. Abby is showing off the new purse that MaMaw made for her.

The Gym

Posted on July 3, 2004 by Jason

We started out the morning by going to The Little Gym with Abby & Emily. They just opened up this gymnasium for little kids around the corner from our house and Jennifer signed up the girls for a couple of free lessons. We thought Emily was too young for their program. We think Gymboree is a little more Emily’s speed since it’s for younger kids. However, Abby did excellent. She followed the instructor’s directions and she was the only one in the class which could hold her own weight on the ballance beem and extend her toes all the way out. We are thinking about looking for a regular gym and put her into, but we will see. The best thing about it was that she ran herself tired for a full hour. When it was nap time, she was out like a light.

Jennifer’s been trying to work on Emily’s baby scrap book. It’s been harder because when Emily was born, we switched over to a digital camera and she’s having to get the pictures she wants printed.

I received some pictures from my grandparents, MaMaw and PaPaw, from when the girls were up in Lindale, Texas visiting. I will be posting them in the near future, but today’s picture is from Emily’s trip to the gym.

Still Going

Posted on June 30, 2004 by Jason

Well, Madden is still not out the door. Since, I’m writing this at 10:00 p.m. from home, then I guess it’s a little bit of good news. We had to once again rebuild today and our QA department is going over the build right now. I’m on call and I’m hoping that I don’t get a call over night.

We went to eat Bar-B-Q at church tonight. One of the members of the church is a chef and every Wednesday night, he cooks a meal that you can sign up for and go eat. The extra money made is donated to the church. I met Jennifer and the girls up there and we had dinner together. Before we met Jennifer took Abby and Emily to the park. Abby hadn’t taken a nap all day and was worn out and fell asleep in the car on the way home.

Today’s picture is still from the trip to Texas. While in Houston, Jennifer and the girls went to the Houston Children’s Museum. They had an old VW van which Emily enjoyed driving.

First Day Off

Posted on June 27, 2004 by Jason

Well, today was a momentous occasion. It was the first day I hadn’t see the inside of Tiburon since May 16th. Forty-one straight days of working. Isn’t the game industry grand? I guess no news is good news from work and we will have sent the game off to Central Quality Control at EA-Redwood Shores (EARS) in San Francisco.

Since it was my first day off, I was given my Father’s Day/Birthday gift from Jennifer and the girls: an Onkyo Stereo Receiver, with 6.1 surround sound. I got it all hooked up today. Now I just need a good set of speakers. I currently only have 3. Since the ultimate goal is to start watching more movies, today we signed up for Netflix, where you get DVD’s mailed to you. You have three checked out at a time and when you send them back, they send you the next movie on your list.

The only thing we did today was wash Jennifer’s car. Today’s picture is from that event. Emily was pretty funny. She would have the rag in one hand but she wouldn’t use it. She would use her bare hand to wash the car.

College Reunion

Posted on June 26, 2004 by Jason

The Internet is amazing. I had a Frenchville.net first today. My old college roommate, Mike Barnes, discovered Frenchville and wrote me an e-mail. He’s doing well and finally graduated from college with an accounting degree and is currently living in Dallas. After our second year at U.T., college life wasn’t cutting it and he decided to move back to Oklahoma. I heard from him a couple of times after that and then never heard from him again until today. I e-mailed him back and I hope to hear back from him to find out what he’s been up to for the past ten years.

We are very close to having Madden out of our hands finally. I left work at midnight and we are “on call” through the weekend. Hopefully QA won’t find any major problems in the next two days (knock on wood).

While I was sleeping this morning, Jennifer and the girls went over to the Cowans’ to swim in the swimming pool. Jennifer was impressed that two hours of swimming equaled four hours of nap time after lunch. That fueled the swimming pool talks once again. I looks like Jennifer is more interested in more furniture than a swimming pool. I have to admit, on these hot Florida days, it would be pretty nice to just be floating out in the pool.

Today’s picture is from the family reunion on my mom’s side of the family last week. It’s a picture of Poppy, Jill, and Emily. This was actually the first time Jill had seen her niece since she was born. She moved to El Paso and we moved to Orlando before we could ever meet up again.

Home Sweet Home

Posted on June 25, 2004 by Jason

Everyone made it home fine. The plane was forty-five minutes late and we didn’t get home until 1:00 in the morning. It was a long trip and everyone was happy to be home. For Emily, it’s like discovering a whole house all over again. She has started playing with all her toys with renewed interest.

We’ve started redecorating our living room. Jennifer purchased couches before she left and they will be delivered on Tuesday. She ordered a new rug and it arrived today. I will try to take some pictures once the whole living room is in it’s new final state.

Now that Jennifer is back home, I’ve downloaded all the pictures off of the camera. I will be displaying the best ones here. Today’s picture is from one of the first days when they arrived at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Abby is helping Grandma make a cake for Jennifer’s 30th birthday.

Beta

Posted on June 21, 2004 by Jason

I’ve finally gotten home earlier than any time this past week and I finally have time to write something. Hopefully now that it’s starting to slow down at work, I will have more time to write. We went “Beta” with Madden 2005 last Friday. At this point, we only fix major bugs that are sent to us from our QA department and each day we have to get back down to zero bugs.

Since the reunion, Jennifer, Abby, and Emily returned to Houston and have been there all week. Tomorrow they fly back to Orlando. I can’t wait to see them again. Hopefully work will have slowed down enough so that I can spend more time with them. Jennifer reported that Emily now knows how to jump out of her crib, so it might be time to get her into a regular bed. We will have to see what she does in her own crib when she gets home.

I would like to wish my dad a happy Father’s Day. I hope he had fun playing with the girls last week. They sent me a calendar with pictures of what the girls did while they were there. I’ve included one of them as today’s picture of the day.

The Reunion

Posted on June 13, 2004 by Jason

Abby and Emily had a fun time at Nana and Poppy’s house this week. They went swimming and played at a park. Abby and Poppy went to see Shrek 2. Abby’s review of the movie was that Shrek “drank a potion and tooted”. So, obviously, the movie must have been funny.

The week ended with Jennifer driving back up and meeting everyone at my grandparents’ house in Lindale. The girls were very glad to see their mommie.

Then, today was the family reunion for my mother’s side of the family in Grand Saline. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there, but it sounds like everyone had a good time and Jennifer reported that my grandfather seems to be doing real well since my grandmother passed a couple of years ago. Jennifer said she took several pictures so I will have some of those for the web site when she gets back.

I actually did get a picture from my dad from the trip. Today’s photo is of Abby climbing a jungle gym at one of the parks that they visited.

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