Category Archives: Jennifer

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.

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.

Fifth Anniversary

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I finally got to drive the new Sequoia today. We went to our usual Saturday breakfast and then we went shopping for Abby a new car seat. Her current one really dug into the Camry’s back seat and we want to get a new one that doesn’t mess up the new truck.

The Longhorns once again couldn’t defeat OU. They lost 12-0 and it was the first time that they had been shut out since 1980. They really didn’t look that good at all. It appears that they still haven’t learned to tackle. Their offense looked very one dimensional: either Young would hand off to Benson or he would keep it. It wasn’t until the forth quarter that a wide receiver caught the ball.

The Texas loss was very disappointing, but was made better by the Astros beating the Braves to go up in the NL Division series 2-1. If they win tomorrow, they will be advancing to the NL Championship for the first time ever.

Tonight we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary by going out to eat at The Melting Pot. We left the girls across the street with Jane, Lucas, and Connor. We called for a reservation earlier in the day, but they said that they were booked solid. Since we weren’t in a hurry we decided to go ahead and go to the restaurant and take our chances. It turned out that we were seated immediately anyway and in a very secluded booth which was off by itself. So, we had a great dinner and reminisced about the last five years.

Mattress With a Little Less Soft, Please

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This morning we were called by our neighbor, Jane, Lucas and Connor’s mom. Her air conditioning had leaked all over her floor just like ours did. The thing is she had just had it serviced when she moved in a few months ago, so it seems weird that it would be the same thing as what was wrong with ours.

Today the Original Mattress Company came and picked up our king sized bed in order to make it not as soft. We were having problems with our mattress where it was continuously making body impressions into the mattress even though we were flipping it every other week. Finally the handle broke on the side of the mattress and we called them in to fix it. After Jennifer complained that we were having to flip it so often because of the body impressions, they informed us that they have a year “comfort guarantee”. So, they picked up the mattress today and will return it on Thursday with a little less padding.

Today’s picture is of “Emily the Explorer” as she has been attacked by rings that have attached themselves to her arms. Hopefully she will be able to find the ring extractor from her handy dandy backpack.

Borie

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Tonight Jennifer went to a scrapbooking party with some of the women from church, leaving me with the kids. Once she was gone, Emily sat down and watched TV while Abby and I kick around this little toy soccer ball. Once Emily went to bed, Abby and I went upstairs and she watched me play a new game I got the other day Sly 2.

I’m currently watching the Dodgers and Giants play baseball. I was surprised the other day when I saw that the Astros were suddenly in the lead of the National League Wild Card race. The Giants and Astros are tied for the wild card spot and the Astros won today so if the Giants lose, the Astros will be the sole owners of the wild card spot with two games left to play.

Today’s picture is of Emily with a Dora backpack. Emily has become obsessed with watching Dora the Explorer. This is amazing because Abby didn’t really start liking that show until she was around three years old. She doesn’t quite know how to say “Dora” yet, so she says something more like “Borie” when she sees Dora on the TV or when she dances to the theme song.

Second Softball Loss

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We once again lost our softball game 13-11. I don’t think we played as well as last week, but we still hung in there. I was 0-2 with a walk and a run. My first two times at bat, I didn’t really get very good pitches and I ended up popping them up. So, the next time I was up to bat I just made him pitch to me and he ended up walking me. I didn’t really have any balls hit in my direction at second base. We were in a seventh inning rally when the batter flew out to the outfield. We had a runner on third who tagged up and then came on it. The umpire called the runner out because he didn’t see him tag up before running home. Our coach confronted the umpire who’s response was, “He tagged up?” Usually you don’t want questions from the umpires. You usually want, “The runner is out. I clearly saw him take off before the ball was caught.” That didn’t happen. So, that was the last out of the game. You never want a game to end of a call from the umpire. We’ve been close in both games we played. Perhaps we will win next week.

Meanwhile, on the other end of town, Jennifer took Abby to a kids group at church called Kid’s Connection. They have classes where they do crafts and play games. Abby had fun while Emily played in the nursery and Jennifer helped a Girl Scout troop which meets at the church on Wednesday. They came by the softball field after they were done, but they got there too early. I wasn’t scheduled to start my game for another hour.

Today’s picture is of Emily riding Abby’s bicycle. Look, Poppy, Emily’s ready for her own bike!

Hurricane Lucas and Connor

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The hurricane is moving closer. The latest projections now have it going directly over Orlando. We will start feeling the effects from the storm on Saturday morning. Abby’s school was canceled on Friday and I’ve gone ahead and told work that I won’t be coming in on that day either so that we can start getting ready for the storm.

Jennifer went out for supplies earlier in the day. She was going to go to Home Depot, but she couldn’t find a place to park. We’ve heard reports of people waiting in line for three hours to get plywood. Jennifer went to a BP gas station to fill up her car this afternoon and they were out of gas.

Tonight our neighbors from across the street, Lucas and Connor, came over to visit while their mom went shopping for supplies for the storm. You can see from today’s picture that it was like the hurricane arrived early to our play room.

Hurricane Charlie Aproaches

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Today Jennifer went on a great shoe hunt all across the mall for Emily without any luck. Emily has grown out of all her shoes and the one pair we just got her have Velcro on them and she can get out of them too easily. We put her in the car and two seconds later, she’s ripped both of her shoes off.

Hurricane Charlie continues to head our way. It doesn’t look like it is going to go directly over us. It will go just to the west of us, but we will still be in it’s path. Abby’s pre-school has been canceled and I’m going to stay home from work to help prepare. The storm should hit around 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. I’ll have an update tomorrow evening.

I’m out of current pictures, so I’m having to reach into the archives. Today’s picture is from when Abby was a baby and is in honor of football starting soon. Since she was born during the football season, Abby got dressed up for the Texas-Texas A&M game on the day after Thanksgiving 2000.

Here Come the Storms

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Today started off with a trip to the dentist for Jennifer. She found out that the sealants on her teeth have failed and she’s starting to get cavities on her teeth. The dentist said that she has six cavities that are starting to form. We’ve decided to do nothing for now. Jennifer said her teeth aren’t bothering her and the cavities are just now starting to form.

After her appointment, we met at the frame shop because it’s time to get my latest game framed. Every year I get the game I’ve worked on framed. The cover and the DVD are mounted with a suede mat and black metal frame. This year will be the first time I have four different covers and DVD’s all in one frame.

We found out today that two tropical storms are heading towards Florida. Bonnie is going to hit the pan handle and shouldn’t affect us much. Charlie, which will become a hurricane before it hits landfall, is looking like it is going to go right over the top of us. Jennifer went to Target today and stocked up on some water and batteries for our flashlights. I will, of course, have daily updates on what happens to us during the tropical storms. Hopefully Frenchville won’t blow away.

It was actually nice outside after dinner and we went on a walk around the neighborhood. It’s amazing how it could be unbearably humid one day and then pleasant the next day. I guess that’s Florida for you. It’s probably the calm before the storms.

Rainy Saturday

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Well, not much has happened over the past few days. Abby went to her second day of pre-school yesterday. Today’s picture is of Abby in her classroom when we took her on the first day. They are learning the alphabet and she made a picture of an ant yesterday. She will tell you that, “‘A’ is for ant; ‘A’ is for apple; and ‘A’ is for Abby”.

We went out to breakfast this morning at the Peach Valley Cafe, which is a rarity because the girls can’t sit still for more than a couple of minutes. However, they did very well this morning and we tried our best to entertain them while they cooked our food. The food was good and it was even better since the girls behaved themselves.

The rest of the day was pretty boring since it rained all day. Jennifer ventured out still in search of a contractor to fix our warped floor. There’s much debate on whether or not the floor can be sanded and stained to match the old floor. We are still getting a couple of quotes together in order to submit them to State Farm.

I played my gave vs. Texas in mine and George’s Strange Brew College Football League on NCAA Football 2005. In order to have a challenge, I’m not playing Texas, but I’m playing Baylor, which is turning out to be very difficult. I’m currently 2-2 for the season and I was crushed by Texas 34-0, but I felt I held my own because it was only 3-0 with 1:00 left in the half. At half time it was 10-0. I panicked and abandoned my fairly good running game for my non-existing passing game because I felt I was falling behind. I should have held my ground and kept running the ball. Oh well. The first year of our franchise is always a “rebuilding year” for Baylor.