Another 30th

Another friend turned the big 3-0. (Yikes!)

This time it was Becky:

The blond one :)

A whole group got together to celebrate with her - at this fantastic restaurant. We hadn't been there for quite some time - I love the cheesecake. So good. In fact, it was the first restaurant where I actually liked the cheesecake (and this was not too long ago) because before I wasn't too fond of it. (It's my father's favorite dessert). I ended up getting the lettuce wraps. I would like some now please. Thanks.

Her SIL and CIL got her the best gifts - a bunch of "old" people stuff: diapers, prunes, denture cream, etc. It was AWESOME.

The group was huge - maybe like 20-25 people. Some how we got seated at the kids table. Between kids. Poor Darin.

Sweet baby S.

M. in the stripes.

Jeff and little D.

It turned out to be a great evening. Always interesting when there were children involved. Found out that baby S. really really likes fresh whipped cream. Kept her busy for quite some time while her Mama got ready to go. She still was a bit afraid of Darin. She'll learn eventually that he's just terrified of her, and she can do whatever she wants to. :)

Happy Birthday Becky!

Back in October

There was Halloween.

Remember that? Way back when?

We actually had a wonderful time. Super fun.

Darin and I decided to go as Wayne and Garth from this movie/show. I don't know why we decided to this this, all I know was that it worked for us. (In college during some sorority thing, my friend Kara and I were W and G too. I was Wayne and she was Garth. I have pictures. (So it really happened). I just have no idea why we did this. Hmm.)

Got our clothes at G00dwill. Hair at a costume shop.

Took forever to get my hat. I should have just ordered one from the Internet. Ended up getting it from here. Totally would recommend them.

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Had two parties to go to. Yes, we're popular.

First was at Cherrah and Jeff's house.

Us. Ha.

Scotty (Mr. Woods) and Garth.

Jailbait (Alisa) and I (Wayne)

I swear the people there who didn't know me though I was a guy. Really. It was creepy.

Had lot of fun there, but were late. And we had to go to another party too so just sort of left - but had a great time. And ate way too much food. Still thinking about the bean dip. Ahh, bean dip.

Second was Mercy and Frank's bash:

Frank as Frankenstein. Clever.

Darin's brain. Haha, it's far to big to be his.
Ha ha.

Small group at their house.
Frank, Mercy, Raji, Nazelle, Chris' wife, Chris
(don't remember her name. oops.)

And we ate even more there.

Mercy had all this super creative food. Like hot dogs as fingers. Zingers as tombstones. And the Jell-0 brain. Awe. Some.

Our squirrel.

Came home to torture the dog. He doesn't particularly like Halloween. Or costumes. Or squirrels.

We went to Diana and Gus' house for the actual night - on Sunday - to help hand out candy. Yikes they get a lot of kids. The four of us and the two dogs helped celebrate the trick-or-treat tradition - and we only ate a little bit of the candy.

fun. fun.

From here.

I'm in the 'Enough for most scientists' group.

Is that sad?

Or something you'd assume about me?

Book List 2007

Tucked into one of my books packed away, I found my book list of 2007. Want to keep these written down somewhere so I will remember.

Not too exciting of a post, but hey. It's really a diary of sorts.

Books Read:
- Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
- The Sleeping Doll, Jeffery Deaver
- Plum Lucky, Janet Evanovich
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- The Empress File, John Sanford
- The Fool's Run, John Sanford
- Double Cross, James Patterson
- Someone to Love, Jude Deveraux
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
- Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
- Deja Dead, Kathy Reichs


Books Listened To:
- The Devil's Code, John Sanford
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Jules Vern
- The Hanged Man's Song, John Sanford
- Grave Secrets, Kathy Reichs
- Break No Bones, Kathy Reichs
- Cross Bones, Kathy Reichs
- Ashes to Bone, Kathy Reichs
- Bare Bones, Kathy Reichs
- Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Camel Club, David Baldacci

Jake, Every Day Events

Thought I hadn't written about Jacob Tiger lately. I was looking through some pictures the other day on my phone and decided it would be fun to share.

Side note: We have some what thought of changing Jake's middle name from Tiger. It's mainly because of his similarities between one of our favorite current basketball players: Dwight H0ward.

Little head, super huge body.
(You can't really tell in this photo.)

But Jake's head was so big, it slipped though his collar so many times, that we had to get him a body collar. And he's super muscular too. Plus we're big fans of the real Dwight.

So Jacob Tiger Dwight L-E. JTDLE.

It's quite a name really.

Back to photos...

Found this one in my memory on my phone.
The bunny was found during packing.
And was riding Jake for some time before he realized it.
Very funny actually.

On the car trip up to visit Kucku/Anu
He's pretty sleepy in the car.
Has his bed and other pillows to sleep on.
Yes, he's spoiled.

At the house while we were painting.
He was tuckered out.
And probably enjoyed the nice cool floor.

In bath tub.
We were watching TV and noticed he was not around.
Went to find him.
He was in the bath tub.
Trying to get the soap (orange thing).
He loved the water.

100,000 Miles

My dear Honey past 100,000 miles the other day.

She is not getting older, just wiser.

(This makes no sense whatsoever).

This is my first car that I have put all of the miles on it. Well, Darin and I. I'd say that's pretty impressive as I got her in February 2006. And I drive 15 miles to work.

Wonder how many trips up to South Carolina that was?

She is a great car though. Though I'm pretty sure I can say I won't be putting another 100,000 miles on her.

That would be scary really.

Happy Miles Birthday Honey!

White is the 'new' Blue

Couple of weekends ago, we went back to the old house to paint paint paint.

When we first decided to paint the family room blue - over three years ago, we (and by we I mean me) knew that we would eventually have to re-paint. Because well it was blue, people. Blue.

So we re-painted.

I have to admit the whole 'excitement' that was initially there at the beginning was gone. We were just painting to paint. Gone were those feelings of the new house with the pretty walls. But it wasn't bad in any way, more tedious really. But not a big deal.

And we about finished - actually ran out of paint. Impressive, I know.

Family Room Pics

Master Bedroom.
Good bye dark green.

And that was that. We still have to do another coat in both rooms - the master bedroom gets the flesh color that was on the other walls. Not too big of a deal - probably only a couple hours (we're almost professionals).

And the funny thing about this was we painted a hallway in our church this past weekend. Darin wants nothing more to do with paint. (He's the edger, I'm the taper and roller).

So we'll see. I'll just have to teach Jake to paint. He's pretty talented. You never know.