May 2009 Archives

Down on the Farm

By
josh
on May 30, 2009 8:19 PM | | Comments (1)
That's right.  We have a farm.  Just outside our front door is a vast 2 pot vegetable garden.  We have killed a few plants there in our day but right now, things really seem to be growing.  In fact, we have 5 bell peppers in the works and one of them is bigger than a golf ball.  We also have about 5 tomatoes on the vine and one is FINALLY turning red.  When we're ready to pick them,  we'll head up to Angie's house and help her make that salsa.  Here is a couple of pics of our crop:


Little Mater


Pepper Power

Do You Like to Boogie?

By
josh
on May 30, 2009 12:38 PM | | Comments (1)
Noah does!  We attended his first program on Thursday night and although he could do without the singing (he just did the motions), Noah really enjoyed the dancing!  They ended the night with a cute around the world dance that I just HAD to set to music.  Enjoy!


The Grocery List....OF THE FUTURE!!

By
josh
on May 24, 2009 6:41 PM | | Comments (0)
OK, I understand that I'm a dork for posting this, but I had to share this cool new thing we started using.  A couple of weeks ago, Chris had the idea of putting our grocery list online so that I could add items to it as I thought of them while at work and she could do the same from home.  We started out using Cozi.com and it was ok, but not quite flexible enough.  One cool feature (that ended up being not so cool) was the ability to send your grocery list as a text message.  Turns out, it took 4 messages to send our whole list and it was a nightmare to use at the store.  So I dug around in Google Docs and found the cool feature that lets you create super easy forms to enter data into your spreadsheets.  What does this all mean?  Well, now Chris or I (or anyone with the super-long URL to the page) can go to a web page that has a really simple form with a submit button. 

Online GroList
Anything you type in goes into our list like this:
Online GroList2

From here we can print it, email it, or publish it to the web.  Yes, we are dorks, but we're dorks with a cool grocery list!

You Learn Something New Everyday

By
chris
on May 19, 2009 1:49 PM | | Comments (0)
Quick!  What's the official STATE ROCK SONG of Oklahoma?  Yes, there IS a state ROCK song.  (You "True Okie Facebookers" don't give it away.)

Now ... What is the State Rock Song of Texas?

Going Crazy

By
chris
on May 13, 2009 10:15 AM | | Comments (0)
For the past couple of days, this song has kept running through my head over and over and over again ... for good reasons ...

I am slowly going crazy
1 .. 2 .. 3 .. 4 .. 5 .. 6 .. SWITCH!
Crazy going slowly am I
6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. SWITCH!

Maybe it's because Noah has been home all week.  Because of his surgery (and the fact that it's hard enough getting two kids out of the house), we've pretty much been stuck at home. 

Three weeks and one day left of this school year ... if you don't count today.  *Breathe in ... breathe out ... in ... out ... *

Noah's Big Day

By
chris
on May 12, 2009 7:49 AM | | Comments (2)
7:30am - We arrive at Cook Children's Northeast for Noah's Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy. 

8:00am - After the anaesthesiologist gets a medical history, we fight to get Noah to put on the gown he his to wear for his surgery before the nurse gives him some "Happy Juice".  It's like Valium.  Noah took it and about 15 minutes later, he was rolled down the hall to the operating room singing a song all about his Happy Juice while laying spread-eagle on the bed.  (Mental note: Happy juice before changing into gown?)

9:00am (give or take a few minutes) - Dr Railsback (Noah's ENT and surgeon) came to tell us that Noah's surgery went well.  However, he had discovered a polyp in Noah's nose.  We're now directed to give him his Nasonex twice a day in hopes that it will shrink this polyp.  If not, it will be back to the operating room to have it removed.

9:15am - We're led back to a recovery room where Noah is sleeping ... snoring.  He wakes and starts crying.  Thinking it's pain, the nurse gives him another dose of Morphine.  It turns out, he was just very unhappy with the IV in his hand.

10:30am - Noah is given a little stuffed puppy in a little blue cape with the name "Cookie" on it (which he has decided is a hamster and his name is "Kirby") and then wheeled out to the car in a little red wagon.  In the car, he's given his after surgery gift.  You'd think that we gave him a shot of caffeine ... "IT'S MY DS!!"  You could tell he was trying to do his high pitched excited voice but it just didn't come out that way (poor guy).

11:00am - We're home.

All in all, it went better than I had anticipated.  It's probably because I imagined the worst.  I try to be prepared for anything.  Noah goes back to the ENT for his post-op Friday where we're hoping he will get the all clear for going back to school (he really wants to show his friends his new DS).  We're also keeping our fingers crossed that the polyp will shrink with the Nasonex and we won't have to do this again.  If we do, we'll be doing it before the year is up since we've already met the deductible on our insurance.  We'll, of course, keep you updated.

Taylor Swift Rocks

By
josh
on May 10, 2009 5:58 PM | | Comments (0)
On the way to the surgery center for Noah's tonsillectomy, Chris and I were listening to the radio and some Rage Against the Machine came on.  (I added some links so my mom can understand this).  "Who sings this one?"  I asked Chris.  Before she could answer, Noah piped up with, "I think this is Taylor Swift."  

Class Picture Time

By
josh
on May 4, 2009 7:49 PM | | Comments (1)
Our little boy just got his very first School Picture back.  When I opened up the card I was a little disapointed.  Now that I think about it, though, he is just like me as a little boy.  I hated pictures as much as he does.


NoahClassPic

Caprock Canyon

By
josh
on May 4, 2009 6:34 PM | | Comments (2)
Ricky and I took a little mini-vacation with the boys this weekend.  We left all the women at home and strapped our bikes onto our cars and headed to Caprock Canyon State Park.  We camped there a couple of chilly nights and rode the Caprock Rail to Trail.  It's where they take an old rail line and turn it into a mountain biking trail.  The 5 of us Highland Hawks attacked the 22 miles on a cold, windy, and wet morning.  We began at South Plains in 48 degree weather.  About 4-5 hours later we finally emerged from the wilderness at Quitaque.  The scenery was really nice and we also so a bunch of deer, some turkeys, and a great horned owl.  We also went through a dark, bat-infested rail tunnel.  My butt hurts from the seat but I already can't wait for the next Guy-Trip.  Here's a picture of us at the end of the trail:

CapRockAfter

From left is Tim, Dan, Eric, Me, and Ricky.  Check out the other pictures we took here.
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