Today we will be watching 6 football games and at least one basketball game. It's 9:30am and one game has already started.. Go Air Force !! can you tell we're in a football pool? Anyway, with that many games today, and 6 more tomorrow M Go Blue!
I found this article about sports cliches quite amusing.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07364/845181-13.stm
Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Stofleez & frites
Marg & annemie
Tonight we had dinner at Edie's (Margaret's mom's) house.. Margaret gets to live there. Her buddy Annemie, from Belgium ( but living and working in Laos) cooked dinner for us (us being Michelle, Teri, Cindy, Julie, Julie's iPhone, Gina and me). Stofles (beef stew) and frites (french fries). I asked does everyone in Belgium have a frites cooker (margaret does) ? A. says why yes, national food.. How do Americans cook their fries? I said Mickey D does it for us. nobody cooks fries at home.
I was able to blog the photo from the house. The text I add later, cuz jeez how do people send text messages all the time? Give me a keyboard.
But the iPhone was the entertainment of the night. cuz Robbie (the parrot) doesn't travel as well.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Christmas with the Young family
and some hangers on's, like me.
Gina and I spent Christmas eve at Marilyn's, eating sushi and cookies. (yes, after Mass) Then in the morning we drove to one of the Tri-Cities, to have dinner & gift giving at Steve's house. Betty was the hostess with the most-ess. She cooked up a turkey and the thickest pork chops I ever saw. Dinner was DE-LISH !! Quite a feast for such a big crowd.... 14 of us.. Steve, Betty, Scott, Susie, Slots, Gina, me, Sheryl (Betty's buddy) and the kids - JR and his lovely & very pregnant wife Tanya, Mike and Crystal, and Judi and her fiance Richard (Richard is just home from Iraq).
Make that 15, Betty's son Troy drove all the way from Seattle that day for his mom's meal, and Marilyn's cookies.
Apologies to any names I'm mispelling. (am spelling that wrong?)
So, let's get to the pictures. Settle in, cuz I've got a lot of pictures.
ok, this picture should go along side photo of the bins of cookies....
let's just call this a picture of "Ann's cookies".
The new holiday door mat (we got one just like it)
Gina and Marilyn, with the clever wrapping job by Sue.
The kids...JR, Tanya, G, Judi, Richard
Slots helping out with the gravy making.
Steve opening his present from Scott.... coal !
Hula skirt for the Wiki race.. No, not for the wicked racer.
Slots & Gina in their greenery.
Betty takes a time out from cooking for a photo op.
Mike and Crystal
Sheryl and Betty.
Steve, with the gift of an eagle for JR. I remember when he was getting eagle posters, etc when he was 9 yrs. old.
The Youngs and the turkey..........
Or should I say, the turkeys are not so young ?
That's the glory of having a blog.. I can offer up lame jokes like that.
Hey, Scott, get yer own blog.
Gina and I spent Christmas eve at Marilyn's, eating sushi and cookies. (yes, after Mass) Then in the morning we drove to one of the Tri-Cities, to have dinner & gift giving at Steve's house. Betty was the hostess with the most-ess. She cooked up a turkey and the thickest pork chops I ever saw. Dinner was DE-LISH !! Quite a feast for such a big crowd.... 14 of us.. Steve, Betty, Scott, Susie, Slots, Gina, me, Sheryl (Betty's buddy) and the kids - JR and his lovely & very pregnant wife Tanya, Mike and Crystal, and Judi and her fiance Richard (Richard is just home from Iraq).
Make that 15, Betty's son Troy drove all the way from Seattle that day for his mom's meal, and Marilyn's cookies.
Apologies to any names I'm mispelling. (am spelling that wrong?)
So, let's get to the pictures. Settle in, cuz I've got a lot of pictures.
ok, this picture should go along side photo of the bins of cookies....
let's just call this a picture of "Ann's cookies".
The new holiday door mat (we got one just like it)
Gina and Marilyn, with the clever wrapping job by Sue.
The kids...JR, Tanya, G, Judi, Richard
Slots helping out with the gravy making.
Steve opening his present from Scott.... coal !
Hula skirt for the Wiki race.. No, not for the wicked racer.
Slots & Gina in their greenery.
Betty takes a time out from cooking for a photo op.
Mike and Crystal
Sheryl and Betty.
Steve, with the gift of an eagle for JR. I remember when he was getting eagle posters, etc when he was 9 yrs. old.
The Youngs and the turkey..........
Or should I say, the turkeys are not so young ?
That's the glory of having a blog.. I can offer up lame jokes like that.
Hey, Scott, get yer own blog.
Susie makes it to the blog
And congrats to the photographer for having the patience to finally catch her smiling and not hiding from the camera.
one eye at 1:36pm
the full cover up, why doesn't she just wear a burqua?
Gotcha ! although I should have included the clock in each picture to see just how patient I was. And those sox are sure festive.
oh, and look, here's Scott escaping with 3 pairs of Levi's... 4 if you count the pair he's wearing. No, that's not a halo over him.
one eye at 1:36pm
the full cover up, why doesn't she just wear a burqua?
Gotcha ! although I should have included the clock in each picture to see just how patient I was. And those sox are sure festive.
oh, and look, here's Scott escaping with 3 pairs of Levi's... 4 if you count the pair he's wearing. No, that's not a halo over him.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Sun to the snow
Our Saturday group run that Coaches Lesley and Tony led us on was a snow run. But there wasn't a lot of running.. We went from worried that there would be no snow (just rain and cold) to Holy Cow, it's 2 feet deep. and getting deeper! We ran on Snoqualmie Mtn. for 2+ hours. And we only ran 6 miles. It was slow going, running/trudging from footprint to footprint. Of course the first guy out was Tim (who is 6'8") and his steps are really far apart.
We had a blast !
i think the white spots are the flash catching snowflakes.
It looks like nightime but really just dark forest with no sunshine. I love Gina's hand on hip pose. Really she's saying "snap it, I'm freezing just standing still."
that's Tall Tim. now that I look, those gals look pretty tall, too. The snowman was there waiting for us. I think Tony made it the day before.
Gina is looking colorful, next to Tony's Always Running van.
Some of the Always Running gang just before starting uphill.
Check out this waterfall.
The whole run was just beautiful. Of course, I only noticed it when I stopped. Otherwise I had to concentrate on putting my feet into the previous runners' footprints.
We had a blast !
i think the white spots are the flash catching snowflakes.
It looks like nightime but really just dark forest with no sunshine. I love Gina's hand on hip pose. Really she's saying "snap it, I'm freezing just standing still."
that's Tall Tim. now that I look, those gals look pretty tall, too. The snowman was there waiting for us. I think Tony made it the day before.
Gina is looking colorful, next to Tony's Always Running van.
Some of the Always Running gang just before starting uphill.
Check out this waterfall.
The whole run was just beautiful. Of course, I only noticed it when I stopped. Otherwise I had to concentrate on putting my feet into the previous runners' footprints.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Aloha
mai tai's, please
gina points out the turtle
you can see it, can't you?
a beautiful view, of my feet and toes
I have a picture of this dude, from just about every year. He's getting balder, but he still does the cliff dive.We had a good time but "suffered" thru 4 days of rain. Yes, yes, at least it was a warm rain. But jeez. We did get to watch numerous sporting events on tv at the pool bar. And that is my kind of vacation.
More drumming
OK, I'm just delaying on writing anything.
But this is COOL ! of course, I'm a proud auntie.
Updated Drummer girl
so, the last video of Annalise drumming caused a bit of embarrassment, as it was from YEARS ago.... here is a more recent file clip of her and the Thousand Oaks H.S. drumline.
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