It’s been nice to have my parents here the last two weeks.  They flew down here to meet there new grand kids.  I’m glad they were able to come since travel is so expensive these days.  Originally we were going to fly up on Thanksgiving but only 4 days.  But now we got to see them for 14 days which sure beats out 4 any day.

Now the first part of there stay I want to blame them for the weather as it was non stop cloudy and rainy.  Then the day we went to the Texas State Fair the rain stopped (but remained cloudy and cool) then a couple days later the sun reappeared until this morning.  Back to a full day of rain it looks like.  Oh well that’s OK cause we have had our fun and their trip is almost complete.

We will miss them come Saturday afternoon.  Next time will be in the Summer, most likely in June.

It’s unbelievable really.  We have been so busy the past few months.  Soccer started back in full force.  Then we got news that we were selected as 1 of 2 families to adopt two boys (Brothers).  One week went by and we were selected as the adoptive family.  So after reading many, very many pages of case files we took a leap of faith and said yes to adopt these 2 boys.  They are 3 and 8.  It’s so awesome! 

However it was or has been a lot of work to prepare for this.  Tonight will mark the first week that we have had them.  Yes it’s a hard adjustment from being a married couple with tons of time on our hands to having two boys and no time on our hands, but it is and will be worth it, the remainder of our life.

We love them…

So now that things are settling into place, I hope to update this more often and have stories to tell about our mis-adventures of our new family…

I know it’s been a long time since I have been wanting a new TV.  You know one of those awesome, nice, bright, hdtv’s.  Well two weeks ago I finally got one.  I did some side jobs to earn the  $$ for it and my wife agreed that it was a good idea to upgrade.  I was finally happy to get rid of that HUGEboat anchor that we use to watch.  Although we have thought about it, we did not mount this to the wall.  I think might in the future but for now, it’s happily sitting on top of a new tv stand/entertainment system.

I actually wish we would have searched for some mounts prior to this and skipped the whole step of waiting to determine what we wanted and that way we could have just mounted it. Either way right now I’m happy and have a great picture. Now to convince someone to get me a surround sound system and a Blu-ray player for the upcoming holidays…

I really want a vacation.  But with some family changes that just took place this might be some time before I get to go anywhere.

I have always wanted to go see a different part of the country.  Often when you do plan for a vacation a lot of people tend to think of sun and beaches but over look some of the other destinations.  I was doing some checking and ran across this place in Tennessee.  Gatlinburg vacations in the Tennessee mountains, looks like it has a lot to offer.  I think it would be fun to take a road trip over there.  From North Texas it cannot be too bad of a drive.

After going over all of the attractions and things to do, I want to make sure that I keep this on the radar so when we can actually take a road trip I will remember this place.

It’s almost that time of year again.  Yep back to school.  My wife is a teacher and after having the entire summer off she is not ready to get back to the daily grind.  I always remind her that I continue to work every day and she should be really lucky to have a few months off in the summer time.

I think in about 2 weeks she has to start going back daily to get her classroom ready.  She will need to dust and clean.  Get the textbooks organized and ready.  And then she will have to put on the final touches when she gets the list with kids names on them.

I think she is going with her Frog theme again this year.  It was really cool last year.  I know her mom is coming down to help her which she loves and I’m sure I will pitch in at least one night to help out.

I actually cannot believe it’s been this long..  I have been rather busy and there has been a lot going on this last month.  I have a lot to write about just don’t have a lot of time lately.

Here is a small list of things:

* Soccer season just started
* Weekend getaway to Fredericksburg, tx
* Trying to adopt a child

Over the next day or two I will post some write ups on these things..

At times I can have a lot of things going on.  Some things I can forget about and some I wait and procrastinate and wait till the last minute.  But last night despite the busy schedule I finally said forget it.  I grabbed my iPhone and put some music into my ears and just sat back and relaxed.  It was pretty nice.  I really don’t do that enough I think.

The last couple of weeks have been really long.  For starters my wife left on Thursday 11th to head up and help her mom take care of her dad during back surgery.  I know that took a lot out of her.  I think she is actually coming home today.  I hope so, I miss her.  We missed her birthday and our 8th Anniversary.  I love you Leslie…  We have had lots of soccer practices lately and in this heat it can wear you out.

A couple times I have tried to go out and do some clothes shopping, but wow I will be honest I hate it.  Not to mention things are just so expensive.  Maybe if I wouldn’t have bought the new iPhone it wouldn’t be so bad after all.

And finally, work is work after all.  I’m trying to get mentally prepared for a few big projects that might be coming up in the next few weeks.  Although I did want to start these back in March, it has taken this long to get what we needed configured on the hardware side and to get some good deals going.  For those who know IT work, we are getting ready to switch over to VMware on a blade server.  And I also have to get a new backup server prepped and ready to go and last but not least, learn server 2008 and exchange 2007 so we can migrate our existing email system.

See a lot going on huh?  Not to mention that I seem to need about 1 hour a night to play WoW.  I’m up to level 33 now.  Still a long ways to go to hit 80 and be elite like the others…  hehehe

It says it all really.  Everyone where you turn there are more and more diet aids.  They just stand out like there is no tomorrow.  Top Diets, Super Pills, best diet pills, etc. They are in stores, commercials, TV, news papers. Wow just all over. You would think with all this there would some type of peer pressure. hehe. Oh well what can you do right.

It feels like the sun around here lately.  Just more and more.  Lately it’s been really hot here, and usually we don’t see this hot weather till mid july.  They are forecasting a high of 102 tomorrow with a heat index of 105..  Yikes..!  As I type this and its’s roughly 940pm, it’s still 92 out.!!!   Just crazy.  Why did I move here again?  LOL…

Anyone else have something they see over and over again, or more and more…?  I would like to hear about it..

So I decided to drop some cash Friday and buy the new iPhone.  This is my first time owning one and so far I’m pretty impressed.  Although I knew it would outshine my POS Windows Tilt phone.  So I went with a 32gb iPhone 3G s..

Today I decided to check out the video function on the phone and I like it..

Here is a clip I took and uploaded to you tube right from the phone:

This is Mazzie our Rat Terrier..

I still have a lot to learn about the phone but I think it was the best phone buying decision ever..!!
Well minus the part of telling everyone on the planet your new number!

It’s Friday, that’s for sure.  I’m thankful that it’s Friday.  Looking back on this week, I cannot believe how the US men’s soccer team is playing lately.  Some reason (I’m not sure how) they are still in the world cup qualifier.  I guess it could be because some of the other teams are not very good.  But when I was watching the Costa Rica game, wow we looked horrible.  Now the Confederations Cup is moving forward and here we are sitting at 0-2.  We lost to Italy 1-3 and of course Italy is the World Champions so at least we scored right?  But what’s this…..   Egypt beats Italy yesterday 1-0.. oh boy that makes us look really good.    Also yesterday we lost to Brazil 0-3.  So here we are sitting in Group B in last place with 0 points and a -5 goal differential.

Sunday we play against Egypt.  I really hope these guys are resting or doing whatever they need to do to hopefully win something in this cup.  Rest, take their top diet pills, swim, I don’t know.  But they better figure it out.  Or this will be an embarrassing Confederations cup and a more embarrassing World Cup next year.