our first christmas “together.” here i’m getting down with the wrapping. what i lack in skill i make up for in amount of paper and tape used.
our misspelled stockings were hung by the chimney with care
so, we went down to satsuma for christmas. it was fun….especially for lillis since she got all kinds of presents and i got presents (like a smoker) that were also presents for her. see, i got a smoker b/c the last time we were down there, lillis remarked how much she liked the chicken off off the smoker. so, i guess that’s how it goes when you’re married.
on christmas afternoon we went over to my aunt’s house. she has an elaborate tiny village that would cover most of dauphin island if laid out end to end. here some imaginary kids play with a dog. and an imaginary dude carries home some last minute gifts.
lillis isn’t really this big…..remember it’s a tiny village
throwing the football is an important part of any of our holidays. literally, we typically spend about half the time in the backyard with ronnie and jeremy and i throwing the ball…..actually, it’s pretty much eat, throw football and watch tv. then you go home.
we stopped by the beach on the way back from my aunts. it was much warmer that it looks here…..but definitely no chance of a sunburn.
lil really is insistent that she’s gonna do a yoga pose everywhere we go. so far she’s done costa rica (twice), austin, st lucia, a new york subway and dauphin island……she’ll let me know if i left any places out.
back at the house, ronnie’s son matthew and i wrestle in the den. i was EXTREMELY tempted to set him loose in the tiny christmas village, but thought better of it.
oh yeah, the other thing we do down in satsuma is shoot fireworks. ronnie loves fireworks like marion berry loved crack. he spends unseemly sums of money every time he comes across the florida border. this year, it was WAY over the top. it was like a full on fireworks show. the only problem was, they were working on their “fire two at once” strategy, but a strong breeze and weak nerves kept thwarting their efforts.
anyway, it was a good christmas…..just spending a few days not doing much was nice.
then, for new years, lil’s parents came in town and we went to see cirque and spent some time traipsing about the city. we were very glad to be kicking of ’09 together and can’t wait to see what it has in store.
sooooo, i was able to convince john and stephen that it would be a good idea for us to spend a weekend out in the woods with no food and no hair dryers (more a concern for stephen than for me - and less so every day). we found our way up to the greater […]
we went to huntsvegas for our end of the season volleyball tourney with the tsunami club i've been working with. below are a few picks of my team (13 black). we had a tough opening day, but did manage to upset the #1 seed in the tournament on day 2 before bowing out.below, allie poses […]
i took a second trip to nicaragua in april. this time brent nix (the mystery 4th in our group) and john headed down as well. it was john's 3rd trip and we were taking a look at a couple of places that he had visited before as well as some new places that peter wanted […]
sorry, no pics for this one. soooo, Atlanta was hosting the inagural ING marathon on March 25th. several of my friends had been training for months, but i had been nursing a sore leg and had not jogged for about 2 months. for some reason my friends (most notably jason, drew and blake) thought it […]
well, i'm sure everyone was jonesin for an update on the fantasy baseball draft update. i know it's like a monkey on my back. well, we were very excited that our draft angel was still there this year and had not indeed been killed by the fans of the Dominican team last year. as you […]
soooo, i decided to wing on up to DC to check out the WHO at Verizon Center with my friends Jeff and Todd and my brother Jeremy. We had a pretty fun weekend there, highlighted by either the girl who claimed she had political asylum, or the one whose belt was "Hermes" (as i was […]
all apologies for my lateness in getting this post out. the lesson here? i'm a slackass. a special note, going forward, all blog pictures will be clickable. clicking them won't make you smarter, but it will increase the size of the photo. this service i supply to you free of charge.sooooo, stephen, jason and myself […]
soooo, as you may know (if YOU are indeed reading this, and it's entirely possible you're not) i am now coaching volleyball. i'm coaching a girls 13's team that plays out of Woodward. often times those practices are the highlight of my week. there's something really amazing about having 12 people scream your name every […]
i usually try not to really mention what i'm thinking here, as it is my general supposition that no one really cares, but today will be an exception. i'm not even going to pretend that any more than 3 people in america might find me insiteful, but i figured i'd just put it out here. […]
nothing really to tell here. drew and i went fishing. i caught my first bass (more of a fly fisherman, i am)you may remember my phat hat as being the same one i won for catching a barracuda on drew's bachelor party. it still looks every bit as good as it did the day i […]
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