This story has to be told

I ordered my "Christmas dress" from Ann Taylor online this week. It came today and it was TOO BIG! YAY! Officially a size 6!!! But that's not the story.

I called Ann Taylor to see if I could do an even exchange for a size 6. The guy on the phone was so nice. After he confirmed my address as being in Lubbock, he asked if I was at the Tech-Texas game last week. I said I SURE WAS! And so we talked Tech football and Crabtree and Harrell and Heisman. He said he watched it - in Cincinnati!!! He said it was the game of the year. Then I asked him if he was going to watch tomorrow and he said yes and he was pulling for the Red Raiders to go the whole way! I LOVE IT! I am making Red Raider friends all the way to Cincinnati by exchanging my Christmas dress. GO TECH!! GO B in a SIZE 6! (Sorry for the shameless self plug. I'm really excited!)

Happy Birthday, Meghan!

HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY, MEGHAN!!!
One can never have too many pictures with Raider Red!
And what birthday blog before this momentous RED RAIDER football game would be complete without a picture of Ruffin (I still LOVE that name) and Larry Brown??!!
How 'bout it Red Raiders, let's give Meghan a W for her birthday!
Hugs from Raiderland, girl!

Is he a Rock Star or The Count?

I know one day my son will hate me for this post, but it's too precious - and TOO PATRICK - not to. Please don't question my parenting for posting these pictures. Paul sent me these. Apparently Paddy busted out singing the old Spiderman cartoon song and rocked out with Paul's Guitar Hero guitar. Paul referrenced Risky Business. Yeah. That's my Paddy. I think I have my hands full. (Any one else see a little bit of Uncle Josh in these pictures?)






Last week in school they studied the letter Nn and noctural animals. And his obsession with bats started. Along with the #5 crab and the Double T scoreboard, Patrick has been coloring and cutting out bats. 11 to be exact. Eleven. Ah. Ah. Ah.

ATLC Basement Halloween Hauntings

I forgot to post the picture of me and my co-workers who dressed up.


And my favorite picture of Patrick on Halloween. This was 2005 - his 2nd Halloween. It's going to be hard to beat this costume. Ukulele and all. (He looks so little. Far cry from Luke Skywalker this year.)

How about those #2 RED RAIDERS

Spotted pic! Can someone tell me who is ERIC FISHER??!!

The scoreboard with the almost final score. I too distracted with the W to get the final!

Had to take a sec and tailgate with the fam

Post game at Crossroads with Averi

Me not necessarily hating Eric Fisher.

Halloween

Here is Paddy as Luke Skywalker. (You can tell by his green light sabre.)

We went to the Science Spectrum for their Spooky Science Carnival. He was all about the xylophone. He must have spent 15 minutes rocking out!
He loves riding these little cars.

On the way home, we stopped at Jenn and Eric's. He was sad Ava wasn't there. His sugar high crashed quickly. But not before he got a picture with Jennifer. I'm sad I didn't get a picture of Patrick's sign he made for Eric. I said ERIC FISHER HAS COOTIES! And had a picture of Crabtree. He was very intrigued by the smoke machine.

I made myself a shirt that said "Darth Momma" on the front and "Luke I am your mother" on the back. I am so proud of Kim for wearing the mail carrier costume! AWESOME!

Pumpkin time

We were a little late in picking out our pumpkins this year, so the most creative picture I could think of was to actually put Patrick IN the pumpkin bin. As a rambunctios 4 year old, he loved this!

He was acting like he couldn't get out. There was a bus load of elderly people there from a nearby assisted living facility who really thought he was in danger. So this of course, made him ham it up even more.
They really weren't impressed with me letting him stand on the pumpkins. But I thought this Camptain Morgan-esque pose was a must since he was wearing his pirate shirt.
Patrick's 2 jack-o-lanterns are the ones with faces. Mine is the Double T. Every year I try carving - or scarfing as Paddy says - a Double T and it never turns out right. This year a part fell off and it's being held on by a toothpick. Note to self for next Halloween - don't try carving another Double T even if it IS Tech-UT weekend. GO TECH!