Project Baby Blanket

Bopha here is the beginning of your baby blanket. I hope you like it:

I have a book with this pattern for a pillow that i really like (pictured below) and thought that it would be easy to turn into a baby blanket by making four "big" sqaures and grafting them together to be a baby blanket.

After much turmoil over deciding the colors to pick out, Shay and I decided on these for you.

I have almost finished one sqaure of the blanket and here is what it looks like as of now:

I had a minor set back that I correcteed so it shouldnt take me this long/square from now on out. I am trying to get it finished by my moms bday so Shay can take it back for you. I hope that you love it in the end and if you dont, just tell me and I will make another one for you. Have a good day and congratulations on new baby Madden!

Would you rather be a pregnant Children' Minister during the >100 degree temps of the summer...

...or would you rather have to drink your water like a cat?

Well if your name is Katie Isenberg, you would LOVE to do both!!!

A few weeks ago, some friends came over after church to play a rousing game of Skip Bo and Would You Rather?. If you have never played the latter, you should sometime. It is a really fun game for a big group of people (see blog post from our first introduction to this game last christmas here), but as we found out this night, it is kind of lame with just a few. But at least we got to see Katie act like a cat. And you can to by clicking on this video:

I only had to hold a spoon in my mouth for two turns, it wasnt as exciting as Katie!

Smiling Bill is gone forever!!!

Back in March, our owner decided to hire a temporary pharmacist, who we so lovingly called "rent-a-pharmacst" to fill in on Tuesdays. Little did I know that I would come to dread Tuesdays for the next two months. I never took a picture of him with my camera but here is a picture of exactly what he looks like:

Yes, that is Smiling Bob from the enzyte commercial. Now our pharmacists name was Bill but we have a Bob in the pharmacy so sometimes we accidentally called him Bob. And to make matters worse, this other guy would play the Enzyte commercial song everytime Smiling Bill would walk into the room for a few weeks. Bill carries his coffee like this, smiles like this, wears clothes and hair like this guy and creeped me out bigtime because he was as Seinfeld would put it, "a close talker and a loud talker" I thought I would never make it when he was here every day for a week straight. Everyday he would come in at 8:00 am with his coffee and talk in the one voice he knew how to use, his outside voice all day and ask me questions that I have already ansered like 17 jabillion times, but nonetheless, I did survive and now he is gone forever because we no logger are in need his assistance. Even though it is slow at work, it is a little more stress free because I dont have to fret Tuesdays anymore.

Ben Folds Concert!

Thursday after Memorial Day Weekend, Matt and I met Shay in Tulsa for the Ben Folds Concert at Cains Ballroom! I guess you could say we are super fans because it was my 5th time and Matt's 6th time to see them in concert. This time, we were not able to get there early so we didnt get front row. We had to settle for like 5th row or something. Front row is the best because you have the bar to lean on when you are old and tire easily like us AND there are no supertall people in front of you that you have to keep looking around to get a small window of view. This was Shay's view for the waiting period before it started. This guy was like about 2 inches away and kept waving his arms like a crazy man until it started, then he was uninterested...kind of opposite of what it should be.But none-the-less, we had a good time. They played some new stuff plus some old stuff we have never heard live before. AND, this was the first time he has had a whole band when we have seen him live. His original band split some time ago and for a while he toured solo. Then he added his bass player and drummer and now he has two other guys to play auxillary percussion. Here are a few pics and videos from that night.

Ben always plays the piano standing up at least 90% of the concert. I dont know why he even has a bench there. (I am not refering to him by his first name because I think we are bff or something, just because it seems weird to keep saying Ben Folds all the time)

And this guy sporting the T-town shirt from El Guapos, Jared, is the bass player. I got his guitar pic at the last concert. Seeing as how I cant play guitar, it is kind of useless but adds more to my concert memorabilia!

The guy in the back is one of the auxillary percussionists and he also played the french horn. When not playing anything, he just stood there and didnt sing or anything. It was kind of weird.

There was a guy at the concert who had been to 60 Ben Folds concerts so they took a special request from him, "Stephen's Last Night In Town" (an oldie) and Ben played the drums at the end of the song.
And finally, they always play "Not The Same" at the end in which Ben conducts the whole crowd from atop his really expensive piano. Shay took a few videos that were really cool but I cant get them to work right now so I will post those if I can fix the problem.

Well Its Been A While...

So here comes an update...

Well seeing as how I have been bad at blogging the last few weeks, I will spread my update out into several posts and start with the fact that I lost our new camera!!!!!!!!!!!! I am pretty sure it was yanked form my purse at Walmart one night but I cannot be for sure. I have been pretty bummed about that bc it was really nice and our old one just isnt as cool. Welp anyway, lets back way up to Memorial Weekend.

Matt and I took advantage of our 3-day weekend, packed up our stuff, lucy's stuff, and of course Lucy and made the 8 hour trek to H-town. Normally it doesnt take this long but this time I was doing some medication deliviries in Ardmore on the way . It actually ended up being pretty convenient because we got paid mileage for the trip to Ardmore and back plus extra cash for doing two after hours deliveries! Anyway, around 12:30 am we rolled into town.

On Saturday, we went to see the Astros get beat up on by the Rangers. No amount of rally caps would help them this time. At least it was an entertaining game though. The astros had a few home runs, as did the Rangers, but it just wasnt meant to be. I guess thats why they are LAST in their division and the Rangers are first in their division!

At the 7-inning stretch, they always have the crowd sing the Texas state song. Here are some of the lyrics for your enjoyment. If I was really computer savvy, I would have that song playing during the blog but I dont know how to do that.

And here we all are at the end of the game minus John. He had to take the picture :) John got us some great club level seats for the game.

Sunday afternoon, we went to Impact Church of Christ in downtown Houston area and served a meal to all the church members and several homeless people in the area. It is much like the City Rescue Mission here but supported by all the area churches of christ. It was fun to help and we got to see an old friend from OC that we were in band with, Patrick Lemmons. He is the college minister/Worhip Minister there.

Sunday night we played a new-to-me game called Fireball Island!! Apparently, they have had this game since the 80's we Matt and Deanna were kids. You basically roll dice and travel through caves, mountains, bridges, smoldering pits and rivers to get to the jewel and safely back to the end without losing the jewel or getting fireballed. The volcano-evil-dog thing can shoot out fireballs to get you and there are some others strategically placed around too. Its too bad I didnt bring that game home because it is pretty funny. If you want to know more, click here for a wikipedia article. In this picture, I was imitating the volcano-evil-dog thing in case you couldnt tell.

After some quick shopping on Monday, sadly we had to leave and return to our normal working lives on Monday. It was a fun time, although too short. Our trip wasnt complete without our second stop at the Dairy Queen Dog Park for Lucy in Ferris, TX and Jack-in-the-Box for dinner.