Jimmy Buffett-4/25/09

Fins UP! I've been listening to Jimmy Buffett since I was born probably. My fondest memory is driving through Pompano beach in my dad's Datsun listening to the Volcano song. I just loved it. Well now some 30 years later I still love it just like I did then. I've fortunately seen Buffett in concert now about 6 times. Every show is amazing and this one we attended this past weekend had to have been my absolute favorite. The show isn't always about the music, although this time he really seemed to play all the old favorites with a few newer songs mixed in. Most importantly we had the most amazing group of people go with us and truly savored every moment.

First, my best friend Michele (been friends since 2nd grade) came down from GA for the weekend just to see Buffett with us. Then my awesome neighbors (Dave, Curt, Scott and Joanie, Scott's cousin David and his wife Rosa) came as well. And some friends of ours from the military base (Ken, Molly, Pam, Amity, Tim and some others)came along and finally some of my friends from school (Dan, Lucy, Casey and Marissa) joined us. The tailgate party was so much fun, all these people from all different walks of life came together and acted like old buddies. It was so great, words just don't express how incredible it was.

First picture: Che, Court, Michele

Second picture: Dave, Jo and Scott

Third picture: Curt and Dave

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1: Pam and Che

2: Tim

3: Tim's wife and Molly (Ken's wife)

4: Ken

5: Ken, Che and Dave

6: Michele and Che

7: Scott, Dave G., and Curt

8: Casey, Lucy, Marissa

9: Dave, Che, Court and Pam

THEN there was the show. I just love all his songs, the words so simple but mean so much. Oh I can't wait until next time. For all those who went with us, you're all amazing people and I'm so happy to have enjoyed this day with you. Until next time....FINS UP!

Ice Skating 4-19-09

Today we went to Sarah's (Madison's friend) birthday at the Ice Forum. I can't believe we've never been there! We all had so much fun skating. The place had two rinks, one was free skate and the other was hockey. So when you were tired of skating, you go watch hockey. Great fun. Will definitely have to look for something like this in San Antonio.

The weekend

I've realized that doing a blog is something I don't exactly have a lot of time for. I'm gonna do my best, but I think it will (for now) be weekend postings. With a full time job, kids, dogs, house...there goes my week.
Anyway, nothing too exciting happening this weekend, which is nice. Most likely we'll get together with neighbors, as usual. They're great people, we always have fun together.
Our big news of the week is that Che finally got his orders. In June we're moving to San Antonio, TX. Randolph AFB here we come! We've not heard great things about base housing, so we are looking at rentals in the area. We still have our house here that we are going to rent out to some friends. Crazy times ahead! ttfn!

Easter 2009

Happy Easter!! We had a wonderful relaxing day, enjoyed good food and time with family.

The kids are at that age where they know who the easter bunny is and all the other mythical gift givers out there. But I still make up baskets for them, even Angie (18) got one. After the baskets Mike, Madison and I dyed the eggs. They had so much fun with this. They even named them and proceeded to play with the eggs like they were action figures. Before I knew it they had light sabers and play horses for their eggs. It was so funny.

After some good egg adventures with "Sarge" and "Eggy" and the others, we peeled them and made Che's favorite, deviled eggs. YUM!

My parents came up from Bradenton and had a fantastic lunch with us, (ham, mashed taters, carrots and cake) and then we all layed around in a food coma. Max being the spoiled rotten dog that he is got the ham bone. Tink got some too, don't worry we didn't leave her out! Great day!

Spring Break April 2009

Spring Break finally arrived. We took a weekend trip to Disney. We had previously bought 5 day passes and still had 3 days left to use up. So with spring break ahead of us we decided to sneak away. We went on Friday night (April 3), stayed near Old Town as usual. Saturday we went to Animal Kingdom and really had a great time. We spent much of the day checking out all the animal exhibits. The last two times we've been we hit the rides, so it was nice to see that Animal Kingdom actually has animals, go figure.

That evening we went over to Old Town for dinner and met up with Dick Forney. We have known each other since birth I believe, but haven't seen each other since middle school. So that was nice to catch up.

Sunday we went to Epcot. Che hasn't been there in about 10 years, so it's changed a bit since then. This month is a flower festival so it was very neat to see the character designed bushes, and they had a butterfly garden, very cool. Test track is the greatest ride, we all loved it. The Nemo ride and aquarium is also very cool. And Epcot just isn't complete without lunch in Germany, love those giant Becks!

Monday, Che and Mike headed home while Madison and I had girls day at Magic Kingdom. That place is NUTS! We got there right when it opened and were able to ride thunder mountain and splash mountain each twice. Don't let her scared face in the photo fool you, she's a ham and absolutely loved the roller coasters. We went on haunted mansion, jungle cruise and pirates. By the time we did all that it was lunch time (we did more than I thought we'd be able to do). We got in line for Peter Pan, took an hour! After that, we were pretty done, had lunch, shopped, saw the parade and drove home. It was nice to just be with her for the day, but the park was bananas by noon. I have no desire to go there again any time soon. That's it so far! Easter is around the corner, more to come then.

That was the bulk of our spring break, the rest of the week has been spent painting, cleaning, fixing the house, relaxing. We'll spend tomorrow eve with neighbors (seafood fest, yum) and Easter with my parents.