McComb Family

By 6:45 this morning, I'd already had 4 phone calls letting me know today was a snow day. Yea!! The snow started coming down pretty good last night about 6:00 or so. It would have been great if we could have stayed home and enjoyed it, but we were supposed to be at Dennis' at 7:00 for Robb's birthday dinner. My mom came up for her weekly Tuesday visit, and since she has AWD and I don't, we took her car. We finally made it to Dennis' driveway (which is extremely steep) after poking along a road that was completely white with snow. We made it up the driveway a bit and then the tires started spinning. She tried backing down but kept sliding. Luckily she had some cat litter in the car and we used that to help get traction. She made it up about halfway as I'm running along side the car (yeah, that's a visual for you!) and then went off the side of the driveway into the mud. Bret had to finally come and pull us up the rest of the way. (Thank goodness for cell phones!!) Needless to say my mom was not a happy camper.....especially considering the day before she was laying on a beach in Mexico working on her tan!! This morning we only have a dusting left, but the kids don't care. Here is a picture of Briana making a snow ball and then throwing it at the sliding door we were looking out of. Hope everyone else enjoys their day today. I know we're going to!!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at at 8:24 AM 0 comments  

I know, I know....it's been forever!!! I actually have a draft of a post that I haven't been able to publish because I can't upload any pictures to it. It tells all about the changes that have been happening over at the other house, but you can't see any them! Since the last time I put pictures of it on, we've insulated, sheetrocked, textured, and now painted, as well as had the outside stuccoed. It definitely looks like a house now and not just a construction project. The reason I can't upload pictures now is that Bret put all this stuff on the computer (firewall, spam-blocker, etc.) to make it safer, and now it's so safe I can't do the stuff I want to do. Hopefully I'll figure out a way around it soon.

The other reason I haven't been online for the past month or so is that I've been sick almost the entire time. It started out as some viral flu thing, then had strep, then tonsilitis. They finally found an antibiotic that started to work (third one was a charm!!), but then I had an allergic reaction to it and developed a rash over my entire body. The worst part was having it on the bottom of my feet - yikes!!! They put me back on the second antibiotic and I had the same reaction, so I ended up off all antibiotics. I had no voice for 3 weeks, which I'm sure my students thought was a great thing!! Now I have pink eye in both eyes so I'm home again. My doctor recommended, since it's highly contagious and I have 135 students today, that I not contaminate all of them. What a party pooper!! : ) Hopefully this will be the last of the "gunk" I get this year, but as soon as I think that....it's something else! We'll just have to wait and see!

Hope you're all well and healthier than we've been this year! I'll try and post again before another month goes by!!!!!

Posted in: on Friday, February 23, 2007 at at 1:20 PM 0 comments  

This is the post that has been sitting as a draft since I don't remember when. Bret finally figured out how to get this back working. Yea!!! So I've added some pictures and I'll now be able to post it!!

It's been a long time since I've posted, because I've been sick for weeks and just haven't been on the computer for any length of time (and with dial-up, posting all these pictures takes a great length of time!!!!). I figured it was finally time though.

So, since the last time I've posted, the garage has been sheetrocked.

The house has also been insulated.

And it has been sheetrocked as well!

Finally, here is Briana in "her" bathroom. She's a little excited! She will be so disappointed if we end up not moving over there!!

Since I've taken these pictures the house has been stuccoed as well. I haven't seen it yet, but Bret says it looks great. When I see it and get pictures I'll post those as well. Things are really starting to move along. Bret says I'm holding things up now because we're at the point where cupboards need to be picked out and appliances bought - all the things I'm in charge of. Guess I better get my act together - if I could just ever get well!

Posted in: on Sunday, February 04, 2007 at at 6:06 PM 0 comments