McComb Family

Months ago I thought we couldn't possibly get sick anymore this year. I guess I was wrong....the kids now both have chicken pox. I can't believe it!!! They had the immunization, but knowing our luck that didn't stop them from getting them anyway! Being as next week is the last week of school, Briana is very upset about having to be out of school for several days! Looking on the bright side though, we are leaving for Disneyland next weekend so it's better for them to have it now than next week!! Could you imagine!? Sorry kids, no Disneyland, you have to stay home sick with the chicken pox -- yeah I don't think so!!!!

In other news, I survived 5th Grade Camp!!! Almost two weeks ago now we took all 60 +/- 5th graders down to Fort Bragg. We stayed at Van Damme State Park (a beautiful place to camp if anyone's interested!!) and visited Glass Beach. It was great fun, and I even tried abalone for the first time. One of my students went abalone diving with his dad and not only fixed it up for all of the kids Thursday night, but also went out again Friday morning and sent each of us teachers home with our own!!! I cooked it up for the family Saturday and it turned out mighty good if I do say so myself!! I'd love to go back again, but this time with about 58 less kids!!

And.....you'll never believe this, but while I was gone, yes, the chicks got wiped out again! Thank goodness it wasn't on my watch this time!!!! So, we're now on our third batch! I told Bret we should take the hint and realize we shouldn't try raising chickens. I think the dogs are starting to think we replaced their normal dog food with chicks! Yikes!

Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend. We sure did with all kinds of fun parties and BBQs going on. Unfortunately we probably exposed people left and right! Whoops! ; )

Posted in: on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at at 4:47 PM 0 comments  

We finally got organized enough to have a belated birthday party for Adam. Okay, it wasn't that organized....I was still calling people to invite them on Thursday!!! I did buy the invitations about a month ago, too bad they are still sitting here in the package unopened. Maybe we'll use them next year! : ) The kids had a picnic out on the driveway -- good thing it's paved now, that wouldn't have been too nice on dirt!

Then we had cake and ice cream. I made the cake and asked Adam if he wanted a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. "No! Locolate!" He definitely knows what he wants. (Not that he always gets it, I made a marble cake!)

Then we opened presents. He was a happy boy!!! Nothing like stretching a birthday into a birthmonth!! : )

Posted in: on Monday, May 14, 2007 at at 8:58 PM 1 comments  

Adam's birthday dinner was sadly interrupted by Kayla breaking into the garden area and getting all the chicks. : ( So, if anyone is looking for a new dog I think Bret has one to give away!!!



The next day or so we came home to find 6 new chicks back in the tank. Needless to say he's a little overprotective of these now. So he wasn't too happy when one of them got soaking wet and trampled by the other chicks. I came in to find it laying on the bottom of the box Briana had put them in to carry around ("Just in case we want to take them camping." Whatever that means.). I called Bret in and he took all the chicks out of the box, and I thought we'd be going out to bury the last little guy. Somehow Bret brought the thing back from death's door. He put it under the heater and blow dried its feathers. It's now running around with the other ones like nothing ever happened. Crazy! These chicks are turning out to be way too much work!!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at at 6:01 PM 1 comments  

Today Adam turned 3 and he was a happy boy! "Me the birthday boy!!!" He brought M&M cookies to school today to share with his friends. They made him a crown to celebrate his special day. Then tonight we ended up having an unplanned "party". Here are a few pics of the big event!

Posted in: on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at at 9:21 PM 1 comments