McComb Family

So while we were at my parents' house Saturday night, we decided to head down to L.A. the next day with my friend Angie. She had to go down to pick up her kids from her mom's house, so we thought we'd hitch a ride with her and hit Magic Mountain!!!
The kids were super excited...

They went on little roller coasters...

This was the best ride they went on....

....too bad they let them out at the end of the ride!!! : )

Adam the Engineer

One of the many water rides we went on (it was hot!!!).

Supermen (wow - look at those muscles)....

....and Supergirl.

But, by far, Brie's favorite thing to do (now that's she's over 48 inches!) was to go on the big roller coasters!!! She convinced me to go on Goliath with her (because nobody else would!!), and it was the tallest, fastest roller coaster I had ever been on in my life. She loved it!!! The last ride we went on was X2 (picture below), and it was WILD!! You know how all roller coasters start by going up, up, up and then dropping you straight down? Well, this one has you going up the hill backwards, so you have no idea when you will drop. Then it flips you around and the next drop has you going down head first straight towards the ground. I felt battered and bruised after that ride, but she got off with a huge grin on her face.

Being able to do all that made the Sunday - drive, Monday - Magic Mountain marathon, Tuesday - drive home all worth it!!!!!

Posted in: on Friday, July 17, 2009 at at 2:44 PM 2 comments  

This past weekend we celebrated my parents' anniversary with a little get together. Of course, it revolved around the pool, because where else would you find my mom on a summer day!!?
Brian and his friend had gone up to Ice House and caught crawdads to snack on at the party. Here are Brian and Adam preparing the pot to cook them in.

Here's their haul -- almost 50 pounds of crawdads!!! Adam thought they were awesome! He liked playing with them but not eating them!!

The final product!

Bret with his plate loaded. Good thing they caught enough for about 10 parties!!

The cousins -- a new generation of Kissinger cousins growing up!

Not only did I try my first crawdad, but I also had beer can chicken for the first time as well. Yum!!!

Bret and I just celebrated 12 years and that feels like a long time, but 40? Wow!!!!

Posted in: on at at 2:03 PM 2 comments  

My email has been restored -- happy days!!!!

If you've sent me something since 6/26 I probably didn't get it, but I should be good to go from here on out!!! Ah....the small joys of life!

Posted in: on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at at 4:24 PM 2 comments  

So I'm already frustrated with the whole IE8 thing, and now my email has been down for over a week!!!!! How's a girl to function without her email? It's been horrible!!

First Bret told me I had somehow messed up the settings. I don't think so!! Finally a couple of days later he looked at it for me, and...surprise, surprise...everything was set up correctly. It ends up the problem is with register.com who Bret has his domain name through. Apparently they have switched over to a new system, but not my email. That's right, his email works fine, it's just mine that doesn't work.

I got on the phone with them and was put through to the correct department with only a 25 minute wait on hold. Apparently I'm not the only one having a problem. They said they would look at my account and it would be fixed by Monday. I wasn't thrilled to hear it would be another 4 days before it was fixed, but I waited (somewhat patiently).

Guess what.....today's Monday and still no email. Bret called today and was put on hold for 45 minutes. Oooo...sounds like lots of pissed off people to me. He was told that my account is a "special case".

I'm not feeling so special.

You can always reach me at my junk email account at batons97@yahoo.com. However, hopefully this problem will be resolved SOON!!!

Posted in: on Monday, July 06, 2009 at at 8:31 PM 3 comments