McComb Family

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  

It has gotten quite chilly around there the last few days. The highs have been in the upper 30s and low 40s. Not real pleasant weather for being outside. We started to head into town today and thought I should get a picture of the pond before it starts warming up (if it ever starts warming up!!). The waterfall is still running but it's covered with icicles. And the pond is pretty much frozen over. The fish are all huddled together on the bottom with a nice solid layer of ice covering the whole thing. I think we might get out the ice skates this weekend. : )

Posted in: on Saturday, January 13, 2007 at at 2:08 PM 1 comments  

Well, it's finally here. Monday afternoon Bret got the call that his car was in. That meant the kids and I got to drive him down to Roseville to pick it up. Needless to say....he's a happy boy!!! Last night he took me out to dinner so that I could ride in it for the first time. He even let me drive it home! : ) Yeah, a ticket is not far in his future!! He he!!

Posted in: on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at at 5:34 PM 0 comments  

My Gramma turned 80, so Sunday we had a surprise party for her down in the Bay Area. It was a lot of fun to see family I hadn't seen for quite some time (and others that it hadn't been that long!!). She was very surprised which means we all pulled it off.

Here is Adam helping Gramma open her presents. What a helper!!

While we were heading that direction anyway, we decided to go down a day early and hang out in Half Moon Bay. We first stopped in Pacifica and wandered around the beach a bit. It was a gorgeous afternoon - no fog or wind. How often does that happen!?!

We stayed in a hotel for the night. You would have thought it was the first time we had ever stayed in one. The kids were sooooo excited. They jumped on the bed, wrestled, and ran around like crazy people.

I took them to my old hangouts. We also stopped by my Elementary School (boy has it changed) and my high school (some changes there too!). It was a fun weekend although it made it all the harder to go back to work Monday after two weeks off. We've almost made it through the first week. Only one more day to go!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at at 9:14 PM 0 comments  

It's a new year, so I thought I would give my blog a new look. Nothing like a little change now and then. I hope everyone had an enjoyable, safe New Year's Eve. We stayed home so that made it easy. Our friends David and Shannon came over (and of course the boys too), and we had a very nice evening. The kids outlasted all the rest of us!! I don't know how they do it. I was pretty proud of myself for staying up so late, especially knowing Adam (who was the one kid that went to bed early) would be waking me up early, pulling the covers off, saying "It's light - get up". Right now that's not too bad because the days are so short. He better not still be doing this in the summer though! : )

We're looking forward to 2007 and the adventures that await us. We'll be sure to post our more memorable moments here. Wishing you all a happy new year as well!!!

Posted in: on Monday, January 01, 2007 at at 1:26 PM 1 comments  

Needless to say, he had a nice birthday. Before I post this I'll try and include a picture of Adam's bed, since it didn't quite make it on last time. Hope everyone is having an enjoyable holiday!!

Posted in: on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at at 11:54 AM 0 comments  

Friday was my first day off , so needless to say, Bret and I did a marathon shopping day on Friday (with kids in tow no less) and then again on Saturday because we weren't quite done. Saturday we split up so we could double time it (somehow I'm the one who ended up with the kids though - how did that work out?!!!). That left Sunday for a full day of wrapping. We also had to wait for the kids to fall asleep because we gave Adam a new bed for Christmas, so we couldn't have them still up while we set it up. I finally went to bed about 1 am, woke about at 4 to make sure Bret was going to take the trash out and finish wrapping his last few things. Back asleep about 5, then up at 6:30 or 7 to put film in the camera and be ready for when they got up. Adam patiently waited until 7 to get up. Briana didn't want to get up until he reminded her it was Christmas, and then all of a sudden she shot right up!!! Funny how that works.

This is the kids with the presents Santa left under her tree in her room. Adam had slept in there with her so we could set up his room! They opened these and then we moved downstairs. Brian had come up the night before so he spent Christmas morning with us.

It was a whirlwind of present opening!

And finally....here is Adam's new bed. He's in a full size bed now. The toddler bed didn't last long. He's really into trucks, so that's what is on his bed. It's very cute!!!

Well, I've tried 3 times to upload pictures to finish this post off, and 3 times it hasn't worked. For as long as it takes me to try and upload one picture....this is killing me!!!! I NEED HIGH SPEED INTERNET!!! This will have to do as is! : ) Sorry no pics of the bed. Maybe next time.

Posted in: on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at at 11:56 AM 0 comments  

Adam's school had a Christmas party (okay, so it was a couple of weeks ago....and I'm just now getting around to posting pictures of it!!!). Anyway, it was a very nice evening. They read stories, played games, ate dinner (and lots of yummy desserts - especially Briana. Everytime I turned around, she had another one!!), sang songs, and the grand finale was a visit by Santa and Mrs. Claus. I got a picture of the two kids on Santa's lap.

They were passing out gifts, so Briana got a Barrel of Monkeys and Adam got a truck (how did Santa know?!). Of course, he had to try it out right away.

While Miss Susan read "T'was the Night Before Christmas" they came out as different parts of the story. Here comes a little reindeer!!!

And finally, here is Adam with his girlfriend Addy and a couple of his friends. As you can tell from the picture, he's one of the youngest kids there but they don't seem to mind. All the kids (and teachers) call him "Cutie Pie" and just love him to pieces. One of the dad's at the party told me his son has to bring two of everything that he brings to school - one for him and one for Adam. Too cute!!! : )

Posted in: on Saturday, December 23, 2006 at at 6:13 PM 0 comments  

So, it's been a while since I've posted anything, so I thought it was about time. Things have been busy as usual. Report cards went out this week, which means I was very busy last week getting grades done for all 220 or so of my students. That's always a fun time of the year. Oh, did that come out sacrcastically?! Oops!! I really mean....I love my job. Yeah, that's it. I've also been coaching a Lego Robotics team twice a week so that's been taking up my time as well.

Of course, all of that work is sometimes a welcome respite from home. You just never know what these two will do. For example, the other day Briana decided she would teach Adam how to do ballet. In order to do so, you of course need the right outfit. So, this is what Briana came up with.....

I'm sure the kid is probably scarred for life. I dread thinking about the therapy bills that will be in our future!! : )

Then there's always the wonderful things Adam comes up with. I was IMing Ken and Helen in Australia tonight and all of a sudden Adam walks in with a sheet of glass about a foot wide and slightly taller than he is. This seems like a situation that could go bad very quickly. Where does he even get this stuff? It's like he's attracted to all things that he shouldn't have or do. Since I took the glass from him, of course he had to go find something else to do. So, being the helpful boy that he is, he decides to clean out the fireplace for us. Normally that would be nice to have the ashes cleaned out so that we could start a fire, but when a 2 year old is doing it, it's not always as nice as one would have hoped. He actually did a pretty good job, but we won't let him know that. Don't want to give him any ideas. (Like he needs any from us, he comes up with plenty of his own.)

Posted in: on Friday, December 01, 2006 at at 7:35 PM 0 comments