McComb Family

Adam's school had their annual Christmas party again. We all went, but Bret and I had to promptly leave in order to go to my staff holiday party at the Hindquarter House. Grandma and Uncle Brian took over with the kids. They ate dinner, did their little story (Adam was a mouse and Briana was a snowflake), sang songs, and visited with Santa and Mrs. Claus. I only saw part of the eating (Adam of course cut right to the front of the line!!). Here are a few pictures from the rest of the evening. Adam got a set of Hot Wheels from Santa and Briana got a miniature Operation game pen. They were both quite happy with what they got!! : )

Posted in: on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at at 7:12 PM 0 comments  

Last Saturday we bought an early Christmas present for the family -- a puppy!!! We weren't quite ready to give her to the kids yet though, so she lived up in our bathroom for a few days. We got our tree Monday night and started decorating Tuesday. As soon as we got lights and a couple of ornaments on, we told the kids we had an early present for them. They went up to get pajamas on, and we put her under the tree. Here it is....

Needless to say, Briana was quite excited. We've named her Kiah, and she's quite a cutie!! Here are a few other pictures.

Posted in: on Saturday, December 08, 2007 at at 11:51 AM 5 comments  

We ended up spending Thanksgiving at Cindy's this year. That is.....me and the kids did. Bret stayed home to fix the hot water heater which hadn't been working since Tuesday. Not only did we not have hot water, but we also didn't have heat. Of course that was the week when temperatures were down in the 30s with highs in the 50s. Burrr!! Long story short -- Bret tore the thing apart ($4000 for the replacement wasn't looking too good), missed Thanksgiving, and it ended up we were out of propane. Whoops! Anyways, Thanksgiving dinner was excellent. Kevin cooked the meal, and it put every meal I've ever cooked to shame. I asked him what kind of dressing was on the salad thinking I could go buy a bottle of it, and when he started talking about taking orange juice and adding this and that and flambeing it, I knew it was way out of my league!!! It was nice getting together with the Joneses.

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Thought I'd finally put Adam's school pics on the blog. My new class has been keeping me busy. I am definitely busier now than I was in my old position. It's been great, but I have less time now for things I'd like to do (like update my blog!!). And things will only be getting crazier, because in a week I will go from being a K/1 class to being a 1/2. Ahhhhhh! I'm losing my mind! : ) Anyway, here they finally are. Hope you enjoy them. We thought they were pretty cute.

Posted in: on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at at 2:45 PM 1 comments  

Posted in: on Monday, November 12, 2007 at at 7:55 AM 0 comments  

Briana is officially ready for Halloween now that she has lost her third tooth!!! She was a little excited about it!!! When she could twist the tooth around and smile at you with the back of the tooth showing, we knew it was time for it to be pulled!!

Adam being sick will put a little damper on trick-or-treating tonight. : ( Bret's planning to stay home with Adam and I will take Briana up to Georgetown. We are meeting some of her friends up there and will go with them. Should be fun. Too bad our little Spiderman will miss the festivities.

Hopefully my class is doing okay today. I hated to be gone today on Halloween of all days, but you've got to do what you've got to do!! Poor sub! I've really been enjoying my new class, but it's a huge amount of work. Good thing my energy's back up or I never would have made it past the first week!!!

Here's a little sneak preview of the kids' costumes. I'll try and post some trick-or-treating shots later. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at at 10:35 AM 1 comments  

The kids and I went down to Wilton yesterday and went to the pumpkin patch with Barb. The first place we stopped at had lots of animals, things to play on, and of course, a tractor/hay ride. They loved the baby goats (6 week old twins) and climbing the trees. We even got to have our very own private hay ride - lucky us!! All the other trailers were full of people, but we chose a time when nobody else showed up!! It was actually not nearly as crowded as I would have expected either. Maybe most people actually went before the last weekend before Halloween! : )

We then went to another place that had a corn field maze. I had never actually been in one before, so it was a lot of fun. They kids had fun going every which way trying to find our way to the end. They said it was about "8 miles" long!!

Which way should we go??
They can't wait for Halloween. We will go up to Georgetown again, which was a lot of fun last year. We went to a Halloween party last night, so they broke in their costumes. More pics to come soon!! Hope everyone has a spooktacular Halloween too!

Posted in: on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at at 3:25 PM 3 comments  

Tomorrow I start my new position as a kindergarten/first grade teacher. I said good-bye to my 200+ students and will meet my 20 students in the morning! I can't wait!! Of course, this weekend has been work overload. I spent from 8 o'clock yesterday morning until 6 o'clock last night moving stuff out of my old room and working in my new room. I was back there again for 4 or 5 more hours this morning, plus doing planning and curriculum here at home. Yikes! I'm beat and the work week hasn't even started yet!! : ) I talked with one of the subs I had while I was gone for my treatment who will be taking over for a while in my old spot. He said he's dubbed that position the "Iron Man Position". He completely understands why I've taken the opportunity to move to another teaching position! I hope it's a great move for me. I'll keep you all posted about how it goes.

Posted in: on Sunday, October 07, 2007 at at 4:01 PM 2 comments  

The big news a couple of weeks ago was Briana's first loose tooth. She finally lost it last Thursday morning, and was so excited she took it to school to show it off. Of course, she ended up losing it (I guess you could say a second time!!!) at school. Luckily the tooth fairy was very understanding when Briana wrote her a letter about what had happened and that it would never happen again. She still got a dollar under her pillow! And then yesterday, she lost her second tooth while she was at school. It did end up making it's way home and under her pillow last night! Very exciting!! (And very good timing.....she's looking like a jack-o-lantern. We're going to put her out on the front porch!)

Posted in: on Friday, September 21, 2007 at at 9:36 AM 1 comments  

After 2 weeks of being gone, the doctor finally gave the okay for me to return home. Yea!!! It's so great to be back. As most everybody knows I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in July. I received my radioactive iodine treatment on September 6th and had to be sequestered from everyone until my radiation levels went down. Thanks to the geiger counter Stacie lent me, I can say for certain that I was shooting off those beta particles like crazy the first week or so. I stayed out in my "isolation rooms", which were all decked out thanks to my parents. They had magazines, flowers, TV, cards, food, and all kinds of other things that helped make my stay a little bit more tolerable! Of course they liked to give me a bad time as much as they could too. Here are signs in the bathroom were I was allowed to shower!


I sure missed my email, internet, satellite TV, and all the comforts of home. I did not however miss work much!!! I got caught up on my reading for the next 5 years!! My body scan came back clear, and I got to start my thryoid meds yesterday, so I'm finally on my way back to "normal".

Posted in: on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at at 10:20 AM 0 comments