McComb Family

Halloween must be around the corner, because the other night we got home, came inside, and heard some noises. Whooooooo whooooooooo!! We looked around, thought we might need to call Ghostbusters, but finally found Adam under the cushions of the couch making those noises, whew....close call!!!

Then we spotted a witch. She looks pretty friendly, but you can never be sure. She's liable to take your leg off or turn you into a frog for all we know.

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We finally got our landscaping plans back and decided to see if we could start the project this weekend. Bret rode around on the tractor and I moved rocks - yeah, I definitely need to learn how to drive the tractor!!! I decided I would go cut out underbrush to clear out the trees and bushes we are keeping instead. Decked out in jeans, shoes, socks, and shirt with trimmers in hand I tackled the brush until I'd get close to poison oak and then move on to the next one. No need to tempt fate - I can look at poison oak and get it. Which must have happened because the next day I woke up with it on my lower leg/ankle area. How is that possible - I was completely covered up?!?! I LOATHE THAT STUFF!! And Bret thinks it's so beautiful we should keep it around the yard. Brilliant idea dear!

Posted in: on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at at 5:48 PM 1 comments  

This is a fun little thing to do to see which words you use most in your writing. This is the Wordle for my most recent posts. You can do one too at this site.

Posted in: on Friday, September 19, 2008 at at 9:51 PM 0 comments  

All of the kids' soccer games are at the District Office Field in Georgetown. They also both play at exactly the same time every single week. It's kind of like watching a tennis match. Anyway, they play:

9/20 9:00
9/27 10:15
10/4 11:30
10/11 10:15
10/18 9:00
10/25 11:30
11/1 10:15
11/8 9:00

Hope to see you there!!!

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We have now officially started our soccer season - the kids played their first games this weekend. Here is Adam's team getting ready to kick off.
Unfortunately they have changed the way the Under-6 division works. It used to be that the field was divided into two smaller fields with two 3 on 3 games going on at the same time. Now they have just the one field and it's 5 on 5, which means it's now "blob soccer". All 10 players run around after each other and hopefully someone is trying to kick the ball, sometimes in the right direction, sometimes not!! It is pretty entertaining at least!
Briana's game is a little more competitive, with goalies and actual positions they have to play. I guess they kicked bootie last week, but the team this week was TOUGH!! Here's Brie in the game with Bret looking on.
And the team huddle at the end, just reminding them that they tried hard even though they didn't win this time!! Some of them take it very personally! : ) Can you spot my little midget?

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The kids have their first soccer game this weekend (they actually missed the first one last weekend while we were at the wedding, so it's their first game). So all you locals (and those who don't mind a little drive) can come cheer them on Saturday at 11:30 in Georgetown. Both kids play at the same time, so it'll be like a tennis match, but at least we won't be there ALL day long!! Hope to see you there!! : )

Posted in: on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at at 8:37 PM 1 comments  

This weekend we enjoyed the festivities of the Johnson-Rodriguez wedding. I headed out Friday morning after getting my sub plans in order, dropping the kids off, and then having to pick up my dress (nothing like stressing me out to the last second!!). We hung out with the local teenagers at Safeway (oh my gosh -- was that really us 20 years ago?), had our nails done, did the rehearsal practice, and then dinner. Everything was great and it was fun to be back in good ol' HMB!



Then the next day was the wedding. All of us girls went and had our hair done before the ceremony and then headed back over the hill to get ready. I still had to wrap the gifts, finish my speech (yes, I said speech - proof is down below), get the kiddos and myself ready. Yikes! It was a beautiful spot to get married and perfect weather. How often does that happen on the coast? Not often. In a word, it was.....perfect!



Here is the happy couple.

The bridal party.

The kids and I decked out in our duds.

See, I told you I did it!!! Stacie wrote a lovely poem for my wedding many years ago (if anyone wants to see it, I have it on tape!!!), and I had to return the favor!!!
Visiting (notice the champagne glass in the hand).

Briana trying on the veil (hmmm.....there's that glass again).

Dancing (yes, me in the background with a glass in my hand).

At sunset

Obviously, I had a GREAT time at the wedding. I tried to keep up with the precedent Stacie set at my wedding, but I'm afraid I failed as I never got to the point of having to drink salt water. I made a noble effort to do the best that I could, and I don't think I was too far off her standard.


Congrats to the newlyweds, and let's hope they had half as much fun as I did!! : )

Posted in: on Sunday, September 07, 2008 at at 5:33 PM 4 comments  

This Labor Day weekend we debated going camping and decided it would be better to have a low-key weekend, since the festivities of last weekend left us all rundown with colds. However, it turned into one of those go-go-go weekends once again. I guess it wasn't quite as bad as 8 years ago when I was actually in labor, but it was still busy!!!

Of course, Friday night was our softball game, and drum roll please, we won!! Well, not technically but to us it was a win!! The two teams only had 7 players each at game time and you have to have at least 8 to play, therefore we both had to forfeit. But, when we still played each other WE WON!! Yea for us! After the game we went to our friends' house for an end-of-the-season BBQ. Had a great time, but of course got home late.

Saturday Adam had a birthday party to go to and then we had a BBQ that night. Bret kinda opened his mouth as softball and...wah lah - another party.

Sunday I went to work in the morning and then we had another birthday party that afternoon down in Rancho Murieta. It was at a little lake there and the kids had a great time. They had a swim area with a swim dock that they all swam out to and jumped off of.

Then there was a pinata. Brie ended up breaking it (deja vu of her other party - this time I got pictures though!).


Then Monday we celebrated Brie's birthday at my parents' house. She was thrilled to be greeted by signs lining the road letting everyone know what the special occasion was!!!
We did the usual swimming of course and lots of eating. Both of the kids are getting much more comfortable in the water. Adam thinks he's a dolphin and somehow manages to talk as he goes underwater and then again the second he surfaces. Briana has taken to being more adventurous as well. She's now doing back dives off the side of the pool. I tried adding video of it, but Blogger doesn't let me video for some reason. Here she is with her presents. She got a lot of very nice things, but her favorites were her MP3 player and mini-quad (duh!).


Things have got to be settling down now. We're two weeks into school, and I'm telling you, I'm too old to keep up this pace!! : )

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