McComb Family

Adam had his last Christmas party at Cool Care tonight. It seems like he was just one of the littlest ones and now he's one of the big boys. Crazy how it flies by like that. More importantly though, it let me know how much trouble I'm going to be in with him. Everyone let me know how much they love Adam, how he's so popular with all the kids there, and so on and so on. Great - so I've got the social butterfly of the group. Then a mom introduces herself to me and tells me how she loves my son. I've never even seen her before -- how could she possibly know Adam? Well, her daughter came home and told her Adam was her "boyfriend", but not to tell her dad because she promises to wait until she older. Are you kidding me?? This is starting already!?! What's it going to be like when he's a teenager? I'm pretty sure we'll have to lock him in his room and never let him out. So, if you have any desire to see Adam....better do it in the next couple of years!!

The party was fine -- ate, sang, read "T'was the Night Before Christmas", and then visited with Santa -- the usual. Here are a couple of pictures.

He's a "stocking hung with care". And he made sure that thing never left his forehead!!

Posted in: on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at at 7:09 PM 0 comments  

No school today for us - yay!! We went into Placerville to do some shopping. I figured I should probably get started on that, and then we went up to my parents house for a little fun in the snow. Which meant I got to try out the 4-wheel drive on the Jeep for the first time. It looks pretty good in the snow, doesn't it?! When we left my parents' house we decided to eat dinner in Pollock Pines and then just head down 50, but a major pile up shut Sly Park down for a while. (The news tonight is saying it was a 17 car accident!!!) We were the first ones in line, so we got to sit there for quite some time. But....thank goodness I wasn't driving the BMW, because I never would have made it!!!! The Jeep worked like a champ.
The kids had a great time - throwing snowballs (until Brie got hit in the face and had a major meltdown - then it wasn't fun anymore), sledding, and making snow angels!! The only thing they didn't do was build a snowman. Oh well - maybe next time!

And the perfect way to warm up after playing in the snow is to hop into the hot tub!! They got nice and toasty and then walked barefoot back into the house! : ) My little polar bears!

Here's one final picture of my parents house with their decorations that the kids helped them set up last weekend. The poor snowman's head got buried under the snow and we thought he might not make it, but we were able to resuscitate him and bring him back to life. It's hard to see all the things in the picture, but it looks good!!
As much as I'd like to not go to school tomorrow again, I'd like even less to have to go an extra day in June to make it up, so here's hoping we have school tomorrow. (Did I just say that?)

Posted in: on Monday, December 15, 2008 at at 8:59 PM 2 comments  

Hi everyone,


Do you remember me? Well on Friday I went to my grandma's house! I stayed the night. Then the next day I helped decorate her whole house!!! It looks so cool! Then we drove down to the Bay Area. It took us about three hours. When we got there we went to my aunt's house! We saw a cousin. Then we went to a cookie party. The cookies were SOOO good. Finally we drove home to see our parents that we missed! : )



Briana

Posted in: on Sunday, December 14, 2008 at at 8:38 PM 1 comments  

Christmas is coming!!! It's finally starting to hit me that it will be here before I turn around. We got our tree and had two little helpers decorating it. I'm not sure how Adam was able to see what he was doing with his hat on, but I guess he made do! When I went to download my pictures off my camera, I came across a little surprise. It seems a certain little somebody has been taking pictures with my camera without me knowing. Here's a self-portrait of the culprit. (For some reason I can't rotate it - but you get the idea!!) He took one of his toys.... .....the TV...... ....the light fixture on the ceiling.... ....and about 10 other random things. Maybe he's planning to be a photographer when he grows up!!! Here's one more shot that I actually took from our back deck. I think it must have been scoping out a little Yorkie snack.

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Here are pictures of the pond Bret worked on a few months ago (yeah, the one that ended up with me owning a Jeep!!). Here is a before shot of the pond. And the final product - a much bigger pond and a beautiful waterfall. It sounds great and will look even better when all of the water plants start growing next spring. It turned out really nice! Of course, now Bret wants to upgrade ours to a bigger waterfall! : )

Posted in: on Thursday, December 11, 2008 at at 5:13 PM 2 comments  

Hey,

Today we bought a few Christmas presents at Northside School! We bought some for everybody in my family. I hope the people that get a present love it!!!If you don't we can return it.Or we will just keep it if the Craft Fair is not open anymore. Ha ha ha!This is my first time blogging. So if I don't do a very good job that is why. Well back to our old topic. We are planning to wrap them soon. We might decorate the house with some decorations(if we have time). My mom would go get the stuff from the attic, my brother would give the stuff to me, and I would go find a spot for it and put it there! Well maybe they can put a few things around the house,too.If you come to our house soon you might get to see the stuff we put out!!!But if you come in like January they will be put away in the attic again. On Christmas everybody who is here will probably like the present they get!




Briana

Posted in: on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at at 5:51 PM 4 comments  

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! We were thinking we would have everyone over to our house this year for Thanksgiving, but it turns out all of our family is out of town!! :) So, it was just the four of us. It was nice to be home and be able to have a day to do nothing (or 5 loads of laundry and chores around the house because they never seem to get done any other time!!). The kids and I planned out our menu, went shopping, and then set up a schedule for today so we could be eating around 3:00. Here are Brie and I getting the pumpkin pie into the oven this morning. I'm not sure why we made one - tradition I guess. I'm the only one who eats it (although Bret did polish off his piece, Adam ate only the whip cream off the top, and Brie gagged her tiny bite down that I made her try!!).

They decided to start clearing a path that they could hike around. Here are the trail blazers!!

Finally, dinner was done and we sat down to eat. There was plenty of food -- in fact we could have fed another couple of families! : ) It was sure good though!!!
We let our stomachs settle for a bit with a game of Sorry Sliders. Briana cried her eyes out when Adam won, and Adam thought he'd quit when she knocked one of his pieces out of the game -- good times!!!

We have lots to be thankful for this year. When you start thinking things are tough and aren't going the way you want them to, you realize there are so many people who are in much worse situations. We are all healthy and have more than we would ever need -- who could ask for more?

Posted in: on Thursday, November 27, 2008 at at 5:22 PM 2 comments  

For years Bret has been squinting at the TV, street signs, and just about everything, but has not wanted to get contacts or glasses. He felt it was better to live in a blurry world that deal with the hassle of them. Today, he took care of both of those problems by getting Lasik eye surgery. Here he is undergoing the procedure. He was in a room with a glass wall that we could watch the whole thing. They even have TV monitors pointed towards you, so you can see what the surgeon sees through his eyepiece.
Here is his cornea flopped back so they could use the laser. This is the point that Briana lost it and started crying, "Why did they take his eye out?" I had to explain that his eyeball was indeed still intact in his head, and maybe she shouldn't watch this kind of stuff. Of course, the whole time all Adam said was "Cool!" and "That's awesome!"
Tomorrow he has to go back to get checked again, but he's very excited about the whole thing! Sorry about the quality of the pictures, but they are off my phone that I had to forward to Bret's phone, and then e-mail to myself. It's all a little confusing!


And, as I was posting this I started thinking.... Now I have blogged about Bret's eye surgery, Adam's hernia surgery, and my thyroid surgery. The only one who hasn't shown up yet is Briana, and I'd certainly like to keep it that way!!!

Posted in: on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at at 5:27 PM 0 comments  

I've been meaning to do a new post, but have you ever had one of those weeks when you think that things just can't get any worse, and then they do? Well, that's the kind of week that I've been having, so posting on my blog hasn't happened - obviously!!!

So, for those of you who have not deleted the link to my blog because of inactivity.....here we go. Here's the promised picture of Briana's winning Halloween coloring contest picture. She's quite proud of herself, as she should be -- she did a great job!! She's always fancied herself quite the artist, but has been somewhat lacking in that department. Boy, has she come a long way!!! The ribbons were all her idea as well (like I'm that creative!!!).

Soccer has wrapped up for the season (finally!) and after the last game all participants received trophies. Here are Briana and Adam's. Adam wasn't feeling quite so cooperative about having his picture taken with his, so what you see is what you get. At least he and the trophy are in the same shot.

Bret started the season as Assistant to the Assistant Coach, but by the end of the season was a full-fledged Co-Coach. He moved up the ranks quickly and got this plaque as recognition! : )

Briana got to be a part of the All Star team this year, which she was pretty excited about. However, with the number of kids that each team can send and the size of our league, most people were offered a chance to go. They had a special practice and then game day consisted of 3 back-to-back games. They were all pretty wiped out by the end of it. It was a good experience for her though, and let her see not only how other teams play but also got the chance to play with girls from teams she played against this season.

Posted in: on Friday, November 21, 2008 at at 7:39 PM 0 comments  

Getting to the pumpkin patch didn't happen this year, so off to the grocery store we went. On Tuesday they were down to the last 4 pumpkins which, to put it nicely, had seen better days. The guy who worked there gave us the heads up that they were getting a new shipment the next day, so we headed back then for a better selection. Carving didn't happen though until Friday, so here we are frantically trying to get them done before it was time to trick-or-treat!

Briana went as Hannah Montana (like I'm sure half the girls out there!). Here wig was pretty wild, but she didn't care. This picture doesn't show her actual pants, but you get the gist!

And here's Jerry.

We headed down to a neighborhood in El Dorado Hills, and the kids had a blast!!! Adam was running from house to house when we started. They were all gung ho, and when we got to a house that gave out full-sized candy bars - oh my gosh - it was Adam's "best Halloween ever". We did a quick trip up one side of the street and back down the other filling their buckets along the way. Then we ordered pizza and headed back to a friend's house for a fun-filled evening. I think it was the kids' #1 Halloween so far (in their very long and distinguished lives)!!!

Oh, and in other exciting news....Briana was one of the top 4 winners in the Halloween coloring contest at the grocery store. She won a $5 gift card and was so excited. I don't think there's a person in Cool she didn't tell about it!! We'll post a picture when she gets it back -- right now it's hanging in all it's glory on the store wall.

Posted in: on Saturday, November 01, 2008 at at 9:42 PM 3 comments