McComb Family

Country in the Park has been on our list of things to do for a while, and this year since it fell near Brie's birthday, and since she's always wanted to go to a concert, we went!!! It was great fun. The kids started off at the bounce houses. This is about half of them!!! : )

Then they loaded up on sugar with ginormous snow cones. You got to add your own syrup, so the ice was just swimming in a sugary puddle!
Then we were ready for the concert!!!

Here are the little cowgirls!

Trailer Choir started off and we all rocked our beer guts! They were really entertaining, especially Big Vinnie and the worm! Then One Flew South played. Can't tell you much about them, because it was girls' turn in the beer garden at that point, and I completely missed their performance. Julianne Hough was next -- she was good. Next was Little Big Town -- they were my favorite!! And finally came on Billy Ray Cyrus. The girls were really hoping for a guest appearance by Miley, but no such luck. : ( They did go up front with the dads who put them on their shoulders so they could be right up in the action (can't miss them and their hats)!!

A lot of people started leaving early which opened up "the dance floor" next to our blankets and chairs.

Can't wait to find out who will be playing next year!!!

Posted in: on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at at 4:00 PM 3 comments  

August 19th was the kids' first day of school - Briana in 4th grade and Adam in Kindergarten! Wow, how the time flies!! Here are the traditional pictures on the front steps!

This is Adam when he got to class that morning. He sat down to do his work and then turned to the kid next to him (who he'd never seen before in his life) and told him that he'd had his picture taken all morning, and then turned to me and told me that I could leave now. No separation anxiety here!!!!

Posted in: on Monday, September 14, 2009 at at 11:03 AM 2 comments  

After many years of hearing about the Black & White Ball in Auburn, we finally decided to go this year. One of the offices next to Bret's is a sponsor so we were able to get VIP tickets (which I hear is the only way to go!!). We got a hotel room and headed there to get ready. Here are the "Three Amigos".

Nice hat Bret!!! While we were waiting for the shuttle we took a bunch of pictures of us all decked out in our duds.

However after 45 minutes we finally gave up on the shuttle and piled into a car to drive ourselves there. There was food and lots of drinks!! Here are the four girls. I'm not sure what that guy is doing lurching there on the side -- yikes! : )

This picture was taken by the local paper and put on their web site. Pretty good one of all of us.

And this one was also taken by the newspaper, but it made the front cover!! There it was in all its glory the next morning of the three of them hopping onstage with one of the bands. I seemed to have been MIA at that point (thank goodness!).

Wow -- what a night!!!!!!

Posted in: on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 at at 12:53 PM 3 comments  

The 2009 soccer season has already started. I missed the first game, but both kids' teams did great. Brie's team was a total shut out and Adam scored a bunch of goals in his game. Should be a fun season!! Again, all of their games are in Georgetown at the District Field, so if you want to come cheer on the Badgers or Eagles, here is the schedule:

Sept. 12th
Brie - 10:15
Adam - 9:00

Sept. 19th
Brie - 9:00
Adam - 10:00

Sept. 26th
Brie - 9:00
Adam - 10:00

Oct. 3rd
Brie - 9:00
Adam - 9:00

Oct. 10th
Brie - 9:00
Adam - 9:00

Oct. 17th
Brie - 10:15
Adam - 9:00

Oct. 24th
Brie - 11:30
Adam - 9:00

Oct. 31st
Brie - 11:30
Adam - 12:00

Nov. 7th
Brie - 11:30
Adam - 10:00

Hope to see you at a game!!!!

Posted in: on at at 12:40 PM 1 comments  

The kids and I went to my aunt's cabin up near Clear Lake. We hadn't been there for a summer or two, so it was nice to head over there and enjoy ourselves for the weekend. My aunt and parents came up Friday night too. Here we all are the next morning enjoying breakfast out on the deck.
Everyone slept outside in beds, air mattresses, or tents except for moi. I slept inside on a nice comfy bed. Here are the kids set-up for the night. Not bad!!

We played lots of card games while we were there. Here's Adam playing Solitaire.

Then we headed off the to pool. Normally there's the regular pool and the "cold pool". Well this year the regular pool was actually the cold pool. It was freezing. Um, yeah no thanks. I didn't get in further than my big toe, but that didn't stop my kids. In they go!!!!

Here's where we set up "camp" at the pool.

We even enjoyed some sand volleyball.

Jenny and her boyfriend Brian came up on Saturday, so here's the gang for dinner. Nice shot Adam!!

And of course a trip to Pine Grove is not complete without a bingo game with Bingo Bob.....

......followed by dancing!!

Good times!! Thanks for the invite Cindy!

Posted in: on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at at 4:47 PM 2 comments  

Yes, we really are still around but somehow life seems to keep getting in the way of my blog!! It's not like we've been doing anything super fun that would warrant a post of its own -- it's just that we've been busy!!! Here are a few things that have been keeping me from posting......

• Work -- I know what you're saying....."But it's summer vacation." Yeah right. Since I'll be teaching a new grade level (again!!) and developing a whole new program -- I've been busy.
• Softball -- I've lost track but I think we're about 3-3. Considering we've never won a game before this season, we're stoked!!
• Dentist appointments and appointments of all kinds.
• Birthday celebrations that stretch into birthday months (you know what I'm talking about Nate!), and it's not even my turn yet. I know how to stretch a birthday out!!! : )
• Helping my grandma and uncle move (just shoot me if I ever tell you I'm moving -- that house on Morning Mist is so going on the market!!).
• Shopping, chores, shopping, swimming, shopping, BBQs, shopping.....you know, all the "must-dos".

Anyway, hopefully something exciting will happen soon, so I can start blogging again! He he. What have you all been up to?

Posted in: on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at at 4:08 PM 2 comments  

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