McComb Family

Bret and Adam have spent the past week building and painting "Big Betty" the rocket. Today was the first launch attempt. It went fairly successfully, but the parachute got stuck to the inside of the cone from a little wayward paint which meant it didn't deploy for the landing. That turned out to be a good thing, as there was quite a bit of wind, but one fin got damaged during the landing. They did a quick fix when we got home and are ready for their next launch -- hopefully when there is less wind!!

Posted in: on Thursday, November 26, 2009 at at 8:34 PM 2 comments  

We had another fun and entertaining Halloween this year! Here are the kids gutting their pumpkins.

They really wanted these big elaborate designs that they printed off the internet, but Bret told them they had to cut the designs out themselves, so they decided on good old-fashioned faces instead!!

The final products.....

We went to a friend's house in Auburn for trick-or-treating. Here is our princess and SWAT team member.

The gang.

The kids had a great time gathering candy throughout the neighborhood. This house was especially fun. It was a haunted casino and the kids had to spin a wheel to see how many pieces of candy they got or if they got something from the mystery bag!! Parents could then hit the tables set up in the casino (aka garage) and bet their kids' candy. My kids weren't going for it though. Selfish!! :)

Let the trading begin!!!

Hope everyone had a wonderfully ghoulish time as well!!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at at 2:47 PM 2 comments  

Okay, so I'm an idiot! I just added a post about the next two weeks of soccer, and it looked really good until I noticed Brie's picture was there and not mine. Whoops - that's the problem with managing two blogs I guess. Actually, I'm surprised this is the first time it's happened!!

So, to find out what I wrote you now have to go to Brie's blog and check it out there. Oooo...it's almost like a scavenger hunt!!!

Posted in: on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at at 11:31 AM 1 comments  

Almost ready for a new boat!!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at at 12:45 PM 2 comments  

We happened to see the Annual Grizzly Run advertised a couple of weeks ago, and when I asked Brie if she wanted to do it she quickly snatched up sign-ups sheets for us and her friend Taylor. We got ourselves all signed up for the 5K race, as did Taylor and her family. Here we are pre-race (me, Brie, Nate, Taylor, Angie).
The girls getting ready near the starting line! They were excited! : )

The race started at the high school and then headed up Marshall Road. And I do mean up. The first half of the race was all uphill!! Once we got halfway and turned around though, we knew it was all downhill from there! That made it a little easier to finish!!! : ) Here are the girls coming across the finish line.

And then 2 minutes later the moms came across the line!!

There was a 5K course and a 10K course. Afterwards there were drawings and the awards were given out. Here we all are waiting for it to start.

And this is Brie receiving her first place ribbon. Her and Taylor were the first ones to cross the finish line in their age group (10 and under). There were only a handful of people for each group, but she was very excited!!!! They did a great job! She's already planning for the next one!!!

And the guy who took home the trophy for coming in first?? He was in the 70+ age group. He smoked everybody!!!! Guess you're never too old to get out there and get moving!!

Posted in: on Sunday, October 18, 2009 at at 6:29 PM 3 comments  

Concrete got poured, rock got dropped, concrete trucks will be coming back...now it's time for the slab and rebuilding the deck!! Things are moving!!!

Posted in: on at at 5:56 PM 2 comments  

We're just over halfway through our soccer season, and the kids are having a great time. Adam is right in there this year and loves scoring goals! Briana comes up to most of her opponents shoulders, but she's really getting in there this year too and becoming quite the little soccer player. Alexxa made the most adorable slideshow of them playing soccer -- I wish I could put it up on my blog, but I haven't figured out a way yet. You'll just have to see it at our house! If you want to come see a game, there's still time!! : )

Although we miss Kayla, she was rough on chickens. Now that she's gone they have free roam of the property. They are all over the place!! The other dogs could care less about them, and the chickens could care less about the dogs. I was cleaning up the pool stuff and here came all seven chickens to see what I'm doing. They are pretty funny! Although the rooster keeps a close eye on them.

Here he is attacking my shoe. I guess I was a little too close to his "chicks". He'll start hollering and they all come running. Don't mess with his ladies. Or apparently his tail. We saw a 4-H booth that had show chickens, and the guy had a rooster that he'd kind of tug on his tail and the rooster would make a funny noise. Adam thought he'd try it with our rooster, who did not appreciate it one bit. He turned around and gave Adam some pretty good scratches on his arm. Lesson learned!!

We're back to being a construction zone!! We've got the other garage going in (or "barn" if you work at the building department!) as well as Bret's den and the back covered deck. We've been talking about it for a long time, so it's nice to finally see it taking place! Concrete trucks were here this morning and there are guys out there doing all the work. It's very strange to be able to be inside goofing around on the computer and not out there putting anchor bolts in or cleaning trowels! I'm almost not sure what to do with myself!! Good thing my friend just called and I'm going to head to lunch with her -- I might be tempted to go out and offer to help them work! It's also a good thing they went with a different concrete company than we always use, because if those trucks had rolled in this morning and there were no breakfast burritos -- it would've been ugly!!

Posted in: on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at at 12:35 PM 6 comments  

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