McComb Family

Winter has arrived and is trying to push fall right out of here!!! Sunday night we were blanketed with snow and awoke to this beautiful scene Monday morning. However, we also awake to no power, which means no water. Not fun. Tuesday night power was restored, and all I could think of was giving the hot water heater enough time to heat water so I could finally take a shower!!! By morning, we had a warm(er) house and warm water (or so I thought), but it turns out the water pipes were frozen. Ugh!! Just can't catch a break some times!!

And here it is four days later!! Seriously, this NEVER happens here. It's crazy!!! We haven't had school for four days and we're all going stir-crazy!!! We have received the call that we should have school tomorrow (although with a delayed start because of the icy conditions still), but it will still depend on what the storm that is supposed to roll in tonight dumps on us. Hopefully rain and not more snow. We shall see!!!

Posted in: on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at at 3:54 PM 1 comments  

If you received a Christmas card from us, can you please cut and paste the photo below on to it.

Posted in: on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 at at 6:04 PM 2 comments  

This funky card is created by Amy.
Create your own funky card at CardFunk.

Posted in: on Monday, November 30, 2009 at at 2:56 PM 2 comments  

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