McComb Family

Needless to say, he had a nice birthday. Before I post this I'll try and include a picture of Adam's bed, since it didn't quite make it on last time. Hope everyone is having an enjoyable holiday!!

Posted in: on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at at 11:54 AM 0 comments  

Friday was my first day off , so needless to say, Bret and I did a marathon shopping day on Friday (with kids in tow no less) and then again on Saturday because we weren't quite done. Saturday we split up so we could double time it (somehow I'm the one who ended up with the kids though - how did that work out?!!!). That left Sunday for a full day of wrapping. We also had to wait for the kids to fall asleep because we gave Adam a new bed for Christmas, so we couldn't have them still up while we set it up. I finally went to bed about 1 am, woke about at 4 to make sure Bret was going to take the trash out and finish wrapping his last few things. Back asleep about 5, then up at 6:30 or 7 to put film in the camera and be ready for when they got up. Adam patiently waited until 7 to get up. Briana didn't want to get up until he reminded her it was Christmas, and then all of a sudden she shot right up!!! Funny how that works.

This is the kids with the presents Santa left under her tree in her room. Adam had slept in there with her so we could set up his room! They opened these and then we moved downstairs. Brian had come up the night before so he spent Christmas morning with us.

It was a whirlwind of present opening!

And finally....here is Adam's new bed. He's in a full size bed now. The toddler bed didn't last long. He's really into trucks, so that's what is on his bed. It's very cute!!!

Well, I've tried 3 times to upload pictures to finish this post off, and 3 times it hasn't worked. For as long as it takes me to try and upload one picture....this is killing me!!!! I NEED HIGH SPEED INTERNET!!! This will have to do as is! : ) Sorry no pics of the bed. Maybe next time.

Posted in: on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at at 11:56 AM 0 comments  

Adam's school had a Christmas party (okay, so it was a couple of weeks ago....and I'm just now getting around to posting pictures of it!!!). Anyway, it was a very nice evening. They read stories, played games, ate dinner (and lots of yummy desserts - especially Briana. Everytime I turned around, she had another one!!), sang songs, and the grand finale was a visit by Santa and Mrs. Claus. I got a picture of the two kids on Santa's lap.

They were passing out gifts, so Briana got a Barrel of Monkeys and Adam got a truck (how did Santa know?!). Of course, he had to try it out right away.

While Miss Susan read "T'was the Night Before Christmas" they came out as different parts of the story. Here comes a little reindeer!!!

And finally, here is Adam with his girlfriend Addy and a couple of his friends. As you can tell from the picture, he's one of the youngest kids there but they don't seem to mind. All the kids (and teachers) call him "Cutie Pie" and just love him to pieces. One of the dad's at the party told me his son has to bring two of everything that he brings to school - one for him and one for Adam. Too cute!!! : )

Posted in: on Saturday, December 23, 2006 at at 6:13 PM 0 comments  

So, it's been a while since I've posted anything, so I thought it was about time. Things have been busy as usual. Report cards went out this week, which means I was very busy last week getting grades done for all 220 or so of my students. That's always a fun time of the year. Oh, did that come out sacrcastically?! Oops!! I really mean....I love my job. Yeah, that's it. I've also been coaching a Lego Robotics team twice a week so that's been taking up my time as well.

Of course, all of that work is sometimes a welcome respite from home. You just never know what these two will do. For example, the other day Briana decided she would teach Adam how to do ballet. In order to do so, you of course need the right outfit. So, this is what Briana came up with.....

I'm sure the kid is probably scarred for life. I dread thinking about the therapy bills that will be in our future!! : )

Then there's always the wonderful things Adam comes up with. I was IMing Ken and Helen in Australia tonight and all of a sudden Adam walks in with a sheet of glass about a foot wide and slightly taller than he is. This seems like a situation that could go bad very quickly. Where does he even get this stuff? It's like he's attracted to all things that he shouldn't have or do. Since I took the glass from him, of course he had to go find something else to do. So, being the helpful boy that he is, he decides to clean out the fireplace for us. Normally that would be nice to have the ashes cleaned out so that we could start a fire, but when a 2 year old is doing it, it's not always as nice as one would have hoped. He actually did a pretty good job, but we won't let him know that. Don't want to give him any ideas. (Like he needs any from us, he comes up with plenty of his own.)

Posted in: on Friday, December 01, 2006 at at 7:35 PM 0 comments  

So I drop Adam off today like normal, and the ladies who were there this morning asked me if I've been potty training him at home. I tell them that we've been trying, but that he absolutely refuses to do so. Everytime we ask him if he wants to sit on the potty, we get a resounding "No!!". Not only will he not go to the bathroom in it, but he won't even sit on it. Come to find out.....yesterday, he took his diaper off three times to go in and sit on the toilet at school. What?!?! And then they go on to say that he's been doing it quite often lately. Are they kidding me?! So what are we doing wrong at home? Maybe we need shorter toilets. Maybe we need to have him come in the bathroom more often with us when we go. What a turkey!!! Maybe he's just trying to impress his girlfriend. Yes, he does have one. They even kiss each other good-bye everyday. Too cute! Well, I guess it's just one more of those "toddler things". I'm 2 and can do whatever I want!!!

As a side note...we received his picture proofs today. They are so darn cute. It'll be hard to pick our favorite. Look forward to portraits soon!!

Posted in: on Thursday, November 09, 2006 at at 5:46 PM 0 comments  

The kids had a fun Halloween. Briana had a party in her class, then we were off to Adam's school for his Halloween party. They read a story, sang songs, ate lots of yummy foods, and then played some games and activities. You can tell from Adam's face that he really enjoyed the cupcakes with orange frosting!
















Then we were off to Georgetown to trick-or-treat. They close off a couple of blocks and hundreds of people showed up to trick-or-treat on that street. Most of the houses were decked out with all kinds of creepy and scary decorations. I could never buy a house on that street - way too much work!! The businesses on Main Street pass out candy as well. It was the first time we had gone there for Halloween, and it was a lot of fun. I'm sure we'll do it again!

Posted in: on Thursday, November 02, 2006 at at 6:26 PM 2 comments  

Well, I tried this post once before and blogger went down so I lost everything. So....let's try it one more time!!

Jenn and Devin came out earlier this month for a visit. Jenn actually had to work most of the week, so the visit was very short. We did make it up to Apple Hill one day though. We started off with our usual breakfast at Apple Cafe (yum!) and then hit High Hill Ranch (yikes, what a zoo!). The kids still had a great time though. They started off with a pony ride. Devin and Brie wanted to ride the big one, but Adam was content with the little one (that is after he got over his screaming and crying fit about getting on at all!!!).




Then they were off to the pond to watch people fishing. They were actually pulling out fairly big fish.






And the grand finale was getting their faces painted. Briana got a unicorn, Adam got a balloon (or "boon" as he calls it), and Devin got a scarecrow. We didn't eat a single apple while we were there, and I didn't get a picture of them in a pumpkin field like I had wanted to. Oh well....it was still a fun day and nice to see Jenn and Devin again.

Posted in: on Saturday, October 28, 2006 at at 3:10 PM  

Last Thursday I took the day off and went with Briana's class on their big field trip.....to Cool!! They are studying communities, so they went to their local community to see what it is made up of. They went to the post office and got to buy a stamp, post a letter, and mail it. They also got to see the businesses along the "boardwalk" in Cool - the real estate office, general store, deli, feed store, etc. Then we had lunch at Main Street Pizza where they got to go in the back and see their pizza actually being made. Finally (the grand finale) was going to the fire station and being able to spray a real fire hose. Boy did they have fun with that!! It was a great day, and I'm glad I went as a chaperone. Sure beat being in my classroom for the day! : )

Posted in: on Friday, October 13, 2006 at at 3:19 PM 1 comments  

Well, we started off today with Briana's soccer game. She was very proud of herself for scoring a goal. Of course, she didn't want to listen to any suggestions on how she could improve her game. Being as she's being doing this for a month or so now, she must be perfect and way above constructive criticism.

Then we headed to Garden Valley for the Kids Expo. There were various booths set up for kids and everything was free. They went in the bounce house, did artwork, learned about Smoky Bear, played music, and a bunch of other things. Brie even climbed the rock wall. She got about halfway up and burst into tears. She did let go though and came back down. It would have been really bad trying to figure out how to get her back down from way up there!!! I sure wished I had my camera though.

Then we went over to the other house to try and help Bret get the front door in. Here's what is looked like before:

And with the door in:

This is not the real door though, this is the "construction door". That way when the stucco and sheetrock are getting done we don't have to worry about our new door getting covered with "gunk". The new door is still sitting in the box. Can't wait to see it actually installed!

Okay, so here's the real story - what the pictures don't tell you!!! When I went to help Bret with the door, there was about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch lip of shearwall hanging down into the door frame. I asked Bret if he needed to cut it, but before I know it he's caulking and we're lifting the door into place. We move it outside, twisting and turning, get it into place and, what do you know, it's a 1/4 to 1/2 inch too tall. So, we need the saws-all to cut the shearwall out of the way. Of course, it's at home, so Bret goes to find the handsaw while I try to hold the door up. When he finds it and starts cutting he promptly cuts through his thumb nail and pointer finger while trying to trim the wood back. He then has to try and saw with one hand while holding the other one with dripping blood off to the side (I just kept hoping it didn't drip on me!!!). Needless to say, we finally got it into place and hopefully leveled. The real test will be when the actual door is in. We're keeping our fingers crossed!! Oh, the McCombs and their construction stories!!!

Posted in: on Saturday, October 07, 2006 at at 9:55 PM 1 comments  

We've been hanging around the house this weekend trying to get everyone rested and recouped. I ended up taking Brie to the doctor on Friday and sure enough she does have strep throat. Yippee...now we get to do the antibiotic thing for the next 10 days (whoops - we've already missed one dose!). I hope this is not a prelude to what we're in for this winter. We're barely a week into fall and already Bret's been laid up for a week with the flu, Brie's had the flu, Adam's been in the hospital with croup, and now Brie's got strep. Yikes!!! Enough is enough!!!

While we were resting up today, we thought we'd take in the Niners game. Talk about painful!! I think childbirth was easier than watching that game! Just when you think they can only go up, they put on another fine performance like today. Wow - what more can you say!?!

We've finally had a change in weather today. It's cloudy and about 70 degrees right now. We still have all of our windows open because it's been in the 80s and 90s, so it was freezing in here this morning when we got up. It's warmed up some, but the kids came downstairs now too long ago in pants, sweaters, hats, and gloves. I'd say they're not quite accustomed yet to the cooler weather. Ah just give them another month or two - they'll think this is warm!

Well, I'm off to enjoy the rest of the day. Once again the weekend is almost over. I never know how it goes so fast (and I had an extra day!!!).

Posted in: on Sunday, October 01, 2006 at at 1:36 PM 2 comments