McComb Family

Being as tomorrow is Halloween, I've been busy since I got home today. I need to bring treats in for Adam's party tomorrow, so we signed up for brownies. These are just "crawling" with Halloween fun!!Even more fun than that though, will be the treat I made for work tomorrow. I hope it's gross enough for my co-workers!! : ) Damn cats!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween. I'll post more pics after the festivities tomorrow. Fun, fun!

Posted in: on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at at 8:16 PM 3 comments  

For those of you following the hunting saga, here's the latest.......

Bret and Brian (a.k.a. Bret's Hunting Accomplice) wanted to head back to the property immediately to look for those bucks again. They decided to wait until the next night though, so Brian brought all his gear over the next day, and they headed off to the property ready for a kill. They got home a while after dark - empty handed. No such luck that all three bucks were tucked into their beds waiting for them again.

So, the next day (yesterday) Bret has to head to Arizona for a job. Brian still has the "bug" and calls Bret in Arizona to see if it's okay for him to head over there and hunt without Bret. Bret, of course, says sure. So Brian packs up his entire family, his brother, his brother's wife, and their baby to go on a hunting expedition.

They get there and wander around for about half an hour to no avail. They all load up to leave, start driving out the driveway, and there in front of the house is one of the bucks. Before Brian can do anything, his brother hopped out of the truck, grabbed the gun, and shot it. So, I'm told I WILL be trying venison soon. We'll see about that! : ) Bret is now booked on a red eye home tonight, rather than tomorrow like originally planned, so he can get in on the action! Brian has no idea what kind of monster he's created!!!

Hmmmm......maybe that could be a marketing strategy to sell the house. "Hunting Chalet" sounds like it should fetch a pretty penny.

Posted in: on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at at 7:39 PM 4 comments  

Last night we had friends over for dinner, and we decided to go check out the other house so I finally got to see the flooring!! I really like it -- it looked great!! In fact, we might rip out some carpet over here and put some more of that flooring down!! : ) Here are a couple pictures of it to give you an idea of what it looks like. Of course, it's still a construction zone over there, so it's pretty dusty. It'll look even better when he gets everything cleaned up!
On a random side note.....When we pulled into the driveway over there last night, a big buck walked out from behind the house, looked over at us, and then continued walking away. Our friend, an avid hunter, was speechless!! Then....a second one follows shortly behind and does the same thing. And then, I kid you not, a THIRD one (the biggest of all) comes out. By this time, I think our friend wet himself and had to pick his jaw up off the ground. He was floored and definitely wanting his hunting gear. So, needless to say, guess where Bret is at this very moment. Yep, they're over there trying to score a buck! OMG! I'll let you know when the deer jerky is ready!

Posted in: on Monday, October 20, 2008 at at 4:49 PM 2 comments  

Halloween must be around the corner, because the other night we got home, came inside, and heard some noises. Whooooooo whooooooooo!! We looked around, thought we might need to call Ghostbusters, but finally found Adam under the cushions of the couch making those noises, whew....close call!!!

Then we spotted a witch. She looks pretty friendly, but you can never be sure. She's liable to take your leg off or turn you into a frog for all we know.

Posted in: on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at at 2:04 PM 2 comments  

Posted in: on Monday, September 29, 2008 at at 8:15 PM 3 comments  

We finally got our landscaping plans back and decided to see if we could start the project this weekend. Bret rode around on the tractor and I moved rocks - yeah, I definitely need to learn how to drive the tractor!!! I decided I would go cut out underbrush to clear out the trees and bushes we are keeping instead. Decked out in jeans, shoes, socks, and shirt with trimmers in hand I tackled the brush until I'd get close to poison oak and then move on to the next one. No need to tempt fate - I can look at poison oak and get it. Which must have happened because the next day I woke up with it on my lower leg/ankle area. How is that possible - I was completely covered up?!?! I LOATHE THAT STUFF!! And Bret thinks it's so beautiful we should keep it around the yard. Brilliant idea dear!

Here are a couple of pictures of what we've done so far just in the front. Still a long way to go, but it's fun to break ground!!

We've got our groove-thang on here in Pilot Hill. We're gettin' down with the DDR. Here's Brie showing some of her moves!!!

Posted in: on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at at 5:48 PM 1 comments  

This is a fun little thing to do to see which words you use most in your writing. This is the Wordle for my most recent posts. You can do one too at this site.

Posted in: on Friday, September 19, 2008 at at 9:51 PM 0 comments  

All of the kids' soccer games are at the District Office Field in Georgetown. They also both play at exactly the same time every single week. It's kind of like watching a tennis match. Anyway, they play:

9/20 9:00
9/27 10:15
10/4 11:30
10/11 10:15
10/18 9:00
10/25 11:30
11/1 10:15
11/8 9:00

Hope to see you there!!!

Posted in: on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at at 6:31 PM 0 comments  

Niners win! Oh yeah, baby!!

Posted in: on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at at 5:16 PM 2 comments  

We have now officially started our soccer season - the kids played their first games this weekend. Here is Adam's team getting ready to kick off.
Unfortunately they have changed the way the Under-6 division works. It used to be that the field was divided into two smaller fields with two 3 on 3 games going on at the same time. Now they have just the one field and it's 5 on 5, which means it's now "blob soccer". All 10 players run around after each other and hopefully someone is trying to kick the ball, sometimes in the right direction, sometimes not!! It is pretty entertaining at least!
Briana's game is a little more competitive, with goalies and actual positions they have to play. I guess they kicked bootie last week, but the team this week was TOUGH!! Here's Brie in the game with Bret looking on.
And the team huddle at the end, just reminding them that they tried hard even though they didn't win this time!! Some of them take it very personally! : ) Can you spot my little midget?

Posted in: on at at 1:17 PM 2 comments