What can I say...we bleed NC State red in our household. I am obviously an adopted fan who has been a loyal follower since 2001. My fanatical husband can not get enough of the Wolfpack. He talks year round about our football team and is practically salivating in August gearing up for the 1st game. The boy loves this team. He loves it so much, he and 4 friends bought a van, painted it red and white with a wolf's mouth on the front, and got the coach to autograph the side...the Amatomobile is on her last legs, but we love her and she has given us many good times.
Adam constantly updates me on our latest recruits...I love him and don't have the heart to tell him that it goes in one ear and out the other. He goes home from every game without a voice and he and his brother crack me up when they call or email each other 20 times during the game. We have had some good times throughout the years watching the Wolfpack play...no matter how much we stink.
We won this weekend! It's always a nice surprise when that happens. I will have to say that the best thing about our relationship with the Wolfpack for me is our friends with whom we tailgate. There are about 20 of us who are life-time rights ticket holders to the games. We have been tailgating and cheering together for many years.
This weekend was our turn to cook with our wonderful friends, the Nooe's...Adam gets so excited when he cooks for people...especially when it involves a pig. He cooked ribs for the first time ever and they actually were pretty darn good! I will have to say, I think we had a pretty nice spread!
We had a great time at the game...we had first timers, Jill and Heath Thomas (my good friend from Texas A&M and her hubby) join us and it was a blast having them. Although it rained on us for half of the game, the girls had a great time chatting up where it was nice and dry while the guys got drenched.
We pulled off the win against Wake Forest...way to go Pack!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Halloween Hysteria
So here we are in the 2nd week of November. Where does the time go? I love this time of year. The brilliant Fall colors in North Carolina are amazing and I just wish I could bottle the beauty of this season. One of my favorite parts about the Fall is the anticipation of Halloween. Every year it gets better and better because we can view it through Graden's eyes and get excited about it with him. I'm sure Harper will get into it on down the road, but this year she was in bed by 7:30.
He really got into the festivities this year. Every day he had a different idea of what he was going to be (a knight, skeleton, Flash, Batman, Superman) and in the end Superman won. Thank you, Auntie Mindy for saving the day with the speedy delivery of his costume. He was so tickled! He is a superhero freak, so I would have been shocked if he had gone another route. It cracked me up how each day he would change his mind depending on what his mood was. I guess most kids have a hard time making up their minds at this age. He decided he wanted Harper to be Catwoman, Mommy to be Wonderwoman (yeah right), and Daddy to be Green Lantern. In the end, Harper was a black cat and Mommy did not get scantily clad as Wonderwoman. Wasn't going to go there. Especially since Daddy found out that Graden has a little crush on Wonderwoman when he caught him kissing the computer screen while watching a video on youtube.
I helped plan Graden's Halloween party at school and he had a good time dressing up with all of his buddies. Don't ask me why I decided that we should have the children decorate their own cookies after my son dumped an entire bottle of sprinkles in his mouth causing it to turn completely black a few days prior to the party. Check out the pic that I took of him after I told him that the cookie decorating was going to stop if he couldn't stop tipping back the sprinkles as if they were shots of tequila! He was not a happy camper.
We shared Halloween night with good friends, The Gilmore's, The Birely's, and The Knopfle's. We had a little pizza party before going out to trick our treat and it was lots of fun to see the kids in their costumes. They even got their official Halloween portraits taken down in the basement since Larisa was trying out her new lighting and backdrop. Not that any of them stayed still for very long!
We were sad to see Halloween go and we are still plowing through the mound of candy that came along with the good times. Every morning Graden has to get his little chair out, scoot it up to the counter, and peer into the Spiderman bucket to pick up his piece of candy for the day. Luckily he knows that he actually has to have permission to open it...nice one! Can't wait to see what next year will bring!
He really got into the festivities this year. Every day he had a different idea of what he was going to be (a knight, skeleton, Flash, Batman, Superman) and in the end Superman won. Thank you, Auntie Mindy for saving the day with the speedy delivery of his costume. He was so tickled! He is a superhero freak, so I would have been shocked if he had gone another route. It cracked me up how each day he would change his mind depending on what his mood was. I guess most kids have a hard time making up their minds at this age. He decided he wanted Harper to be Catwoman, Mommy to be Wonderwoman (yeah right), and Daddy to be Green Lantern. In the end, Harper was a black cat and Mommy did not get scantily clad as Wonderwoman. Wasn't going to go there. Especially since Daddy found out that Graden has a little crush on Wonderwoman when he caught him kissing the computer screen while watching a video on youtube.
I helped plan Graden's Halloween party at school and he had a good time dressing up with all of his buddies. Don't ask me why I decided that we should have the children decorate their own cookies after my son dumped an entire bottle of sprinkles in his mouth causing it to turn completely black a few days prior to the party. Check out the pic that I took of him after I told him that the cookie decorating was going to stop if he couldn't stop tipping back the sprinkles as if they were shots of tequila! He was not a happy camper.
We shared Halloween night with good friends, The Gilmore's, The Birely's, and The Knopfle's. We had a little pizza party before going out to trick our treat and it was lots of fun to see the kids in their costumes. They even got their official Halloween portraits taken down in the basement since Larisa was trying out her new lighting and backdrop. Not that any of them stayed still for very long!
We were sad to see Halloween go and we are still plowing through the mound of candy that came along with the good times. Every morning Graden has to get his little chair out, scoot it up to the counter, and peer into the Spiderman bucket to pick up his piece of candy for the day. Luckily he knows that he actually has to have permission to open it...nice one! Can't wait to see what next year will bring!
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