The highlight of the early part of the week was that Travis got his haircut. It was definitely time for it…he was looking a little scraggily. I take him to the place where I go and my girl Suzanna does his hair. She does such a great job and works with him so well. It’s only about $5 more than when I used to take him to Cartoon Cuts! Cartoon cuts always did a crappy job and basically buzzed his head. Travis looks better with some hair on his head-some kids can get away with the buzz look but I think Travis’ head is too big-lol. His haircut looks great and I only had to bribe him with 2 pieces of chocolate to sit still! That is a record!
Friday Evan went to Philly for the Coldplay concert. He met up with Ann Marie, Rob and Andy up there. I heard they went to a bar and something about open bar at the show. It wasn’t a good thing for some people in the group from what I hear…. I think they all had fun though. Travis and I went to dinner on Friday night with my parents to Red Robin (Travis’ choice). He ate dinner well and stayed in his seat most of the time so I consider it a success. The rest of the evening was quiet for us.
On Saturday Travis and I made our way to the pool for a few hours. Always a lot of fun and Travis met a new friend Ben that will be in Kindergarten the same year as Travis. Maybe they will be in the same class…who knows! Then we rushed home for me to get a shower etc and we were off to Medieval Times! Travis was so excited about this! They had been studying the Medieval period at school and he was getting into the knights, castles etc. One of the teachers mentioned she had taken her kids there that week and until September 1st kids were free! So I made reservations for us to go to the 4pm show. It took about an hour and 15 minutes to get there (it’s east of Columbia in Arundel Mills). Evan was meeting us there since he was coming from Philly. He got there well before us so he decided to go to the movies…saw “Stepbrother” and said it was pretty funny. Once we got into the mall and Travis could see the people dressed up etc he was sooooooo excited! We sat in the front row and cheered for the black and white knight. Travis really got into the cheering etc. Eating with our hands was a treat as well! He loved every minute of it! When it was over he wanted to go to the next show!
Sunday we actually didn’t do much…a very lazy day around the house. There were storms in the area so no pool time at all. I went to the grocery store with Travis in the morning and spent the rest of the day on my scrapbook while Evan and Travis played the Indiana Jones Lego game on Xbox.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Frank Beamer's Ladies Football Clinic Weekend!
This week was quiet for us…until you got to the weekend (for me at least).
Friday bright and early I met Paige at Nordstrom in Tysons to shop the Anniversary sale. It was the 1st day of the sale and we were there when they opened at 8am! I had a list ready of the stuff I wanted to get. I got everything on my list with only 1 added item-not too bad! We had a great breakfast in the café, met Christine for coffee and then headed out of town.
This weekend was the Frank Beamer’s Ladies Football Clinic in Blacksburg. For those that have no idea what I’m talking about….basically you go there, meet the coaches, the players and learn a little about football at the same time. It’s also a great excuse to party in Blacksburg. We got into town around 2:30ish and checked into the hotel and then hit the bookstores. We started the drinking at the Hokie House at around 5pm. Ann Marie, Paige and I had 2 BAMs (big a$$ mugs)-this was nothing in compare to what was to come. Skippy and Koz met us there and I have no idea how many BAMs they had. Then we went to Sharkey’s which is now where Arnold’s used to be-totally odd but I guess it is a better ‘spot”. For some reason they have this crazy happy hour there. $1 single, $2 double and $3 triple until 8pm. This was insane. We all got $3 triples (my choice was vodka tonic) and they come in these huge 22oz glasses (check July pics-lol). This is where the evening went down hill. I can’t speak for everyone but I had 3 of these-wow-I think New Orleans was the last place I drank that much alcohol at once. I knew I was in trouble when it was almost 8pm and Skippy asked me if I was going to get one more. At this point I had barely drank anything in my 2nd one! So of course I got another and pounded the 2nd so I didn’t have to hold 2 glasses-lol. Thankfully I had at least some brain still turned on since I didn’t have anything alcohol-wise in the last hour we were there. We got back to the hotel around 12am and crashed since we wanted to be out of the hotel for the clinic at 8am.
Saturday morning I actually didn’t feel great in the tummy department but very little headache-so I guess the water I drank really helped! We were all up and dressed by 8am which was impressive! We got to the clinic and got into line to get our picture taken with Beamer. Then we hopped into a line to get our pics with Glennon, Tyrod and Kam Chancellor. Pretty cool. The highlight of the day was when Glennon, Tyrod and Kam were showing off the new uniforms and proceeded to strip one piece at a time. Hearing 80 year old women scream for 20 year old boys is pretty funny! We also got to see the recruiting video they show-hard to imagine people decide not to play at Tech after seeing that! Saturday evening we had dinner at Macado’s-yummy and went to the Rivermill to meet with Paige’s friend from high school.
Sunday was spent in the car-lol. When I got back I had to help look for Travis’ lost glasses. They were finally found on the roof of the Volvo. Travis didn’t want me to leave that night so I wasn’t able to go see Cal’s band. It was a one time only reunion show for “4 out of 5 Doctors” –they were a pop band in the very early 80s and opened for bands like The Clash and The Cars. I heard it was a great show! I saw some of it on YouTube.
Friday bright and early I met Paige at Nordstrom in Tysons to shop the Anniversary sale. It was the 1st day of the sale and we were there when they opened at 8am! I had a list ready of the stuff I wanted to get. I got everything on my list with only 1 added item-not too bad! We had a great breakfast in the café, met Christine for coffee and then headed out of town.
This weekend was the Frank Beamer’s Ladies Football Clinic in Blacksburg. For those that have no idea what I’m talking about….basically you go there, meet the coaches, the players and learn a little about football at the same time. It’s also a great excuse to party in Blacksburg. We got into town around 2:30ish and checked into the hotel and then hit the bookstores. We started the drinking at the Hokie House at around 5pm. Ann Marie, Paige and I had 2 BAMs (big a$$ mugs)-this was nothing in compare to what was to come. Skippy and Koz met us there and I have no idea how many BAMs they had. Then we went to Sharkey’s which is now where Arnold’s used to be-totally odd but I guess it is a better ‘spot”. For some reason they have this crazy happy hour there. $1 single, $2 double and $3 triple until 8pm. This was insane. We all got $3 triples (my choice was vodka tonic) and they come in these huge 22oz glasses (check July pics-lol). This is where the evening went down hill. I can’t speak for everyone but I had 3 of these-wow-I think New Orleans was the last place I drank that much alcohol at once. I knew I was in trouble when it was almost 8pm and Skippy asked me if I was going to get one more. At this point I had barely drank anything in my 2nd one! So of course I got another and pounded the 2nd so I didn’t have to hold 2 glasses-lol. Thankfully I had at least some brain still turned on since I didn’t have anything alcohol-wise in the last hour we were there. We got back to the hotel around 12am and crashed since we wanted to be out of the hotel for the clinic at 8am.
Saturday morning I actually didn’t feel great in the tummy department but very little headache-so I guess the water I drank really helped! We were all up and dressed by 8am which was impressive! We got to the clinic and got into line to get our picture taken with Beamer. Then we hopped into a line to get our pics with Glennon, Tyrod and Kam Chancellor. Pretty cool. The highlight of the day was when Glennon, Tyrod and Kam were showing off the new uniforms and proceeded to strip one piece at a time. Hearing 80 year old women scream for 20 year old boys is pretty funny! We also got to see the recruiting video they show-hard to imagine people decide not to play at Tech after seeing that! Saturday evening we had dinner at Macado’s-yummy and went to the Rivermill to meet with Paige’s friend from high school.
Sunday was spent in the car-lol. When I got back I had to help look for Travis’ lost glasses. They were finally found on the roof of the Volvo. Travis didn’t want me to leave that night so I wasn’t able to go see Cal’s band. It was a one time only reunion show for “4 out of 5 Doctors” –they were a pop band in the very early 80s and opened for bands like The Clash and The Cars. I heard it was a great show! I saw some of it on YouTube.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
A quiet week for us (hectic to some people maybe-lol)
On Monday we had to fly home from Banff. The bus left for the airport at 3:30am which was awful. The bus ride was an hour and a half-tried to sleep but really couldn’t. When we got to Calgary we were hoping to find a Red Carpet Club to get some snacks/drinks etc for free (since we were flying 1st class). Apparently they got rid of the club about 2 years ago but the United website still listed one in that airport-kinda weird but oh well. The flight to Chicago was fine though long. The flight home to Dulles however was interesting. There were storms in the area and we circled over West Virginia for almost 2 hours! At one point they were going to send us to Pittsburgh since we were low on fuel. Thankfully they “let us in” and we landed no problem. Travis was super excited to see us and that night Rob made us all dinner. Yummy!
This week at Travis’ school was learning about Dinosaurs. Travis was really into this since he loves all types of them! He walked around all week telling us we were either meat or plant eaters-lol. He came home on Friday with 4 great art projects including stegosaurus plates for his back-it was very cute and yes I did take pictures.
The rest of the week was kind of quiet for us. Friday night we did go to Herndon Live and had fun. Travis was good and we stayed until almost 9pm. The highlight for him was getting a Blizzard at Diary Queen on the way out. He likes the cookie dough one-like mother like son.
Saturday Travis and I went to the pool for a few hours while Evan did stuff around the house. He had fun and he was so tired when we got back to the house. That night Mike came over and we had sushi from Hooked (up the street) and played Rockband for most of the evening. Mike plays on expert and improves as he drinks more-lol.
Sunday morning Evan and Mike got up to play golf. Travis and I hung around the house. He played the Indiana Jones game while I scrapbooked a little. It was a lazy day for us. Kind of nice to have nothing “scheduled” for once.
This week at Travis’ school was learning about Dinosaurs. Travis was really into this since he loves all types of them! He walked around all week telling us we were either meat or plant eaters-lol. He came home on Friday with 4 great art projects including stegosaurus plates for his back-it was very cute and yes I did take pictures.
The rest of the week was kind of quiet for us. Friday night we did go to Herndon Live and had fun. Travis was good and we stayed until almost 9pm. The highlight for him was getting a Blizzard at Diary Queen on the way out. He likes the cookie dough one-like mother like son.
Saturday Travis and I went to the pool for a few hours while Evan did stuff around the house. He had fun and he was so tired when we got back to the house. That night Mike came over and we had sushi from Hooked (up the street) and played Rockband for most of the evening. Mike plays on expert and improves as he drinks more-lol.
Sunday morning Evan and Mike got up to play golf. Travis and I hung around the house. He played the Indiana Jones game while I scrapbooked a little. It was a lazy day for us. Kind of nice to have nothing “scheduled” for once.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The 4th of July in Canada?
So swimming lessons did not go very well. The issue was he got way too much confidence in the water on Sunday. Jumping in the deep end and doggie paddling to the wall. When we went to lessons on Monday he wasn’t interested in doing his lesson. He said, “I know how to swim Mommy”. I guess he told me…..we went Monday and Tuesday and he jumped in and out of the pool the whole time. Oh well-I guess I won’t be signing him up next year. He should be a decent swimmer by the end of the summer on his own.
Evan’s parents came up on Wednesday to watch Travis while we go on our trip. They picked him up from school- which he thought was a real treat! This week the theme at camp was “ancient Egyptians” so Travis came home every day talking about pyramids, mummies and Egypt. He seems to really be enjoying the new school and learning A LOT! Travis did a lot of fun things while Grammy and Poppy were watching him. They went and saw fireworks, went to the pool and saw the movie Wall-E!
On Thursday morning we left for the Oracle Club trip in Banff, Canada. It was a long travel day but we were able to sit in the Red Carpet Club and ride 1st class from Chicago to Calgary! It was an almost 2 hour bus ride to the hotel from the airport. This was awful. We were all hungry and tired from traveling all day. We finally got to the hotel around 8:30pm and checked in, got our cool gifts and off to dinner! Dinner the 1st night was at the “Waldhouse” which was behind the hotel. It was a cool little pub and they had a great wiener-schnitzel sandwich! Strongbow in bottles never hurts either! We realized at dinner that it doesn’t get dark there until after 10pm at night-kind of a crazy concept!
Friday morning we had the free buffet breakfast and then I had to head off to my “meeting”. This is the way Oracle says it’s a work function so the employees don’t pay taxes. It was a teambuiliding event. “Joe Davidson’s grill camp”…..we got there and had to chose a number which put us in groups. Joe taught us about BBQ etc and then the teams split off to the 45+ grills to start the competition! Every team had 6 people and every person had a specific task-I was the teams judge and had to go to the judging tent and taste a lot of the food. It was sausage, pork and chicken. We all had a lot of fun! Our team placed 3rd in chicken! LOL It’s pretty funny to admit that!
The rest of Friday we putzed around until it was time for the “welcome reception”. This was basically an opportunity for free alcohol and food. Everyone loaded up on both and then we headed downtown. It’s only about a mile to downtown but the evenings are chilly so we took a cab. All of the people from my floor that were there met at a bar called “Tommy’s”. Basically we took the place over! They had Strongbow in cans so that was a plus…… A little later we wandered to an Irish pub and ate some food and had Strongbow on tap! Woohoo Strongbow! What a way to celebrate the 4th of July!
Saturday was “activity day”. We had a list of things to choose from this day and Oracle picked up the tab. Evan played golf with the elk and I went to the spa for a mani/pedi. It was a long day for the golfers since it was a shotgun start—it took them about 6 hours to finish the course! We had some downtime after that before the next happy hour and the awards dinner! The free alcohol was a plus but the band was awful. The field had the Who and we got some crappy local Canadian band. It happens every year though so we are used to it. After the dinner we all headed downtown again to “Rose and Crown”. This was a pretty cool bar with pool tables etc. Everyone continued to pour the alcohol in……
Sunday was a day off from organized activities. Evan played golf again and I wandered downtown. We both went to the pool later and then went to the Grizzly House for some super tasty fondue! This place was even better than the Melting Pot…..mmmmmm….melted cheese and chocolate! We were in early on Sunday since we had to be on the bus at 3:30 am to go back to the airport!
Evan’s parents came up on Wednesday to watch Travis while we go on our trip. They picked him up from school- which he thought was a real treat! This week the theme at camp was “ancient Egyptians” so Travis came home every day talking about pyramids, mummies and Egypt. He seems to really be enjoying the new school and learning A LOT! Travis did a lot of fun things while Grammy and Poppy were watching him. They went and saw fireworks, went to the pool and saw the movie Wall-E!
On Thursday morning we left for the Oracle Club trip in Banff, Canada. It was a long travel day but we were able to sit in the Red Carpet Club and ride 1st class from Chicago to Calgary! It was an almost 2 hour bus ride to the hotel from the airport. This was awful. We were all hungry and tired from traveling all day. We finally got to the hotel around 8:30pm and checked in, got our cool gifts and off to dinner! Dinner the 1st night was at the “Waldhouse” which was behind the hotel. It was a cool little pub and they had a great wiener-schnitzel sandwich! Strongbow in bottles never hurts either! We realized at dinner that it doesn’t get dark there until after 10pm at night-kind of a crazy concept!
Friday morning we had the free buffet breakfast and then I had to head off to my “meeting”. This is the way Oracle says it’s a work function so the employees don’t pay taxes. It was a teambuiliding event. “Joe Davidson’s grill camp”…..we got there and had to chose a number which put us in groups. Joe taught us about BBQ etc and then the teams split off to the 45+ grills to start the competition! Every team had 6 people and every person had a specific task-I was the teams judge and had to go to the judging tent and taste a lot of the food. It was sausage, pork and chicken. We all had a lot of fun! Our team placed 3rd in chicken! LOL It’s pretty funny to admit that!
The rest of Friday we putzed around until it was time for the “welcome reception”. This was basically an opportunity for free alcohol and food. Everyone loaded up on both and then we headed downtown. It’s only about a mile to downtown but the evenings are chilly so we took a cab. All of the people from my floor that were there met at a bar called “Tommy’s”. Basically we took the place over! They had Strongbow in cans so that was a plus…… A little later we wandered to an Irish pub and ate some food and had Strongbow on tap! Woohoo Strongbow! What a way to celebrate the 4th of July!
Saturday was “activity day”. We had a list of things to choose from this day and Oracle picked up the tab. Evan played golf with the elk and I went to the spa for a mani/pedi. It was a long day for the golfers since it was a shotgun start—it took them about 6 hours to finish the course! We had some downtime after that before the next happy hour and the awards dinner! The free alcohol was a plus but the band was awful. The field had the Who and we got some crappy local Canadian band. It happens every year though so we are used to it. After the dinner we all headed downtown again to “Rose and Crown”. This was a pretty cool bar with pool tables etc. Everyone continued to pour the alcohol in……
Sunday was a day off from organized activities. Evan played golf again and I wandered downtown. We both went to the pool later and then went to the Grizzly House for some super tasty fondue! This place was even better than the Melting Pot…..mmmmmm….melted cheese and chocolate! We were in early on Sunday since we had to be on the bus at 3:30 am to go back to the airport!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
New school has started!
This week started with Travis going to summer camp at his new school. He is attending Discovery Oaks Academy in Sterling and will be in the Pre-K class in the fall. It seems to be a great school and it backs up to Claude Moore Park so there is a massive playground in the backyard. We have heard nothing but great things about this school so it was very exciting for Travis to finally start! Travis wasn’t 100% sure about being there so every morning he cried and had to be held back while I walked out of the door. About 5 minutes later every day he was all done crying and playing with the other kids. Every week is a different theme-the 1st week was “Eager Explorers”. Travis made a map and they had a cool scavenger hunt in the backyard. Every day he was playing happily when I picked him up which is nice! He goes to school in his bathing suit every day since they have splash pools/sprinklers every morning for the kids. Travis loves this!
Swimming lessons started up this week as well. Travis did pretty well the 1st few days but his attention span isn’t the best. He tends to wander away from the group. Since he is very tall he can stand up in most of the shallow end so it isn’t a huge deal. The teacher had to keep asking him to put his hands on the wall-lol.
Friday everyone in my division went to the Nats game in DC. I hadn’t been to the new stadium yet so it was really nice! The Nats played the Orioles and beat them 4-2. We all had a great time and I loved having everything paid for by the company! Nats dollars are the way to go!
Saturday we spent a little time at the pool in the morning and then I went to the DMB concert with Tammy, Mandy and Charlie while Evan and Travis went to a cookout at Chris and Missy’s house. We had a great time at the concert and Evan and Travis had fun at Chris and Missy’s. A good time was had by everyone on Saturday evening!
Sunday we went to the pool in the Am again and Travis actually swam by HIMSELF! He has mastered the fine art of jumping off the side in the deep end and swimming (doggy paddle) about 5 feet away. He did this over and over and over again. Built up a ton of confidence! In the early afternoon we headed over to Mom and Dad’s for a belated Father’s day cookout. Almost everyone was out of town on Father’s day so we decided to delay the proceedings. It was good to hang out, eat, and for the boys to yell at the TV while watching the Euro soccer final.
Swimming lessons started up this week as well. Travis did pretty well the 1st few days but his attention span isn’t the best. He tends to wander away from the group. Since he is very tall he can stand up in most of the shallow end so it isn’t a huge deal. The teacher had to keep asking him to put his hands on the wall-lol.
Friday everyone in my division went to the Nats game in DC. I hadn’t been to the new stadium yet so it was really nice! The Nats played the Orioles and beat them 4-2. We all had a great time and I loved having everything paid for by the company! Nats dollars are the way to go!
Saturday we spent a little time at the pool in the morning and then I went to the DMB concert with Tammy, Mandy and Charlie while Evan and Travis went to a cookout at Chris and Missy’s house. We had a great time at the concert and Evan and Travis had fun at Chris and Missy’s. A good time was had by everyone on Saturday evening!
Sunday we went to the pool in the Am again and Travis actually swam by HIMSELF! He has mastered the fine art of jumping off the side in the deep end and swimming (doggy paddle) about 5 feet away. He did this over and over and over again. Built up a ton of confidence! In the early afternoon we headed over to Mom and Dad’s for a belated Father’s day cookout. Almost everyone was out of town on Father’s day so we decided to delay the proceedings. It was good to hang out, eat, and for the boys to yell at the TV while watching the Euro soccer final.
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