Gen waters the grass

Some of you may not know this, but Robert really loves to water the grass. He has a tractor sprinkler, and each night he sets it on its course. If time permits, he and Genny sit on lawn chairs and watch it. So last night, Gen learned to use the hose to water Mom and Dad and Daisy (and some plants too). You can also hear the panhandle wind blowing on the video!

To Molly: To upload video, just make sure your digital video file is on the computer somewhere, or plugged in the USB drive or whatever. On the toolbar, you can add a video by clicking the icon to the right of the "add photo" icon. Then the video uploads just like a picture, only it takes a lot longer (give it about a minute for every second or two of video, usually).

Rowland Update

We had a great weekend. Carson got us tickets to the Colonial plus an added bonus of entry to the Merrill Lynch hospitality room. Thanks again, Carson! We enjoyed the view above the 18th hole where we got to see the exciting win at the end of the tournament. We loved it!

This picture is of Jeff, Glenda, and Kent (friends from Amarillo) and our new curbing around the tree. Thanks for the challenge, Wendy Lee, to all post updates. Your turn Wendy Anderson!

Thirty pounds later...

This is the closest thing I have to a profile picture, one from my baby shower back in April. I really haven't gained much more weight since then, just a few pounds from all the cake and cookies I've been craving!

Life around here has been all about preparing for baby. Getting a new washer/dryer, installing the car seat, packing bags, freezing some dinners, and getting a new tv have been our excitement lately. Yeah, yeah...the new tv has nothing to do with baby on the way. It's just taken us a year to finally get one, so it was nice to mark that off our "to do" list. And, for those of you that haven't ever installed a car seat, try to avoid this task at all costs! My mechanical engineer husband threw the instruction manual at me after about 30 minutes saying he gave up. It's harder than it looks! We keep asking ourselves how we ever made it past childhood without car seats to keep us locked in place. Gone are the days of playing "Barbie" in the floorboards!

Wendy Poling has inspired me to start our on little Pfaff blog to keep up with our crazy life. Check it out at www.pfafftimes.blogspot.com. There is only one little post right now. We can't wait to announce her name to the world. All the guessing has been lots of fun!

We've had a busy spring with lots of parties and performances. This is a picture of Carly last night at her recital. She did well! She always has a way of finding center stage. The theme of the recital was "Fire." It was appropriate, since everything in Big Spring has either caught fire or exploded this year. Walt can relate all too well, I guess. Maybe if Robert or Wendy will teach me how to post a video, I can post one of her performances.
Conrad is doing well and is finally pulling out of the terrible two's. This is our last week of school and we're ready to get a break from teenagers! But -- Marc will do summer basketball camp for little kids, and I'll be working for a couple more weeks on summer school and transcripts. No big summer plans. We hope to go to the cousins' reunion; it all depends on TAKS retest. There is a chance that I will be District Test Coordinator next year and I'll have to do summer testing for the kids that failed (life would be so simple if everyone would just pass!) Even so, surely I'll be able to make the reunion...and maybe I'll let Conrad come this year since he is being a nice boy. I guess I better start saving up for the gasoline (isn't it CRAZY?????)
Take care, everyone!

Calling for updates!

Hey everyone, how about an update?

Things that I'm sure everyone need to know:

Monica -- profile pics, please?

Walt -- house pics, please?

Stan -- how long until you are looking for a new boarder?

Justus, Gary and Andrew -- Europe trip?

Robert -- tell us about your new job!

Parrish -- you too!

Landon -- you too!

Carson -- your new job as well!

Meredith -- pics from the big Bridges Foundation walk you organized so well?

Linda and Molly and Wendy and Julianne -- what big plans do you have once school's out for summer?