On the way home from my wife’s college homecoming (it was the 100th) we decided to take a small detour for a couple of hours to visit Turner falls.  I have never been there before but have driven past it and seen it from the observation point.  Well this day did not disappoint.  It was a beautiful day.

Here is one shot of it:

We heard a rattlesnake but never saw it which I think is a good thing.  The people behind us coming up the trail did see it and got a picture of it.  The boys had fun and so did we.  We really didn’t want to leave.

We will have to make some plans to go back up there in the future.

It’s been nice to have my parents here the last two weeks.  They flew down here to meet there new grand kids.  I’m glad they were able to come since travel is so expensive these days.  Originally we were going to fly up on Thanksgiving but only 4 days.  But now we got to see them for 14 days which sure beats out 4 any day.

Now the first part of there stay I want to blame them for the weather as it was non stop cloudy and rainy.  Then the day we went to the Texas State Fair the rain stopped (but remained cloudy and cool) then a couple days later the sun reappeared until this morning.  Back to a full day of rain it looks like.  Oh well that’s OK cause we have had our fun and their trip is almost complete.

We will miss them come Saturday afternoon.  Next time will be in the Summer, most likely in June.

It’s unbelievable really.  We have been so busy the past few months.  Soccer started back in full force.  Then we got news that we were selected as 1 of 2 families to adopt two boys (Brothers).  One week went by and we were selected as the adoptive family.  So after reading many, very many pages of case files we took a leap of faith and said yes to adopt these 2 boys.  They are 3 and 8.  It’s so awesome! 

However it was or has been a lot of work to prepare for this.  Tonight will mark the first week that we have had them.  Yes it’s a hard adjustment from being a married couple with tons of time on our hands to having two boys and no time on our hands, but it is and will be worth it, the remainder of our life.

We love them…

So now that things are settling into place, I hope to update this more often and have stories to tell about our mis-adventures of our new family…

I know it’s been a long time since I have been wanting a new TV.  You know one of those awesome, nice, bright, hdtv’s.  Well two weeks ago I finally got one.  I did some side jobs to earn the  $$ for it and my wife agreed that it was a good idea to upgrade.  I was finally happy to get rid of that HUGEboat anchor that we use to watch.  Although we have thought about it, we did not mount this to the wall.  I think might in the future but for now, it’s happily sitting on top of a new tv stand/entertainment system.

I actually wish we would have searched for some mounts prior to this and skipped the whole step of waiting to determine what we wanted and that way we could have just mounted it. Either way right now I’m happy and have a great picture. Now to convince someone to get me a surround sound system and a Blu-ray player for the upcoming holidays…

I really want a vacation.  But with some family changes that just took place this might be some time before I get to go anywhere.

I have always wanted to go see a different part of the country.  Often when you do plan for a vacation a lot of people tend to think of sun and beaches but over look some of the other destinations.  I was doing some checking and ran across this place in Tennessee.  Gatlinburg vacations in the Tennessee mountains, looks like it has a lot to offer.  I think it would be fun to take a road trip over there.  From North Texas it cannot be too bad of a drive.

After going over all of the attractions and things to do, I want to make sure that I keep this on the radar so when we can actually take a road trip I will remember this place.

It’s almost that time of year again.  Yep back to school.  My wife is a teacher and after having the entire summer off she is not ready to get back to the daily grind.  I always remind her that I continue to work every day and she should be really lucky to have a few months off in the summer time.

I think in about 2 weeks she has to start going back daily to get her classroom ready.  She will need to dust and clean.  Get the textbooks organized and ready.  And then she will have to put on the final touches when she gets the list with kids names on them.

I think she is going with her Frog theme again this year.  It was really cool last year.  I know her mom is coming down to help her which she loves and I’m sure I will pitch in at least one night to help out.

I actually cannot believe it’s been this long..  I have been rather busy and there has been a lot going on this last month.  I have a lot to write about just don’t have a lot of time lately.

Here is a small list of things:

* Soccer season just started
* Weekend getaway to Fredericksburg, tx
* Trying to adopt a child

Over the next day or two I will post some write ups on these things..

At times I can have a lot of things going on.  Some things I can forget about and some I wait and procrastinate and wait till the last minute.  But last night despite the busy schedule I finally said forget it.  I grabbed my iPhone and put some music into my ears and just sat back and relaxed.  It was pretty nice.  I really don’t do that enough I think.

The last couple of weeks have been really long.  For starters my wife left on Thursday 11th to head up and help her mom take care of her dad during back surgery.  I know that took a lot out of her.  I think she is actually coming home today.  I hope so, I miss her.  We missed her birthday and our 8th Anniversary.  I love you Leslie…  We have had lots of soccer practices lately and in this heat it can wear you out.

A couple times I have tried to go out and do some clothes shopping, but wow I will be honest I hate it.  Not to mention things are just so expensive.  Maybe if I wouldn’t have bought the new iPhone it wouldn’t be so bad after all.

And finally, work is work after all.  I’m trying to get mentally prepared for a few big projects that might be coming up in the next few weeks.  Although I did want to start these back in March, it has taken this long to get what we needed configured on the hardware side and to get some good deals going.  For those who know IT work, we are getting ready to switch over to VMware on a blade server.  And I also have to get a new backup server prepped and ready to go and last but not least, learn server 2008 and exchange 2007 so we can migrate our existing email system.

See a lot going on huh?  Not to mention that I seem to need about 1 hour a night to play WoW.  I’m up to level 33 now.  Still a long ways to go to hit 80 and be elite like the others…  hehehe