A Message

If you can start the day without caffeine;
If you can get going without pep pills;
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains;
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles;
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it;
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time;
If you can forgive a friend's lack of consideration;
If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you when,
through no fault of your own, something goes wrong;
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment;
If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him;
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend;
If you can face the world without lies and deceit;
If you can conquer tension without medical help;
If you can relax without liquor;
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs;
If you can honestly say that deep in your heart you have no prejudice
against creed or color, religion or politics; then, my friend, you are
almost as good as your dog.


A little insight that I found on the web that helps us see some perspective
from a dog's point of view.

Sundays and Birthdays

Today is Amy's Birthday!!!

And we have had a wonderful Sunday for celebration. We went to have lunch at one of our favorite places to eat...Which Wich. If any of you do now know what that is...please do yourself a favor, go to their website, find one near you, and simply enjoy! Then we went to the theater and caught a matinée showing of License To Wed.

Last night we had our big celebration though. Amy had her pic of a place to eat for dinner and so her pick was Saffire in Franklin. So I had made resevations for 9 people earlier in the week and here's the result.


So dinner was awesome for all of us. However there was not a picture taken at the dinner table with Josh or Wendy. Didn't mean to leave them out. But everyone had come to our house afterward for desert and games! Here is what ensued.

Sequence is our new favorite game to play with anyone and everyone. So of course we busted it out and let the games begin. By the look of the picture and seeing all of the tokens one might think it is some kind of gambling or casino game...but it is not...I assure you. However it is a wicked awesome game to play with groups.

Then we had some desert! Amy had had this chocolate sort of layer cake from Carrabba's on Friday at work and decided that she wanted more. So before we came home we had called in an order, picked it up curb-side, then met everyone back at the house. After a round of Sequence we all shot to the kitchen for the sweets awaiting.









And then it was back to the game!
Don't remember what time we had finally finished playing a few rounds but everyone was pretty tired. So then everyone was out...but Josh.

So it was a great night!

Today after the movie we came home to relax till we had to be at church this evening. It was a great service and afterward we went to dinner with a whole new set of people. I forgot to take pictures to post on here from tonight so you'll have to imagine Amy eating a chicken taco salad...Ha!

So now we are home and reading to each other Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Please no one ruin it for us...we are reading it out loud to each other so that neither one of us knows how it ends before the other. Yea...we're that serious about this.

Uptown Girl

So today Amy and Olivia came out to have lunch with me at work. We have a wicked good time. Again we work out in the country so our lunch options, if one doesn't bring food from home, are very limited. Limited to 3 places...Puckett's (greasy country cookin'), Backyard Cafe (overpriced sandwiches...I do like the owner Laura though...she is cool), and a gas station that makes sandwiches (with mysterious people making your sandwich). So when Amy comes out it is a treat since it is not my normal tuna salad, pizza, or whatever I bring to work that day.
And they brought me Chick-fil-a!!! oh man was it good.

And Olivia was really cute today. Here are some of the conversation bits from this afternoon... Remember this is a 2 and a half year old.

I had never seen Amy do this but she was putting BBQ sauce and ranch on her sandwich.

Me: Amy, you're really doing that?
Amy: Yea it's good.
Me: You're weird
Amy: (makes a whatever facial expression at me)
Olivia: Amy is not weird! (faces Amy) You're not weird Amy.


Olivia has eaten a few pieces of nuggets and fruit and is down from her chair. Yet Amy says she needs to eat more .
Amy: Olivia, come eat some more chicken
Olivia: No thanks, I don't want anymore.
Amy: So are you done?
Olivia: Yea I'm gonna dance now. (proceeds to run around and throw her arms about)
Olivia: Look at me go!

Chick-fil-a gives a book with their children's meals. So Amy gives the book to her after she takes a dancing break.
Amy: Here read your book to Isaac.
Olivia: Isaac check out my new book. Isn't it cool?!
Isaac: Yea it's really cool.

As she is showing me her book.
Olivia: Can you find the dragon?
Isaac: (whispering) Oh geez...there's a dragon in there?
Olivia: (whispering) Yea...are you scared?


These may not seem too funny to everyone. I guess you just had to be there. To me the fact that she is talking so much is really incredible.

Rainy Day Woman #12 &35

This was a particularly good Saturday. Not that anything special happened it was just a good day. We had a relaxing morning then went to run some errands. We had to return a video and since it was at Macdonald's we decided to have a little bite to eat. Then we were off to home depot ( the new homeowners favorite place to shop). We grabbed the air filters and light bulbs we had gone in after and then went to the garden center to dream about what we want our yard to look like. Next it was home to do a little yard work. So we go in to change and get some water to drink and in that ten minutes a storm has blown in. So Isaac gets out there and starts speed mowing(just wait this will become a new sport one day) and he finishes the back just as the rain starts. So then the rest of the afternoon was very relaxing we spent some time sitting on the couch with the dogs watching the rain come down which was very peaceful. So even though nothing extraordinary happened it was a very good Saturday spent with our little family.

She's Got a Way

Good company, good food and good fun....what more could you ask for on a Friday night....nothing I tell you nothing. The company: Jason and Amy Davis, Mandy Moltz, Matt Thomas, and Isaac and myself of course there is no party without us. The food: SATCO san antonio taco company....yummy yummy in our tummies ( I have been hanging out with kids too much) . The fun: hanging out at centennial park and taking crazy pictures then off to starbucks to cool down with some summertime drinks.

Work

I am not sure that everyone knows that I, isaac, work in an old house in the country. So we do carry out our entire business from this house on a hill on a 10 acre property in Franklin, TN. (I actually posted pics from a field across the street from us in a posting below).

You need to know that information for that I am about to tell you what has been going on at work. Well maybe not...

Our conference room is what would be the huge living room of the house and it has a chimney and a fire place on one end and a co-worker had been hearing noise come from there for over a week. So he got mad and went over and kicked the fireplace and found out that the noise was now being made in response to his kicking. ha! It kind of sounds like a rattle...first assumption...rattlesnake!
By this time there's 4 of us guys in the conference room with a stick, a flashlight, a shovel, and the doors closed to the rest of the office. Yea...this is a work place. Sounds more like a crazy reality show now that I am typing it out. ha! So we are going to open the chimney doors that have not been opened in who knows how long...it's a dark and scary place. Trust me.

So we get it open and we keep hearing the rattling but nothing is there. Well there are actually a few baby bird skeletons and lots of bird droppings that immediately stink up the entire conference room. It was gross.
So this automatically is gauranteed that they are not rattlesnakes...seriously how could a snake get into the fire place anyway? well we were convinced it was a rattle snake up to this point.

Well we can't see anything from the bottom of the fire place...time to go on the roof! This is sounding more like a low-budget B-rated movie starring a twenty something Haley Joel Osment. So two of the guys go up and try to peer into the open chimney from the roof of the house apparently the noise is really loud and the guys are scared to even look down into the chimney. We end up feeding them a flood light to look down into the darkness. One of the guys ended up wide-eyed and saying..."I saw legs!" By this time HR figured we were wasting time and ordered everyone back inside.

So then today, all that stuff happened yesterday, one of the guys shows up with his BB gun to shoot into the chimney. I don't know what good that would do? No matter what kind of creature it was. Well they finally get up there and then discovered that is was a birds nest and that there were baby birds in the nest making all the noise in the first place.
Great...now we all look like jerks...shooting at baby birds. I guess that's what we get for trying to be curious.

that's work for ya...
...speaking of work....

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