Day 81 / Post 55Here is a new “Dress” photo of Cohort 13. Photo was taken a week or so ago and is a nice final portrait of the group. I think that Christi and everyone in the group are ready for the class work to be over. Although they still have a ton of things to do before they receive the degree. I am off to spend the night at the Houston Zoo for what they call “Wild Winks” with the Cub Scouts, wish me luck!
Day 80 / Post 54Here is a new photo of me and Duke checking out the Astros game on TV. I was a win so we were both happy. I got the win and Duke got a treat. I think if this keeps up he will become a hard core Astros fan. The Astros have finally got above 500, it is about time. Duke has just turned 4 months old and is getting fat. He is up to about 10 pounds. It may not sound like much but he is not supposed to get above 15 pound in his normal size.
Day 79 / Post 53
Day 78 / Post 52Last week we went to FOTW night at the Rockets Game. We enjoyed the basketball game and then Pastor Kerry challenged NBA great Matt Bullard to a 3 point shooting contest. Matt was so worried about his challenger that he didn’t bother to change out of his cowboy boots. Pastor Kerry was given every chance to keep it close but in the end Matt took home the award. It was a good game and fun was had by all. I must say though at times it was kind of hard to tell what was going on. There is nothing like the view from the cheap seats.
Day 77 / Post 51Repost for Monday, April 16, 2007
Christi Animal Series, Post #4. Well you can say that animals were coming more proactive in Christi’s life but here is the clincher. Christi and her entire school are raising money for The American Cancer Society. Jerri, her boss, said that if the kids raised $2000 for this cause then she would kiss a pig.
What she left out, at least in Christi’s version of the story, is that not only would she kiss a pig, but Christi would to. I was not there but I can just imagine the look on Christi’s face when she got this information at the assembly Monday morning, in front of all 800 kids in her school. What is a good AP to do; well she kissed that pig to the cheers of those 800 kids. The animal saga is now over, she hopes.
Day 76 / Post 50Repost for Sunday, April 15, 2007
Christi Animal Series, Post #3. We all know that life in the public school system is difficult. There just are never enough funds for the PTO to do what it needs. Well in order to help out, Chick-fil-a decided to help out and gave the school a spirit night. Well in order to promote the evening to make as much money as possible Chic-fil-a also allowed the use of their 10 foot inflatable cow. Here we see a picture of Jerri and Christi passing out flyers to parents as they pick up there children after school. Who says that an AP’s job is never done, who says they get to go home at 4:00?
Day 75 / Post 49Repost for Saturday, April 14, 2007
Christi Animal Series, Post #2. I was considering the omen statement made yesterday and thought of another example. Christi is finishing up her Doctorate in Education and is a part of Cohort 13. Well the official mascot of Cohort 13 is the donkey, animal #2 that is full time in her life. This is a close up edit of the Cohort 13 group photo where each of them is holding their own official Cohort 13 mascot. I think it even makes noise, but for some reason she has hid it from me so I am not sure any more. See you tomorrow for the next piece of our animal puzzle.
Day 74 / Post 48Repost for Friday, April 13, 2007
I think it is time for a new series of photos. Therefore, I have decided to do a Christi animal series. We all know that Christi loves animals, just as long as she doesn’t have to be involved with the animals.
This picture is of Christi holding Duke when we first brought him home in December, he has grown since then. It took Clay about 2 years of begging before he was allowed to get a dog. This photo could be considered an omen for things to come, but I don’t want to give away the story line. Check back tomorrow for another piece in this new puzzle.
Day 73 / Post 47Repost for Thursday, April 12, 2007
Pat at Work Series, Final Post #5. I think that we have all had our good laugh at my expense therefore; this is the last Pat at Work post. This is a photo taken outside of the Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball stadium in, of course,
Day 72 / Post 46Repost for Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Pat at Work Series, Post #4. Sometimes when we travel discussions tend to go off into way left field. That is what happened here. This is a photo from a training trip when Meredith, LeAnn, and I went to DevCom to get educated. LeAnn started talking a bunch of smack about how she could clean house against Meredith and I at pool. Well, we could not pass up the chance to blow that theory out of the water, so we took that bet and found a pool hall. We only stayed about an hour but that was long enough for LeAnn to prove that she was right. You know, sometimes I just hate that game.
Day 71 / Post 45Repost for Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Pat at Work Series, Post #3. Those of you that know me might find it hard to believe but sometimes people find me difficult to be around. This is a photo of just such an occasion. Tony and I were on our way back from a trip to
Day 70 / Post 44Repost for Monday, April 9, 2007
Sometimes it is necessary for me to travel to do my job. We go out to the field and take photos or videos of the employees in action. We then use these to make new and creative eLearning modules to train from. This is a photo we took on our off time on one of these trips. I think this photo looks like something from the
Day 69 / Post 43Repost for Sunday, April 8, 2007
Lately I have been getting emails accusing me of not being an equal opportunity abuser in my blog. I have posted many ‘creative’ photos of everyone else in the family but not to many of me. Well that is an easy one to explain. First, it is my blog and second, I am the only one with the password to it. Hah! But so I can be completely fair I have decided to post a photo of me. This one is me at work. We were in the equipment bay taking a break; it was a very hot day, so NO wise remarks from the peanut gallery. You are just jealous anyway!
Repost for Saturday, April 7, 2007
Easter Series Post #4. OK, I think this is going to be my last post of Easter photos. Time to move on to something else, just don’t know what yet. Here we see Clay checking his egg count after Cody accuses him of having too many eggs. For the record, Clay had the proper number of eggs, Mike was the guilty party. Man, those older brothers, what are you going to do?
Repost for Friday, April 6, 2007
Repost for Thursday, April 5, 2007
Another Easter weekend photo; here we see MeMaw and Cody counting his Easter Eggs. If you remember our photo from yesterday this one comes later in the day then that. Cody wanted to make sure that everything was still OK so he had MeMaw help him with his second count. You can never be to sure when you’re the youngest and candy is involved. Regular readers might note that this is the first photo of MeMaw in the blog, and she is nun to happy about it. She is not what we will call a photogenic person.
Day 65 / Post 39OK, as per your requests I will add Easter photos for the next few days. Here we see Mom and Cody counting his found eggs at GG’s. You know that as the youngest of three boys you can never be too sure that you are not being cheated by your older brothers. Cody has caught them in the past and is determined not to ever let it happen again.
Day 64 / Post 38
Here is a picture of Christi’s Doctoral Cohort. They are Cohort 13 and their mascot is the donkey. The light at the end of the tunnel is starting to appear and I though it would be nice to post a picture of the group.
Day 63 / Post 37
