Damon sent me out last night to pick something up for his office today. While making the drive I had the sudden inspiration that maybe I should “celebrate” St. Patrick’s Day in some form for my kids. It’s not that I don’t appreciate St. Patrick and his contribution to spreading the word of God, but really it has become watered (or beered?) down in such a way that people don’t even pinch you anymore if you aren’t wearing green.
So, to introduce St. Patrick to the kids I picked up streamers at the store. I got red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. They didn’t have it in indigo or violet. When I got home, the kids were already in bed, so I got to work. And this is the product:
No, it isn’t a pretty video, but the project was a bit too large to fit in a picture. Continue Reading »
We got back from our annual trip to the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament yesterday and this year we came away from Atlanta feeling happy and well… not actually hating Atlanta.
This year we changed up our vacation strategy by staying in a Bed and Breakfast which proved to save money and take away a ton of stress I didn’t recognize we had until it was missing.
The tournament was fun, even though Auburn lost their first game. The kids loved riding the MARTA, we found restaurants that weren’t crowded and had good food, and Tebow found fans in the stands while he enjoyed the games. And if he looks like this, why wouldn’t he have fans?
Reading daily is just a part of our lives… I read Fuller his lessons, he reads a book to me almost every day, and Damon’s new kindle has sparked a father/son reading marathon of the Wizard of Oz books (I think they are on book five).
I sometimes joke that having a child who can read is a big adjustment for our family. Suddenly Fuller is gathering information from word he sees, not just words he hears. At Christmas he was reading over my shoulder as I had an IM conversation with Damon. The topic was Christmas presents, so I actually switched computers to finish the conversation with D. Fuller sees URLs as part of advertisements or on packaging and asks to visit the sites (um, no).
But joking aside, I love that Fuller can read and I cherish the reading aloud he does, because the joy it gives us both is more than I ever imagined. And watching Damon spend an hour or more reading about Dorothy, Tick Tock, and whatever other characters live in the Kindle also brings me joy.
So, I say bring some more joy into your life. Read out loud to someone today, and celebrate bringing literacy to the world.
Fuller’s football season isn’t the only football we have enjoyed this fall. As an Auburn fan family we were thrilled to watch the Tigers play this season. We didn’t get to go to Auburn as much as we hoped, but as I have mentioned before, it was a little lesson in honoring commitment (and a little bit of cursing at CBS for broadcasting their games in the afternoon instead of night).
Well, tonight our family gathered around the media center and cheered the Tigers on to victory during the SEC championship game.
Earlier this week I was able to get a little video of Fuller singing the “Tunnel Video” song. The Tunnel Video is the video shown on the jumbotron at home games, right before the players take the field. It has hand motions (as indicated by the words “everybody’s hands go up” and “up, down, up, down, up”), which we have taught Tebow but have never successfully recorded on video. (He even sings some of the words, specifically “win” which is so darn cute and you just have to be here to see it, I guess.)
Well, we still have Fuller singing the song. Which I think is equally adorable because if you have seen the tunnel video, you know that there is a sound bite from Coach Chizik regarding the fans (that’s US!). Fuller doesn’t just sing the song, he says the sound bite too!
Here’s the original video:
It was a fun game and I’m so happy the Tigers were able to win, win, win their way to the Championship and now we just need to get through bowl season and see them win the national title! War Eagle!
So if you were looking through our pictures and you came across these pictures, what would you say? (Feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you really thought.)
Even though I upload pictures to flickr, I rarely go back and update descriptions and titles. I guess I figure that’s what the blog should be for?
This picture is floating in the photostream, and I thought I would explain that one of these jerseys was Fuller’s birthday present. Damon read an article on Sports Illustrated (or ESPN or some sports site) about the shortage of Tebow jerseys for the Broncos. They kept selling out faster than they could be kept on shelves. Well, it so happens that a player who left the Broncos before Tebow was drafted also had the number 15. And apparently that guy was kind of a jerk. So, there were plenty of his jerseys on the shelves.
A company in Colorado was accepting the jerk guy’s jerseys and recycling them by sewing Tebow’s name on the back. Those jerseys were cheaper too. So, Damon went ahead and purchased a jersey of the other player, sent it to the company, and got Fuller a recycled jersey. And he LOVES it.
And now to explain why there is a smaller jersey with Fuller’s name on the back.
One of Damon’s coworker’s thought it would be a good idea to see if there was an NFL player with the last name Fuller and then we would purchase Tebow his own jersey, with Fuller’s name on the back. Damon found one player- Vincent Fuller- who plays for the Tennessee Titans. This is cool because we are close to Tennessee.
And this is where the story gets better.
The Sunday before Fuller’s birthday the Broncos and the Titans played each other. So throwing together a tailgate theme party was immediately decided and fun was had by all.
