matt, carla, and scout...hangin' out

Monday, June 13, 2005

:: in chicago!

greetings from chicago!
chris, chris, and i are here for the HOW design conference! whee! so much fun! it's now 1.45am and i am pooped...so i'm just going to post some pics from today...we're having a blast and pictures can show it better than i can tell it...haha!

here's the view from my room...looking east at lake michigan
lake view

here's the street...some exciting photography, huh? mommer would have a stroke from the height! haha!
street view

sweet room, huh? it's treatin' me nice!
sweet room

chris, me, and chris...just out of a session at the conference...time for a burger!
cccinc

goofy, goofy, carla at billy goat tavern...cup contents = water...i promise! :)
at billy goat

chris ran into a little trouble atop the john hancock building...we managed to pull him up! :)
chris falls!

i kept my footing a little better than chris...here i am showing my mad window washin' skills!
carla window washer

poor chris...somebody get that boy a parachute!
chris falls off beam


that's all i have for now...we're slammed tomorrow with classes pretty much all day...then tomorrow night, the white sox game! YAY!

Sunday, June 05, 2005

:: an old friend...

CASH

that's cash...our old dog. he is now living in pell city, alabama on 72 acres of farm land. he moved away when we moved here in november, 2003. he needed more room to run and people who could give him more time and attention than we could. i was just thinking of him a lot lately and wanted to dedicate a post to him. so here's to you, johnny cash.

Saturday, June 04, 2005

:: what's going on...

looks like i've taken another hiatus from blogging...so much has been going on, that i really haven't had a chance to just sit down and do something fun and stress-releasing like blogging...haha! in the past few months, when i've sat down at the computer it's either to work, or check email, and not much of anything else.

fuzzy bison has been "working her hump off" (that's for you, lindsay..hahaha). for those of you who aren't aware, fuzzy bison is my freelance business name. lots of business has come my way and i'm very thankful for it. it's good to get that extra moolah for those "fun things" we want to do or buy..haha! i have one last job that i am wrapping up and after that is finished, fuzzy is taking the summer off! whoohoo! mainly because i need a break, but i'm going to be out of town so much that it's just not worth trying to tackle jobs in the midst of traveling. i leave saturday (june 11) for chicago for the HOW design conference with work. i'm really stoked about that..it's gonna be so fun! (www.howconference.com) july 10-16 i will be in nyc with work...we will be working with inner city kids in the bronx doing Upward basketball camps with new hope new york (newhopenewyork.com)...yet another exciting week! then, july 17, the greenville mall chick-fil-a (where matt is currently at) will be closing! YAY! so he will move on to greener pastures...hahaha! most probably, either cherrydale or back to woodruff road for 6 more months, then we will await the next assignment...hopefully won't be too many miles away! :) he will have a break between stores, so july 18 we are leaving to go somewhere on vacation. we haven't decided where yet, but are leaning towards a canoeing/camping trip...the adirondacks are looking pretty inviting! :)

i really didnt' mean to type all of that..i was just going to throw some pictures up and show what has been going on over the past month...so i'll get on with that now...

we went to see blue merle at the orange peel (asheville, nc) may 17. the shore opened up for them. both bands ROCKED!!
bluemerle

chris, lindsay, and i went climbing one day..i can't remember when this was..sometime in may...hahaha! it was fun! i had forgotten how much fun it was! hard...but fun!
chris+lindsay

matt and i went camping up at north mills river (outside of asheville) a couple of weekends ago. this was at the pink beds view area (like that isn't obvious..haha) on the blue ridge parkway...it was so hazy, so we couldn't see them :(
carla+matty-pb

stephen and i celebrated our birthdays on may 22 (our bdays are on the 19th). we had mom's surprise 60th bday party on the 20th...the details of that happening will be saved for a later post! i have pics to, but i don't have them ready to post...so i'll get them up at a later date...but here's the pic from our bday thingy at mom and dads...
group pic

upward was a part of relay for life this year! it was awesome! i'm so glad i was able to go! here are some of the upward peeps that came...lots more came throughout the night...
relay for life

and here is just a random photo i took of a weird looking spider on our back porch...he looks really big, but see the fly he caught for dinner? yeah, he's pretty small afterall...
spider

and here is a really ugly fish i caught today...it's a pickeral...that's what matt said...all i know is he was ugly and had teef! ha!
toofy fishy

welp, i'm pooped...so off to bed i go! i'll be back with more later...happy summer!! :)