At the park 2.21.10

It was a beautiful sunny day and 60 degrees on this Sunday in February. My brother Alex was staying with us for a few days helping Matthew with building some shelves on Saturday. So the next day (Sunday) we decided to take the boys to a playground that was down the road near the grocery store.

Samuel fell asleep in the car so we just parked right up front and let Isaac play.

As you can see there is still snow patches. But it felt pretty nice out!

It was really a colorful play set! Makes great for pictures!

Such a good looking boy!!

Playground 2

We decided to leave the first park we went to because they only had one play set and no swings. It wasn't a large area, and there were quite a few other kids playing. We stopped by the dollar store to pick up some candy. And then we decided to go to the elementary school playground that's just down the street from our house (within walking distance).

This was actually our first time going there, and we were happy we did! It was way larger than the other place we went to and they have swings here and no one was there. So we had the whole park to ourselves! The boys had a blast!

It was quite muddy and still snow spots here and there. But we had fun!

Samuel at first seemed a little scared when I took him down this winding slide. But the second time I took him, he laughed and smiled and really liked it!

Weee!!

Handsomeness

My brother, Alex on the swing.

Me and my baby!

Matthew standing on the bars.

Samuel running after Daddy and Uncle Alex...

Matthew & Alex swinging.

Isaac, our handsome young man!

Daddy & Samuel!

Billiards & "Said I Loved You But I Lied"

I decided to get together with Alex and Eric one night and we went to play some pool.  We had a great time playing at the good ol' Wilkes Bowling Alley.  When I was a little boy I wanted to be Michael Bolton really badly.  That kinda explains this video...

Valentine's Day & Cookie Making

Here is Isaac making valentine cookies.

Samuel enjoyed eating the dough mostly.

Handsome Isaac decorating the cookies.

Uncle Eric made this for me to give to my beautiful wife.  It is a white chocolate handmade, homemade cheesecake.  He used a copper cutter to do this.  Eric Border is the bomb when it comes to copper and making it look like different things.  If you want to see his stuff go here.

Here is the meal that Jessica and I prepared.  It was very delicious.  I found these steaks on sale and decided to grill them.  They had some great marbling and flavor.  Jessica prepared the garlic asparagus, sweet potatoes, rice, and acorn squash.  It was super good. 

This is of course some tasty Welch's sparkling grape juice.

I had to go over and Help "Uncle Eric" with some computer/printer things and I found this super cool piece of glass laying around.  It made for a neat picture.

Our 5th Wedding Anniversary 2.5.10

Well, here we are 5 years after the initial ceremony.  Jessica and I decided to wander off to Winston Salem, home of some of the great tobacco products.  Anyways, we went to Carrabbas for the first time and had a "okay" meal.  The bread and dip stuff was awesome but the salads were overloaded with dressing, and the food was just not what we expected.  The atmosphere was pleasant and the service was great.  One of the funny highlights of the place was the name of my entree'.  It was called "Pasta Rambo".  When the server brought out my meal, I said to him "Yeah it does look like Sylvester Stallone doesn't it"?  I really enjoyed going out with just Jessica and enjoying some alone time with her. 

After the meal, Jessica and I went to Dick's Sporting goods and looked at stuff, "that is all I have to say about that".  Anywayz, we went to the mall, grabbed some Girl Scout Cookies, drooled over some Pottery Barn crap, and left.  We then went to Barns & Noble and these photos below are the result of that.  Jessica was checking out this book that recently came out.  She might find that in her stocking this year or perhaps sooner.  *wink