Lil g & Mack playing basketball.

July 23, 2010: Georgie's 5th bday!

She asked for a scooter cuz her brother and sister had one. Little did she know we'd already thought of that! LOL



Ethan got her a piggy bank!



Cori got her a Unicorn on a Stick....sounds a little bit like a dessert!



She got a Ziu Ziu pet from Rob's cousins. This is also one of those things she asked for! LOL



Me and my cute girls. We had Lil g's bday party @ Peter Piper Pizza...or Peper Piper Pizza as she calls it!

Playing catch up!

I am soooooooooooooooooooo behind in my blogging. I just downloaded almost 500 pics off my phone and that's just from May! So I'm gonna do some pic blogs to catch up. I VOW to get my blogging back to a regular thing I do!

We've been taking daily walks around our Condo's lake and then swimming. Trying to make the most of our last week of summer vaca!


Chasing the kids on their scooters makes walking the lake a good workout for me!



Beautiful Scenery!



They are FAST!

Book titles that have been suggested to me. Add to my list in the comments sections

In no particular order...

Prague by Arthur Phillips
The Gifted Boss by Dale Dauten
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Slam by Nick Hornby
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs
Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Snobs by Julian Fellowes

The 'In Crowd'

I woke up today thinking about friendships, and how life is still exactly like high school sometimes. I think in my line of work people consider me part of the 'in crowd' and I know SO many people strive to get into this crowd. Whether it be at work, in a social setting, with family there always seems to be an 'in crowd', a person or group that everyone wants to be friends with. What I've realized about myself is I've never been IN the 'in crowd'. I have always hovered around it cautiously, mixing in it occaisionally, but always take myself right back out. I don't think people neccesarily look at me and WANT to be friends with me. As a matter of fact I think it's the opposite. I think people usually set out to not like me, and end up liking me anyway cuz I'm kinda infectuous. I've never thought of myself as anti-social but I definitely have issues when it comes to social circles. The fact that I find most people completely rediculous probably doesn't help. The fact that I speak my mind and use very little filter probably doesn't help either. I enjoy WATCHING people, even the stupid ones. It's hard to be IN a crowd when you prefer to sit quietly and watch the crowd.