Posted by Jennifer at February 24th, 2008

Dave and I got to go see the #1 Memphis Tigers play the #2 Tennessee Volunteers at the FedEx Forum. The game was the feature of ESPN’s Game Day, and we went to that too. See that huge line in the pictures? That is what Dave refers to as “the EVIL line.” Yes, we were in line all day and nearly got trampled to get into the game. On top of that, the Tigers didn’t even win.

Posted by Jennifer at January 20th, 2008

We celebrated Elliot’s Fourth Birthday Party at Chuck E. Cheese’s. I baked him a chocolate dragon cake with cream cheese frosting. If you like the cake design, you can find instructions to make your own on this web site. But be warned: if you want to make it as green as mine, plan on using an entire bottle of green food coloring! I even had to add some blue to that to get the shade right. Elliot helped me bake and frost the cake. He’s a whiz in the kitchen!

Posted by Jennifer at January 6th, 2008

Here are pictures from our Christmas celebration last year. Dave and I hosted Christmas in our home, and Dave smoked a beautiful turkey. (Yes, it tasted as good as it looked!) Elliot’s favorite gift was his “hockey-doctor” (translation: helicopter.) You can see him flying it in a couple of the pictures, if you look really closely.

Posted by Jennifer at November 1st, 2007

Here are our pictures that we took at Halloween last year. A couple of these are from our trip to the Corn Maize at the Agricenter. The rest are pictures of Halloween night. We trick-or-treat in Central Gardens every year. This year, I used my new sewing machine to make Elliot a Curious George costume. Dave was the Man in the Yellow Hat. I don’t know what I was. I just found a yellow outfit at Goodwill so I would match Dave.

Posted by Jennifer at September 10th, 2007

Over Labor Day weekend, Dave and I took a trip up to Buffalo, New York for the Buffalo Wing Festival. We ended up spending more time in Canada than in New York, however. We went up into Ontario and toured several Canadian wineries and saw Niagara Falls. Actually, we spent more time finding a parking place and trying to get out of the town than we actually spent looking at the Falls. We spent the last day of our trip at the Festival, where we had some really good and really interesting versions of wings. Oddly enough, though our primary reason for going on the trip was to go to the festival, we didn’t take a single photo of the festival itself, though we got some great shots from our journey into Canada.

Posted by Jennifer at August 29th, 2007

This fall, we promised Elliot we would take him camping, but as the date loomed, we realized that we were too tired to actually go camping. Instead, we went to Home Depot and bought a fire pit. We pitched the tent in our backyard and roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. It was great fun, and Elliot loved it!