http://www.egarst.com/blog Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:16:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm off to Houston tomorrow morning for a multi-themed trip.  The Memphis Tigers' advancement to the Sweet Sixteen is more than a good enough excuse to go back to Houston for a weekend.  Not only do I have plans to see the Tigers stomp Michigan State and either Stanford or ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/03/27/road-trip/ At the bottom of every post, you'll see a comment tally. If you click on it, you can leave a comment. So feel free to comment on any posts! The first time you comment, it won't show up immediately in order to prevent spam.  After you've been approved, ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-to-leave-a-comment/ I've just added six image galleries. I've adjusted the timestamps on them so that visitors can see when they actually happened. I'll be doing this with all of the old pictures I add to the site so that they'll show up in chronological order. As I add ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/03/06/image-updates/ I'm sure it had become obvious to just about everybody that I haven't updated egarst.com in - oh - about a year. Shame on me. Really, I'm very sorry about that because I know a lot of people depended on this site for updates on our family and on ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/03/04/welcome-back/ 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 ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/02/24/go-tigers-go/ 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 ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/01/20/elliots-fourth-birthday-party/ 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 ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2008/01/06/christmas-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 ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2007/11/01/happy-halloween/ 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. ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2007/09/10/buffalo-wings-and-wineries/ 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 ... http://www.egarst.com/blog/2007/08/29/the-great-outdoors/