you might think that with my working until 8 and 9PM this week and working Saturday until 2, I maybe wouldn't be considering myself too lucky. On top of the brutal work week, the Blazers lost to Oklahoma City - seriously. Oklahom City. Sometimes luck has a way of turning around though.
The auto show was this weekend and this can only be described as Mason's favorite event of the year after his birthday and Christmas. We are not in the market for a car and Luis and I have no real interest in what Detroit and Stuttgart are turning out this year. We went to take the kids.
While waiting in line to buy our tickets to the show, a lady walked by and handed us 4 free passes to get in! That saved us $30! That might have been enough to leave me happy for the weekend, but wait. It gets better.
The kids got to spend hours climbing around in new cars. According to Mason, his favorite was the Herbie.
And of course Siena had to like the Sienna...
The Hummers were quite popular amongst the Cruz kids too.
While the kids were climbing around on the latest in automotive technology, I was standing in line. For an hour. Why would someone do such a thing you may ask? Well, unbeknownst to us when we got there...
MY FAVORITE BLAZER RUDY FERNANDEZ WAS ON HAND SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS!!!!!
Isn't he cute! (Note that isn't a question)Don't think this picture won't be our Christmas card next year...
Luis spoke a little Spanish with him, asking him who his favorite football team was (FC Barcelona if anyone cares). Oh yeah. That was cool. 
The kumla has been born! There is is next to its cousin Butter.
Course part of the fun of kumla is getting together with family. Mason loves to see his YaYa.
Bruce and Mary Lou recently converted grandpa's old room into a playroom for the kids, complete with the little pink car that my kids LOVED (and fought over). Siena won. If you're wondering how, just see the clip of her right hook from a couple of weeks ago.
Here's Mr. Berren. He's just so darn cute I keep taking pictures of him.
Part of the kumla occasion was to celebrate my aunt Joanne's b-day and my Grandma Bessie's 91st birthday!
It was cute watching Grandma feed cake to Grandpa. I'm wondering if Cruz will do that for me in 60 years...
Luis spoke a little Spanish with him, asking him who his favorite football team was (FC Barcelona if anyone cares). Oh yeah. That was cool.To top it off, we had Popeye's chicken for dinner. I went to sleep happy.
The weekend only got better from there...KUMLA at Auntie Lou's house!!!
Here is the classic kumla birthing...see, its crowning now. For further details on Kumla, check out the detailed blog from August 2008.
The kumla has been born! There is is next to its cousin Butter.
Course part of the fun of kumla is getting together with family. Mason loves to see his YaYa.
Bruce and Mary Lou recently converted grandpa's old room into a playroom for the kids, complete with the little pink car that my kids LOVED (and fought over). Siena won. If you're wondering how, just see the clip of her right hook from a couple of weeks ago.
Here's Mr. Berren. He's just so darn cute I keep taking pictures of him.
Part of the kumla occasion was to celebrate my aunt Joanne's b-day and my Grandma Bessie's 91st birthday!
It was cute watching Grandma feed cake to Grandpa. I'm wondering if Cruz will do that for me in 60 years...
I found this blog a couple weeks ago and am convinced its perpetually the funniest thing I've ever seen. Course it might just be me but just in case, here's the link: http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/09/great-olan-mills-photos.html I left it on my favorite entry. The rest of it is hilarious too.
Since Cousin Craig disclosed to me this week his adoration of Top 40's music, including Justin Timberlake, this was the only possible link I could think of for him. All else is just wasted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol6vr5_CY1o
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Loved the Olan Mills pictures but that Voices That Care video brought back my worst memories of We Are The World et al. For a complete listing of who sings and who's in the "choir" check out the link below and please don't ask me what compelled me to look for that in the first place cause I don't know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_That_Care
I just wrote this whole long comment that was a brilliant riposte to Kris's "Voices That Care" link. Also, I congratulated Luis on his musical choices using backhanded compliments to subtly imply better choices were available. It was wonderful and insightful, but I lost my internet connection just as I tried to post it.
Anyway here's the JT link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4x1RiDlEo
That should remove any of that pesky "credibility" nonsense I may have been clinging to, but then obviously I'm not one of the "voices that care".
I loved the birthed Kumla snuggling close to its cousin, Butter. And later on, you even had the 2nd cousin, Buttermilk. How'd the ancestors stay so skinny (for the most part)?
Thanks for coming:)
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