CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Tonight Rebecca and I are alone and have nothing to do, Thank God. Tommorrow there are basketball games, baseball practices will be rained out and next weekend we head for Crested Butte with all the kids and Todd and Lana and theirs. After that, baseball season is here along with the tournaments that will come on the weekend. We will be busy until probably August.
Crested Butte will be fun. Rebecca is nervous but should'nt be, she will have a great time. She just doesn't know it yet. Just like my impromptu parties...she always has a good time and is glad we did it. I should mention we did book a 4 night getaway in May to Cancun with a couple friend, Mike and Becky Cunningham. She is really looking forward to that. Oh, I forgot she has anxiety about getting into swimsuit (for reasons unknown). Iam sure we will have some pictures from the ski trip and me in a speedo (that's a small swimsuit) from the Cancun trip. I guess the storm could be worse. We are happy and fortunate for a variety of reasons.

Longhorns V. Kansas

Zach went to TX basketball game last night - Too bad they kept their losing streak going. Just knew the Parkers would be the luck Texas needed to win the game.

SAINTS WON!!

Chad threw an impromptu Super Bowl Party yesterday - Saturday night high on Jake's last eighth grade basketball game which was a District 1st Place win - he started calling and texting-inviting lots over for a Super Bowl Pary to my despise I would have to say - Chad loves throwing parties - me - I love to be invited to parties - all I could think about was the preparation for it and the clean up afterwards - my relaxing lazy sunday i imagined turned into a get up and go - nonstop day - i always stress at things like this b/c i want my house to be perfect, i would the food to be perfect, i want the drinks to be perfect -i want everything perfect - i add all the stress on myself of course but that's me - Chad did help a lot.

The party was a success - Chad's a great host - a lot of people came - and everyone had a great time - there was a good mix of Saints and Colts fans which made the game fun - Chad had gone to New Orleans a couple weeks ago for work and brought us all home Saints shirts so we were all going for the Saints - we had everything you could imagine to eat - sandwiches, bbq, chips & dips, boiled shrimp, crab cakes, and even a cake - thanks to Mike and Teresa, the cleanup was a breeze.

So all that stress was really not needed - thanks to family and friends and all their help it went off quite smoothly - maybe i won't stress so much and give Chad the evil eye the next time he starts the inviting!