Blue Hairspray

We just could not pass up buying colored hairspray at Wal-Mart today!!!! I think Brett needs a serious haircut!

Kayla

Look at sweet little Kayla!!!
The Hornstrom's came out for Knoxtoberfest.
We had a blast!!!

Charlie Goes to Concert

The concert was awesome. It was Ray Scott, Mark Wills and some other guy. They were all on stage at the same time. One would sing a song then another and then the last.
They all played about 4 or 5 songs each. Afterwords they had an autograph session. I shook all their hands and got a pic taken with them. When Ray was signing my poster, I handed him a Warrior Bracelet that I made for myself and gave it to him. I said "here is a warrior bracelet, I noticed that you didn't have one, I appreciate you coming over here". He looked at me and said What's your name, I said Chuck. He said Chuck no one has ever give me one of these before, I will never forget it. His eyes were teared up. It was pretty cool. In the pic you can see it next to his Gatorade bottle... Anyway, I am headin to bed. Wayne is giving another demo in the tralier so I couldn't check my highside email...
Love yall...
Me...

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Fishing at Glendaloch

Jenny invited a few families over to fish at her parent's pond.
I got Brett to take a minute and pose for me....

Cavs vs Urbana

From Movies

Check out this movie from Brett's first football game!

Brett Goes to 5th Grade

Oh My.. Look at those hairdos!!!
Brett started back to school on August 25th.
I can't believe that he is 10 and is going into the 5th grade.

Brett turns 10!!

Holy Crap!! My little guy is 10 years old today!!!

He had two of his buddies over for a sleepover last night. I think they have had a ton of fun!
We had pizza, then a carvel ice cream cake, then candy!
Check out the rest of the pics on my google album.

Football begins

Summer football practice have begun. Brett is playing for D-1 this year. Looks like we have an excellent coaching staff this year.

Tanner Uses Blender for First Time!

Brett and Tanner wanted milkshakes again, so I told Tanner where to find everything and he used a blender for the first time! 

I think that he did an excellent job making his first milkshake!

Tanner liked my crocheted hat....

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CSPA Bar Crawl

The Cambridge Springs Class of 1993 would like to invite you to the CSPA Bar Crawl.
This invitation is not limited to 1993 classmates, so spread the word!!

Friday August 1st:

6pm Found Lounge
8pm The Crossbow
9pm Riverside Inn
11pm Iron Horse

We hope to see everyone out on the crawl!

West Virginia

Here's the Knox boys paddling up the creek in West Virginia this morning. We stayed at a camp site that our friends owned over night. It was really nice and a lot of fun. The creek moves so slow, which makes for great swimming and canoeing.

Phil Vasser

Baltimore Inner Harbor from Pier 6

Steve Azar

Steve Azar was the opening act at Pier 6. I only recognized one song, but I thought he sounded really good.

fun mirror

We Stopped in at the Pier 6 Hotel to use the facilities, and found this "skinny" mirror. They had great happy hour specials, so we made our way to the bar for $1.95 appetizers.

Garden

Our garden is looking pretty good. Look at all those bean plants!!
The larger plants in the upper left are the zuchinnis, they are doing great. The tomato plants are at the very top on the fences. They are doing great also. It is hard to see the plants in this photo, but I just thought I'd share.

Back at the farm

After a week at the beach we sure enjoyed our weekend back on our very own 9 acres in MD! We did not get much picking during blackberry season, so we made sure not to miss out on the Raspberries that are now in season. Tanner and Brett picked some, but ate more as they went along the trails. We got a small bowl, I put them in the blender, now we are attempting to strain the juice from the seeds so we can make something later. Maybe blend w/some vanilla ice cream... hmm...

Outer Banks

We survived our camping trip to the Outer Banks. We stayed at Camp Hatteras in Rodanthe, NC. We had a really good time!!

Sunrise at the Outer Banks

Brett giggling at McDonalds

Not sure what got Brett giggling, but he sure is funny once he gets going.

Happy 4th of July

I hope that everyone is enjoying their fourth of July holiday!!
We are packing and getting ready to head down to the outer banks in the morning. I'm really excited!!!!
I don't think we'll be checking out any fireworks tonight, it is raining!!!!!

SALE!!!

A trip to Big Lots is always great fun for the Knox family! Especially when reading and sunglass are on sale! These babies were 70% off!
We did not actually purchase any, but we did have a good laugh at each other!
Charlie and Tanner look like dumb and dumber!
I was not able to catch Brett's Paris pose, but I'm sure you can imagine...

Snapper

Charlie spotted this snapping turtle out in the yard on Saturday.

New Posts

Dharma Trading Co.

This is a textile craft supply store, it is a really cool site to buy all kinds of dyeable fabrics and supplies..  I want to orders some stuff for Brett and I to do.  Tanner likes to dye clothes as well, I still have T-shirts that we never did from the last time he was here. 

Check out my Slide Show!

Check out my FunPix!

Brett's Memoirs

Brett's class has been working on a writing project.  They have been writing memoirs, which as Brett described, are significant moments in your life.  So, his teacher invited the parents into class so the students could read their memoirs to us.  Brett had written two, one about when Charlie left for Iraq and one about when his friend had stolen his DS then hid in the library.  Interestingly, both of these events happened on the same day last May.  Then we had lunch in the classroom.  Charlie had picked up Subway subs for us.  It was nice for both of us to get time away from work so that we could attend a school event for Brett.

With spring comes photography..

Charlie and I have taken the camera out a few times over the last week or so.... 

Check out latest pics.

Brett, 9 years old, 4th grade, 4/08

Just thought I'd share Brett's school picture.
I hope you are able to view this:

Hey Ya'll...

Hey everyone... I have clearly not been online lately as much as I have been in the past.

I attribute that to Charlie being home, Brett in guitar and baseball at the same time, and spring time!  Who can resist getting their arse off the pc and outside.  Baseball is going well, our team is four for four!!  WOW! 

So, Pottery is done, I need to take pics of all the wares, maybe tomorrow.

I got my quilt from Candy and have been keeping to myself.  It is so beautiful that I want to use it as decor, a showpiece really, but instead I have been wrapping up in it on the couch.

Work is the same old crap...  I so want to like my job and enjoy my work, but like millions of Americans, I do not.  Oh well.  And I willingly signed the form to go back full time on May 3rd.  This is ok, as it will help me accrue the leave I need for vacation this summer and will be more money, also to pay for vacation this summer.

Brett's guitar teacher has him practicing "Secret Agent Man" and "Sweet Home Alabama" and we all think that is pretty cool.

Yesterday afternoon, Jenny and Julie and I got Greek salads from Mama Lucia's, I picked up a bottle of pinot noir, which made for a lovely afternoon.  Which consequently lead us to very sweetly ask the men to take the boys to the Boy Scouts presentation of safety, or something, and us girls all scrounged our fridges and freezers to come up w/something to make for dinner.  So, I found some frozen corn on the cob, two packs of Italian sausage, I whipped up a pasta salad w/Italian dressing and I had some pepperoni and provolone cheese which I chopped up.  Julie pulled out a kielbasa and sauteed some peppers and onions and made nachos w/canned chili and shredded cheddar, YUMMY!  Jenny chopped some veggies and made two dips, again... YUMMY.  When the guys got back they started a fire, we ate and had a very nice evening.  

Brett had a 9am game today, and it was already in the high 70s.  They kicked butt!  Then we hustled to the high school for football signup's before they closed at noon.  We came home, I made sandwiches, then I crashed on the couch for almost 2 hours!  I almost never nap.. but I was seriously wiped out.  Probably too much wine and beer the night before... ha ha..

I did come across this really neat quilt blog http://crazyshortcutquilts.blogspot.com/.  Candy, I think you would really appriciate this ladies craftsmanship.

I have a HUGE salmon filet prepped for baking!!  Gee, and I wonder why I can't lose weight, ha ha...