As most of you know my brother Ryan and his wife Leah had their son Tyler a month or so ago. (I'm sure I've got pictures laying around somewhere...) Ryan is pretty much your sterotypical macho-father figure. He lifts weights, plays sports, watches sports, wears trashy t-shirts, etc.... Anyway, I've no doubt in my mind that Tyler is going to be encouraged *cough*forced*cough* into playing tons and tons of sports. Which is fine really. But I'm totally predicting this is how things are really going to go down...
Friday, December 7, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Ok one story before bedtime
Ok time for a new tale. Our story begins with our heroes (Autumn the baby monkey, Sharaze the kung-fu mom, and Mike the ruggedly handsome genius) setting out on a journey to visit their family down in Birmingham. So they load up their trusty and reliable Acura 3.2 TL sedan and set out on the 3 hour trip that would take them through the wild and untamed interstates of Mississippi and Alabama. All was going well. Good weather, good baby, good time...but unbeknown to them betrayal awaited!!
As our merry little troupe passed through town after town in Mississippi they eventually scooted through a little village called New Albany. And it was here, about 20 minutes outside the tranquil little area that the Acura showed it's TRUE colors and decided it would unleash it's plan of revenge upon the Colleys! For the Acura was so hot with rage and fury that it blew it's own cooling system and shattered pieces of the transmission thus sending our family into the shoulder of the road (but fortunately into the shade of an overpass).
Now at this point in the story I'm getting tired of trying to think of interesting ways of relating this event as a "tale" so I'm just gonna cut to the chase and pics. So yeah, our freaking "reliable" car blew it's cooling system which caused the transmission system to break too leaving us stranded on the side of a highway in the middle of Nowhere, Mississippi. I was finally able to get a tow company to pick us up about an hour or two later to get back to Memphis.
Let me tell you something: I never want to go through that again. The first driver that picked us up said he had to take us back to the main shop so he could find out if they could take us all the way back to Memphis. Well we end up driving through some serious backwoods areas to get to this little place way out in the sticks. As we're riding along both Sharaze and me are thinking "They're going to take us to some horrible place and kill us. A new slasher movie will be made about it."
But we get there and the owner of the tow company says he'll take us back. I forget his name but it doesn't matter. In my mind it was Cooter. And I don't want to sound mean or whatever but he was as stereotypical "Cooter" as you can get. Torn Lynard Skynard shirt, strong dislike of "colored" folks or foreigners, and a wonderfully colorful vocabulary that he loved sharing with you on a wide variety of subjects. No topic was off-limits......
It was a looooong ride back to Memphis. We had to ride up in the cabin of the truck with him and Sharaze had to hold Autumn in her lap. He told her she had to hold her down low so that the cops wouldn't pull him over for having a baby not strapped into a seat. Not that it mattered since there weren't any seatbelts.
Anyway, he did get us safely back to Memphis where we dropped off the car, it finally got fixed, and now we've got a replacement car since I don't trust that hunk of metal anymore! So to end this story on a little happy note, here's some pics of us biding our time while we waited for the tow. If only we had known...............
As our merry little troupe passed through town after town in Mississippi they eventually scooted through a little village called New Albany. And it was here, about 20 minutes outside the tranquil little area that the Acura showed it's TRUE colors and decided it would unleash it's plan of revenge upon the Colleys! For the Acura was so hot with rage and fury that it blew it's own cooling system and shattered pieces of the transmission thus sending our family into the shoulder of the road (but fortunately into the shade of an overpass).
Now at this point in the story I'm getting tired of trying to think of interesting ways of relating this event as a "tale" so I'm just gonna cut to the chase and pics. So yeah, our freaking "reliable" car blew it's cooling system which caused the transmission system to break too leaving us stranded on the side of a highway in the middle of Nowhere, Mississippi. I was finally able to get a tow company to pick us up about an hour or two later to get back to Memphis.
Let me tell you something: I never want to go through that again. The first driver that picked us up said he had to take us back to the main shop so he could find out if they could take us all the way back to Memphis. Well we end up driving through some serious backwoods areas to get to this little place way out in the sticks. As we're riding along both Sharaze and me are thinking "They're going to take us to some horrible place and kill us. A new slasher movie will be made about it."
But we get there and the owner of the tow company says he'll take us back. I forget his name but it doesn't matter. In my mind it was Cooter. And I don't want to sound mean or whatever but he was as stereotypical "Cooter" as you can get. Torn Lynard Skynard shirt, strong dislike of "colored" folks or foreigners, and a wonderfully colorful vocabulary that he loved sharing with you on a wide variety of subjects. No topic was off-limits......
It was a looooong ride back to Memphis. We had to ride up in the cabin of the truck with him and Sharaze had to hold Autumn in her lap. He told her she had to hold her down low so that the cops wouldn't pull him over for having a baby not strapped into a seat. Not that it mattered since there weren't any seatbelts.
Anyway, he did get us safely back to Memphis where we dropped off the car, it finally got fixed, and now we've got a replacement car since I don't trust that hunk of metal anymore! So to end this story on a little happy note, here's some pics of us biding our time while we waited for the tow. If only we had known...............
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| Say goodbye to the Acura |
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Yay!
Miss Autumn is 6 months old today!
Early June vs. today
This little monkey started out soooo small! From 4.5 pounds to about 15 today...I just can't get over how blessed we are:
Autumn eats like a trooper. This was our biggest challenge. :) Anyone who thinks 4 weeks early isn't very early has obviously never cared for a baby who wasn't ready to be born yet! We went through a lot to get her to nurse but she's still going strong! Hate bottles so we got her a sippy cup she's still figuring out. And she's even eating a couple of spoonfuls of rice cereal now! Not bad for a little one who started out on a feeding tube.
She's the baby who makes everyone smile. The coolest thing about it is that I prayed for it! After all the sadness last year, I really wanted her to be someone who brought joy to people's lives. Out of all the answered and unanswered prayers (most notably everything that made pregnancy and childbirth my cosmic ego check!), this is the one I am the happiest about.
I am doing great. After all the trauma and swelling, I was so afraid that I would never feel good again, much less ever look like myself again. Not only is my iron count back up, but I am back to doing about 90% of my old activities...right on time with the doctor's predictions. Too, I am back in another pair of prepreg jeans. Not too much more to go and I'll be back in all of them. I just need a couple more months! :) A little slower than I'd like, but, oh well.
Mike is also doing great. He and Autumn are so fun to watch. She grins like a crazy monkey every time she sees him. They do acrobatics together that make me nervous but Autumn seems to like it so, whatever makes baby happy! Mike's really been great. He makes sure I get time to myself and is the biggest help around the house. Well, he always was, but maybe a little more now. :)
It's a good life. We're definitely blessed.
Early June vs. today
This little monkey started out soooo small! From 4.5 pounds to about 15 today...I just can't get over how blessed we are:
Autumn eats like a trooper. This was our biggest challenge. :) Anyone who thinks 4 weeks early isn't very early has obviously never cared for a baby who wasn't ready to be born yet! We went through a lot to get her to nurse but she's still going strong! Hate bottles so we got her a sippy cup she's still figuring out. And she's even eating a couple of spoonfuls of rice cereal now! Not bad for a little one who started out on a feeding tube.
She's the baby who makes everyone smile. The coolest thing about it is that I prayed for it! After all the sadness last year, I really wanted her to be someone who brought joy to people's lives. Out of all the answered and unanswered prayers (most notably everything that made pregnancy and childbirth my cosmic ego check!), this is the one I am the happiest about.
I am doing great. After all the trauma and swelling, I was so afraid that I would never feel good again, much less ever look like myself again. Not only is my iron count back up, but I am back to doing about 90% of my old activities...right on time with the doctor's predictions. Too, I am back in another pair of prepreg jeans. Not too much more to go and I'll be back in all of them. I just need a couple more months! :) A little slower than I'd like, but, oh well.
Mike is also doing great. He and Autumn are so fun to watch. She grins like a crazy monkey every time she sees him. They do acrobatics together that make me nervous but Autumn seems to like it so, whatever makes baby happy! Mike's really been great. He makes sure I get time to myself and is the biggest help around the house. Well, he always was, but maybe a little more now. :)
It's a good life. We're definitely blessed.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
One months pictures
Man, I apologize for the long delay in posts. I know so many of you are just heartbroken over not getting more consistent updates filled with my witty banter. Well dry your tears you sissy's because now I've got some good stuff for ya.
Tales of journeys to exotic mountains and backwoods hillbillies; tales of baby angst and odor; tales of...other neat stuff. But I don't have time to tell these tales right now! I've got to get back to work!
So for the time being please enjoy these new pictures taken throughout September. More good stuff to come later!
Tales of journeys to exotic mountains and backwoods hillbillies; tales of baby angst and odor; tales of...other neat stuff. But I don't have time to tell these tales right now! I've got to get back to work!
So for the time being please enjoy these new pictures taken throughout September. More good stuff to come later!
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| Autumn's September 2007 |
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A glimpse into the future
I want to share with everyone a picture of what I'm going to do some day when I take Autumn out shopping as a teenager. Enjoy!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Hold onto your seats, it's another video!!
Look folks, I know that I've posted up some seriously exciting and XTREME videos here on the blog. Things like monkeys doing situps, babies staring at their fist, and crib assembly. Just CRAZY STUFF! Well I've got another stupid crazy nuts video.
"But Mike, where do you get all these INSANE videos? How can you stand to have this much excitement in your life?"
I know it's hard to imagine for most of you living your little suburban lives but for some of us, we live on the EDGE!! And so make sure you're sitting down before viewing this next masterpiece of adrenaline pumping cinema!!
"But Mike, where do you get all these INSANE videos? How can you stand to have this much excitement in your life?"
I know it's hard to imagine for most of you living your little suburban lives but for some of us, we live on the EDGE!! And so make sure you're sitting down before viewing this next masterpiece of adrenaline pumping cinema!!
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