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The unpacking continues… and please welcome Cooper

imageWe’ve been in our new house for a little over a week. We are still in the process of rebuilding. You’d think by now we would have this process down to a science.

But while we’re old pros at this; we’re old pros at this… I think this time we are going to pace ourselves.

Beck already has ideas of grandeur, but as usual, I think she’s going to start out with a few coats of paint here and there. She just hasn’t kept quiet about all the things she wants to change… We think about things the same way, but not on the same schedule.

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We’re in… our new house!

image The moving started Friday. The UHAUL truck was picked up Friday afternoon and I drove it back to the house. We had a bunch of plastic tubs, so we went ahead and loaded those ourselves.

The movers showed up almost an hour late, but they did a great job. They got all the heavy stuff and put it on the truck in about 45 minutes and then we left for the new house; 8.4 miles away.

They unpacked the furniture and put it in the places Beck needed it; mostly upstairs. And all the tubs were placed in the garage.

We have nothing put together. The garage is a storage nightmare and Beck has a kitchen to rebuild, I’ve fans to mount and many more things to do.

Ethan has already been playing the back yard since the first day; it’s awesome. The yard is huge. Ethan, Britty and I can run around in the back yard, kicking the ball around and playing catch- it’s much better than before… Britty is already back in school; she’s close enough to where she can walk there in about 15 minutes. So, unless it’s raining.. she’s walkin’.

There’s a pond close by. I’m going to see if I can get Ethan to go down there with me to fish. Should be interesting.

I was sad to see my garden go… I didn’t ever get a chance to get any really good tomatoes from it, but it was tryin’. Maybe next year…

 

Until next time,

Larry Jr.

www.casadehenry.com

The HENRY ‘3 strike rule’ – Chili’s FAILED us – for the last time.

image Beck and I’ve a 3 strike rule. If we go to a restaurant and it’s bad, bad food or we get bad service; it’s a strike against them. If we go back to this place 2 more times and they continue to suck, after the 3 time, we don’t go back again.

We believe in giving a place a chance; everyone/place can have an off day.

So years ago, Beck and I used to go to Chili’s a lot for their chicken crispers. It was the huge strips/pieces of chicken and the honey mustard they had for the platter; it comes with fries and corn too- but anyways.

But I guess we had a bad run and Chili’s failed our 3 strikes rule and this was before Ethan was born, so at that point I was tired of throwing my money at this place when all they did was disappoint us- so we said never again.

Well, recently I’ve been passing this Chili’s on the way to work and was wondering if they had gotten any better.

Yesterday [around 2:30pm], we decided to go eat and I decided to go to Chili’s to give them a try [again]. Welp, they didn’t disappoint me, they’re the same crappy place with the same crappy service and the platter that I liked [past tensed] so well has gotten smaller [while the price has gone up].

We walked in [it wasn’t busy], the host starts off by giving us 4 adult menus, well it’s 3 and a child. Then she goes to seat us at a table with crap [straw wrappers, food, crayons, straws, etc] still under the table. We asked for a booth, there’s several open, but she asks us to go back and wait in the waiting area [erm ok].

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Night at the Game [Frisco Rough Riders]

This was Ethan’s first baseball game; we went to the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in FriscoTX. When we got there it was kinda early and the sun was coming in pretty good- it was warms/hot. There were fans, hats and drinks. The place wasn’t packed as I expected, but it was busy.

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Ethan was doing okay for a while. We watched the game and he kept asking questions; who’s this, what’s that, oh that’s neat… it was fun.

I was the only one I could find wearing a cowboy hat. In the very first inning I found myself on the infield big tv. I was just all sprawled-out, laid back and watching the game. Britty and Beck had to tell me I was on TV. By the time I looked, I caught about a second and then I was gone. ‘Special’ was the word I’d use…

At one point he got his foot caught in the folding chair; his foot was at the front and the back of the seat, his weight shifted and his back foot went down the back and his other foot was still on the front, so he was pinching his own foot… poor guy. He yelled for a bit, but he’s a good sport and was over it quick.

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Britty and her friend [Melanie] didn’t do anything close to us. They were off buzzing around the ballpark looking at all the guys and visiting with friends.

As the sun went down, it was like the 5th inning, the place started cooling off, the sunset was putting off a nice orange glow [the picture doesn’t do justice] and the park lights were on and it made it feel more like a game.

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We left a bit early, middle of the 7th inning, because it was like 9pm and everyone had something they needed to be doing or going to, so we wrapped it up and left. It was a great time.

 

Until next time,

Larry Jr.

www.casadehenry.com

July 4th 2009 Party

We had some great fun at my dads house for the 4th of July. Teresa and Jami was there and the surprise guest was Tammi [in from Baton Rouge].

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Enjoyed some game time with the ‘Corn Hole’ game. Ethan had lots of fun making sure all the socks with peas made it in to the center holes.

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There was sang’n and [o’course] a few drinks.

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Great fun!

Until next time,

Larry Jr.

www.casadehenry.com