black and gold ball

last friday night.. kennedy and i attended the school dance. the black and gold ball. she met up with her two bestest buddies. first jordan..then kaylee. not necesarily buds in that order..just the order that she met up with them. had a few cookies and danced the night away on the spotlight stage. there were two options..you could dance on the gym floor with the crowd or pay $1 to dance on the spotlight stage. mom, its only dollar. cant count how many times i heard that! the night could not have been complete without an appearance by (fake) hanna montana. she had a blast!
thank you nicole for hanging out with korb while dada enjoyed an evening on the town..we could not have done it with out you!

friends are friends forever..

not sure where to start..and im blogging from my phone...so im not sure how far i'll get.. but at least a short post is necessary. its late on monday night. and i am laying awake in the guest room of my parents house. kyles been asleep for quite a while and Korb is snoring in his pack n play. i need to get some rest as well.. its been a long 3 or 4 days. ..but my mind is racing..cant seem to fall asleep. tomorrow i have to watch my oldest dearest friend bury her mom and my heart is absolutely broken for her. i know that she will survive.. that she has a huge support group thru her 3 amazing sisters.. and that her mom is in a much better place than this world.. but all of that isnt much comfort when you see your friend hurting and you cant just fix it for her. all i can do is be there for her..for whatever she needs..and thats what i plan to do. love you jaime.. childress wont be the same with out your mom.

he will kill me for this some day..

ok. quick story. i was trying to finish my post about the stars game.. and i thought a little video would be fun. when you ask korb these days what the stars play he says 'hockey' in the cutest little voice. i just love it!!! so when we finished lunch today i thought i'd just catch it really quickly with my camera. ya know..show off his smartness. well, just as i hit record. this is what i saw

and quickly i stopped recording! then i thought.. its pretty smart that he knows what hes doing at not quite 17 months.. not what i was going for ..but gets the point across. so i quickly started to record again. and simply asked him what was going on. here's his response.

poop! think he might be a genius! does this mean potty training is going to be easy??? i hope so!!

has it been that long?

i know what you are thinking.. who is that guy? right? we dont see him often enough! but we do love him.. and his great travel stories so every few months we take the time to catch up with keno paintdawg. on tuesday night kyle and i met him at del frisco's for an amazing dinner and a bottle of wine (or two). after dinner we made our way to the cigar lounge in the restraraunt. we did a little people watching.. and a lot of catching up. we had our normal discussion about 'the perfect girl' ..in my last post about kenny which was in june -- cant believe its been that long (we did see him at a charity event in the fall..but still) -- anyway..in that post i predicted that he would one day run away with some latino princess. well, it seems that has been narrowed down to an argentinian princess... at least for now. we are glad he's picked a country..now maybe he will pick a girl. doubt it. but im sure he will keep traveling..and 'looking' for the right one. anyway, before the night was over.. the small town had come out in all 3 of us a bit and we had the the pianist singing amarillo by mornin. greatness! cant wait to do it again! we agreed that we would see each other before the end of april. we will see about that.. but hey, at least we have a goal. love me some KPS!!!
oh.. and special thanks to auntie cole & uncle derek for hanging out with the little k's! they had a blast and we owe ya!

doing something different..

this weekend we hung out with the usual suspects on friday night.. we played a board game called battle of the sexes. bet you cant guess who the superior sex turned out to be! sorry boys..better luck next time.

then on saturday..as soon as we got up..kyle went on ebay to find tix to the stars game at the AAC. it was a matinee.. started at 1:00.. it was 11-ish when we decided to go. talk about crunch time!!! anyway.. nicole went with us and we had an awesome time! it was so nice to get out of the house and do something different! and as you might recall from this post korb and i might have cause the demise of last season.. so now that football is over.. well, over for us.. we have to start supporting our stars (& mavs, of course)! the kids had a great time.. as did the adults. kennedy was so excited to 'go somewhere'. korb was so good during the first period. he just hung out. period 2..he was over the lights and that equaled boredom. but during the third i tried to draw his attention to the ice. thinking i might be able to get him to actually watch for a few minutes. he loved it! he watched for the entire third period. he said 'oh wow' about a thousand times.. he argued with me that their sticks were clubs (he has golf clubs he plays with all the time) and he followed the puck (tho he said it was a ball) from one end of the ice to the other over and over. it was so fun to watch him watching the game!

resting up on the ride over

kennedy and 'cole chillin
just after we arrived..

he was so excited by the lights he could not be bothered to look at the camera good one of daddy and sis, despite korbs lack of attn to mommy
nicole helped us try to get a family shot after the game was over.. none of them are good of everyone.. but all 3 are good of someone. couldnt choose.

1. korb looks a little special
2. not sure what they are reaching for..

3. hate this one of me..but they are all adorable.

all in all ..we had a great time! afterwards i got to go to dinner with a few girlfriends and have a good ole GNO. such a good time!! we have to do it again soon girls! unfortunately i dont think there were any pics from the evening.. maybe next time.

terminator?

a funny story to remember this week..

on sunday evening, post the dallas 'one and done-ers', terminator: the sarah connor chronicles came on fox. it started about the time kyle finally took his face out of his hands and rejoined the living... personally i thought it was gonna be stupid - but im a girl. however, kennedy wanted to watch. she climbed up on the sofa next to daddy and started asking questions. what is a terminator? who is sarah connor? is this a true story? i think it was a very good distraction for kyle. something to focus on instead of pouting.. so he tried to explain. then.. he got his coat and shoes. i asked where he was going. 'to walmart.. to buy the terminator movies. she's gonna have to see them to understand.' oh the things girls and their dads bond over. he was only able to find the first one. did you realise it was filmed in 1984? ..15 years before she was born. they stayed up way past her bedtime to watch it. i heard her say a few things that made me giggle.

'why is her shirt tucked in?' thats funny! why were our shirts tucked in??

then kyle asked her how she felt about sarah's hair. she said '..its totally a mess! it must have been awesome just to get out of bed and go.' it is funny that people worked so hard to make their hair so bad.

i also heard her say 'is that guy really the governor of california?' how do you explain that one? no blaming that on the 80's.

anyway.. i think they are hooked. im sure we will be making a trip to best buy this weekend to find the other movies. hopefully the series isnt canceled in the next month.

ummm.. what can i say.

crappy end to an otherwise awesome weekend with my family. its time to pull ourselves together, move on and refocus... go mavs. im glad we got some pics of the boys in their jerseys.

korb chillin with daddy during the chargers game

jaime and i tried so hard to get a good pic of them together..they were not in the mood..love this one of bex bex..seriously dude. its my chair!nevermind. ill sit with derek..
or maybe nicole!