Hello everyone, this is Morry.
It was a gray day this morning but warm (in the 60s) on our walk to school. Evan was tired after his long weekend.
Rachel spent some of the morning dealing with an issue on her blog. I was waiting for traffic to die down before I went into Aaron's to work out this issue we were having. Unfortunately, Mopac is under construction and traffic lasted much longer than normal. I finally went in around 10.
Rachel went to HEB right around the time I left.
On the way home, I stopped at Smoothie King.
We drove to school in the afternoon because Rachel had to leave from there to go pick up Grandma from the airport. Grandma and Papa drove to Dallas yesterday for an event and Papa is staying the week for work and then driving back. So Grandma flew home today. Noah went with Rachel to the airport. Evan and I walked home from school.
Later in the afternoon, I played football with Evan and Noah for a little bit.
Grandma came over for dinner. We grilled chicken and had asparagus.
Rachel just got back from walking Grandma home. The boys are upstairs.
Until next time...
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Mopac
I spent a lot of time on Mopac today. I did a bunch of back and forth driving.
After dropping Noah off at school I was able to do a short 2 mile run. Then, I went to Texas Oncology for a check up. Everything looked good.
Noah's class was outside when I picked him up. He had climbed up to the top of the playscape and wasn't going to come down until I got there. He wanted to show me how high he could go.
We came home for a little bit and then it was time to get Evan.
At home, Noah relaxed in the guest room while Evan and I played outside.
Blanca came at 3:45 and I tutored.
I came home at 5:45. Evan's baseball practice is from 5:30-6:30 on Mondays. The plan was for Morry to take him to practice, but he got stuck in traffic. I needed to take the boys to the baseball practice and Morry met us there. We got there about 6pm so Evan was still able to get some good practice in.
Noah and I came home right after the practice to get dinner ready. Morry and Evan stayed a few more minutes.
For dinner we had Coke ham and rice.
We were supposed to do clean up night last night, but we moved it to today. Noah threw a major fit and wouldn't clean up.
Both boys are in bed now, but not asleep yet.
After dropping Noah off at school I was able to do a short 2 mile run. Then, I went to Texas Oncology for a check up. Everything looked good.
Noah's class was outside when I picked him up. He had climbed up to the top of the playscape and wasn't going to come down until I got there. He wanted to show me how high he could go.
We came home for a little bit and then it was time to get Evan.
At home, Noah relaxed in the guest room while Evan and I played outside.
Blanca came at 3:45 and I tutored.
I came home at 5:45. Evan's baseball practice is from 5:30-6:30 on Mondays. The plan was for Morry to take him to practice, but he got stuck in traffic. I needed to take the boys to the baseball practice and Morry met us there. We got there about 6pm so Evan was still able to get some good practice in.
Noah and I came home right after the practice to get dinner ready. Morry and Evan stayed a few more minutes.
For dinner we had Coke ham and rice.
We were supposed to do clean up night last night, but we moved it to today. Noah threw a major fit and wouldn't clean up.
Both boys are in bed now, but not asleep yet.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Turkey Day
Hello everyone, this is Morry.
This morning, Rachel and I planned to run the 20th annual Turkey Trot here in Austin. We're normally in Dallas so given that Rachel's been running and our being in Austin for the first time since 2002, we decided to run it. It's a 5-mile run.
We set our alarm for 7:30am. At 7am, Evan came in and woke me up to ask me if I was getting up soon. I said in 30 minutes, so he went back to his room for 30 minutes. As soon as the alarm went off, he came back in.
The run started at 9:30. We left around 8:15. We got off Mopac at 8:30. It took us another hour to go about 2 miles to the parking garage. There was no one directing traffic, it was as if the city was unprepared for this run. By the time we got into the garage there were no spots left. We were going to leave and by some chance we saw someone pulling out of a spot and got that spot. The race was just starting as we got there but we were back with the walkers. As we ran we had to dodge and weave people walking with dogs and strollers and everything else for the first mile. By the time we finished the first mile, I was exhausted. It was incredibly humid as it was threatening to rain and the dodging and weaving was very tiring. We mostly walked the rest of the way but mixed in some running. All-in-all, we were very disappointed with the run. It just seemed completely unorganized. Even when we finished, they had run out of bottles of water.
We stopped and got Slurpees on the way home.
When we got home, Evan was sitting watching the Macy's Parade with Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen. He looked very cute sitting in between them.
We started getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner.
We planned on having dinner at 3pm. Papa's cousin, Jimmy came over. We got a Greenberg Smoked Turkey which we warmed up for dinner. We didn't end up eating until about 3:30 or 3:45 though. The dinner was very good. Grandma made sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping. I made a Jell-O mold. Grandma made cornbread stuffing. Aunt Jen made a salad and mushrooms. We also had cranberry sauce. Rachel made a Coke Ham. Noah ate the ham, the cranberry sauce, the Jell-o, a roll and turkey. Evan had cranberry sauce, a roll and the Jell-o. They both said they liked Thanksgiving.
After dinner, Evan and Noah ended up falling asleep on the couch. Papa took dropped Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen off at the Texas football game. When he got home, we woke the boys up, gave them baths and then we went downstairs for dessert. I made chocolate creme pie and Aunt Jen had made a pumpkin cheesecake pie. Noah asked for the pumpkin pie but didn't eat it. Evan asked for the chocolate pie but only wanted to eat the crust. The both ended up eating two clementines.
We put the boys to bed, and watched some of the Longhorns game. They are both still up.
Until next time...
This morning, Rachel and I planned to run the 20th annual Turkey Trot here in Austin. We're normally in Dallas so given that Rachel's been running and our being in Austin for the first time since 2002, we decided to run it. It's a 5-mile run.
We set our alarm for 7:30am. At 7am, Evan came in and woke me up to ask me if I was getting up soon. I said in 30 minutes, so he went back to his room for 30 minutes. As soon as the alarm went off, he came back in.
The run started at 9:30. We left around 8:15. We got off Mopac at 8:30. It took us another hour to go about 2 miles to the parking garage. There was no one directing traffic, it was as if the city was unprepared for this run. By the time we got into the garage there were no spots left. We were going to leave and by some chance we saw someone pulling out of a spot and got that spot. The race was just starting as we got there but we were back with the walkers. As we ran we had to dodge and weave people walking with dogs and strollers and everything else for the first mile. By the time we finished the first mile, I was exhausted. It was incredibly humid as it was threatening to rain and the dodging and weaving was very tiring. We mostly walked the rest of the way but mixed in some running. All-in-all, we were very disappointed with the run. It just seemed completely unorganized. Even when we finished, they had run out of bottles of water.
We stopped and got Slurpees on the way home.
When we got home, Evan was sitting watching the Macy's Parade with Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen. He looked very cute sitting in between them.
We started getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner.
We planned on having dinner at 3pm. Papa's cousin, Jimmy came over. We got a Greenberg Smoked Turkey which we warmed up for dinner. We didn't end up eating until about 3:30 or 3:45 though. The dinner was very good. Grandma made sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping. I made a Jell-O mold. Grandma made cornbread stuffing. Aunt Jen made a salad and mushrooms. We also had cranberry sauce. Rachel made a Coke Ham. Noah ate the ham, the cranberry sauce, the Jell-o, a roll and turkey. Evan had cranberry sauce, a roll and the Jell-o. They both said they liked Thanksgiving.
After dinner, Evan and Noah ended up falling asleep on the couch. Papa took dropped Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen off at the Texas football game. When he got home, we woke the boys up, gave them baths and then we went downstairs for dessert. I made chocolate creme pie and Aunt Jen had made a pumpkin cheesecake pie. Noah asked for the pumpkin pie but didn't eat it. Evan asked for the chocolate pie but only wanted to eat the crust. The both ended up eating two clementines.
We put the boys to bed, and watched some of the Longhorns game. They are both still up.
Until next time...
Monday, July 27, 2009
Gridlock
Hello everyone, this is Morry.
This morning I woke up and started the shower. As the shower was warming up, Evan came in the bathroom. He looked very out-of-it so I imagine he just woke up. He stayed in the bathroom while I got showered and dressed. We then went downstairs and got breakfast for him. We brought it upstairs and I got him settled on the couch. Most mornings when this happens, he runs over to the window when he hears the garage open and he waves goodbye to me. He will continue to wave until I completely drive off. But as I was getting him settled this morning, he informed me that he wasn't going to wave to me today because he wanted to stay where he was. I admit, I was disappointed.
Both boys have runny noses so Rachel stayed home with them today. They didn't really go anywhere. The boys went down for a nap around 1:30 or so and both boys napped which was good.
At 4:30, I heard that there was a SWAT standoff and Mopac and the Greenbelt, which is really at Mopac and 360. Then they said they had shut down all lanes on Mopac between 290 and 360. There is probably not a worse spot on my drive home than that spot. All ways home that I could think of basically go through that spot. I left almost immediately hoping to beat traffic. What a joke that was. It seems everyone heard the news and everyone left at the same time. Mopac was just stopped. For those of you who know Austin, I got off at 35th Street, then I made a left on Exposition and went south on Exposition which dropped me off at Lake Austin Boulevard. I made a right onto Lake Austin with the intention of making a left onto Red Bud Trail - to get over the river that way. It seems everyone else had that idea too. It took me forever to make that left. I finally got through that up to Westlake Boulevard which took me forever to turn on to. Then I got down to Bee Caves Road. It was here that I think I made the critical error. I could go right and take the long way home, but it's the one way to avoid Mopac. Or I could go left and head towards Mopac and then take the access road. I thought I could go that way and go onto Barton Skyway and take that to Lamar. It seemed like the first way was actually backed up so I chose heading towards Mopac. After awhile I was able to get on the access road and I made the left onto Barton Skyway only to discover that Barton Skyway was never completed between Lamar and Mopac. All it did was take me in a loop back to Mopac, but heading north!! I then got on to Mopac heading north with the intention of getting off at Cesar Chavez and then continuing east until S. Congress and then going that way. Again, everyone else had the same idea and it was just a parking lot. I finally gave up and went to Mangia's Pizza on Lake Austin Boulevard (where I had been about 30 minutes before) until they finally opened Mopac back up. I didn't get home until 7pm. It was a long day.
When I got home Rachel, Evan and Noah were sitting on the couch watching My Girl. They all looked very cute. They were so into it, neither boy got up to say hello which is pretty rare. I went and sat on the couch with them for a bit.
Both boys are in bed now. I hope Evan stays in bed. I told him that if we called Nolan or Quin they would tell him to stay in bed. We'll see if that works.
Until next time...
This morning I woke up and started the shower. As the shower was warming up, Evan came in the bathroom. He looked very out-of-it so I imagine he just woke up. He stayed in the bathroom while I got showered and dressed. We then went downstairs and got breakfast for him. We brought it upstairs and I got him settled on the couch. Most mornings when this happens, he runs over to the window when he hears the garage open and he waves goodbye to me. He will continue to wave until I completely drive off. But as I was getting him settled this morning, he informed me that he wasn't going to wave to me today because he wanted to stay where he was. I admit, I was disappointed.
Both boys have runny noses so Rachel stayed home with them today. They didn't really go anywhere. The boys went down for a nap around 1:30 or so and both boys napped which was good.
At 4:30, I heard that there was a SWAT standoff and Mopac and the Greenbelt, which is really at Mopac and 360. Then they said they had shut down all lanes on Mopac between 290 and 360. There is probably not a worse spot on my drive home than that spot. All ways home that I could think of basically go through that spot. I left almost immediately hoping to beat traffic. What a joke that was. It seems everyone heard the news and everyone left at the same time. Mopac was just stopped. For those of you who know Austin, I got off at 35th Street, then I made a left on Exposition and went south on Exposition which dropped me off at Lake Austin Boulevard. I made a right onto Lake Austin with the intention of making a left onto Red Bud Trail - to get over the river that way. It seems everyone else had that idea too. It took me forever to make that left. I finally got through that up to Westlake Boulevard which took me forever to turn on to. Then I got down to Bee Caves Road. It was here that I think I made the critical error. I could go right and take the long way home, but it's the one way to avoid Mopac. Or I could go left and head towards Mopac and then take the access road. I thought I could go that way and go onto Barton Skyway and take that to Lamar. It seemed like the first way was actually backed up so I chose heading towards Mopac. After awhile I was able to get on the access road and I made the left onto Barton Skyway only to discover that Barton Skyway was never completed between Lamar and Mopac. All it did was take me in a loop back to Mopac, but heading north!! I then got on to Mopac heading north with the intention of getting off at Cesar Chavez and then continuing east until S. Congress and then going that way. Again, everyone else had the same idea and it was just a parking lot. I finally gave up and went to Mangia's Pizza on Lake Austin Boulevard (where I had been about 30 minutes before) until they finally opened Mopac back up. I didn't get home until 7pm. It was a long day.
When I got home Rachel, Evan and Noah were sitting on the couch watching My Girl. They all looked very cute. They were so into it, neither boy got up to say hello which is pretty rare. I went and sat on the couch with them for a bit.
Both boys are in bed now. I hope Evan stays in bed. I told him that if we called Nolan or Quin they would tell him to stay in bed. We'll see if that works.
Until next time...
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