Madalyn's 8th Birthday Party

The Secret's OUT...

After 12 years of marrige and 12 moves we will be moving again this spring! Our house is currently under construction, which was a secret that we had been keeping from our kids. Shane and I had big plans to keep it a secret until Christmas Day, but decided against that idea last weekend. We didn't want the kids reminding us 20 years down to road of their worst Christmas EVER... the Christmas we told them that we were moving to a new city! When we shared the news with them we did have tears, both of happiness and sadness. The kids are really feeling like North Summit Braves and the thought of being South Summit Wildcats is hard to swallow, especially for Cade! I think we will all survive this move, after all we lived in the "spider house" and have been living in a "snappy" for almost 4 years!

Happy 10th Birthday Cade!!

6 Unknow Facts...

1. Making a list of six unkown facts is the hardest thing I've done today, and that doesn't say much.

2. If you read the post below you'll find out that I'm married to a "gay" man. Until Shane brings "gay" back I will use this term cautiously.

3. I ate Lucky Charms for breakfast this morning (I don't remember the last time I ate this cereal...maybe 20 years ago) and learned that if you do so on an empty stomach you get an intense sugar rush (If the rush doesn't subside, I recommend homemade nachos a couple of hours later)!

4. Christmas Cards Vs. No Christmas Cards that is the question that keeps ringing in my mind!

5. I perfer wearing sweats to jeans, excuse me...not sweats, designer leisure suits!

6. Anna just came into the office and announced she didn't want to go to Church today, she might be on to something a nap does sound really nice!

Who's Gay?

I am just a little gay right now... however I have been very gay at times. This Christmas season it is my mission (Shane, the virgin blogerer) to put the "Gay" back in the Holiday season. How will I do this you may ask? Simple I say. Just insert the word in seemingly standard everyday conversations at work and home. Gay can be substituted for many words, happy, cool, fun, glad, and many more. For example: When I got to work this morning a friend, Sam, asked how I was. With a smile and a wink I replied "gay." I had to have a once a year medical check up the other day and the same friend asked how it went. I told him, "Sam, it wasn't really gay, but the Doc and I were friends so it went OK." He did seem to avoid me until later that day when he was leaving. He wished me a Happy thanksgiving. When I asked what he would be doing he replied he was staying home but had an old high school friend in town for the Holiday. I wished him a joyous and gay time. He nodded silently then drove off???
This means a lot to me so please help me put the gayness back in the season. If this campaign does not work we may have to petition to have the lyrics of many of the Holiday songs we all know and love changed. Don't let that happen!

To all my family and friends I wish you the Gayest Holiday Season yet.

-Shane.

FEASTIVIST 2007

It's all in the name...

It has become a Brown's tradition to eat Thanksgiving Dinner the Sunday before the official holiday. So going with Brown tradition it was also vital to the event that it be re-named! After all, it would show great disrespect to the original turkey day if we called our event THANKSGIVING! So with mouths full of savory turkey and ____ yams (offical name not yet decided), the ideas began to flow. Feast Sunday(opposite of Fast Sunday) and other such variations were heard, when from nowhere the name Feastivist came out of my mouth. There were cheers and congratulations offered for such a fine name. And then that was that, from this day forward the Sunday celebration will be known far and wide as (drum roll, please!)FEASTIVIST! This creative process may seem a little unusal to a new commer so let me give you some history. While growing up my Dad never refered to a friend by their proper name. My friends were Leather Face, and Colonel Sanders just to name a few. Marci had a friend named (adjust voice to high pitch) kimmy, and who can forget the neighbor boy Mat..T. At some point new names were being assigned to food. I believe it started with Yuck Salad, and the most famous to this point, FART Cake(which one time was mistakenly called Ass Cake). So the evolution of re-nameing has lead us to this moment in time. May you all enjoy Thanksgivings and next year plan on joining us for Feastivist!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Pumpkin Time!

Time Flies!!!

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