Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Updates:

I have brightened all of the New Years Pictures from Mom and Dad's house, so you can actually see them all better now and I have cleaned up the TOWANDA pictures so they are no longer shadows, but real people in the pictures.

Don't forget to check out the videos listed on the side panel somewhere! I hope to get all caught up soon! And be on the look out for Heidi's baby shower pictures! I couldn't find the camera when I went to leave and had to buy a disposable one, I got them developed with the disk at walmart and there was no pictures on the disk! SO I'm trying to find the scanner cord.

All the same stuff, with a few inbetween

This week has been a relaxing semi-busy one.

Chris has been doing a really kick butt job at keeping the house clean and still making that 1.5 hour drive to work everyday. We got to hang out Tuesday night, for which Chris made the best NY Strip steaks ever with mashed potatoes and corn! We watched NCIS and Chris went to bed while I stayed up to watch Search for the Next Doll--

Sisely- I'm pretty sure I misspelled that, got eliminated this week - which was a good thing. She was REALLY starting to bother me. First she was all cool and then she became this whiny baby that was crying over stupid stuff - she should stick to the rock band.

Anyway- Wednesday night we think we just hung out at the house. I love Criminal Minds on CBS so I know I watched that. I think we called it an early night.

Thursday was my day off - I worked on my homework and put the laundry away and worked out. School is going fantastic by the way! It's difficult to put the effort I want to put into my essays with working 55 hours a week and taking on online class on top of that, but with many late nights and early mornings I manage to stay caught up.

Thursday evening I caught up with Chris at the mall and we went to the dollar theater to watch "BECAUSE I SAID SO..." We both agree, it's a good movie and Mandy Moore acts a lot better in it than she had in her first 3 movies. I really enjoyed watching her in this one, I love A WALK TO REMEMBER, but you almost couldn't tell she was acting in this one...and it was REALLY, REALLY FUNNY!

Yesterday, Friday, Chris had what we thought would be a short day with only a 10am meeting in Peru, IN (30 minutes from the house). We had planned on going to see Brent, Amanda and Makenna yesterday but his meeting got pushed back and he didn't go home till 4pm. With me having to work today (Saturday) we decided to take Casi and the boys out for dinner at Sirloin Stockade.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Austins Birthday Bash!

Austin's 4Th Birthday Party!

Sunday, March 25Th
As you'll be able to tell we had a blast at Austin's Birthday. We ate good Chicken (Ashley ate steak from Roadhouse) and we opened gifts and we played with bubbles, we chased a snake which started to chase us. We threw rocks in the creek, we ate cake and ice cream and some other stuff in between with good conversation.


































This is Cameron! ^ He's just slightly younger than Devon.
^ This is Cameron with his daddy Chad - Shane's brother
Below is Cameron with him mommy, Kensie - Shane's sister in law.





Check out more photos here!

Watch Austin Chase Bubbles With Uncle Chris!

Supercross Saturday!

Saturday March 24Th SUPER CROSS

We got up early today to get down to Indy quickly so we could stop at Toys R Us and buy Austin's Birthday gift. But...of course, Bo Jack had to decide to run off and not come home for about an hour. Chris scouts the fields for Bo Jack to pop his head up so we'll at least know which direction he ran off in. Chris is wearing the Offspring shirt Thom got for him in Japan!


Still searching for Bo Jackers, that dog was in some serious trouble this morning.

I got bored hollering and went inside to finish getting ready. I'd just like to say, my hair actually curled..well slightly anyways.


Dustin and Kristina were waiting on us in the parking lot, but thankfully they were only waiting about 4 minutes! We hate to be late, but we needed to stop at Toys R Us!
After parking in the parking garage, we headed to the RCA Dome to check out the prerace festivities.
Kristina and Dustin take advantage of a photo opp. with the SUPER CROSS semi!

Next, We walked a couple blocks to Jillian's for some grub and fun!
Dustin and Kristina race each other right away in Daytona 500!
I play STAR WARS! I beat one entire level on only one play!
Chris and I had some extra points left over on cards from three years ago! We all played with those cards and still we came home more points left!

Dustin watches Chris as Chris tries to fly a plane without crashing in the flight simulator. "It was a hard landing. but we made it!" says Chris.
Chris gets a sign cheering on his favorite rider, JAMES "bubba" Stewart!
Let the fun begin! The Races start!

Chris and I Enjoy the races from our perfect seats! We had a great view of the track and cheered all night long!

Chris and I enjoying our traditionally Nontraditional sno-cone!
Chad Reed #22 is in the lead for the first 15 laps, James Stewart gets pushed to the back of the pack, he's in 19Th place after the first lap. You can see the one Chad Reed fan in front of us! Ha!
When Chad Reed started coming around our side, there was a green bike a short distance behind him, as it got closer we all figured out it's not Stewart, and everyone was standing up looking for him, imagine our surprise when he was third from last!


And the WINNER IS.....
JAMES STEWART!
On the 11Th lap he was in the top 5 and only 12 seconds behind Chad Reed
On the 12Th lap he was only 7 seconds behind
On the 13Th lap he was 4 seconds
On the 14Th lap he 2.5 seconds
On the 15Th lap, he made his move.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Lara loves TheCW's Search for the next Doll!








(Picture from TV GUIDE.com)
I don't know why, but I thought I'd share with you all, I guess because just work and school going on right now, that I love the Search for the Next Doll on the CW, Tuesday nights!






It's kinda of boring, the challenges aren't that exciting but I believe there are only 5 episodes left of the 8 total, but for some reason, I like it!
















Brittany - first on the picture list simply because she's already eliminated. Over Confidence and her "slut-er-Ella" dancing style got her booted.
































Asia - haven't liked her too much so far. Practiced with out a team member simply because she couldn't dance. Hope she goes home soon.

































Chelsea - Kinda rude but a sweet story - from teenage overweight kid to being in a competition to join a girl group that has sold millions of records. - She's the only girl with no formal dance training and Asia and Melissa S. refused to help her.

Kudos to Chelsea for doing a better job than the other two!


























Jamie - Eliminated last night! All she did was talk about how she needs to boost her confidence and how she thinks she can do it and blah, blah blah -

girl was boring, glad she's gone.
















Anastasia - love her. she's pretty she can sing, she can dance an as of so far, she hasn't done anything to nasty to any of the girls.
In the first episode, a few of the girls got sick right be fore the elimination round. So she took charge and changed the choreography to work without the sick girl from her group.
The morning of, the girl got feeling better so Anastasia trained her on all the steps instead of practicing herself.

Melissa S. - I think she's fake. I don't know she wouldn't practice with her partner along with Asia and then she forgot the words... maybe it's the way she talks - .......s......o.......s......l......o.....w....

Melissa R. - Don't like her, don't not like her. She doesn't get much air time. I usually forget about her, then okay, yeah- when they perform. But I think She'll make a good Doll.

Sisely - I think she's totally punk rock - little bit of a sour puss during rehearsals this week, yelling that she's practicing too much. Nerves is what i call it. And she takes criticism very badly.

Mariela - Like her for some reason. I think she's sincere so far. She's not a trained vocalist but is a dancer.
















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