Posted by Grant on May 19, 2008 – 12:31 pm
Filed under Family, Personal
So Saturday afternoon my wife and I went to the St. Louis Cardinals game and had just a killer time! A couple of factors contributed to the “awesomeness” of the day…
- Perfect Weather – it was 70 degrees the whole afternoon with a little breeze…nice
- Great Game – it was a very offensive game with 17 total runs and 31 total hits. My boy Albert Pujols hit a home run and the game ended in the 10th inning with a walk off homer!
- Best Seats in the House – we were in a private section on the 4th row right next to the Cardinal’s dugout. The seats even had built in TVs…easily the best seats I’ve ever had for a game.
- Plenty of Food – our ticket included a pregame buffet (which was amazing) plus all-you-can-eat food during the game with a server to take your order. We figured we ordered around $75 worth of food! The key word my wife wanted me to emphasize was “ordered”…we didn’t eat every bite of everything we ordered! We’re not that big of pigs.
- Hot Wife – yeah, my wife is really hot, so that’s a bonus.
Here are some pictures from the game:
Posted by Grant on May 10, 2008 – 5:11 pm
As you may or may not be aware, Mother’s Day is this weekend.
So for goodness sake’s, call your mom and tell her thanks (she wanted me to remind you). She either pushed you out or had you cut out of her, so the least you can do is call her on Mother’s Day. In fact, tell her, “thanks for giving birth to me…that was really nice of you.”
I would also like to take the opportunity to wish my own mother and my wife a happy mother’s day. They are both incredible women and incredible mothers and I’m honored to have them both in my life. In fact, they both share the responsibility of being my mother.
Posted by Grant on April 17, 2008 – 7:20 pm
Generally my wife will keep up with my blog so that I assume she can keep up with the random thoughts that swim through my head. But this week our home computer has been acting up so she hasn’t been able to read any of the blog.
So she calls me tonight to tell me about a fortune cookie she got. I found this ironic since I just posted about a fortune cookie. But what was even stranger was the saying inside her fortune cookie. It said this:
“Good clothes open many doors. Go shopping.”
Obviously this puts me in a bit of predicament. I have 2 thoughts on the situation:
- Am I the only one who finds it just a little strange that while I’m out of town my wife gets a fortune cookie that tells her to go shopping?!?!
- I mentioned in my blog about my fortune cookie experience that I should be expecting a “wondrous opportunity” in the days ahead. Is this my “wondrous opportunity?” To let my wife go shopping?!?!
I don’t know who writes these fortune cookie quotes but I bet this “shopping” one was put in there by some disgruntled wife. You can’t blame a girl for trying…
Posted by Grant on April 12, 2008 – 8:25 am
Well my little darling girl, Sydnee, turns 2 years old today. So we went out to Chuck E Cheese last night. That was a three ring circus but we still had a good time.
I guess it’s just surreal to me that my baby is now 2! Before I know it she will be going to school, asking for money, liking boys, not liking her daddy, moving away to college, getting married…
Jesus take the wheel!
Happy Birthday My Little Sydnee!
Just so you know…her hair doesn’t always look this crazy…only right after getting up in the morning!
Posted by Grant on March 29, 2008 – 5:05 pm
So there’s this new country song out that my wife sings all the time. Now I need to first make the disclaimer that I am not a country music fan at all. If you are that’s great, but that’s just not me!
But this song she’s big into is a song by Trace Adkins called “You’re Gonna Miss This.” I know nothing about Trace Adkins except that we watched him on Celebrity Apprentice and he just seems like a very genuinely nice guy. While it didn’t make me like country music anymore, I hate to admit it but the song is pretty good.
If you haven’t heard the song, it is basically about taking the time to enjoy life and slow down long enough to not let it all pass you by. So now every time our daughter Sydnee acts a little crazy or gets a massive shot of energy or adrenaline, we just remind ourselves that someday, “we’re going to miss this!” When she moves out, when she goes away to college, when she gets married (she’ll be 40 by then), we’ll look back and miss those days when she would run around the house screaming her little head off!
So I have to ask you the same question…what is it in your world that you’re going to miss someday that you may be missing right now? You’ve got one shot to live life so don’t let it pass you by.
