Some great news from the Kansas City Star today,

Here is the whole article including a bit of history on Jack in the Box. All you really need to know is they have a deal for two tacos for 99 cents. They may be the lowest quality tacos that can legally be sold, but they taste delicious! Really they are the Krispy Creme of Tacos. All the ingredients go in a shell and then  the whole thing is fried. I expect my weight loss will hit a speed bump when this place opens.

Who needs a centerpiece when you have Berkley?

Although we very much think of Kansas as home now, we will always have our Texas roots! The Feliches got us this great book of quotes about Texas (ok, really Shari picked it out, Tony would not ever want to encourage Texans in their love of Texas!) and we love it! We will post more, but here are our favorites so far:

“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.” –John Steinbeck

“Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas.” –William Blakely

“It’s so dry in West Texas the trees follow the dogs around.” –anonymous

“Texas is big now, but imagine the size of her as a republic. Back then, the Panhandle had a panhandle.” –Mike Blakely

Here’s a picture of that. It’s actually right on!:

Sadie Piper and Beckham were playing yesterday and it was all fun and games until SP got a hold of the tub of lotion and chucked it right at Becks. Luckily both Brian and I were home, so he grabbed Becks and I dealt with the naughty one! The tub was super heavy and little girl hit him right in between the eyes. He had an instant bump and once he calmed Becks down, Brian told him “She ‘Golaithed’ you!” Beckham caught the reference right away and said, “Sadie Piper was David and I was Goliath and she threw a rock and it hit me between the eyes and I fell down.” Besides the rock part, that’s exactly what happened.

Yep, we read the story of David and Goliath during family worship that night…

Redeemer is built on the land of an old horse ranch, so when I first came to Redeemer my office was an upstairs room in the old ranch house. Basically a bedroom with closet and giant bathroom including a shower. After the garage of this place was converted into Tony & Nathan’s offices I moved into Tony’s old office. The previous life of this office included a hot tub right where my desk now is. I really wish it was still there somedays. Anyway for those of you’ve not seem my office here it is. My computer took these pictures so they’re not great.

This is looking in from the hall.

That’s my Cyclocross bike, rode it in the snow down to the main building today. Up top you can see where Tony found a spot to store WCA soccer balls

Here is my stuffed deer head the intern left on my wall before he returned to A&M. There is also a picture of Link from the Legend of Zelda that Laura painted in college.

Scarves on the wall since I was informed by Buffalonians that “real” men ought not wear them around. You can also see here that Chuck Gnorris is on top of the book shelves with Oscar Paraja, Jason Kreis, Freddy Adu and Warren Moon.

View out one of my windos

Nolan Ryan, Batman and Mario hanging out.

view out my other window.

We recently discovered fish. Ok, well, I did. I didn’t think I liked fish, and once I learned that I did, I was still too scared to try to cook it. Fish intimates me. So I buy it breaded and frozen (Brian and SP eat the Chipotle kind and Becks and I get the Parmesan kind). We decided to put it in tortillas the other night. Made a salsa with onions, cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice and avocados. It’s our new favorite!

We’ve always wondered when having a girl differs from having a boy. Really, besides clothes and bows, for the first year they are pretty much the same. From one to two, Sadie Piper for sure showed signs of being girly. She’s more cuddly, will cry and when asked why say, “don’t know!” through the tears, has always loved shoes and sits still while I do her hair. But really, more than ever, she’s becoming such a girl since she’s been closer to two. She got some baby stuff for her birthday and will push the stroller (which has the baby, chap stick, two books and a drink in it. I’d say that’s all a girl needs for an outing!), carry her purse, wear her “high heels” and tell us “bye bye!” Like this:

When Berkley spits up or drools (both of which she does a TON), she’s the first to announce it and run for a burp cloth and wipes Berkley’s face. When she finds a bow, she wants it in her hair. When she spots a tutu, she wants to wear it (she also calls all skirts tutus). When she saw a stuffed dog at the store today, she went up and kissed it.She doesn’t just say “hi” she says “hi there!” She put her baby on the potty…

I’m always prepared for Mondays cause we are so blessed to have an amazing church and church family to celebrate the Lord’s day with.

It’s only 11:15, and it’s been an eventful Monday. In most cases, when someone uses the word “eventful” they really mean “bad” but not in this case.

Beckham has this thing about Brian and Becks being “buddies” cause they are the two boys. He tells the girls we can be “friends” but there’s not intruding on the “buddy” label. Ever. Only dad and Becks get to use that term. So Brian left this morning and the kids were eating breakfast and Becks asked me, “Will you take good care of Daddy’s buddy today?” So sweet. He then proceeded to tell me he was a dog, but a girl one, and needed a name. I named him Daisy, and he was pleased with that. I had cookies from yesterday and when Beckham asked for one last night I told him he could have one tomorrow. The boy has a wicked memory, so first thing the morning he was reminding me of my promise. (All that background was just to explain why I was giving our kids cookies at breakfast!) He finished his cereal and asked for a cookie. I gave Sadie Piper the other one, and crazy girl asked for more Blueberry Special K instead. No worries, she gave it to Becks and he downed both (that’s my boy!).

Then at Wal-Mart this morning, no lie, two different employees stopped and asked if I needed any help. One even stopped and talked for a minute. What kind of weird world is this? And where are these people when I’ve spent 20 minutes looking for someone…anyone. Not complaining, it was super nice!

AND I found this:

No one’s as excited about this as Brian. I can’t remember how we heard about whipped peanut butter, but it was years ago and he’s been on the hunt (via me and the internet!) ever since.

But she didn’t care! She was overjoyed to be able to carry Beckham’s backpack from his school out to the car!