Memories

Yep, this ones gonna be a real uplifter. Last week while on the train I remembered that it was my friend, Cayle's, Grandma's funeral. I thought I'd better call him and ask him if he wanted to meet for a burger at my fav place Matt's Bar. Of course he was in, so we headed to Matt's and ENJOYED some Juicy Lucy's (and a Grain Belt for me). On our way home I wanted to stop at my other favorite neighborhood spot--Dave's popcorn stand. Dave's popcorn stand is a little red box that serves some of the yummiest (is that a word) treats I've ever tasted. Growing up, I lived right accross the street from Dave's popcorn. I can remember BEGGING my mom for $0.75 so I could run over and get my single scoop of mint chip on a sugar cone. I wont even get into the Herb popcorn. It's quite posibly the best popcorn in the world. Yes, the world. And I would know, I eat popcorn about 5 times a week. Fo real.
Anyway, (this is getting long) I wanted to drive by my old house. This is the house where my parents first started out as a married couple raised 3 daughters and a grandson. I think they moved in when my sister Kimm was 2 or three, so that would be around l971 or somthing like that. They owned it for 25 years.

When I pulled up, I noticed the front door was boarded up and there was one of those orange notice hanging on it. Yep, our house has been condemed. How heartbreaking is that?! Aparently, the owners had the bank forclose on it, and when they left- they turned all the water on and it flooded for about a month. It just makes me so sad to think that someone would do that. But apparently you become bitter when the bank takes your house away. Jerks.

I checked the forclosure website, and if anyone is looking for a fixer-uper, you can buy it for $46k.

Here are my sisters and I. I love this picture of us, its on the steps of our old house. So many wonderful memories in that house.

Homecomings, BBQ's & Playdates

The Fab family had a great Mem weekend. Aaron was home, and he actually gave us a fair amount of his time. He told us "days with family, nights with friends"--fair enough.


Here's Dad shinning Aaron's boots. I think he was shinning those damn boots for over an hour. He was out at it again this morning. He thought one on the boots needed extra attention.



As always, we had some YUMMY food. My Mom made BBQ chicken, ribs, corn & much more.
Whenever Air is home--all eyes are on him.


We took the girls to the park yesterday because they 'were bored' although when we got to the park--they were bored there too. Go figure. Ky, Si, Kait and Aaron played a little baseball in the front yard.
Tonight we're going to the families favorite restaurant- Olive Garden. I absolutely hate the OG, but its Air's favorite and since he's leaving tomorrow, I will go along.

First blog

Hello everyone-
I thought I would jump on the blog-wagon. I'm a fan of MANY blogs (that I read daily), so I thought I would start my own. I'm not very interesting, so let me know if you get too bored and I'll try to spice things up a bit.
Today is Friday--the start of a 3 day weekend! Yippee. Aaron is coming home for a long weekend. He should arrive sometime around 9pm. I'm really excited to spend some time with him. It will be nice to have the whole FAB clan together all weekend. I'm just hoping Aaron will throw us a bone, and not want to hang out with his friends all weekend. But, he's 19 and doesn't get to come home often, so I can understand him wanting to hang with his buds.
I'll post some pictures of the 'homecoming' tomorrow.