Happy New Year

Good picture of Marcy, Dad and me at the Knoxville Zoo, got up to 70 so Dad was loving it!
Dad was able to come down for Christmas. Since he is in the middle of building ANOTHER house we were not sure he would be bale to swing it. Luckily they arrived just in time for Christmas dinner and presents. I was able to take an entire two weeks off that coincided with Shawn's vacation. That ruined his plans of doing nothing......he had to spend it with me instead. We had a great vacation, did not get into too much, mostly relaxed and enjoyed the holidays and a slower pace for a while. I have not had such a long vacation since college and the first day back to work was a tough one. It took both Shawn and I the whole week to adjust back to reality.

Fantasy of Trees 2008

Here is my little tree I decorated on my own this year to donate to Fantasy of Trees which benefits Children's Hospital. In years past I have lead a group effort at my office to donate trees but this year I was able to do one on my own. The theme was "Fly Away Christmas" and I had a blast putting it all together! With a red and gold theme the tree is covered in butterflies, dragonflies, birds, planes and helicopters.

Thanks Bridgette

Okay, so I was checking up on our friends' blogs and saw that I had been "tagged". Not one to let others down I will do as the instructions say.

1. Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer.

2. Choose the 4th picture in that folder.

3. Explain the picture.

4. Tag 4 people to do the same.

So the picture above was taken while we were on a Duck tour in Boston back in June. I guess you can tell that I took it since it is focused on architectural "things". In a historic part of Boston the street lamps are real gas lamps. I thought that to be a pretty cool fact, and the building in the back was neat as well. Shawn and I were in Boston on our way up north to Vermont for Pa's memorial service.

I can not complete the last task. Do not know 4 other bloggers to 'tag' and carry this on any further.

Epcot Food and Wine Festival

Shawn and I fly down to Florida for Epcot's Food and Wine Festival. I will scan and post everything we tried. Shawn checked of everything we tried, it is amazing! The best part was spending the day with Granny at the festival. Sunday we spent with Mom and John and I BEAT THEM ALL at mini-golf at the most difficult course at Disney, or anywhere really. I will also post the scorecard soos as proof. It was a great mini-vacation for us!

The Flash and The Punisher

Shawn finally got a boat!

Here is Shawn and his brand new boat! He is also sporting his new Transformers Autobot watch. Two of his birthday gifts this year. The new boat is even red, his favorite color!

Halloween 2008

Here is this year's ridiculous costumes! I bought a hot dog costume for the dog and then got this "great" idea that we should be mustard and ketchup. Dusted off the sewing machine and started creating our costumes.....not too bad for a few nights worth of work. Here we are at Marcy and

Andrew's annual party, we were not allowed to bring Mac. Here is his replacement for the evening. We also carved our pumpkins but can not reveal what they look like till voting has been done in the first Annual Pore Family Pumpkin Carving Contest. Check back soon to see our enties (the winners) for the contest.