Making Memories

     After a very short Saturday morning at home, we went to the Alabaster Christmas parade at 9:30am.  Unfolded our chairs and planted ourselves on the side of Highway 31 for about two hours.  There were around eighty units from marching bands, floats, and and a few pickup trucks.  There were ballerinas, fire trucks, and candy!  So much candy!  It was almost like snow on the ground.  Kids had plastic sacks straining to hold the loot inside.  We decided the occupation of dentistry would be a booming business for years to come.
     We went to lunch at our favorite Chick-fil-la after the parade. Then all separated for our own projects for a while.  Anna to the library for a school project.  Judy to the kitchen, to prepare for the evening "ornament party", Stephen to the X-box, and me to the garage.  The SEC Championship game didn't start till 3:00pm, so I had a couple of hours.  Biting off more than I could chew, I took an old computer apart, added a slave hard drive, new ram memory, changed out the CD rom drive to a DVD writer, and put in a iso image of SUSE linux to completely change the operating system.  Finished it all up at five minutes till three, hit the power button and... nothing!  Granted there was a lot to go wrong here but I really expected it to work perfectly.  Time and my Auburn loyalty forced me upstairs to the TV where at least three of us enjoyed a great football game!
     At halftime, Judy had a great meal prepared of homemade yeast rolls, salad, meatball lasagna florentine, and to top it off, double chocolate surprise cupcakes.  It was all awesome!  The kids unwrapped their Christmas tree ornaments.  Stephen got a pretty red car, representing all his preparation for a driving license.  Anna received a frog ornament.  This, of course, was symbolic of her relationship with Randy Anderson(Prince Charming thing).  Judy has been giving these for about fifteen years and always puts a lot of thought into the selection.  The new ornaments are hung on the Christmas tree along with all the ones from previous years.
     We watched almost another quarter of the game then had to pack up to get to Kingwood Church to see their drama called "The Gospel According to Scrooge".  I figured Auburn wouldn't miss me and I learned a phrase from a comedian that has made my life easer.  Ready for it... "Happy Wife - Happy Life"!  It was a good show and a nice end to a good day!
     It's sometimes difficult to get all our family together for one event much less four and all in one day.  Appreciate those kind of times.  Like Judy says, "it's about making memories"!