In honor of Saint Patrick's Day...

Who doesn't want to remember last year's Leprechaun drama in South Alabama?

Texas Wedding

Last weekend we traveled to College Station, Texas (home of Texas A&M) for Robert's cousin's wedding. We had so much fun seeing lots of family we unfortunately don't get to see too often. Robert's side of the family is pretty spread out - Texas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi.

Here are some pics from the rehearsal dinner. We ate at this super cute restaurant in downtown Bryan called Maddens. The food was wonderful. Thank you Uncle John and Aunt Gay!

Robert's cousin Patrick (brother of the groom) and his wife Meg.

Robert and his cousin, Bill, who was our ring bearer.


Robert's Aunt Jenny and cousin Kathryn, who was our flower girl!

Robert's NaNa and PaPa

The Bride and Groom: Robert's cousin John Austin (or Deuce as they like to call him at A&M because the Texans aren't familiar with southern double first names) and his lovely bride Sarah.

Robert's parents and his Uncle Tom.

The day of the wedding we visited the George H. W. Bush Museum and Library, which had a lot of NASA stuff to my great excitement. (I'm kinda of a NASA nerd.)


And the football stadium.

A few pics from the wedding and reception...



Jenny and Kathryn with big sister Lauren. She's so grown up!

I thought Kathryn's face was priceless after I told her to kiss Robert on the cheek!


Kathryn stood her ground next to the bridesmaids and other unspokenfor ladies but ended up coming just shy of catching the bouquet. Her excuse: "She can't throw!" Haha!

Shot to Win

Junior Guard Anthony Brock drove all night after attending his grandmother's funeral and hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to defeat Tennessee 70-67 in Knoxville. See the last 10 seconds of the clip for the shot.

More Acoustic Soup Pics

I just noticed today that pics from Acoustic Soup are now posted to About Town's website.

You can check them out here. Click on the first link at the top left labeled "Acoustic Soup."

We had our post event celebration shindig last week (which unfortunately I could only attend briefly because of a date with a stats test) and learned that we had more folks (300!) at this event than at any other VSA event!

Thanks to everyone, especially the wonderful Junior Patrons, for making this such a wonderful event that not only raised more funds for VSA than any previous Acoustic Soup but also introduced a whole new group of inidivudals to the special work VSA does in our community!

I can't wait for our next challenge!

Facebook

So, we all knew Facebook was taking over our lives, but now we have the cold hard data to prove it. A FORTUNE magazine article appropriately titled "How Facebook is taking over our lives," gives an interesting recap of the growth of the social networking site in recent years. Granted, part of that growth comparative to other technologies has to do with the fact that now more people than ever have access to the internet, but still, when everyone's mamma (including mine) is on Facebook, you know it's gotta be pretty popular - and widespread.

I especially like the sidebar graphs that accompany the article comparing the growth of Facebook with other once-modern technologies such as ipods, cell phones, and even TV. I've posted one of the graphs below, but check out the article for others.

Amazing Race - Week 3

So, week three of the Amazing Race proved that those who start first can definitely finish last. At least that's was nearly happened after team Sibling Lawyers (Tammy and Victor) suffered from some bad luck (plane mechanical troubles), horrible decision making (following the wrong markers up that mountain for an hour), and then some good luck (I have no idea how Victor found that lost key to the coffin in the middle of the woods).

For the full recap, check out this blog.

If it weren't for Brad and Victoria taking a chance on a different flight and ending up a good half day behind everyone else, Tammy and Victor definitely would still be contending for the million.

Kris and Amanda proved strong and are moving way up on my favorites list. Mel and Mike were sure and steady and deserved the first place finish. It will be interesting to see who falls apart next week and who rebounds.

Did I mention how much I love this show?

Snow

I woke up this Sunday morning, looked out the window, and realized it was snowing like crazy...in Birmingham. (In case you don't believe me, here's the proof. Yep, that blue stuff is snow, folks.)

These are the thoughts that went through my head:

• What's that white stuff?
• You mean the weather guys were right???
• It's March 1st for crying out loud, and spring break is just two weeks away. This is a severe blow to the progression of my spring fever.
  
• Oh man, I guess I should have gone out and bought milk and bread yesterday like everyone else in the city.
• That's silly, Tiffany, you can walk to a Publix from your house.
• Why are those people running in the elements? (Crazy, Homewood joggers.)
• I wonder if I can wear my snow boots to church?
• Will Robert be mad if I wake him up to see this?
  

And, for further proof, here's the house. (Yes, I walked out in my pjs at 7 a.m. in the frigid craziness to take these pics.)

And car...

And backyard...

I felt like I should apologize to these pansies I planted last weekend. I think they hate me.

And my overzealous tulip tree in the back yard that just started blooming this week is certainly going to regret jumping the gun. It does this every year.

And, just for fun, as I was saving these pics I realized I already had a folder titled snow from January 2008. Looks like March 2009 snow was just a little heavier (in my expert meteorological opinion) than what we got in 2008.

Enough talk about snow. I'm going to go drink some hot tea because I'm freezing.