Monday, January 30, 2012

Past weekend

The weekend was a busy one. Haddens had Brady's birthday party on friday night. it was at showtime sports were kids get to go play sports, dodge ball, football, baseball etc. Spencer went with Katie and Sam to donkey basketball. that is just what is sounds like. adults trying to ride donkeys and play basketball. needless to say it is funny and a great PTO fundraisers since it means the kids do not have to sell anything.

Nash - he is rocking on hit knees and thinks he can stand up on his own. He loved trying to stand and hold onto things and he is smiling and laughing. He really thinks he can stand on his own. he can now move from his butt to his knees but can't quite stand on his own. he can make it back from his knees to his butt. he is very proud of himself. he has teeth coming in and is drooling a ton and loves to be held right now. still making the clicking sound with his tongue but not so much roaring like a lion like he was a few weeks ago.

both hadden and spencer seem to be getting more and more homework these days. both are doing well in school and continue to excel.

Hadden's basketball team is 7-1 while spencers team is 7-0.. i like to thing coaching has something to do with it.. HA HA... i am helping coach both teams. both are in a battle to see who can score the most points in a season. they are both averaging about a bucket game. Both play good defense.

Carrie is enjoying a women's bible study right now. Monday nigths with our sunday school class. We both continue to enjoy our sunday school class.

I continue to run for exercise going around 15-20 miles a week. enough to keep me in decent shape. Carrie works out and mainly does the elliptical machine or boot camp classes with spin class thrown in occasionally.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Nash's New trick

Nash's new trick is to roar like a lion. he is figuring out that he has a voice. he is on his knees up and rocking. He is wheeling around in his walker like a champ. now spencer and hadden have figured out that they can push him around like a toy and fly around the down stairs. so far no casulities. Carrie's mom continues to come up on Tuesday/Thursday's to help us keep Nash. What a great thing that has been for us since carrie has gone back to work...not a short drive for her but a great thing she has been doing since October.

Spencer and Hadden are back in school and continue to do well and enjoy it everyday. No girlfiends to date but lots of funny stories...Specner checked up today which in English means he didn't get in trouble and he was able to move is stick up and get a ticket. so many tickets and you get to buy a prize. this is the reward system - the bigger the thing - the more tickets they cost. just like the real world.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Alabama In New Orleans - Jan 9 2012

My dad has been able to get Sugar bowl or national championship tickets in new orleans for 4 of the last 5 years. This has been a great trip to be on each year with my dad and watching football. Any easy flight followed by some great food and times in the big easy.
2008 - LSU 41 vs Ohio state 24 -- National Championship Game
2010 Florida 51 Cincinitti 24
2011 Ohio State 31 Arkansas 24o
2012 Alabama 21 LSU 0 - National Championship Game.

lucky we skipped 2009 because Alabama got whipped by Utah in that game. This year was extra speacial because Alabama was in the game. I was able to meet with Dwayne and meet both his daughers - i had met one of them before. He helped recruit me out of school to international paper and we had many fun times going on recruiting trips to alabama to hire finance and IT staff for IP. He has since retired and we had not had a chance to get together for 5 years or so. it was good to hang out and catch up on Bourbon. It was good to also be able to catch up with my buddy from college brent who is in houston and we are not able to connect up as often as we would like. it was good times. Every year we have gone the first days starts at Pat Obrien's and goes from there...A Hurricane or 2 and a dinner that night - the last 2 years has been the Palace Cafe which has been great. The 4 of us went up / down bourbon both nights, ate good food, and enjoyed each others conversations and discusions. (Hey i wonder how that girl got those beads)....Morton Salt hosted my dad for the 4th year and jason and Chris were fun as always and great hosts. The seats were great - about 8 row right at the pylon where the alabama team ran out from the locker room.

It was a great time to be able to spend hanging with Geno who is also turning the big 60 this weekend. Can't wait until next year....

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Christmas and New Years

It was a fun Christmas this year with all the activities and how much fun the kids had. We had Carrie's work party this year which had good food a little dancing. I took Hadden and Spencer to open gifts with my parents and jena paul a few days before christmas. It was a quick trip but we enjoyed it and the both hadden and spencer enjoyed opening gifts and seeing nini and papa and the twins. Christmas Eve morning breakfast a Crackerbarrel kicked off at 7:00 and has been a Hulan family tradtion for close to 30 years. Christmas eve was spent with the cousins playing at Carrie's parents place - a farm with a lost of room to play and roam. they spent a lot of the time jumping on hay bails in the barn..that night we go to the Bon Aqua hoe down to eat dinner. This owend by Flo (carrie's mom) older brother and it is a gathering spot for Carrie's moms side of the family for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Christmas morning back here was a blast. The kids let it slip that they got up at 3:01 AM and came out and peaked at their presents but that didn't ruin a few surprises.
hadden - electric air soft gun, basketball shoes, baseball bat, Wii game, smelly markers, shocker pen, Alabama sweatshirt, spy car, electric blanket
Spencer - electic scooter, bayblades, basketball shoes, castle, smelly makers, wii game, remote control bayblade, electric mattress pads, waki talkis, wall tracks for mtach box cars.
Nash - a bunch of blocks and things he can push open with his hands

Christmas morning we go to Carrie's parents to open gifts with Carries sisters and parents and then went to Carrie's Aunt Becky's for lunch with kenny's side of the family.

Right after Christmas Hadden had his tonsils out. That was a bit harder recovery than anticipated with him up every 3-4 hours for the first 7-10 days. He is doing better now.

New Years eve we went to some neighbors for party. Everyone brought appetizers and there was a karoke machine - Carrie was not impressed with my performances - she has video of me singing but hopefully that will never surface.....

I am helping coach Hadden and spencers basketball teams.
Hadden is playing point guard and his team is off to a 4-0 start.
Spencer is playing as well and they are 4-0 too. A funny story about Spencer- his first game he took the ball to start the 3rd quarter and went the wrong way and scored for the other team. the final score as 15-3. Yes spencer in his first game was the hi point man for the other team. The game this past Saturday he scored 8 points for his team and they won 28-5. I am proud of how both kids are donig. they both seem to really enjoy it and carrie and I enjoy watching and being involved.

Nash turns 6 months today and he is first tooth is in. he is really vocal and sitting up on his own for the past month or so. he is really intereted in whatever his brothers are doing and can spend a lot of time just watching them play.

I am off to New Orleans today to go watch Bama play LSU in the National Championship game. i can't wait. ROLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE ROLL.