Musical Mondays: BBQ Tunes

Hosted by Jori and Diane

This weekend was our city's big bbq festival. My company has a booth every year and it is so much fun for us all to be able to hang out and relax together.

I designed a logo for our team this year. Isn't he cute?


Anyway, our team did pretty well. We placed 6th in Ribs (for which we received a trophy) and 10th Overall. With a field of close to 80 teams, I think we did amazing. Our team always does well.

There is always some good music during the weekend, with a semi-successful artist to cap off the festival. However, this year we got the CHARLIE DANIELS BAND! What an awesome opportunity it was to end our weekend jamming to CDB!

I leave you with one of my favorite CDB classics -

A Few More Rednecks
by Charlie Daniels Band



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Putt-Putting for 4 (+1)

Last weekend we ate some Mexican food with our favorite couple then headed out to play some putt-putt. Spring is here and the weather is nice (or at least it was then... it is rainy now) so it is finally time to have some fun outdoors nights!

Scorekeeper for the night... I should've worked a little magic and made myself the winner. The six shots on one hole really screwed me for the rest of the game.

Hole in One Celebration

The professional lining up his shot

The Group - Aida and I were twins (on accident)

And the best picture of the night....

Aida, give us your best 'pregnant girl playing putt putt' pose

The Swine Flu....

can kiss my booty!

AND STOP calling it the Swine Flu.... It is the H1N1 Virus. It is not contracted by eating pork. In fact, I plan on eating lots of pork this weekend at our local bbq festival (as long as they don't cancel it with all this hysteria running around)! I love pigs. Don't blame your problems on them.

I am not okay with all the crazy people running around trying to scare the rest of us normal people into hiding behind a mask. It is the FLU people. Get over it!

Look! I nursed a pig and don't have swine flu!

Schools are closed, hospitals are overflowing, activities are cancelled, people are urged to stay at home.... total hysteria!!!

Just practice some basic hygiene, people, and go back to your normal lives!

And News People - quite it with your scare tactics. 1 person (a Mexican baby, right?) in the United States has died with the H1N1 virus... more people have probably died from the regular flu in the past week. So QUIT IT! If you really want to panic about a deadly epidemic why don't you focus on drunk driving or smoking or overeating? Those things kill a lot more people here than H1N1. ARRRGGGHHHH..............

Go Fetch!

We had a great weekend (despite the 6 hours of yard work Saturday morning) and I wanted to tell you all about it on Monday - but that pesky thing called work got in the way. I've been really busy and haven't blogged since Friday (Note: I'm going to ignore the 1100+ unread blog posts in my reader).

And I don't have much time now - I'm off to play tennis for the third night in a row and Wednesdays are Mexican nights with friends! But I wanted to share some cute pictures of our little Rafa from this weekend.

We went to watch our friend - The Rookie (he has been wanting a tag since forever ago and I keep telling him he'll get one but never pull though... today is your lucky day, BC) - play tennis. We took Rafa along to watch...

He was being a good boy and cheering The Rookie on!After we watched a while, we took Rafa over to the ballfields to play fetch.
Rafa loves getting off his leash and running all over the place. Crazy dog!!
Problem is - he doesn't always bring the ball back....

He had a lot of fun but was definitely ready for some rest and relaxation afterward...

What a life!

How I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

That is pretty much what the government is asking us to do. I am drowning in a sea of paper work right now to appease them. Couples with a spouse who receives residency within the first two years of marriage have to re-file paperwork two years later to show evidence that the couple is still together in order to maintain residency permanently.

This is their attempt at weeding out all of the illegal people who try to fraud the government by marrying only for a green card and make this process harder for the rest of us, law-biding citizens (and residents). I HATE those people! Seriously. HATE. If you are one of these people - I hate you. If you know one of these people - I hate them. Please tell them I said so.

Anyway, I'm busy organizing all the paperwork we need and gathering any 'evidence' I can. I happen to have a wonderful piece of evidence here at my fingertips.

So, say hello to the Dept. of Homeland Security on the comments b/c

I am submitting my blog as evidence.

The process only gets more fun. We'll be applying for citizenship in one year. Joy!

Beach Trip Celebrations

Back in the college days, we would celebrate Spring Break in the typical old fashion way....

BEACH TRIP!

Spring Break 2004 - Gulf Shores

Spring Break 2005 - Panama City (in true PCB fashion)

Spring Break 2006 - Gulf Shores

As we are getting older (and there is no longer any such thing as a Spring Break), we find new things to celebrate in the same old fashion way...

In 2007, we celebrated a graduation...
and a bachelorette...
with what else but a

BEACH TRIP!

And now - in 2009 - this girl...

this tiny, little girl

who was then a bachelorette...

is now a mommy-to-be!

And we will celebrate with a

BEACH TRIP!

And this beautiful girl here in the middle...

is GRADUATING! AGAIN!
This time with her Masters Degree from some big, fancy D.C. university!

And that's not all (no, we have a lot to be thankful for in our group)....

This girl -

is getting married!!

We are celebrating all these things and more with a

BEACH TRIP!

In one month, we'll be lying on the beautiful white sands of the Gulf of Mexico!

I can't wait to celebrate with such a beautiful group of girls that I am so proud to call my friends. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments girls!! Get ready!!

Hola, Cleo!

Deseo escribir mas en español pero es un poco dificil. Perdon por los errorres. Lucas y yo estamos muy ocupados, pero estamos muy bien. Lucas trabaja mucho, y yo juego mucho al tenis. Lucas tambien juega tenis, pero prefiere jugar al futbol con su equipo. Nuestros amigos Chris and Aida estan embarazados con un niño, su nombre sera Landon Cole y nacera Septiembre 1. Les ayudamos a perara el cuarto para el bebé. Estamos muy felices que usted y su amiga nos visiten pronto. Compraremos muchas cosas baratas. Te extranamos mucho!

Abrazos y besos

La Familia de Linares en Colombia

Note: Lucas's mom visits our blog occasionally to see the pictures of what is going on in our lives. But she doesn't understand all my incessant English babbling. So I have wanted for quite some time to write a post in Spanish - maybe even make it a semi-regular thing. This will help me with my Spanish, too. With the help of my limited knowledge, online resources to help me conjugate the verbs correctly, and an edit from the husband, I have actually written a short update in Spanish. If any of you know Spanish, please don't judge mine too harshly. I am trying here.