Halloween Thuggets

This year for Halloween Chad and I went up to his sister's house for their annual Halloween Party.

It was a lot of fun!

Chad and I had a REALLY hard time coming up with ideas for costumes this year. We went from Zach and Kelly (from Saved By the Bell), to Fandango Puppets, to Homer and Marge Simpson, to the below...

I came up with both ideas and at least Chad's turned out pretty good.

For background information for those of you who do not watch the NBA. Chris Anderson is known as the "Birdman" and plays for the Denver Nuggets, also known as the "Thuggets". He is my favorite player (not for his skills (although he used to be one of the best blockers in the league), but for his theatrics)

Recently, the Birdman tattooed "Birdman" across his neck. In his honor, Chad's costume was born...

NOTE: Kenyon Martin also plays for the Denver Nuggets. His girlfriend kissed his neck so that he could tattoo the outline of them on his neck...we also paid tribute to him :)

Behold, Chris Anderson in all his glory (minus the neck tattoo - I could not find a picture of it in less than 10 mins, so I gave up...)

I think Chad looked a lot like him!

AND...I was a cat...

It is important to note that when you put bright white lining around your mouth, your teeth look yellow. Hence, the black and white photo. Also, hence the new package of white strips in my shopping cart today...

The Pharos: Halloween 2010 :)

Wings Over ATLANTA

Katie, Tyson and kids came down this weekend to go to the Altanta Airshow, "Wings Over Atlanta."

Here are some pictures to enjoy...

F-18 Hornet (Boeing)

"Blue Angel"

C-5 Galaxy (Lockheed Martin)

F-22 Raptor (Lockheed Martin)

"Air Dominance"

Blue Angels Show

For every choice, there is a consequence.

I forgot sunscreen.

Who would have thought staring into the sky, straight at the sun, would cause a severe sunburn...Apparently everybody else...

**Note** My forehead and cheeks are swollen...AND I was wearing sunglasses...awesome :(

Makeup could not even do the trick. I think I scared some children at church...Guess Halloween came early this year...

PS I love my job :) Who wouldn't love being around sweet jets and airplanes everyday!

Danielle is 23!

Chad asked me in September where I wanted to go for my birthday.

My brother in-law Troy introduced us to this nice restaurant Houstons (thanks again Troy!), and/or there is a similar Brazilian restaurant to Tucanos in Atlanta, BUT life has been so crazy busy recently, all I wanted to do was stay in and relax together... I know, I am lame - MANY people already told me this...

HOWEVER, it was perfect.

The morning of my birthday Chad tricked me with the old pillow-under-the-covers-trick. Once Chad gets up in the morning I usually do too (and visa versa). I guess we only feel OK sleeping in past a normal hour if the other one is too :) Knowing this, that morning he put our body pillow under the sheets so that I would look over and think that he was still asleep too (I have very poor vision without contacts mind you). Sadly, it worked. (We both laughed pretty hard about it later.)

Once I realized that he was no longer sleeping, I got up out of bed and went to the kitchen only to find birthday breakfast being cooked.

He made my favorite - Chocolate Chip Pancakes and Sausage with Orange Juice

Chad had already spoiled me earlier in the week by letting me open my birthday present early...He got me the sewing machine that I have been wanting FOREVER.

It can embroider too!

I have already started my first project - Christmas stockings! - Yes, I know stockings are pretty basic, BUT I have not sewed since my senior year of high school when I kept making my mother re-thread the machine... They are still a WIP since I could only officially use the gift as of yesterday...

I have white trim for the top and black felt for lettering. I will post the final product when they are finished.

After breakfast, Chad told me to get dressed because we were going shopping. He took me to Walmart and JoAnns to pick out all the necessities for sewing... It was really fun.

When we got back from a fun filled shopping adventure, Chad and I made kabobs and watched the Modern Family DVDs.

Halfway through, Chad surprised me with this:

The candles were arranged in a smiley face...

To the left in the picture you can sort of see the single red rose and a note.

This has sort of become a birthday tradition. Chad always wakes me up with a single red rose and a letter for my birthday. I was looking forward to it :)

It really was a perfect birthday...

Thanks Chad!