Goodbye Saab

Some pictures of Claudia's wreck.  We're just glad she's (relatively) unscathed.  Feel better!!

Giant Sinkhole underneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY

Ed, Claudia, Meridth, the kids and I spent an afternoon here more than a year ago. Bummer to see that room like that. And eight classic Corvettes!

What Dad has been working on...

The all new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado (GMC Sierra too)

Just in case you didn't know...

IU men's soccer won their 8th National Championship on Sunday, increasing IU's total national championships  to 24 for all sports.  Hopefully "we" can get another in basketball this year too!!

HOO HOO HOO...... HOOSIERS!!!!!

Dad's new car

Check out Dad's new 2011 Chevrolet Caprice

 It's 6.0 liter 355 horsepower 384 lb-ft torque rear-wheel drive V8 beast

As you can tell, it's meant to be a police vehicle, probably used as a demonstration vehicle before being sold to Ed.

Technically, it's called a Caprice PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle).  The tag on the back didn't say that though, so Ed bought 2 "CAPTIVA" tags, and created the "PPV" tag himself.

The interior is very minimal and resilient.  Feel free to drink too much orange soda and puke in the back!

Dad recently bought the steel center console seen above.  There are lots of fun add ons available that Dad is very excited about.

Come visit and take a ride!

Christmas Gift Exchange 2012

According to the blog, this is what we did last year.

Ryan/Casey give to Edward/Meridth
Margie/Brandon give to Karl/Emily
Betsey/Richard give to Ryan/Casey
Edward/Meridth give to Margie/Brandon
Karl/Emily give to Betsey/Richard

So, I'm shifting everything up this year. So, here we go.

Ryan/Casey give to Karl/Emily

Margie/Brandon give to Ryan/Casey

Betsey/Richard give to Margie/Brandon

Edward/Meridth give to Betsey/Richard

Karl/Emily give to Edward/Meridth

How does that look? Let me know if there are any problems

Happy Halloween!

This year I went as a geisha.

Love you guys, wish I were there.

RUSTY

Yay for Labor Day!

 Emily and I went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire over Labor Day weekend for her sister Abby's wedding.  I didn't travel East much growing up, so I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and cram as much in as possible.

 

We stopped by New Canaan, CT on our way out to tour Phillip Johnson's glass house.  We drove through Boston and ate on Newbury Street.

During a free hour before the wedding I drove to Maine and saw a lighthouse... It's back there if you look closely!

 

We saw the Book of Mormon musical by South Park creators Matt Paker & Trey Stone.  We walked on the High Line and ate at this place where Leonardo DiCaprio ate once... OMG!!

 

We stayed at the Ace Hotel and got upgraded to a loft!!  It was really cool.  This was the view from our window.

We saw the Flatiron building (designed by Daniel Burnham, Co-author of the Chicago plan of 1909 and Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893), the Statue of Liberty, and the  9/11 Memorial.

Then I had to drive home and I was really tired... but we had a great time, which is easy to do when you're not at work!!  Happy Labor Day!!

Dad's NEW, new Favorite non-TV Show

Can you believe it?  Dad's got a brand new favorite television show, (but just not on TV).  His long history of favorite shows include Seinfeld, Cops, 48 Hours, Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother and the Big Bang Theory.  But he now has a new favorite--one he watches on the Internet.  I'll bet you didn't even know your old Dad was so tech-savvy!

Anyway, this new show combines two of Dad's favorite things--cars and Jerry Seinfeld.  Yep, you guessed it!  The name of his new favorite show is "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."    In every episode Jerry features a different car and a different comedian friend.  One episode had a vintage Carmen Ghia, another time he was driving a 1952 original German VW bug.  He's also featured Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin and Larry David.  Does it sound interesting?  Go have a watch.  Here's a link:

comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com

Butters Dancing!!!

I was cleaning out my work computer and found some pictures from a port in Sendai, Japan after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that slowed our production last year.



Think about all the lost freight!

They just look like lego bricks, not 40 X 8 X 8 shipping containers

Funny Way to End the School Year

At our last staff meeting yesterday, Tim (my soon-to-be former principle) showed us the following Jimmy Kimmel video.  If you can forgive the vulgarity or two, we were all laughing our heads off.

Here's the link:  http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/05/11/jimmy-kimmel-a-message-from-your-kids-teachers-video/

Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.

Love,  Claudia

Happy Birthdays!

I have a pound of chocolate and am going to make some cakes! Wish all you March birthdays could come have some!

What is everyone's favorite cake? I love Red Velvet (but this changes, spice cake used to be my favorite... maybe it's a cream cheese frosting thing?)

There goes my hero...

Watch him as he goes... suing people.