Adam's 35th

Well, Adam Patrick Fullmer, beloved son-in-law, turned 35 this week. Of course we had to celebrate his birthday. No, he did not get a sweater, but he got some cool shirts and sandals as well as a trip to Wrigley Field for a rain shortened (but nevertheless fun) Cubs game. Here are some pics:




And of course some of the game:

Kids and Cats

A few days ago Cindy and I took Bryce and Summer to see a production of Cats by a local theatre outreach group. It was rather good. This production had students as young as 5 years old in it all the way up to high school age with the major parts being played by adults. One of the things they were doing before the show was face painting. We asked Summer and Bryce if they wanted their faces painted and they said "No". Well, once the show started Bryce turned to us and said he really wanted his face painted, Then Summer said she did too. Fortunately, they announced that there would be face painting available at intermission as well. So, Summer and Bryce became Cats. Here are a few pictures:






On the way home Bryce fell asleep in the car. While he was napping he reached up and rubbed his face and this was the result:



Pretty fun, huh!?!

Oh, what would life be without grandkids.

These are Fun!

It's springtime! Hooray! At this time of year I always like to post some fun things. Maybe you have heard these or maybe not. Anyway, enjoy.

This first one requires you to follow this link, but believe me it is worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Now enjoy this:



And lastly this:



If you are not crying or laughing by now, you must not have any feelings. Have a great week!

Darla and Her Dad

Okay, I know I am getting lazy with this blog. Last week, though, Chase showed up at the end of his spring break with Darla and her Dad and stayed for a couple of days. They had been traveling all over the place meeting Darla's family. On Friday, March 13th, Chase invited a couple of his buds over to meet Darla so, of course, we had to have ice cream. Here are some pictures.



Darla and Tony. Notice the size of that Ice Cream Sundae. Is this some kind of omen?



Paul and Darla's father, Ralph Boyer. We were not about to be out done by a girl.



Finally, Here is Cindy, Chase's pal Paul, and Chase.

The Merchant of Venice

Well, we just got back from a suicide trip to Southern Virginia University to see Chase perform in the title role of the Merchant of Venice. He did great! It was really fun to see him, even if it was for a short, quick trip. Here are a few pictures of Chase and some of the people from the Merchant of Venice.

This first picture is one with Chase in his costume on the set. The guy with the broom was one of the cast members who was out cleaning up the set after the production.



This is Chase in costume. Did I tell you how great he was? It was really fun to see him on stage.



This is Chase and Darla. Darla did tech for the production. In case you did not know, Chase and Darla are an item again. It is looking somewhat serious so we shall see.



This next one is Chase and his director. Did we tell you that his director was Orson Scott Card? Yes...THE Orson Scott Card (you know, the author).



And, as evidence that it is the real Orson Scott Card, we present his license plate. Notice the North Carolina plate and what it says.

Snuggies are Great!

This is terrific. My Snuggies finally arrived a little over a week ago and I love it. Rachel and Summer et al are also enjoying theirs. Hillary will have one soon and Marianne can pick hers up as soon as she stops in for a brief hello.




Matt said he'd never wear a Snuggie, but... Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:50 AM by Jen Brown

He said he “wouldn’t be caught dead in a Snuggie.” Yet a frigid Wednesday morning in New York found Matt Lauer sitting on the couch wrapped in the latest sensation that’s sweeping America.

“I’m having chest pains as we speak,” the TODAY co-host joked after watching the clip of himself declaring his intention never to get wrapped up in a blanket with sleeves.

Lauer was wearing a bright blue Snuggie. His TODAY partner in blankets-with-arms, Meredith Vieira, sat next to him in a red Snuggie, while Al Rocker and Natalie Morales flanked them in Snuggies of their own...

Recording it all was the TODAY stage crew – also draped in Snuggies and looking, as Lauer noted, like a gospel choir...

Since Snuggie commercials started blanketing the airwaves, both the ads and the garment have taken on a cult status. Some four million have been sold, and the campy infomercial has inspired some 300 YouTube parodies (including The Cult of Snuggie), according to USA Today. There are even Snuggie fan pages and discussion groups on Facebook.

The ubiquitous TV ad seems to come straight from the 50s, with happy people snuggling in their La-Z-Boys, cheering at sporting events or curling up on the couch, looking very much like monks in their party robes.

The late-night comics are having a ball with it. Just a few minutes before the TODAY crew donned their Snuggies, a report on the California octuplets filed by NBC News’ Michael Okwu included a clip of Jay Leno joking that no one knew the babies’ mother was pregnant – “she was wearing a Snuggie.”

Following Okwu’s report, Joann Killeen, a spokeswoman for Nadya Suleman, the babies’ mother, spoke with Vieira from an NBC studio in Los Angeles. A Snuggie commercial was playing on a small television monitor on a desk behind her.

Vieira admitted that before she tried one on, “I used to think, ‘What a goofy thing.’ But it’s not so goofy…They’re warm.”

“This is the toastiest I’ve been in here,” said Morales, basking in her own reflected warmth inside her Snuggie.

Snuggies are offered for $19.95 each – with a second one thrown in free – plus shipping and handling. But there’s a limit of two per customer, supposedly because of limited supplies.
“If you’re giving them away, of course there’s a shortage,” Lauer said.

While everyone agreed that Snuggies do, as advertised, keep the wearer toasty warm, Lauer noted that, “There is not one thing found in nature in this fabric.”

Roker pointed out that a picture on the Snuggie box shows a family wrapped in the backwards robes happily toasting marshmallows around a fire. “You get too close, you’re going up,” he opined.

After a break for local news, Vieira and Lauer were into their overcoats and out on a frigid Rockefeller Plaza to talk to fans and introduce the 8 a.m. hour.

“It’s cold out here today,” Lauer said. “We need our Snuggies.”

There is Nothing Like a Chocolate Cake

So, what do you do when Christmas is all over and everyone has gone home. Sit around and be bored? Not at our house. The thing to do is invite a special grandaughter over for a sleepover and have her make chocolate cake with you.

Happy New Year!

Wow!! So it is 2009! It seems like just yesterday that we were all worried over all the problems the year 2000 was going to cause. And now here it is 9 years later already. Time sure flies when you are having fun (and when you get older). A whole lot has been happening around here over the holidays and that is why nothing has been updated until today. First, we had Cindy's mom and sister with us for two weeks over Christmas. Chase has also been home from school at SVU and Hillary was here for a week with Blake and Jared. Today is really the first day I have had a chance to take a look at the blog and do any updating.

Here are several pictures from the holiday festivities:

And, of course, whenever Cindy and her Mom and Sister get together something creative has to happen. So, here are a couple of pictures of what the three of them did to our downstairs bathroom: