Hot Air Balloon Glow

Last night we went to the Pellissippi Hot air Balloon Glow thingie, it was real cool.
We got lost on the way there, but we eventually got there right as it started. We met Dave and Carrie there with Vanessa. It was so neat. We sat right on the edge of the water and watched the balloons inflate up to music. there were around 10 or 15 of them it seemed. We couldn't see them all from where we were sitting, but there was a 12 story green dragon, an Apple with a worm, a dentist balloon with little teeth, and lots more colorful ones.

It only lasted a half hour or so after dark, and it took us close to an hour to get out of the parking lot. So we waited with our friends in the parking lot and hung out with the babies.
The night was cool, so it was ok, and we got daddy out of the house. :)

Christian's Birthday

Well we had a birthday gathering for Christian on Saturday the 22nd. We decorated and cleaned the house. Put up lots of Elmo and Thomas the Train Decor. We had a big blow up Elmo that ran on a power fan. It was cool. I made cupcakes, brownies, and a chocolate vanilla cake. I think he liked that. He got lots of cool stuff from friends, and he pooped out around 4:00.

The day was crazy because we had to watch our neighbor's dogs that weekend also.
But we got a ton done, and everyone was happy. We got to see Ed and Melody, Lillie and Dave, Carrie and Dave, and lots of baby friends. I think we will leave some of the decor up for a while.
Christian loves the cookie monster and elmo giant plastic portrait in the hall way.

Thanks everyone for a great time!

Back from Vacation

Well we had a blast at Dragon Con. It was a lot of work but we had fun.
Sam's sister Sarah came with us, and we stopped at Sam's grandparents house on the way to Atlanta. We picked up Sarah there and finally got to Atlanta about 12:00.

So the Marriot was all under construction. It was really crazy. The Hilton was a new hotel this year we had never been in before. But Sarah also had to stay in the Weston which made it more difficult to plan stuff by. We got lost for registration, and had to walk around the whole building twice, and we got to our rooms just in time to see Beast Master and James Marsters talk.

But before all that, we were going up to our room, Sarah and I. We looked out on the 44th floor and saw The incredible Hulk guy. and we waved at him. It was funny.

then coming down the elevators later on, we were like oh hi. Lori Petty.....
hehe She was like, are you going to where all the crazy people are. We said ya.
She said she was also from Chattanooga, like Sarah is from. She was very nice.
Pretty cool, we got to ride down the elevator with Tank Girl. :)

Well we went to the Hyatt and saw some people. We were pooped by the end of the night.
We saw Bud Bundy (David Faustino) and he was really funny. The baby was kind of crabby through out the panels, so we had to always leave early.

But we got good video of James Marsters. and some really good stuff of the Mythbusters.

Sam donated blood to the blood drive there and got a cool T Shirt. Some pirate guy helped to run the office area, and Christian loved him. He gave us a pirate ring. :)
after that I think we went to bed so we could get up to see the parade in the morning.

So we get up Saturday morning, and walk to the Hyatt. We just chilled out with Josh and Ed and Sarah while we waited for the parade. Lots of people. A few min. after the parade started we see Eric Estrada on a motor cycle and the guy from Police Academy making noises at him. it was real funny. My video went dead right after that. I was mad, cuz melody was in the parade later on. But it was fun as always. We went back in to see the Mythbusters, after sam brought the huge stroller back to our room. that took forever.

We spent most of Saturday walking around the Walk of Fame. I got to meet Mark Singer from Beast master, and we spoke again to Peter Beagle.
Oh and I think that we went out to eat Sat. night with the Gang from Sam's War Craft guild.
Melody and Ed were there. While we were waiting to go by the elevators, we saw James Marsters walk by. OMG it was cool. hmmmm what else.

It was really annoying there this year, they made us wait in long lines, and if you exited the building you could not go back in the same way. and had to walk around again the whole building to get back to where you just were. Really dumb. And the hotel room we had didn't have a refridgerator, and that made it hard. I was not impressed with the Marriot this year.
The stars charged for photos this year which blowed.....we almost went broke.
But all in all we had fun. We spent Sunday walking around the Art venues. and Met James Marsters in the morning. We stood in line for an hour to see him. Christian fell asleep in my front pack though. so it was ok. Sam got our Firefly dvd signed.

We got a zombie family portrait done, and sam got an autographed poster from this vampire movie guy. 30 dark nights or something....
We got a new Larry Elmore poster again, and got another Last Unicorn DVD signed.
Next year it will be better. But we had fun. Peter Beagle is hilarious. I had no idea.
I went to see him speak Sat. Night at his viewing of the last unicorn. He cracked jokes and was very talkative. He was usually very quiet. But he's not shy, and he took a picture with us the next day.

We left sunday afternoon. we were pooped. Had to move the car from the garage again to get our stuff packed and sam had to walk a lot. Not happy. We saw Eric Estrada again the Marriot parking lot. He walked right past us by the front door.

We ate lunch at the Red Lobster and went home. yay
what a trip. Christian had fun. He loved seeing all the cool costumes.