As-of Now You Are Under Attack

Brian came home from work and found a note from Ashlynn on the doorstep. The following video is what ensued upon his arrival...


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Digital Dudz tables

 Behold! The Digital Dudz light table! Brian and Mark have been working hard on these and I think they turned out awesome.  Brian created a stencil for the logo with the use of an exacto knife. Sand blasted the acrylic through the stencil to create an uneven surface that will catch the light of the LED's. Wire up some really cool color changing LED lights on a strip around the acrylic table top and under the wooden part of the table. Line the bottom of the table with grey felt. Make sure it's assembled in such a way that you can do three things:
1. Load all 5 tables into a 4x4 pallet to be shipped to Houston for the show.
2. Assemble them once they get to the show.
3. Load up the tables with Digital Dudz gear and make sure all of the hardware is safe beneath the acrylic table tops.

NBD! (No Big Deal.)

And the homemade pallet and crate awaiting the freight truck in our garage. Let's hope it looks like this in Houston!

Brian's Building project

Brian's brother, Mark, asked him to help with a "little" project for Digital Dudz. Later this month is a Halloween trade show/convention in Houston... and Digital Dudz will be present...and accounted for. So they need display tables. And just any old table wouldn't do! It had to stand out. So with Marks vision, Brian has been building these tables, made to display Digital Dudz products and the logo, brought to you by LED lights, shining through acrylic that has been sand blasted. NBD (No Big Deal). All 5 tables have to be built, then shipped to Houston. I think Brian has enjoyed the project. It's been a nice distraction from work.

P.S. The tables aren't even finished yet. This picture is only what we have "so far"! More pictures to come later!

LED's on a strip!?

Brian's First Day of School Note

I love that Brian put this note in each of the kids lunches for the day!

Teaser for the day… Bring home the right answer and win a daddy prize!

A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 boughs and each bough has 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to sell?

Brian's Side of the Bed

In Brian's absence, it looks like a new (little) man has moved in...

"The Winds of Change" Finally Revealed

A random shot my SIL shot at Thanksgiving of the cousins. I love it!

So many changes have been happening in our lives that I have found it difficult to keep up with my blogging. The things we have been dealing with have left me overwhelmed, and to be honest, made blogging seem very low on the priority list. Brian's mom's illness and passing were so emotionally charged and all encompassing that it was hard to put all of that feeling into a trivial blog post.
But the loss of Grandma Caroline hasn't been the only major life changing event we have been having to deal with. Brian has worked at San Luis Trust Bank since the day they opened their doors 11 years ago. He spent so much time there I would have to correct my children, when we would drive by and they would say, "That's where Daddy lives!"

Friday was his last day at San Luis Trust Bank as the controller.

Today, Brian started a new job at the Bank of Rio Vista.

What does this mean? It means Brian will be gone four days of the week while I am here alone with the kids. It means that me and the kids will remain here in SLO to finish school and hopefully sell our house (any takers?). It means we will be closer to my family when we move to Sacramento! It means we have to change our entire lifestyle by leaving a place we have lived longer than any other in our lives - where all of our children were born- and that has been recently celebrated as the "Happiest Town in America" to start a new life.

Cool and scary.

It means that maybe my blog posts will be more frequent and filled with mundane happenings of the day in order to fill my husband in on what he is missing!

Brian and Briggs on a tube

Here's the video I promised.

Briggs just looks like a little ragdoll in this clip, like the ride he took didn't even phase him. He just kept going back for more. That's kind of how his personality is. He just goes with the flow and not much bothers him. He's such a sweetheart.

Go dodgers!...again!

Brian and Briggs were given another opportunity to go to a Dodger game, this time a playoff game! It was a great bonding experience for Briggs, with Daddy, Grandpa and Uncle Mark.

(Little side note. Big playoff games, especially when they win, are a little bit too loud for little Briggs.)

When he got in late that night, I asked him excitedly, "How was the game!"

His response, "I ate a whole Dodger dog by myself!"

Obviously the important things were covered.