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Feliz Navidad!!

I wanted to post this link. This link right here. The link will take you to our friend Kenny's website. He took the picture at the top of the blog. He does great work and we wanted to share it with everyone.

Merry Christmas

It's already December!!!

Hi everyone...we figured after the drought in posts, we would make sure to post a few in a row. Our home has been changing quite a bit in the last few weeks. We now have a gorgeous, handmade table base for our pretty glass table. We also have a 7 foot noble fir Christmas tree - and it's all decorated now! We went to pick it up in our Scion...we brought Atticus with us...and amazingly enough all three of us and the tree got home just fine (Atticus did have to sit on my lap.) We've painted a few rooms (living room, master bedroom, and hallway.) Everything is really continuing to shape up!
Outside is shaping up too. I did have to tear out my flower beds and I'll be starting over on those, but Sean planted 4 trees - and my parents just gave us two big trees for our birthdays, so we'll be planting those soon too!!!

With all of the improvements to our home, we still have found time to go to a really fun wine pairing last night at Taverna. My parents invited us, Megan, Kevin, Mat, Anna, Damian, Kyle and Crystal. We all had such a great time...and learned a lot too. I really didn't like one of the wines when I tried it alone, but with the lobster ravioli, it was really quite nice. That's the whole point of a wine pairing - to realize how a wine can change when paired with food :)

Atticus always keeps us laughing - tonight we went to Target to do some grocery shopping and while we were gone, Atticus decided that he wanted to eat the tempeh (soy) that I had marinating on the counter... I guess he figured that he hears me talking so much about the benefits of soy - he wanted in on the action. :)

So - we finished decorating our tree tonight. We'll post the finalized pic tomorrow, but I have put the interim picture up for now. We actually had to get more lights tonight, because our tree last year was only 5 feet tall. With such tall ceilings, we figured we could definitely have a bigger tree! :) I love it :)

Well, that's all for now!!! This is a little late for Thanksgiving, but we want to let you all know that we are so thankful for each of you all!

Thanksgiving Weekend and then some,

Lets just start with one of my favorite recent pictures



Wow, Do not let anyone tell you it is easy to update and keep a blog. First, you have to actually do something worth writing about. That can be hard to come by sometimes. However, here at College and Maddox, we wait long enough between posts to build up a library of stuff. If we didn't there would be a lot of blogs about groceries and our favorite TV shows. Maybe your favorite TV shows too.
First off, I'm old. This year I turned 28 which is much closer to thirty than twenty, a fact I am very aware of now . Despite my advanced age we still had time to party it up with everyone. It is always fun to watch people who didn't know each other before they arrived enjoy themselves. Plus, I really love the front yard party. It's a specialty of Fairmount.




I hope you noticed the new paint in our living room and Kitchen. Also here, is my second favorite picture from the last few weeks



Here is Little Dami in a bucket. Everything that kid does is cute. Just sitting in a bucket is cute when he does it.


There will definitely be more to come this week. Have fun

A&M and Austin Weekend!

We had such a fun time in Austin and A&M with Jennifer and Chris!
Look at the pictures to prove it!!! What an awesome game!!!


Here is everyone enjoying the best new entrepreneurial venture in Austin (that might be an overstatement :)) It's called Meatheads - all this after we ate an amazing sushi dinner at Maiko! Jennifer and I got to try the best ever - grilled chocolate chip cookie!!!

Anyways - I have to keep my eyes glued to this election coverage!!!

We're a little late with this one

I know, I know, we took a little siesta and forgot to add anything for a couple of weeks. But we're back and brought pics!
Jeez, what haven't we've done in the last couple of weeks. We've been to a traditional Indian wedding, chauffeured Pauline and Raymond to a huge concert in Dallas, had someone bust out the window on the talon, and saw a elderly woman drive on the wrong side of the street. And that was just one weekend!
First off, we are adding some color to the Lynch Homestead. What started out as a one room project, our bedroom for Sara's birthday, has turned into our entire house. So now instead of apartment white walls with smudges and fingerprints (what can I say, I have dirty fingers) we have color everywhere.
We also have ceiling fans! John was kind enough to teach me how to wire the fans in. In turn, I was nice enough to change the code on the remote to the fan and not tell anyone. When did ceiling fans start coming with remotes?
Also, two weeks ago, Sara, Chris, and Jennifer went to the A&M and Texas Tech game. College Station was awesome. Tech won, just like they did last night, with authority and we had a fun time in Austin.
Finally, little DP finally crawled!! Forward!! on his own!! The little guy finally got over that last obstacle, which was his own leg, and is on the move. So, that is the quick skinny on us. Have a happy voting day.

Hello out there in the blogosphere. We don't have much going this week. The fence is finished, done, kaput. John and I screwed the last few boards in during a downpour on Tuesday. It rained incredibly hard for 10 minutes on Tuesday and it was in that ten minutes we finished. It was us, rain, and fence pickets. I thought it was a thrill to finally (almost) have this project complete. The moment was in no way uneventful, in fact it was a really proud moment for us. But we didn't have anyone to take any pics and this thing is always so much better with pics. We could have been attacked by bears, then got in helicopters to hunt those very same bears and it still wouldn't be worth writing about without pics (that's an Alaska joke. You can hunt bears from helicopters there. I don't know why they don't campaign on that hot topic issue!!) So, we thought we'd just put pics of Atticus up, Damian, and all the other cutesy we have around us. They all are just so cute. and the fence is done, so we go that going for us.

I don't know about you all...

But that was way too graphic for me! :) This is Sara...

I thought I would post a couple of pics of our new flower beds and our fence! Here is pre-fence...

Here is our lovely fence - with the gate installed! I've also included a picture of Atticus and Nutmeg together - they are so sweet!!!

Brown Gold, Texas Pee

The very first "challenge" we faced as homeowners started out as a minor inconvenience.
We'd been living with a funny little problem for a couple of weeks before the picture to the left. Our bathroom sink would slowly backup over night. We'd cup out the water in the morning and by the time we got home in the evening it would be almost ready to spill over.
And we just kind of dealt with it. Maybe out of laziness, or the fear that it may be something more than just a giant hairball, we made dumping stank water into our tub part of our morning routine. Right after brushing teeth, and before brushing our teeth again because we can't remember if that was the cup we used to dump out the over flow.
So we went out to eat. And after everyone had just enough, we let Mike Moak and Mike Pounds loose on our bathroom. The beers were there when they got there


Then it got worse. Much Much worse. I'm not watering the grass there. There isn't any grass in that picture, but what is in that picture is sewage. Lots and lots of sewage coming out of the ground like I struck oil in the 1600 block of College Avenue. It turns out the pipes that lead out of our house to the sewer were put together by a kindergarten class who liked right angles and glue. They also liked putting dirt, beer bottles, children toys, and what looked like a class project time capsule in there while they were at it. There was only one thing we could do to remedy this problem. DIG!!





We found a maze of pvc only trained labs would enjoy. With that we found a tough decision. Do we go at ourselves, or do we call in professionals. We made the obvious choice.
We called in Tim.







From these pictures, you can see that we clearly knew what we were doing.
So on our (Sara and I, Not Tim and I) first anniversary, I found myself standing in a half a foot of flies, crap, and pvc trying to figure out how to make shit go down hill. That can be a tall task. But we had a plan and Sara had promised pizza and chicken wings for a job well done for incentive. Maybe even some wedding cake.

Tim and I thought we'd get at this project in pieces. We'd take a part of the pipe off, replace it and move to the next piece. We pulled on that first piece of pipe and the entire tangle came off. Broke off like a chopstick. In our confusion I said "Shit," in exasperation. Tim Said "Shit," pointing out that in fact shit was coming out of the pipes. We tossed the poop tube as far as we could and looked at each other in bewilderment as the reality of the job hit us much as the horrendous smell that suddenly permeated the yard.


But, we made it work. Tim and I untangled the pvc mess left for us and made it work. Shit now does roll down hill at the Lynch household and that is all you can ask for.

It's almost Friday!!!

Wow! It's been a busy week - I know that Sean and my parents agree - our fence is totally coming together...which is really exciting! :)

Tomorrow night, we're all going to an event in our neighborhood - Magnolia on the Green. Anyone is welcome to join us. The entrance is simply a can donation and there is going to be live bands and food from Chadra Mezza (a yummy Lebanese/Mediterranean restaurant.) http://www.fortworthsouth.org/FWS/resources/Poster1stFriday.pdf

Hope everyone is doing well!

Fencing Us In

Look at this!! That is a Fence!! Well, it's an almost finished fence but its still a fence ( A fence, mind you, that will be done by the time you actually see it in person). There is no more tree/chain link fence monster marauding all over our yard. That there is an actual fence. It's something to behold after all the work that's gone into it.
Someone told us that every project we take on will take twice as long and cost twice as much. While this hasn't been quite true for us, there is a big grain of kosher salt in that statement.
To build this fence we have dug out enough concrete to build a skate park. We have found everything but oil buried in our yard (and if we did find oil we are not telling anyone). We clear cut our back yard like a brazilian rain forest to make room for the fence and still pulled roots the size of baseball bats out of the ground and our way. I think we found an actual baseball bat. Take a look at how this project has progressed.

Bill the Tree Guy took out all the trash trees that had taken over our backyard.

After he cleared out the backyard we got to work. The first night Johns and I thought we'd knock out 10 or 11 post holes before the end of happy hour. We got one hole almost dug. One, that's it. We'd dug out an inch at a time. Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption dug faster than we were. You'd think we were using plastic spoons. That was when the scope and size of this undertaking became terribly clear. It was going to bust, at the very least, my ass.








That guy there, in the blue, who is working while I just sweat. That is AC. He saved me from having to dig everyone of those post holes by myself. If that had happened We'd have 8 Ft of fence and it wouldn't be in our yard or in a straight line.





As you can see everyone had their special jobs. Grandma B had to keep Damian from running out into the yard and making us look bad with his brute strength. I made sure there was enough sweat in every picture. Mat and John made sure it looked effortless




We did so much work on this project that it requires two posts. Plus I'm tired. So take a peek at what else we did.





















Thanks to everyone, it looks AWESOME and is making our house even more of a home!