Tear down these walls...

Zach and I have become concert addicts the past couple of weeks. Two weeks ago, we went to the Power FM benefit concert to see Since October and Entrust. Good bands... a little hard for my taste though. Unfortunately no pictures to document that event. On Friday night, we made a little trek down to Deep Ellum to Live at Mokah to see Philmont, Our Hearts Heroes, Addison Road, and Pillar. It was an awesome concert and a great venue for concerts. We decided to show some support to the bands that Power FM plays all the time. So I found out about the show from this girl that I went to middle school with... she's the merch girl for the band Philmont because her husband is the lead singer. It was good to see her and show some support to their band as they are new to the national scene. Power FM is playing their new single "Tear down these walls" and their EP "Oh Snap" is available on iTunes. Good times. Too bad we got to the concert a little late and only saw the last song of Philmont's set. Oh well. My other favorite of the night was Addison Road. They haven't been on the scene very long, but they have several songs out that are really catchy. The other day at work I couldn't stop singing, "if I have to jump, then I'll jump and I won't look down, you can cry, you can fight, you can scream and shout, I'll push and pull until your walls come down and you understand I'm gonna be around... cause I'm sticking with you." All their songs are very catchy which makes it a good thing to be singing at work. ;-) The last band to perform was Pillar and they did an awesome job. It's amazing how many of their songs I actually knew and I don't even have any of their cds. They announced on Friday that their drummer was performing his last show with them. Lester, the drummer, has gotten called back for David Cook, the American Idol winner. Pretty cool stuff. Anyway, enjoy the pictures...
Philmont in the last song of their set...
Our Heart's Heroes...
Addison Road during their set...
Jenny, the lead of Addison Road and I.
Last but not least Pillar... notice he's supporting another band "The Wedding."

CANSTRUCTION!

The past week at work we have been building our canstruction projects. We tossed around several ideas - a flag, an iPod, the D&B logo... we came up with a Patriotic iPod with a rotating D&B logo and the special touch of Bevo listening to the music. Our boss is a Texas Alum. The accounting department collected 503 cans of Campbell's soup and it will all be donated to the North Texas Food Bank. Unfortunately, our design did not come in first place... the finance group won and gets to wear jeans all next week. Darn... but it was a fun project anyway. Check out these unique canstructions...http://www.canstructionla.com

Happy Birthday Mom!

Since the last post, there have been lots of happenings. I got my haircut off the day after the Hawk Nelson concert. We've had several outings with the small group. Zach has started school (going into his third week.) and we are working on our quarterly filing with the SEC at Dave & Buster's. It's been busy. Labor Day weekend, Zach and I went to a wedding for a family friend, Rachel Beck. We didn't take any pictures of them, but we did take one picture of us... those are few and far between for us. A little fuzzy, but here's the one picture.
Today we celebrated my mom at lunch with a great meal at Pappadeaux. My mom will be 60 years old tomorrow. Happy Birthday MOM! We love you!The Kilgore girls... we coordinated and didn't plan it. ;-)

Dad and Mom at Pappadeaux

Amazingly another pic of Zach and I. ;-)

My parents in their new Lexus. How snazzy.

Hawk Nelson is my Friend!

So for those of you who don't already know... I'm a total nerd. At least I think so sometimes. Here's where this comes from... Zach and I got tickets to the Faith Night at the Rough Riders game on Thursday night. Hawk Nelson was in concert and well that's what we were going for... not the baseball. The concert was before the game in the side parking lot and it featured Capital Lights as the opener and then a little diddy by Mark Stuart, formerly the lead singer of Audio A and then headlined Hawk Nelson. It was a great concert as they really put on a good show, but I'll just say Zach and I were some of the oldest people there. I don't even think that Hawk Nelson is as old as I am and I'm not even that old. For the most part though, it was all little teenie boppers and some of their parents with them. Then what made me feel even more like a nerd... I wanted their autograph... so I got it. I know that I was probably the only one my age asking for this punk rock band to sign my cd, but I sure didn't care. It was definitely a great night and a highlight of my weekend. Now for some pictures....

Mark Stuart came out as they were playing Big House... he sang a little bit, but his voice was soo raspy. His vocal cords are completely shot from years of straining his voice with Audio A.

The lead singer, Jason Dunn.



Drums: Justin BennerBass Guitarist: Daniel Biro

The whole Band, Hawk Nelson - up close and personal. What a nerd I am!

Get to know the Shirley's...

This summer our small group has chosen to meet separately as men and women and then we are also hosting get to know you nights. The girls have been faithful about meeting every week since the first of July and well, we won't speak about the boys. ;-) This past Friday, we hosted the get to know you night and were able to enjoy the company of 4 other couples. The Kirksey's, Libby's, Fletcher's and Hindman's joined us for Backyard BBQ, small Shirley slideshow and watching the opening ceromonies of the Olympics. Good times! I must give all kudos to my husband because he did most all of the work on our meal... BBQ Ribs. We had ribs, sausage, grilled corn on the cob, salad and then Zach's favorite, homemade Vanilla Ice Cream with brownies. Thanks Jamie, Holly and Sarah for helping to bring food. It was definitely a hit!

The girls - Holly, Sarah & Jamie

The Hindman's - Jason, Angela, Helen, and Issac

The boys - Aaron, Tyson, Drew & Zach

On a side note... a couple weeks ago, Zach got bored at work. So he took it upon himself to strip the wallpaper in one of the model kitchens and paint a cool design on the wall. So far I think it's a hit with most of his managers and other coworkers. Now I'm sure customers will ask, where can we get something like that done. Well I know just the person who can do it. ;)

Brodee Boy

This weekend, I made a trip to Austin to visit The Johnson's. It was so great to finally see their house and to spend time with Neena, Josh and Brodee. He's so precious and fun at this age, 9 months. Neena and I were able to catch up and just hang out. I also got to go to their church, Westover Hills. Good times. Seems like they have a good thing going on there in Austin/Round Rock. Thanks for the good times this weekend... and here are some pics...Brodee winking... the flash was a little much for him.
There's that cute smile that we saw all weekend.
What a cutie patootie!
What a blessing that little guy is to Neena and Josh! Such a great time!

And now... I know that you have all been waiting in suspense... Finally here are some pictures of Zach's projects that he did in ceramics.

His teapot and cups... They are car parts, I believe pistons. But don't quote me on that.


The water feature... Zach's wants to build one off of the deck outside and this will be part of it. One of the vases... my favorite actually.

And here are all three vases that he did.

I really like that Zach is able to create all this cool stuff in his art classes. But here's my question... where the heck am I supposed to put it all! I think that we need a bigger house just for art projects! We'll see! ;-)

Bailey's Halfway House

The other day, we were cleaning the base of Bailey's crate and this is what we found in the process. Too funny is all I have to say!