Predictions for Abby

Abby will swim and play basketball and tennis at Castle High School. She'll graduate with a 3.8 GPA and get a swimming scholarship to the University of Florida where she will major in English literature. She will write her first young adult novel before she even graduates. She creates a wildly popular character in a series of best-selling books that are made into movies. She also writes and illustrates many children's books. She will be about 5'7" tall and, thanks to swimming, she will be skinny and strong. She will marry a veterinarian she met in college and have two boys and girl and lots of pets. They will live in Florida. We'll visit them often and play lots of golf and go to Gators games. She and her husband will go on lots of short term mission trips and she will start an organization that helps with child literacy in third world countries.

Halloween 2008

Abigail Lane is Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series. She's wearing my old USI grad gown with at least 15 safety pins. We ratted her hair to get it big and messy.




Luke is Robin (Teen Titans version) again this year. We lost the mask so we made one out electrical tape, cling wrap and a head band.



Willow started out as a fairy. She was absolutely ticked off at having to wear a dress. She cried and screamed and pulled at it. (I'm so proud. That's my girl!)



So I put her in her cutest PJ's and she went as a baby.



This was Willow's first year and she loved it. We started out at a nursing home and she was very uncomfortable, of course. When we got in the car I gave her some Jr. Mints and she fell in love. She was ready to go trick or treating again to get that rush of easy candy. She loved walking door to door and holding out her bag. Every once in awhile I heard her whisper "Thank you" or "bye".

Now we are home and ready to eat some Halloween pizza and play games.

Peace on Earth...

We know there are many of you out there anxiously awaiting the Burton Christmas lists. I know most people would have to say they wish for world peace, but we want cash. Actually, if you are interested, we have updated our amazon wish lists, note the links on the right. If you would like the honor of being Favorite Person of 2009, we would really enjoy Holiday World season passes...or cash. Whatever. Peace.

There was a race.

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Tomorrow's the Day

We run tomorrow. Be there.

Run like the devil's chasing you

This Sunday is the big day. The Half Marathon. I will be running non-stop for two hours and 10 minutes through the streets of Evansville. I would love to have some people on the side to look forward to. Friends make the best mile markers. So if you are free and the weather is good, please find a place on the course and say hi.

I start on Reitz Hill at 7am. (I know, that's early for me too.) We work our way to north on Barker to cross the Lloyd and head towards Harmony Way. We run along the south side of Golfmoor and along Maryland and Columbia to Fulton. We go north along Fulton to Ulhorn and over to Garvin park. We run along the Pigeon Greenway and through Bosse Field. Then we run south on Main street all the way to downtown. It gets a little complicated after that. We are on MLKJ, Bellemeade, Powell, Kentucky and so on. We run through the park on Bayard
and around a park near Kentucky (Akin Park). Those are both good, shady spots. Eventually we get on Riverside (not the pretty part) and work our way towards the river. We finish right on the sidewalk by the river downtown. 13.1 miles of fun.

Here's a good map with vague directions: http://evansvillehalfmarathon.org/course/CourseMap.pdf

I wouldn't recommend being at the starting line. It's very crowded. But I thought it was fun last year to drive to a spot, wait for Jason to go by, pack up and drive a little farther ahead and wait for Jason and so on...until it reached 95 degrees. Then it lost it's fun. This Sunday is supposed to be around 70. Come and say hi.

If you are running too, leave a comment.

Everyone Deserves a Big Breakfast

I have great memories of big breakfasts with my parents. If we went to church on Saturday night, my mom would make us a big breakfast on Sunday morning with eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage or bacon, toast...you name it. It was like a buffet only we ate everything.

I woke up Sunday morning thinking about that since we had gone to church the night before. I wondered why I never made big breakfasts for my family. Then I realized it's because I'm tired in the morning. I just want a cup of coffee. I felt bad.

Everyone deserves a big breakfast every once in awhile. But it doesn't have to be in the morning.



So later we we went to the store and got sausage and biscuits. I made milk and sausage gravy from scratch just like my moms. I thought it was delicious, if I do say so myself. Luke and Willow also loved it. Abby and Jason, not so much. I also made sausage patties and links and fried eggs. It was very filling and worth it for the memories. I doubt it meant anything to the others, but it was special for me.