Our New Addition

This is my life right now:

• Rick moved in with us. He's a director now at a local hospital. He is hysterical, and him and Tad together is just plain scary. Rick, Tad & Josh together is indescribable. Watching our family get adjusted to eachother has been quite amusing. I think when Kelly moves down Tad might send me to live with her and keep Rick.
• When we first told Sarah-Grace we were getting a new house, she constantly cried that Rick wouldn't know how to get there and she wanted him to live with us. We assured her that we would Rick give directions to our new house and he could live with us there too.
• Tonight Tad & Rick spent 30 minutes trying to find an X-Box game that they could both play. After 30 minutes they load the game and realize that Tad's character is "in jail" and Rick's character has to save him. SO far Rick's died five times trying to save Tad and Tad's guy is "locked" to standing and kneeling in his cell. Tad's now sitting with the control in his lap and watching Rick play - wouldn't this have been easier to do 30 minutes ago with a game only one of them could play?
• Last week Josh, Tad and Rick spent over 7 days plotting a camping trip for PS3 - Josh was captain since he was the veteran!! The plan was Josh & Tad would camp out, get their name on a "list" and Rick would meet up with them after he got off work. Josh & Tad got up at 4am on Thursday and spent the rest of the day driving to every location that had PS3's from here to Covington to Athens to Winder and back to Lawrenceville. It was really sad watching their dream die.
• This weekend Rick had what he now classifying as a mysterious "24 hour tooth ache". He asked me to research this on the internet.
• Rick has gotten lost everytime he's tried to drive home to Hickory or to David & Jeannie's house since he's been living with us(apparently Lawrenceville-Suwanee is a confusing road). The first time he was driving back to Hickory he got so frustrated he stopped at Best Buy in Athens and bought a GPS system to find his way home - then returned it when he got home. The scary part is Tad did this same thing a month ago when he was driving to Tennessee - they even bought the exact same model. This past weekend after an hour & a half of driving and ending up in Dacula he just called Kelly and told her he was staying here. We are beginning to see why Sarah-Grace was so upset that Rick wouldn't be able to live with us because he wouldn't be able to find our new house (at least the new one's in Dacula).
• Rick and I pretty much argue about food all the time - we both consider ourselves experts. Last night he informed me he was making Rhubarb pie to bring to Thanksgiving because that's what people in California do. When I told him Rhubarb wasn't in season and that the traditional pie for Thanksgiving was PUMPKIN no matter what state you lived in he said, "Oh". The day before that he was saying he wanted mincemeat pie.
• Rick grew up in California. His father was a fire chief. Any restaurant or entertainment place that ever existed started first in California, and Rick and his dad not only went to these original places, but they went on opening day to all of them.
• So far Rick's died so many times trying to save Tad's character I've lost count - it's been over 15 times, at least. It's now been 30 minutes to find this game and 50 minutes of Rick trying to save Tad out of "jail" so he can play too.
• We informed Sarah-Grace she will begin calling any cousins that are our age (or close to it) "aunt" and "uncle" because it's what we did when we were little and it's respectful. When we informed her of this last week she became hysterical and started saying how much she loved her cousins and why wasn't Rick going to be in our family anymore. We calmed her down and explained what we meant and that Rick was still in our family. She's compromised by calling him Uncle Cousin Rick.
• Charlotte was shopping with Jeannie & I last week for a shirt for Julie. The one we picked was a long sleeve button up shirt. Charlotte looked at it and said "that's cute, daddy's shirt". Jeannie said no, not daddy's and she replied, "Rick's?". We thought that was so funny.
• We love having Rick around and hope someday soon Kelly will join us too!!