The concert was AMAZING!!! It was so much fun! More info and pictures to follow.

Does the acrostic: NKOTB mean anything to you in computer land? Well, to the laymen - this stands for New Kids on the Block...one of the greatest (if not the first american) boybands of all time. Well - these guys are back, new album and new tour. A couple of months ago - Emily instant messaged me and was out of breath over the instant message telling me that the New Kids were doing a concert on the Today show and that it was "Freaking awesome". She then committed to seeing their tour - until we found out the cost of tickets.

We forgot all about the concert until yesterday when our talk radio favorites Matt and Ramona held a trivia contest to win tickets. I was miffed b/c I wanted to call in and win them but missed the opportunity. Then, low and behold today right when Emily switched on the whole house radio - they asked for callers 10-12 to play the game again! I ran and found the phone and dialed Matt and Ramona's number. It rang and rang and then I handed off to Emily and they answered it. The long and short - Em was caller 12 and got to play the game - and won second place - TWO TICKETS TO THE SHOW!!!!

Here's the kicker - you can listen to Emily's straight up domination on the radio show here for a limited time.
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We have heard many people talk about going to a pumpkin patch in order to pick out a very special holiday gourd. Not so much for the Fair family who saw that pumpkins were marked down to a very reasonable 3.50 this week. So we went to our local retailer and worked our way through the mess that was left overs. After much scrutiny by our resident quality control expert - we escaped with what we deemed to be a steal. Below are the pictures.

With the good has come the bad. Piper slept very well last night - she got up at 12:45 to eat but then slept until 9am. This is way different from usual (if we can say 'usual' with her yet) as she mostly gets up from 7:30-8. She took some long naps, longer than normal and then turned up with a 102+ fever. Em took her to the doctor and they said all of her other vitals were fine but that we should keep an eye on her. As I write this, she is asleep on Em's chest. Poor thing. By the by - Piper also has successfully cracked her 2 bottom teeth. This too was a trying time. Pray for the popcorn.

We made this visit about the 3 year (next month) and 6th month (last month) for the girls. Everything went well - Sophia was great for the first time in several visits and didn't freak out, in fact she got a chance to strike some of her poses for the camera that she and daddy have so diligently been working on. Before we get to the photos (which will of course have Zazzle on them b/c they are copyrighted) I would like to give a spider bite to you: I asked Sophia this question: "What brings us here to the photo place Soph?" and she said, "the car dad...(laugh)"

Before we had kids, when we were still living in our first apartment in Oviedo, we started a Saturday morning tradition of doing either pancakes or waffles and bacon. Many frequenters of this blog can attest to this fact as they have participated in this tradition.

We have continued to do this most every Saturday morning using our favorite Krusteaz pancake mix from Sam's wholesale club and pretty much any lower sodium bacon we can find (our favorite is Hormel Black label, but for a while we were using Gwaltney...pretty much we go where the deals are so we have tried many different brands). Sophia is now old enough to help stir the batter (not unattended mind you - I left her once and...let's just say we had to restart the process) and enjoys participating very much. She is also in charge of the chocolate chips.

First of all - Emily redesigned the blog and I think it looks Great!
Second: our Church spent 5 weeks on a series known as (and you can see this from the picture) Visionary Love, Dream Sex. It was a fast and furious romp through the book of Song of Solomon (Songs). The sermons took us from Attraction, to Dating, to Marriage and then the first fight. Pastor Furtick covered in great detail the "wedding night" for one sermon and then he and his wife finished up the series talking about the first fight.

This is all a precursor to the title of this blog. Week 4 saw our church putting it's money where its mouth is by offering all married couples a night out on the church's tab. They got together with several local restaurants (look at the card below for the list) and set up a 30 dollar gift card for us at the dining place of our choosing. We had two weeks to use it and so we capitalized tonight with the aid of one of our friends Susan and her daughter Brewington. We headed out to P.F. Changs! Emily had never been there and I had only been there once - we started with Chang's Chinese Lettuce Wraps, and then moved to Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Pork with a side of White and Brown rice. We had a great waiter and he surprised us by having a side of noodles prepared to complement the sweetness of the Beef and Pork dishes. This was an AMAZING night - thank you Elevation for our Date Night!

Piper was supposed to be taking a nap, however when I went to her room, this is what I saw!

This weekend was a bit windy so daddy and Sophia got out the Spiderman kite and had some fun. The kite did not exactly fly ... but they both had a lot of fun.

So this picture came to us from our friend Samantha. She is the only one who sent us one. So sad. I'll go ahead and add this one from Gaffney SC for good measure:

Has anyone seen one of these things? This is a portable watchtower of some sort that was brought by the Charlotte PD to the parking lot of the Wal-mart near our house. Why was this portable guard post necessary you ask? Well, I'll tell you - because Charlotte was out of GAS! I'm not sure if you heard about this on the news and just glossed over it - but rest assured it was real and it did affect us. A week ago Monday I waited in line at this Wal-mart from 8:30-10:30 just to fill up. The line for gas continued until yesterday and even still we only have one level of Gas at many of the stations. It has been a weird experience and not one that I can encourage you to ever partake in. 

1. Piper is crawling better and sitting up on her own.
2. She is pulling herself up up on the couch, bathtub, and crib.
3. Piper is cutting her first tooth.

Sophia just wants to go to school.

I love my girls! I have the best job EVER!! I am constantly amazed and entertained. I love the time I spend with them and would not trade it for the world. That being said...i gotta go back to work, Nap time is over! :)