Mama's House

Today is the day Roland makes his move out to Jacksonville, FL. We wish him well and no diarrhea.


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At last count, over 80 people have been confirmed as attending - that's not including the little ones apparently.

And if like Annette, you're looking for a place to stay for the night you can click the map below for surrounding hotels:


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Just wondering if anyone wants to go to KnottsBerry Farm the Sunday after the Family Reunion? Were planning on staying the night. Possibly go to Downtown Disney or D&B on Saturday evening.

Everyone please set aside October 13th as it is my Father's birthday and the event is to tbd. We are leaning toward a lunch or dinner. Details will be posted as they come. Wayne, please add this to the google calendar.

How many of these mistakes have you made? I suppose Roland and maybe EJ should also keep this in mind for the near future.

Shocked. That's how I felt when I viewed these rankings. I mean how can you leave off the Dillon Panthers? They were state champs of Texas, they're returning three of their best players in the awesome backfield trio of Smash, Riggins, and Saracen - I don't care if none of those guys made Grady Hunt's list of 100, Voodoo Tatum has nothing on them - and they have the best team chant of, "Clear eyes, Full Hearts, Can't lose!"

Sure they lost one of the best up-and-coming coaches in Coach Taylor to the collegiate level but coach's wife and daughter are still in town, that has to count for something right? Without those two, who knows if Saracen would have coped as well without Julie with all that happened to him last season, caring for a demented grandma, father in Iraq, having to step in for the nation's top rated qb prospect; and who knows if Riggins would even have been academically eligible for the team; a big thanks to Lance for that too, although he definitely needs to disband Crucifictorious. The team also came up with more than its fair share of miracle wins but who's to say this same group of miracle workers can't perform those tasks yet again?

Fact is, this is not only a talented, experienced team but a team that came out on top in one of the most emotionally draining seasons no team should be asked to endure.

Ok, so I wasn't shocked, but I was clearly disappointed. Anyway, maybe this year's squad could use the rankings snub as motivation. I can't wait for the Friday Night Lights to come and the new season to kick off on October 5, hope you're as excited as I am.

From EJ's 22nd birthday celebration at Dave & Buster's in Arcadia.

The latest:

• T-shirt design has been pretty much finalized finally.
  
• Food is still being discussed. What is certain is that there will be burgers and dogs as well as chips and dip. Not yet finalized are the Filipino dishes that will be served though expect it to dominate the menu that day.
  
• Calls are still being made to anyone with Fonacier blood as relatives nationwide and even from the Philippines are expressing interest in the family reunion.

Morningstar Farms® Grillers® Original

Description: Classic burger flavor, veggie-style.

Method of preparation used: Grilled and served on a bun with cheese.

Wayne: Why are the patties so small?
EJ: Vegetarians eat small portions.
Wayne: Does that say something about the quality of their fake meat?
EJ: Probably.
Wayne: It has an odd aftertaste.
EJ: It tastes like egg roll.
Wayne: It does taste like Chinese food.
EJ: It tastes like the egg roll meat filling, maybe egg roll meat isn't real meat.
Wayne: Maybe.

Due to the crappy family tree we have now (good job Wayne ). My Dad and I are have started to build out our own famiy tree. You should be soon getting emails from geni.com. Everyone should sign into this service, register and fill out their information. Also please fill out the family tree to best of your ability adding people and their e-mail addresses.

We are the Mighty Bruins,
The best team in the West.
We’re marching on to victory,
To conquer all the rest.

We are the Mighty Bruins,
Triumphant evermore.
You can hear from far and near,
The Mighty Bruin roar!

U! (3 claps)
C! (3 claps)
L! (3 claps)
A! (3 claps)

U-C-L-A! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Today's game.

Cousin Cruise Trip 2008

Let's do it! - 3
Let's do something else please. - 1
I hate you all... - 1
I'll do that or whatever else. - 0

We really need to come up with a better name than "Family Bar Night," any suggestions? Well for those of you who were not able to make it out last Friday night here are the highlights:

• Sara started off the night desperately in need of one of these after finding herself much in the same situation that inspired that product. But with a bit of peer pressure she gave it the old college try with use of her palm... and spilled a good portion of her Corona on the bar, which was probably for the best. However, all was not lost, we were given the tip that one should insert their thumb, if thumb is not large enough to cover the opening, into the bottleneck to help prevent overflow.
  
• I learned that one of the tricks to getting is to style my hair before I go to sleep.
  
• Austin and EJ were mistaken for brothers and for some reason they sat right next to each other and ordered the same exact thing off the menu, earning a Bobbsey Twins remark from our waiter.
  
• Jade loudly mistook a Scooby Snack for something else entirely and I mean entirely something else.
  
• We compared "I was so drunk I..." stories and it was unanimously decided that Annette won that one hands down.
  
• After drinks and dinner for most, all nine of us made our way across the parking lot to hangout at Walmart.
  
• Austin considered eating a piece of candy bar from the dirty floor of Walmart.

And that was pretty much the night.

So in honor of EJ's 22nd I was thinking maybe I'd list 22 reasons why EJ makes for a good cousin but then realized I couldn't even think of 5 reasons thought it would better if everyone contributed. I'll start us all off,

1. He went to a decent college, meaning at least he didn't go to USC.
   
2. He has good taste in music.
   
3. Unlike Austin, he likes family, or at least he doesn't say he doesn't like Austin does.
   
4. He's not Roland.*

So can we come up with 18 more reasons in the comments as to why we like EJ as a cousin? And EJ, try not to cheat.

*If Roland reads this, I'm only kidding and if not, it's so funny because it's so true.

So for the past couple of weeks internet access here at Mama's house has been spotty at best. A guy from Time Warner came over today and diagnosed it as a hardware compatibility issue between the all-in-one cable modem and wireless router with the integrated wireless laptops. He gave us a couple of wireless internet cards to fix the problem and also suggested that I switch to a separate cable modem and wireless router.

So if you plan on coming over this weekend and expect to have wireless, well you better rethink that unless you have an external card.

So not only do we have EJ's birthday to celebrate this coming weekend but we also have Labor Day to celebrate and that will be happening Sunday, the day before Labor Day, at Mama's house. Ribs, ribeye steak, watermelon, corn, and other things will be had. Feel free to bring whatever you want and hopefully what you want is what I want.

Also, who wants to go to the batting cages that day?

UPDATE: Directions to the batting cages nearest Mama's house.

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*Or what I like to call, "the weekend we get sick of each other."

Eat. Drink. Play.

@ Dave and Busters in Arcadia (the closest one)

I need to know who can make it for dinner on Saturday, Sept 1st around 7:30pm so we can make reservations. I'm inviting all the cousins and maybe a few friends for the dinner, but anyone is welcome to come after. Please call me or just post a comment to RSVP. I don't think a lot of people will come, but last time I thought that (my going away to college party), I was very wrong. So yea, it'd be great if you guys can make it out. Btw, Friday's last Friday was fun and hoping for the same atmosphere/crowd :)