Barber and Beauty Emporium

Hey all - its been pretty quiet here over the past month. Tyler and Bryan are back in school, Tyler is in his Freshman year of High School and is playing football - according to him its "tiring and hard" ... but when you ask him about the plays and hitting people his eyes light up. Hopefully we'll be able to post up some pictures of Tyler playing. Tyler also turned 15 this past week ... yes, to answer your question - I do feel pretty old right now! Bryan is starting the 6th grade ... so far so good - no complaints from him yet.

So ... the big news of the month (aside from Tyler turning 15 and Bryan starting the 6th grade) is that my friend here in Celebration owns a beauty salon called Barber and Beauty Emporium you can CLICK HERE to see the website. Anyway - over the past couple months the local NBC affiliate WESH 2 News has been holding a contest for the "A List" which is like a "Best of ..." contest. There were about 15 or so other salons competing for the "A List" and last week the votes were counted and they announced that Celebration's Barber and Beauty Emporium had won the "Best Salon" category!

I just wanted to throw this info up here quickly - Al and his salon is awesome, I will post more about Al later ... right now Dawn needs me to spark up the grill and get it ready for the delicious steak I am about to serve for lunch!

Hope you all are well ... more to come soon.

Why Celebration Florida Rocks!

1. We live 10 minutes from Disney World and can hear the fireworks every night from our house.

2. We live 4 hours away from the Florida Keys - its absolutely a tropical paradise.

3. We live 90 minutes from either coast - West Coast (Gulf Side) or the East Coast (Atlantic Side)

4. We live 30 minutes from Universal Studios.

5. Our downtown is quaint and the people know our names when we walk into stores.

6. When the Space Shuttle takes off for the International Space Station ... this is what we see from our balcony!

There are many many other reasons why we love living here ... these were just the ones that came to my mind in the last 3 minutes it took for me to create this posting!

Dawn is out in California again - San Jose this time. I cant wait for her to get home again - I am starting to get good at this "clean up at the last minute" lifestyle! What we men do for our women to make them happy!

Hope you all are well ...

If you look close - you can see a BBQ!!!

My backyard ... plus the addition! I finally got a BBQ to play with. The story goes like this - when Dawn moved out of the apartment she was renting when I met her it was because they were turning the apartment complex into condo's. They offered Dawn the opportunity to purchase the unit she was living in, she turned down the offer since she had finished the paperwork to own the condo we live in now. So - since the apartment she was living in was becoming a condo and the condo she bought would not be completed for 16 months she had to move. She moved to the apartment complex near me and was unable to bring her BBQ with her, her father so generously offered to hold onto her BBQ while we were in the apartment waiting for the condo to be finished. Well - after a year and a half we begged enough for Dawn's father to allow her to have her BBQ back. Here is a picture of our maiden voyage on the grill ... Brat's and Rib Eye's with Portobello mushrooms!!! I can not tell you how happy I am to have a grill again. I sure have missed the smell, the sound and the taste. If you are ever in the area, just call and tell me you want something BBQ'd ... your all welcome here for dinner.

Not much else going on here - Dawn is home this week, however the past 2 weeks she has been traveling for work and it looks like the next 2 weeks she'll be back on the road.

Tyler and Bryan will be here for Labor Day weekend, that should be fun ... since they both love the BBQ so much. I did have to call them and rub it in that I was BBQing last night ... oh, and tonight too! Bacon wrapped Filets and Corn on the Cob!!!

YUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Till next time ...