get ready for africa!

get excited folks- the world cup is in south africa this year!

derby day!

i love the kentucky derby.

such a fun event with such great traditions.  i watch it every year happily. hugh could care less as long as i make derby pie.  he's pretty adamant about that. and faith tried to get her mom to drive her up (over an hour) to our house just so that she could have a piece.

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this year's derby day with a lovely group of friends...

my hat, complete with heirloom brooch from granny

none of us picked the winning horse, so kate got the prize for coming in closest to 1st

the kingdom

loveland

a recent trip hugh took out to colorado... he was worried that there wouldn't be enough snow. but these are the pics i got. and this came after the phone call saying that he was stuck in thigh high powder about 30 minutes off the trail (this due to the fact that he couldn't actually see through the snow enough to stay on the trail)

sic 'em

i've been a big slacker on this blog posting business- sorry!! i'm back and i have a catch-up  of pictures to share.

first, and most importantly :), since i last posted my BAYLOR BEARS had a record season!

SIC 'EM!

the men's basketball team cruised through march madness to the elite eight game. it's been years since we've been there and let me tell you, school spirit was high!

i managed to watch all the games! one was even televised locally! has that ever happened?!?  i will admit that many games were watched through the ghetto rig-the-laptop-to-the-TV method and one consisted of me watching on the computer... then trying to find the game on the xm radio in hugh's car -unsuccessfully- then, after picking him up from the airport, i had him drop me off at the hilton nearby so that i could finish watching the super exciting game. a mess, i know.

the whole mcfadden household (and much of the country, i will add!) had baylor basketball fever.

how nice :)

and our lady bears went straight through to the final four

how many presidents do YOU have cheering for your team?

sic 'em bears!

(photos thanks to baylor proud)

pirates of HHI

hilton head island

hugh and i spent a few days on hilton head island last week and loved it! we left thinking, why haven't we been here before... and when can we go back!?

pogo

pogo.
fun.

these may not look like exciting photos, but let me tell you. 2 adults on a pogo stick is pretty funny.

ridiculous update

the poor little woodpecker friend definitely has something going on in his little head :(

i heard him this morning, a couple little taps, and went to see what he was up to.

he'd moved from the window (i opened the shutters) to the grapefruit tree next to it and was going at it. not on the bark, like you'd think. he was pecking the grapefruit.

tap tap crash

our little household has a bizarre new friend... (i'm being generous with the term)

for the past few days, every now and again i hear a "taptaptaptaptap..." coming from one of the windows. it's never the same window. and it's quite loud. and pretty obvious what it is.

a woodpecker.

on the windows.

at first i thought he had lost it, but i quickly realized that the only windows he was "pecking" were the ones with plantation shutters. poor guy must just be a little slow and thinks that he's actually gotten ahold of some good wood.

yikes.

let's just hope he doesn't ever break the glass...

what a sight

...to wake up to!