Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Party at the Schroder's House!

We decided to host a party at our home in celebration of the completion of our landscaping. The shin dig was held on Saturday, January 27th. About 20-25 people showed up to admire our yard. Of course we couldn't take all the credit as the landscape design artist made an appearance. Damn him! We wanted all the compliments to our selves. All kidding aside, he did a great job. We honestly couldn't ask for a better design. We have a HUGE paver patio that everyone can chill on (or sweat...this is Florida after all). We even have a fire pit to toast marshmallows on. There are different species of palm trees littering the landscape as well as plenty of pink hibiscus plants giving the feeling of being in a tropical paradise. That's right, we have a tropical paradise in our back yard! Oh yeah, it doesn't snow here either! We can enjoy it year round.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Brad's New Xbox 360

Theresa and I occasionally watch our friend's son, Brad. He comes over on either a Friday or Saturday night and plays video games ALL NIGHT LONG! He has a PS2 and a PS3 that he would usually bring. He would also play the XBox that Theresa and I had. We hadn't actually played it in about year but Brad loved it. It was decided that the XBox would make a perfect Christmas gift for him. We handed over the controllers to him for Christmas, he played the system twice, and the third time he got an error message saying that the hard drive was a piece of crap and didn't work anymore. I had seen this message once before but managed to get it working again. Brad and I decided to tear it appart to see if we could fix it. We soon discovered that the hard drive really was a piece of crap and didn't work anymore...and would never work again. Now Brad had about 6 or 7 XBox games and no XBox to play them on. One of the games he seemed to really really really like. So, Theresa and I decided to do something about it. The pictures are pretty self explanatory. Check em out!