Caliente Conger Cowboy – How Was Your Weekend?

Friday

Friday night fireworks at Angel Stadium. Yep, we were there. Since we’re in the midst of Potty Training Boot Camp (I made this up, it’s not a real thing. Well, maybe it is. But we’re not doing anything official. And I’ll share more about how it’s going in another post), my wife brought Ellie’s Minnie Mouse potty. The twins took turns sitting on the throne in the back of our minivan in the parking lot.

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Originally posted at my Facebook page here and Instagram (sethtearz) if you want to follow me.

The Angels won. Like anyone cares anymore.

Earlier in the week, I shared Ellie’s first crush on Twitter @SethTearz:

In case you don’t know, this is Hank Conger:

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He should be the Angels starting catcher, but manager Mike Scioscia hates me and my ideas.

On the way home another minivan in the 91 Express Lane decided to make a lane change right into us. I saw the bastard, braked and honked heavily, which prompted a classic Ellie line.

“Hold on, cowboy!” she said with a tinge of excitement. I have no idea where she picked that up from.

Saturday

After holing herself up in our house with naked 2-year-olds, my wife got a well-deserved break from the twins and potty training. She shopped with her mom during the day and met up with friends at night. So I assumed the role of potty training drill sergeant. And holy crap is it tough.

My head was on a swivel looking for signs that one of them had to pee or poop. I read more books this day than I had the previous two months. To steal a line from my wife, I’m tired of seeing penis and vagina.

For lunch I grabbed the Caliente Burger from Tommy’s. It came with fries and a super-sized side of shame.

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Sunday

We attended the final sermon of Saddleback’s “How to Get Through What You’re Going Through” series. Rick Warren’s wife, Kay, spoke about finding treasure concealed in darkness. In short, going through life’s pile of poo and finding a diamond. Those are my words, not hers. My heart is not open to searching for that right now. Hopefully one day it will be.

We grabbed some lunch after church and then picked up Halloween costumes at Old Navy. You’ll have to wait until Halloween to find out what they are.

The NFL’s first weekend of football is in the books. And I’m already booted from my office’s pick ’em/suicide pool because Lavonte David of the Tampa Bay Bucs did this.

H8 you, Lavonte.

8 thoughts on “Caliente Conger Cowboy – How Was Your Weekend?

  1. Your dad says “Easy turbo” and “Slow down cowboy” to cars on the freeway and the kids as they run around, so maybe that is where she came up with ” Hold on cowboy!”?

  2. How was my weekend you ask? Fast but good. Saturday I watched Mayson play her first volleyball game. She reminded me of Christine in all my favorite ways. Sunday my kids did homework all day. Scott and I bailed on them while they were working to drive down to the PIX to see our friends faces!
    Not super exciting stuff. Throw in a few inappropriate jokes and moments of dorkiness here and there and you have what was a pretty normal weekend around the Elliott’s. Miss your family…..keep posting. I look forward to see how you will make average everyday life stuff entertaining;)
    Carla

  3. Hank is a local HB boy, played LL with my son, I agree he needs to start and we always root for him!!! Go Hanky!! Ellie is a smart girl!!!

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