Playhouse Disney Live! On Tour

Today we took Austin to see Playhouse Disney Live! On Tour. It had a lot of the characters from shows he watches on the Disney channel. When it first started, I'm not sure he really knew what to think about all of it. He had a really sour look on his face but he started to smile a few times when Tigger and Pooh came out. By intermission and the second half he was enjoying himself. While we were walking out at the end, Jen and I were asking him if he had had a good time because during the first part he "didn't look like he was having much fun." He looked at us and said, "I had much fun!" Here is a pic I took with my phone. Jen took some better ones with her actual camera. I'm sure she'll get them up on Flickr soon.

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Christmas Lights Are Up!

Today I got our Christmas lights up. I had planned on doing it yesterday and actually started to but then found out that all the light clips that I put up and used last year had dry rotted and would break each time I squeezed one to put the light back in. Didn't have anymore clips so after Jen bought some more for me I went out today and pulled down all the old clips, put the new ones up and hung the lights. There has to be some type of clip that I can leave up that won't dry rot.

Making pizza at Macaroni Grill!

After Levi's baptism we headed to Macaroni Grill for some lunch. Emily and Austin got to play with some pizza dough while waiting for our table.

Compassion in Action

In October we had fun doing a food drive in a local subdivision. Austin had a great time and loved collecting can goods.

The Computer Nerds at my house

My BoysI cant remember what they were looking at but it was soo cute

American Way

Austin and I are off to vote. Austin is eating a snack. The wait is 1 1/2 hours.

Political Dinner

This morning at church they showed a video about what it might look like if in-laws who have different political views got together for dinner. It's pretty funny. I hadn't been able to work with the film crew in a while but did get the chance to work with them on this one. Below the video I've also linked to the audio of today's sermon. It was a good sermon on "Daniel The Politician". I definitely encourage you to listen to it if you have some time.





Daniel The Politician

Bob or Bob?

Austin is going to be Bob for Halloween, but the question is which one? He tried on the Bob the Tomato costume today and decided that he didn't want to wear it anymore. So he decided to be Bob the Builder. We will see which Bob wins out in the end.... Stay tune......

ABC Song

Austin now loves to sing the ABC song before he would get embarrassed if we heard him singing. Now he says 'I sing it again' and he does. It is very cute. Enjoy!

Jennifer's In The Movies!

Ok, she's not really IN a movie but she has helped out with a couple of short films that have been shot by the film crew from our church. She made some of the costumes used in the films. I've embedded the films below. One is just over 8 minutes and the other is about 4 and a half. She actually is mentioned in the credits in the second one as a 'seamstress'. They spelled our last name wrong though... ;-P

If you'd like to see more short films that they've made, head over to www.whitestonemotionpictures.com

She made the watchmaker's (not the son) costume in this one.



She made some of the 'prisoner' costumes for this one (and got in the credits at the end!!)

Austin Is A Bus Driver Now!

One of the teachers where Austin goes to school noticed that every morning he wants to go and look at the "two little white buses" in their parking lot. It's become a routine for him and me each morning. She told me that one day she would bring him out and open one of the buses and let him check it out. So one afternoon she did and took a picture of him for us. I think he was the only one she took out there so it was a pretty neat little special trip for him.

Cool glasses

Austin always complains about it being sunny so I decided to 'invest' in sun glasses. So far they are being kept ph.d. we'll see how long they last.

Our Little Reader

Austin loves to read; We were working in the office upstairs and Austin decided to read in his window seat. He loves books! Now when he plays he even narrates for his trains! "Help! says Gordon"

DadLabs Take, pt 2

Here is DadLabs video of their take on McCain from the dad perspective:

DadLabs Take, On The Presidential Candidates

A website I checkout is doing a two day overview on Obama and McCain from a dad perspective. (for those who don't know about DadLabs this won't be a totally serious tone the whole time). Today was Obama, tomorrow will be McCain.

Now I have to share

Austin LOVES Starbucks Green Tea Lemonade!

Beautiful Saturday

We spent a wonderful Saturday morning at Tony's softball game. It's starting to feel like Fall (or atleast for the day). Playing cars will never be the same now that Austin has found dirt .

Monkey Joe's

New Adventures

We started attempting potty training this week; things aren't going too well. Sitting a lot but no action :) But when you get an M&M every time you sit, it isn't so bad.

My Sister Finally Has A Flickr Page

With Jen's help, Kim, Jeff, and their daughter Aroa now have their own Flickr site. You can check it out HERE and I will also be adding a link to it over on the left. She can now take all her pictures off her memory cards so she doesn't have to buy any more for awhile! ;-)


Also, I've updated the links to where I work and where Jen works now. We've both changed jobs recently. You'll notice my job link and our church link are the same now. Many of you know that I am now on staff at our church as the IT guy there. I really enjoy it and it's a great opportunity to not only serve but to get a chance to learn alot.

Cardinals Baseball At Busch Stadium!

Bill Gates Retires....His Last Day At Work

With my background in technology it's really kinda strange to think about this being Bill Gates' last day as chief software architect of Microsoft. Obviously he's still going to be on the board but just not involved in day to day activities.

I thought this was a neat video about his last day at work. It's cool to see someone with his stature have a sense of humor. Check it out:

At MiMi's Beach.

The new IT guy in the house.

Bermuda, Bahama, Come On Pretty Mama!

Well we just got back this past Tuesday from our trip to Bermuda. We had gone out there for some friends of ours wedding. Many of you know DeLenn. She got married to a great guy named Taylor Faulkner. They had their wedding at Elbow Beach in Bermuda. We got to meet some of their really good friends from Houston and became friends with them as well.

This was Jen and my first time to Bermuda. We stayed there at the Elbow Beach Resort. The wedding was on the terrace at the resort, overlooking the beach and the ocean. We just hung out at the beach for the first few days until after the wedding. Then we went with DeLenn and Taylor to go swimming with the dolphins. Taylor had arranged that outing as a suprise for DeLenn and graciously had asked if we would like to go with them. It was a extremely cool experience. We have a few really cool pictures that we bought of the event but haven't got them scanned in yet. We will get those up on the Flickr account soon.

After that experience we all, all being Jen and I, Taylor and DeLenn, and 5 of their friends (now our friends as well), went on a chartered boat tour of many places around the island. The boat also had a glass bottom so we got to see really awesome reef and shipwreck sites.

Yes there really were that many fish in one place next to the boat...there were just as many on the other side!!! Who knew fish liked hamburger buns that much?!

On our last day there Jen and I went and saw the Gibbs Hill Light House. We climbed all the way to the top and went out onto the platform around the light house. Amazing view...even though it was hazy. These are just a few of the pictures from our trip. You can check them all out on our Flickr site. (As always, you can click on the 'Our Pictures' link on the left, or on one of the pics in the slideshow on the left, or you can just click HERE)

We had an AWESOME time. It took awhile to get used to people driving on the 'wrong side of the road'. Was also very strange to experience how much they use their car horns. They use them much differently than we do here. Most of there honking is actually friendly. They honk at people they know, and from what I understand, to not honk back is bad manners. Go check out our pictures on Flickr!

Grilled Salmon

Tony got a grilling cookbook and did an Excellent job on this salmon dish

(I can't remember what the name of it)!

He dressed it and rolled it and grilled it, it tasted as good as it looks, Yum!

I think he needs to cook more often. :)

A little train crazy!

It's Birthday Time!

April is here, so in our family that means birthdays! While most of my family celebrates their birthday this month, we wanted to take time out for the Big Birthday Boy, who turned two today! It is hard to believe! He is really into Thomas the Tank Engine, and though he doesn't have many you'd think that he eats and breaths Thomas and Friends!

Another hilarious thing is when you would ask Austin how old he would be, he would say "two o'clock". It was sooo funny! He will tell you his birthday is April 8 and gets very shy when you sing happy birthday too him. We will have a birthday party on Saturday so look forward to more pictures then. In the mean time here are some photos we had taken today. Check out the rest of the photos on Flikr. Enjoy.

Happy Easter

We had such a great Easter, we have started a tradition of hiding the Easter basket (like my family did when we were kids), and Austin got into it, you could tell he was processing it all as Tony took him around the room "looking" for the basket.

After finding Easter Baskets and eating Blueberry muffins we went to Tom & Gretchen's where we had an Easter egg hunt. Austin loves looking for Easter eggs! He was even talking about it this morning on the way to school. He was fine with just finding them but then Tony introduced him to the fact that there was stuff inside! Now he wants to open all the eggs and see what is inside.

Colored Eggs

Saturday we colored easter eggs with Emily and Levi. I wasn't sure how Austin would do and he LOVED it! I also had fun taking pictures of them.