SSS – It’s That Time Of Year
This song is old, but absolutely worth posting every Christmas season. The actual version of this song is probably my favorite Christmas song, but this one makes me smile every year.
Favorite Christmas song. Ready? Go.
Welcome to Stats Suck Sunday, where you can post what you want without the pressure of anyone really reading it. What’s on your mind today?
Winter Wonder Slam
Last night Blue, Aiden and I picked up Randy and went to check out Toby’s Winter Wonder Slam. This was the third time seeing the tour, but the first time I was able to bring both of the boys. They were pretty excited about seeing Family Force Five (who’s page takes forever to load because it’s a lame Myspace page) and they delivered. Both boys were sitting straight up pretending to play the drums and making sure to ‘get their hands up’ at the appropriate times.
Thanks to Culmer and Nick, the boys had a great place to sit on the lighting platform so being short didn’t matter. Aiden made it the whole night, but Blue faded out before Toby finished and slid back in his chair and went to sleep.
All in all it was a great show, I love the boys being at an age where we can do things like that together. Today they woke up and started playing drums and pretending they’re in a band. On the menu today is some late night recovery of watching movies and maybe some Christmas decorating.
Anyone catch Toby’s tour this year? What’d you think?
The Day After
Yesterday was great. A very low-key, relaxing Thanksgiving celebration. We went to Kristin’s dad’s house for the day, watched some football, ate more than we probably should have and watched the sugar affect the boys. This is the first ‘traditional’ Thanksgiving we have had since we have lived in Tennessee, so it was cool to be able to just hang out. Oh, yeah…. and this was awesome.
Today is the infamous ‘Black Friday’ and I wanted nothing to do with it. Going into Wal-Mart on a normal day stresses me out to the point of wanting to run out screaming, so the idea of waking up early and going into the cold with a bunch of angry shoppers is less than appealing to me. Kristin, however, was up at gone by six this morning. She loves the idea of finding a deal, and I love the idea of her finding the deals so it’s a great matchup.
So what about you? Do you do the whole ‘Black Friday’ thing? What’s the best deal you got today?
Two Years
This little thing turns two today. He’s our baby, and I have a feeling he will end up being a major source of entertainment for our family. I’m in Lincoln, Nebraska today, so I don’t get to be there with him, but I know Kristin had a fun day planned. For more amazing pictures of this little man go here.
Happy Birthday Cooper Trey.
We Carved
Growing up I didn’t carve too many pumpkins so as an adult I have always sucked at it. I blame it on lack of experience and the fact that my brain has a hard time seeing the negative space. Kristin, on the other hand, is pretty dang good at it. She’s always had a way better pumpkin than me.
This year I decided to cheat a little and get one of those stencil things that tells you what parts to cut out and takes care of the whole “negative space” thing. Cooper and I chose the pirate one. That’s right. It’s not death or poison or anything gross or scary. It’s a pirate pumpkin. The teeth were pretty tough but I think it managed to turn out okay.
Kristin and Aiden chose the spider one. Again, not because it’s scary, but because the bug guy killed all the spiders at our house and we were missing the ones that once covered our front porch. Now for the next couple weeks our porch can have a spider living on it agian.
Blue went with the traditional. Triangle eyes, round ears, sharp teeth and arm holding a sword style. And if you look close you can see that this traditional triangle eyed pumpkin has eyelashes that a woman would die for. Since I will be in Virginia on Halloween it was fun to have a little bit of that with the kids tonight. And tomorrow? Roasted pumpkin seeds.
Do you carve?
What’s Your Fear?
What is one of your worst fears? Something that has the potential of keeping you up at night?
We discussed this question tonight at our Bible Study home group thing. We went around the room and talked about fears ranging from heights, to bridges, to death, to elderly women.
I shared with the group that one of my fears that is sort of ‘always there’ is dying first. The thought of unexpectedly leaving my family and leaving Kristin to be responsible for everything is something that lingers as a fear to me. I know it’s something that I shouldn’t be dwelling on much, but since we were talking about it that was my answer.
So what’s yours? What’s one of your worst fears? Comment anonymously if you need to.
Basketball
Today we start another chapter of our extra-curricular lives as parents. Blue starts basketball today and it will take us all the way to January. Now, I’m pretty excited to see how this whole ‘six-year-old basketball’ thing works. Do they lower the rims? Can six year olds dribble the ball? It’s all pretty fascinating to me.
We’ve gotten new shoes, matching basketball shorts and shirt, and I’m still trying to convince Blue to go with me to get a headband. He’s refusing. Even though I tell him it’s awesome to wear headbands.
Anyway, today is the ‘assessment’ day for the league, and I don’t really know what that means, but it’s going to be awesome to watch. I was trying to explain to Blue what ‘assessment’ meant and told him it was sort of like tryouts. He got a little nervous and asked me “Daddy, what if you aren’t that good”. All I could tell him was that he would do great and all he needs to do is take the ball away from the kids not on his team. A good offense is a good defense right? We’ll see how it goes.
I played mostly baseball as a kid, and played basketball once in fifth grade. What sports did you play as a kid?
