Friday, November 30, 2007

What my Christmas is like! (thanks DD)

Your Christmas is Most Like: A Very Brady Christmas

For you, it's all about sharing times with family.
Even if you all get a bit cheesy at times.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Much to be thankful for

* Great wife, Angela
* 3 wonderful sons, Tyler, Brandon, & Corey
* Loving extended family, Bonners & Thomas's
* Our Pastor Noel Dear
* Our CONNECT Group, we have had a great 1st year
* Old friends from Tennessee
* Good job
* My health













Saturday, November 17, 2007

It was a GREAT DAY!



The faces on the Michigan fans tell it all! Beanie Wells record setting day (most rushing yards by an OSU player in a game) and the Michigan offense had a record setting bad day (91 total yards, worst ever by a Michigan team in 40 years) lead to an OSU Victory.

And

We still can be in the National Championship game if more teams in front of us lose. Thanks to Oregon, 1 down and 5 more teams to jump in front of!!!!!



Thursday, November 15, 2007

Black Sheep of the Family

Every family has one.

A family member who has done something so bad that no one in the family ever talks about it.

Until now.

Yes, my sister-in-law Pam is that person.

It started very simply about 15 years ago.

She rented the movie, "Arthur" from the Lancaster Library, when she took it back, the bin was pretty full, but she managed to put the movie into the bin (or so the story goes).

A few weeks latter Pam went into the Library to check out a book, when she was stopped cold by the Librarian who told her she owed $80 for the movie that was not returned.

Here is where the story gets weird, Pam told the story about the full bin, even offered to replace the movie with a brand new copy, answer = No, she must pay the fine!

That was 15 years ago.

This past week she went back again pleading for a 2nd chance, she said the "The Mayor of Lancaster stole money from the city, has been to jail and now is out, if he gets a 2nd chance, why can't I?"

Pam even tried to use her poor daughters card, but the plot was quickly stopped until the daughter showed up in person. So now Pam has to write a letter to the Columbus Public Library and plea for a 2nd chance.

I am thinking of selling T-shirts that say "Free Pam" to raise money to pay the fine, but that would end the story, it is much more fun to hear the latest updates.

(FULL DISCLOSURE STATEMENT)

To be honest I also have a Black Sheep in my family, Corey. It seems that when he was 3 years old, we had a dog that had a disease so we got rid of it. When Corey went to get a puppy from the pound, he told them about it. They said he was Blacklisted from ever getting a dog from their pound because he got rid of a dog "in its greatest time of need". Remember, he was 3 and had nothing to actually do with the decision, but that did not matter to the pound.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Vacation time!!









We had a great time with Tyler, did I mention he is a super hero?










Angela won the Championship Belt.
I was the big winner at dominoes, even though it took 3 days to finish the game. Dirk, shown here, was the big loser.

All of the girls from Tennessee





Guys taking pics of the girls!!