Mimi and Papa bought the kids a Nintendo Wii for their birthdays this year (!!). Dad (Papa) found it in a Wal-Mart in Houston, shlepped it on a plane home to Dallas, then mailed it to us. The globe-trottin’ Wii came in a nondescript brown paper wrapped box. But the longer it sat on top of the TV, awaiting opening for Bria’s birthday (since her’s comes first on Feb. 7th), the more sure the kids strategized that a Wii most certainly awaited inside.

So Dar and I decided to ratchet down the certainty a bit by replacing the contents of the box with some miscellaneous items we had bought for Bria’s birthday this year. I then hooked up the Wii to our TV while the kids were in school that day.

Here’s what happened right after Dar “accidentally” dropped the box while pulling it down from the TV:

Now, we’re having a great Wii-kend.  We hope you do the same.

On our Labor Day campout with Papa David and Granny Ann, they had just bought this super-cool (literally) ice cream/frozen yogurt/ slushy maker. We had some amazing homemade ice cream that week.

So lo and behold what shows up on my doorstep this week! We just couldn’t wait until Christmas, so we opened it early. We christened it with a cookies-n-cream recipe yesterday (yum), then an Italian soda slushy this afternoon. And tonight we made a rich chocolate frozen yogurt (double yum).

This thing makes it sooo easy to make frozen desserts. No ice, no salt. Just this permanent freezer bowl that you keep frozen until time to use that does all of the magic. 15-20 minutes is all it takes to make most recipes. Clean up is easy, too. It’s Cuisinart ICE-20 and now has a permanent place on our countertop.

Thanks Papa David and Granny Ann!

OK, OK, it’s been like forever since I posted anything here. Life has indeed been crazy for me this Fall. Now that all of the kids are in school… like not homeschool, I’ve been rolling out my video production business. Work, work, work.

But the real reason I’ve been so lax here, is that I got caught up watching my team come from 4th place in mid-September to grabbing the Wild Card away from the unsuspecting Padres, then sweeping both the Phillies and the D-Backs to make it into the World Series (tying the postseason 7-0 record of the 1976 Reds). Yeah, this was a season of records for the Rox. They won 23 out of 24 games at one point, and had a storied season… possible MVP and Rookie-of-the-Year candidates, and boasting the highest fielding percentage of all time (besting over a 100 years of teams, folks!).

Yeah, they’re my Rox. But now they’re up to their elbows in Sox (0-2, at this writing), so I thought we needed to send our beloved team along a little Mojo. The kids had Rockies Day at school, where they were able to leave the uniforms at home and dress up to root on the team. They even came home all “tatted up” in Rockies ink. So I just had to take them down to Coors Field (where they just happened to have a rally going on) and shot some video of them acting crazy out on the right field porch. Here’s some stills and a vid of our outing.

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Monday, July 30, 2007

On the way back home from our meandering Oregon Trail/ Trout Fishing trip, we stopped at a pull-out on the beautiful WY130 Snowy Range Road. We could hear the stream from the road, and wandered down about 50 yards and Logan baited a hook with a worm… and the magic happened.

This was brook trout nirvana… eight brookies in about 10 minutes. See for yourself:

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Yesterday, the kids and I headed to Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall to drop of some Beeriodic posters at Science Artwork, a great little store there that sells our great little poster. Along the way, we stumbled upon a street performer that was just getting started with his act. Naturally, we had to stay and see it. And naturally, Caden was picked to be his “assistant”. And naturally, I had my camera.

The performer was talented and funny. He deservedly raked in some cash after dazzling us all with his skills, wit, and humor.

Caden is on the Red Sox this year… so his Yankee hat from last year will likely never be worn this season. He’s still in coach-pitch league, but is more-than-ready to move up to kid pitch next year.

He’s a very “heads up” ballplayer, aware more than most kids about baserunners and the rules of the game. He’s never been one to kick the dirt around during gametime… or in life, for that matter.

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For the past few weeks, I’ve been involved with a few projects. The coolest ones involved interviewing one of our dearest “old” friends, Scott Kennedy, and working with his daughter Natalie on a dance piece for a Christian conference hosted at our church.

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Caden and his classmates at the Charter School have been learning about Ancient Greek culture and mythology in their second-grade class this Spring, and they capped it off with a big Greek bash in the park with Olympic-style events and authentic Greek food.

Logan and I went out to the park for a little while. I had my HDV camera with me, since we were out shooting some cutaway footage of flowers, water, and wildlife for another project. Because of that, we weren’t able to catch much of the festivities… but they sure seemed to have a great time!

I quickly made a 90 second video last night of a bit of the action. Check it out!

The Celebration Singers performed again this last weekend, in anticipation for their upcoming musical, Esther-Ordinary Faith. Once again, thanks to the singers, Miss Gail, Pam, Susan, and Cathi. Bravo!

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