give me some coffee!

this is fun

2008-02-21T23:07:00.009-07:00

i have been trying to learn ActionScript3. lots and lots of changes since AS2! i found a tutorial for something like this (can't remember where) but wanted to convert the idea to AS3... here how it turned out.

sorry, you have to have flash player 9 to see it

guitar hero night

2008-02-08T20:33:00.001-07:00

zack gets to spend the night at a friend's house tonight, so caleb and i are playing a Guitar Hero II night. this could be a while!

snow delay

2007-12-11T07:32:00.000-07:00

ah... the snow delay. nothing like waking up to a beautiful colorado morning to find out there is a snow delay! time for some coffee, breakfast, and blogging. this is a pretty busy week for us. we are buying a home in black forest tomorrow. land! yeah!!! i'll post some pictures and details later, but we are pretty excited!

please pray that we can sell our house. while we have a peace from God that we are doing the right thing, at the right time, it would be great to sell our place here.

the boy's school was closed the last couple weeks because of a mold problem. they temporarily repaired the issue and are back in school for this week. next week starts christmas break. but... until they can be a permanent building (instead of modulars), they are going to have to split up the classes to different schools. caleb is going to go to TCA north, which is where jordan teaches. zack is going to go to discovery canyon, which is "i have no idea where".

back to the coffee!

costumes

2007-10-10T20:44:00.000-06:00

on monday, caleb and avery were trying on some halloween costumes. funny hair! check it out.

caleb's birthday

2007-09-12T20:55:00.000-06:00

caleb had his 8th birthday party at the skate park yesterday with some of his friends. rachel came to hang out with the skaters... the kids loved it! that was really cool of her.

hail

2007-08-22T20:21:00.000-06:00

hail commin' down this afternoon

and these are the clouds after it passed

Caleb and Avery dance La Cucaracha

2007-08-16T21:17:00.000-06:00

caleb's 1st roller coaster

2007-07-31T21:05:00.000-06:00

a few weeks ago we all went up to elich gardens in denver. this is a picture of caleb riding his first roller coaster... the mind eraser. i think he's hooked... we rode all 5 coasters at elitch's that day.

sushi

2007-07-31T20:57:00.000-06:00

erica made sushi the other night. sooooo yummy!

caleb taught me how to do this

2007-07-26T20:45:00.001-06:00

LIFE '07 Orlando

2007-07-05T15:04:00.000-06:00

i'm in orlando this week streaming video on the website for work. it's been a good week so far. lots of great music and speakers at the conference. i don't to get away from my spot working too much but it's ok because i have one of the best seats in the house. here is my setup

on the way to the hotel from the airport our rental car was hit in an accident. nasty way to start the week but thank God noone was hurt.

final fantasy xii

2007-06-28T00:02:00.000-06:00

just beat final fantasy xxi on my ps2. yeah! now i can sleep again!!!

orlando

2007-05-24T20:02:00.000-06:00

i have been in orlando this week webcasting General Council for The Alliance (the organization i work for). here is what my world looks like now...

Avery and Jill

2007-05-06T12:48:00.000-06:00

baby gator

2007-05-06T12:44:00.000-06:00

i don't like to blog

2007-04-22T21:16:00.000-06:00

i don't like to blog. strange that i have one. even stranger that i'm writing these thoughts down right now since i don't like it so much. i guess it's for the same reason i don't necessarily like to talk. i think some of the best bloggers are those people who like to hear themself speak. they just write it down instead.

blogs are great. it is an easy way for anyone (not just people who know how to build websites) to publish content on the web. i think what i love about blogs is that other people can do it. silly huh?

i had a great time building this blog. i find it much more interesting to figure out how to send photos directly to the blog from a cell phone, or discovering how to setup a new kind of blog system. i guess i just like the technology behind blogs while most other people like blogs for more obvious reasons... the content. if i go a long time without writing something.... i just don't have anything to say. i would probably have a great time blogging anonymously. maybe i'll try that sometime.

a me update

2007-04-22T21:09:00.000-06:00

i have been very busy. every day has pretty much been filled with work, baseball, and sleep. nothing else. zack's little league season is in full swing and it's taken quite a toll on his dad :) it's fun though... really nice to spend that time with him.

new truck

2007-03-17T14:36:00.000-06:00

sold

2007-02-24T20:27:00.000-07:00

i posted my nissan xterra on craigslist at 10:00 am this morning. it sold at 6:00 pm. 8 hours. wow!

i'm back

2007-02-01T19:47:00.000-07:00

i kinda forgot i had this blog. yeah, we've just been having so much fun i never even thought about blogging. erica and i went to NYC and on a cruise for our anniversary... very nice! and now that christmas and christmas break are over, things are settling down again. i'll post some photos from our trip soon. later!

thanksgiving

2006-11-27T23:10:00.000-07:00

i don't know what you did for thanksgiving this year, but i know you didn't do what i did (unless you were out at the farm too). we spent thanksgiving at erica's grandmother's house out in the country in crowley. it was nice seeing lots of family and eating lots of food. of course i ate way too much. but what we did after lunch may shock you.

out in the country it is common to have lots of rodents (rats/mice)... and with winter setting in it's always great to get rid of as many as possible so they stay out of the house. well, that's exactly what we did. we set the field on fire to burn the grass and weeds on one end and as the fire got closer to the other end, the rats and mice would start running out in a panic looking for a safe place to hide. only thing is... we were there waiting for them with lead pipes and sticks ready to beat them over the head. after the field was burned, we were certain there were still more in there so a nice mowing with the bush-hog took care of the brave ones which were able to escape the heat of the fire. when the tractor would get to the end of a row, the rats would start coming out 5-6 at a time. i mean before i could get any rest from swinging that lead pipe at a rat there were more running out for their lives. we must have killed 150-200 rats that day (not exaggerating). it was crazy! i'm proud to say that zack can hang with the best of them and swing a good stick at them rats!

i'm sure this is a rather disgusting thing for some of you to think about. the more i think about it myself, i agree. but it sure was fun. and i definitely won't forget it.

avery's marble

2006-11-18T22:55:00.000-07:00

what is the round spot on this xray you ask?

well, that would be avery's marble. actually, it is a metal ball bearing to a magnetix game she swallowed last sunday. she gave us a little excitement on an already busy sunday afternoon. she was playing in the basement and just couldn't resist the temptation and put it in her mouth. next thing you know she is running up the stairs in a panic saying she swallowed a mardel. fortunately zack was around to translate for us and realized she was saying marble. a quick call to 911 and the paramedics were there in no time. they checked her breathing and confirmed that it was likely the marble was in the stomach but we had to get the xray to be sure. kids swallow stuff all the time without problems but it's still a little scary.

well, after a few days i was curious if nature had run it's course so i started looking for a metal detector. couldn't find one but mark at work let me borrow his stud finder. it has a metal setting to detect metal studs behind sheetrock. since this device obviously isn't made to detect metal inside the human body, i didn't expect much. but would you believe i laid avery down on the couch and i found that marble! yup, it's still in there.

zack

2006-11-15T07:28:00.000-07:00

it's so hard to get zack to be still long enough for a photograph. finally got one the other day at red rocks.

zc&a

2006-11-14T18:36:00.000-07:00

the kids at Garden of the Gods the other day

tip tip

2006-11-14T18:34:00.000-07:00

here is a picture of tippy (Faulk)