I have an addiction...

.....to USB flash drives. As you can see I have many thumb drives. I don't know why. To be fair I don't discard any when I "upgrade" to larger sized drives. What do I do with the ones that I don't really need anymore. Everytime I am at Target or Best Buy or whatever I always think "boy, that's a great deal on a 2GB flash drive. I need to get that".

I do keep them organized a little bit as you can see by the Hog 3 label.


This is how I carry all of my drives around. Soon I might need to get another one.










-Chris

I am also in a meeting about blogging

Carter and I are in a meeting about blogging. It is fun.

-Chris

Fun times

This last Sunday my wife, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, and I went to the Nashville Zoo with some good friends of mine. We met Carter and his family along with Darren and his family.

After meeting up at the front of the park we all set out to look at some animals. Carter and Katie brought a wagon for their kids, but let Elijah use it too. That was very nice of them.




It was great seeing Elijah have fun with the older children. They really played nicely with our little guy. It was especially great considering Elijah is so much smaller and slower. We did fall behind a few times, but Elijah had a great time just wondering around the paths looking at grass and speakers and stuff. I still don't think he is at the age where he notices the big animals, but he had a great time.


We stopped for lunch at one of the best stocked park cafeterias I have seen. They had a lot of different choices for us vegetarians. After lunch the older kids wanted to spend the rest of the day playing at the playground that was on site. Brandy and I had no problem with that since we were there for Elijah anyway. He (we) had a great time in the play area. There is this large padded room that toddlers can just run around in. Elijah got to play with a lot of new little friends. Elijah and I went down this very tall slide that was at the top of the main play structure in the play area. A small four year old asked me not to "run him over....because I am only 4 and you will hurt me". Cute kid.

It was a great day all around. Thanks again to all the older kids. They helped make it the great day that it was.

-Chris

It is no secret that I enjoy playing with toys at FOH.  My wife and I joke that my son Elijah and I will have to fight over toys when he gets older.  I don't know about that, but I figured I would post some pictures of some of my toys "in action".

The FOH Rangers

Here our rangers are attempting to run the show.  They didn't quite make it to the 'go' button, so I had to help them out a little bit.

This guys is so in love with the trackball

Putting good use to those muscley arms.....

Hope you all enjoyed looking at my toys.  More to come (hopefully).

-Chris

FYI

I like the new Starbucks cups.  I think they look nice.

-Chris

What a day

If you read any of my fellow crew members blogs then you know that we are at Liberty University today.  Hooray.  It's not that this is a terrible venue, it's that it's the wrong venue.  We brought in a portable roof system to hang our show.  They do this for anybody who needs to hang something in their arena.  This roof system messed with my day a good bit (for some good photos check out Culmer's Thoughts).  As it turns out Carter had a much worse day then I did so I can't complain too much.  The show is in the air and everything is working.  I can't ask for much more than that.

The good side to this day is that it's almost over.  Hooray!

-Chris

A cleaning date

This last week ,while I was home, the wife and I had our date night.
We decided to not go to the movies or out to dinner, but stay at home
and clean a little. This ended up being a really great date night.
As a young parent I am learning that the simple things like mopping
the floor can be a difficult task with a scampering 16 month old
around. We have time to keep things straightened up, but cant really
"deep clean" as much. Playing with Elijah is far more important then
dusting or cleaning a window anyway!
We don't know what it was about just cleaning, but it put us both in a
great mood. Oddly enough we each worked in different areas of the
house so we actually didn't see to much of eachother. We did get to go
out for a quick bite with some friends and that was great too.
If you are tired of the movies and bored with going to dinner, try
staying home and cleaning. You might find it to be a lot of fun.

-Chris

From FOH

Mobile style!

A sad beginning

I set this thingy dingy up last weekend, but have yet to post a blog.  This is my sad beginning.  It may have been short, but it had you all glued to your seats.

Chris