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Date

13 DEC 09 | 2:12PM

Summary

An early Christmas with my parents.

Since Jill and I will be heading up to Wyoming to spend Christmas with her family this year, we decided to head down to Houston a few weeks before Christmas and open presents with my parents.

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Asher was very excited for Christmas this year. While last year we couldn’t get him to stop playing with empty boxes, this year he was all about ripping up wrapping paper and cheering with delight as he opened gifts from his Grandma and Grandpa.

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Date

12 DEC 09 | 10:14PM

Summary

An evening with old friends and Satisfaction Guaranteed.

After many e-mails and proposed dates and locations, all of SG (family and friends) were able to work out a time and place to have the SG Christmas Party. It was a lot of fun to finally have everyone under the same roof.

Adam and Ariane were kind enough to offer their home as a gathering place and it was amazing to see how much our original group of five has grown over the years. Between all the adults and the herd of children running around, we all enjoyed a great meal, reminiscing about high school, and a few Christmas carols.

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Given everyone’s busy schedules and lives, I’m not sure when we’ll all be able to get together again, but based on how much fun we all had, I hope it’s soon!

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Date

07 DEC 09 | 8:45PM

Summary

Jill ruling the house with an iron fist was not a metaphor.

I usually don’t post videos because it’s always hard to keep people’s attention for more than just a few minutes, but I thought tonight’s activity had some real merit, so bear with me. I had been reading on the internet that board breaking is supposedly not all that difficult, so with a quick trip to Lowe’s and a couple of cuts with the chop saw, we were all ready to give it a try.

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By the way, I’m obligated to point out that Jill, in fact, was able to break the boards before I was. Let that be a lesson to not ever mess with her! Now let’s see that again in slow motion!

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So if anyone is interested in trying this at home (which I’m not advocating) remember to cut the boards square and have the person holding the boards hold the edges (not the end grain) with the grain running vertically.

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Date

05 DEC 09 | 11:28AM

Summary

Christmas Card photos at Zilker Botanical Gardens.

Today we met Brig and company out at the Zilker Botanical Gardens to take some Christmas card photos for each of our families. It was a bit chilly, but once the sun came out from behind the clouds it became quite bearable.

It became immediately obvious that Asher has quickly adapted to being in front of a camera as he was all smiles while the photos were being taken. I had to admire Brig and Stephanie in their ability to keep Mason, Alex and Brady entertained for a good half hour while we took photos in several places around the park. Here are the results!

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In all, I think we got some really good ones (thanks Brigham!) and hopefully you’ll be seeing one of these in your mailbox soon.

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Date

04 DEC 09 | 5:11PM

Summary

Snow in Texas?

It seems that getting into the Christmas season this year has really done the trick. With all the effort of putting up the Christmas tree and lights in addition to drinking lots of hot chocolate has tricked Mother Nature into temporarily thinking that Texas is a winter wonderland and not the brain-meltingly hot desert we’ve all come to know and love.

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For a good five minutes today it decided to snow outside of my office. I had brought my camera with me to do some photo work for a client and this is what I ended up with instead. Katherine, our intern, who has never really seen snow, got a kick out of the experience.

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