winter break!

i love my job.

especially because we get paid holiday time from xmas to new years.

here's some more pix of stuff we did over the break.

roadtrip to indianapolis for dinner and wii with the in-laws






dog park





bowling party






only 11 months until the next winter break.

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audrey's visit

monica and i got to pretend to be mommy and daddy last month when our niece audrey came to visit us for 10 days!

do you want to talk about the most perfect little girl ever?

she never threw a tantrum. she was good the whole time.

and of course we showered her with presents and affection.

here's some highlights:

audrey making her own pizza...



getting ready for, traveling to, and being a very good girl at our religious assembly meeting...



going shopping at the thrift store with mom and dad. they got to play grandma and grandpa which i know they enjoyed. UPDATE: Images are in the internal memory of my camera. Having trouble getting them off. Maybe I'll post later.

her **special** surprise - going to the pool at the rec center (we built it up the whole week saying things like, "i wish we could go swimming but we can't cuz' it's winter time."

the extra special surprise for all of us was that lauran, audrey's mommy, came to pick her up and went to the pool with us!

pics from the pool...


in her own words after coming out of the frog mouth slide, "it's like i'm frog bomit (sp)"








i hope we get to keep her more often. she's such a cutie!

french assembly

a few months ago, i volunteered to help in the video department for a religious assembly.

the program was entirely in french and it was the first time that this foreign language group had used the assembly facilities.

since i helped install the equipment and i also have a background in live a/v support, i thought i would be of some aid in presenting the program.

when i got there, 2 guys were in the room running through the powering up stage with troy, the caretaker. both were looking very nervous.

it turned out that they had only been asked to help in the department 20 minutes prior to my arrival.

but we got through it.

the most difficult part for me was not knowing the cues from the speakers, of whom all but one gave their talks in french.

at the end of the day i placed my hand high above my head and requested a "high cinq" from the 2 other volunteers.

check out the pic of the caretakers, troy and stacy, below.

stacy, in keeping with the theme of the weekend, is saying "fromage!"

back from hiatus

hi guys.

i have lots of stuff to upload from the last month or so, but i get very little feedback.

if your into my blog, please leave comments.

i hear it offline when i stop but i never know if anyone is actually reading my insane ramblings.

if you dig it, please let me know by commenting.

enjoy!