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I shot a little bit of Video this morning of the kids opening their Christmas Presents.
It’s really only of interest to those family and friends that know us. If you don’t, you’re liable to be quite bored with what you see here!
Hope you enjoy it though.
Thanks Chris.
Just wanted to drop in a note to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
I took some pictures, Val took some as well. I’ve got mine in right now. I’ll put Val’s in the album later. Here’s the link to the album:
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I also managed take some video. Now, I didn’t do any video editing at all. But I cobbled the raw video I took together just trying to get it out fast. So here it is. I apologize for shaky video and stuff, I’ll probably take this down in a couple of weeks.
I ended up getting Valerie an iPod Touch, there are tons of great apps and stuff, and with the home sharing, we only have to buy them once between us. But since her phone is provided by the school, there’s no reason for her to get an iPhone. So hopefully, she’ll enjoy it.
I got an Xbox 360 for Christmas. *strange looks* Yes, I already had an Xbox 360. But unfortunately, it broke on Wednesday Evening, I was playing Fight Night Round 4 on it, and it lost the Red Colorstream, then after a little while longer, it finally gave up the ghost and quick outputting video altogether. I tried the composite cable as well, and it did the same thing. Started looking it up, seems to happen sometimes to people, and the Xbox was way out of warranty.
Unfortunately, though I don’t play too many games on it, it has become a staple in our home mainly for the streaming of Netflix to our HD TV. So it had to be replaced (It didn’t hurt that I still haven’t quite finished Dragon Age and need to do so). Anyway, So, I ended up getting an Xbox Elite. It’s much quieter than the other one, plus it has an HDMI port on it, which will be nice if I ever pick up a cable.
Alright, well, once again. Merry Christmas Everyone!!
So, I know I promised to have these up way sooner. But I kept having to put it off for one reason or another.
Anyway, Christmas at our house went well. I was actually quite pleased, it was very nice staying home over the vacation and not having to split time or try to make it from one place to another so quickly and having us being plain exhausted when it comes time to head back to work.
We’ve been having a blast at the house. Of course, you may or may not know that I ended up finding a copy of Rock Band for the 360 just before Christmas. That being the case, I just had to buy it right on the spot pretty much. Even if I was just going to turn around and sell it. But I didn’t do that.
Ever since we got the 360, Sarah’s been Sad. One of her favorite games on the Xbox was the Karaoke Revolution Games that we had. Those unfortunately will not work on the new system (I suppose it wouldn’t really matter since the xbox mic wouldn’t work on their either.) Anyway. Rock Band fixes that, except the songs aren’t pop songs like on the Karaoke Game. They are rock songs. So it’s not quite as good for her, but she still has fun. And with this one, All of us get to play together. (Drums are way hard).
But everyone else also got nice things. Val got a new alarm clock named Fernando. Who tells the time and temperature, both indoors and outdoors. It’s kind of neat, but a little smaller, and a lot quieter than I expected. So I’m trying to track down a better clock for her now.
Sarah and Olivia made out like bandits as well. I snapped a few pictures, I can’t remember which ones are from the night before and which ones are from the morning of, but it’s all the same. Click on the picture below for a link to the whole album:
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I also want to let you know that Valerie’s Office has decided to end the courtesy Car Program. I kind of prefer the new way now. At least now we own the car. As opposed to it being a company lease vehicle. But it did mean that we had to go out and buy a new car this past week. We test drove a bunch. But Val ended up getting a Chevy Malibu Maxx. It’s kind of a hatchback stationwagony sort of thing. It’s green but looks more gunmetal gray. And we got a super deal on it too. Everything seemed to work out quite well with it. I’ll take a picture and put it up sometime soon. But couldn’t get one before this posting.
And I do want to clean up some technical details as well. I went ahead and opened registrations up to everyone. I figured with dad putting his posts here as well. I could go ahead and do that. If you register yourself you will not have posting privileges in the website or picture gallery, you will only be a subscriber (which essentially just lets you log in and post your comments as a logged in person (it’s important but I don’t to get into exactly why) However, it is possible to also comment without having to register. So don’t feel like you’ve got to.
If you’re up for it, and I know who you are. I can change your status to a contributor that will let you have posting privileges on the website for both the website and the accompanying picture gallery. I think there are a few tweaks I’m still working out with dad. And it may not be as user friendly quite yet as I had hoped. But we’re working on it. Maybe I can take some screenshots and try to make an instruction manual of sorts.
Anyway. That’s all I have for now. For the last time of the Season. Merry Christmas Everyone and Happy New Year to everyone as well.
Tom has Kathy
Jo has Mike Padgett
Erin has Steve
Mike has Meghann
Chris has Jim
Valerie has Carrie
Judy has Erin
Patty has Jo
Carrie has Valerie
Norbie has Chris
Johnny has Mike L.
Well, sort of. The game this weekend is on Sportssouth if you want to watch it. We’re no where near the court though (About 20 rows up off one of the corners) But me and all the girls will be there tomorrow to watch the game.
Val took some good christmas shots, but I haven’t had a chance to upload any of them to here yet. I’ll have to get to that some time.
We had a great trip over Christmas though, went down for a couple of days to visit dad and mom. Mom should be here in a couple of weeks as well. We will look forward to that.
Also, I’m considering buying one of those Nintendo Wii’s, the motion sensing looks awesome, and I really want that golf game where you actually swing the controller. I know, I’m an idiot. I never ever play the PS2, so I’m getting rid of that this weekend. But I do play the xbox and gamecube. I have absolutely zero interest in that PS3, but I do have interest in the Wii now. I went to two stores today at lunch to check it out. Zero Nintendo’s but Wal-mart did have three Playstation 3′s. Of course, I didn’t buy it. But still, seeing it in stock was a bit of a shocker.