Okay, so Caleb. He love's "Biz's Beat of the Day." Just watch him...the boy loves to beat box.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
A Thousand Questions
I originally saw this at Willow Creek's Leadership Summit last summer. I think it's quite powerful.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Yo Gabba...Wha?
Okay, so Gabe asked yesterday if we could check out a "Yo Gabba Gabba" DVD from the library. I had never seen it before. Can I just say, it is probably the weirdest kids' show ever? And can I just say, I think I really like it?
It scares Caleb. Any time the "DJ" would come on the screen, Caleb would turn toward me and put his head on my chest.
DJ Lance is painfully, amusingly weird to watch. I want a hat and glasses like his. They play dance beats through the whole show....I even saw a clip on Youtube from the show where they were teaching the kiddies to beat box.
Why didn't we have this when I was a kid? I would have taken this over Mr. Rogers and his spooky puppets any day.
It scares Caleb. Any time the "DJ" would come on the screen, Caleb would turn toward me and put his head on my chest.
DJ Lance is painfully, amusingly weird to watch. I want a hat and glasses like his. They play dance beats through the whole show....I even saw a clip on Youtube from the show where they were teaching the kiddies to beat box.
Why didn't we have this when I was a kid? I would have taken this over Mr. Rogers and his spooky puppets any day.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Frisco Pics: Day 2-4
Here are some of my favorite pics recapping the rest of our trip last week to Cali. And I ought to say here BIG THANKS to Mammow and Oma for taking great care of the boys so we could get away. Man, that was nice.
Quick recaps:
Day 2 -- Conference day: I went to a mentoring conference (by Friends for Youth). I did a workshop, and after a lot of prayer and prep and prayer, was really pleased with how it turned out and was also quite relieved to get it behind me. After the conference was done, we went to check into our other hotel -- Mariott for $55/night via priceline...so much nicer than the Sofitel! Even got a room with a beautiful view of a bay. We headed for the real Fisherman's Wharf...which really is a tourist trap...reminded me a lot of areas of New Orleans with the souvenir shops and stuff...but the outdoor seafood vendors made the experience worthwhile. From there, we got some asiago sour dough bread from Boudin and made our way to Giardhelli Square.
Day 3 -- Golden Gate, Sausalito, and Napa Valley day.
Day 4 -- Lombard Street, Muir Woods, and More coast day
Day 5 -- Returned to icy Chicago. Glad to have had the opportunity and super thankful to be home safely with the boys.
Frisco Highlights
Okay, so last week, Sara and I got the opportunity to go to San Francisco for a few days. It was my first ever trip to Cali, which has been a dream of mine since childhood (birthplace of skateboarding, duh), and we really had a great time. I seriously want to move there...kind of hoping some kind of job offer in that region will come along. I'm only about 49.5% serious.
If you care to see, here's a pictorial recap of our trip:
On Thursday, we flew there. I spent most of the flight working on my powerpoint for the workshop I was doing the next day (aka our legitimate excuse for going to Cali). After both of our laptop batteries died, I did a crossword puzzle. Those things are kind of annoying.
After landing, we got our rental car (less than $20/day via hotwire.com), and we decided not to waste the few hours of daylight that were left going to settle in at our hotel. Oh yeah, and it was 60 some degrees, and there were mountains everywhere you looked. We wanted to get out and explore right away. So we did.
I really wanted to get to the coast, so we made a b-line north. Sara took a lot of random pictures along the way. We were both pretty excited to be there.
We ended up at Ocean Beach, took off our shoes, rolled up our jeans, and walked around. Other than the scenery, highlights included finding sand dollars (turns out they're not actual currency, so that was disappointing) and sitting on the sand, watching the sun set over the Pacific.
From there, we tried to find Fisherman's Wharf for dinner, and thought we found it...didn't bother to ask anybody if we were right...but we later found out it was Pier 39, which has a pretty similar flavor to Chicago's Navy Pier. At this point, we were tired and hungry, so we decided to just go ahead and eat there anyway. Before we settled on a restaurant, we got a few tiny doughnuts because we were hungry.
Okay, so I'm realizing what a pain in the butt it is to add pics as I go, so I'm going to wrap up day 1 of the trip here, by saying that we stayed at the Sofitel our first night b/c it was near the site of the conference I was attending the next day, and can I just say that it was super expensive, and super crappy. I just hate how fancy hotels are so stingy with everything, but I digress.
I'm just going to post some of my favorite pics from the following days in a separate post. You can make up your own words to go along with them because I'm tired of typing.
If you care to see, here's a pictorial recap of our trip:
On Thursday, we flew there. I spent most of the flight working on my powerpoint for the workshop I was doing the next day (aka our legitimate excuse for going to Cali). After both of our laptop batteries died, I did a crossword puzzle. Those things are kind of annoying.
After landing, we got our rental car (less than $20/day via hotwire.com), and we decided not to waste the few hours of daylight that were left going to settle in at our hotel. Oh yeah, and it was 60 some degrees, and there were mountains everywhere you looked. We wanted to get out and explore right away. So we did.
I really wanted to get to the coast, so we made a b-line north. Sara took a lot of random pictures along the way. We were both pretty excited to be there.
We ended up at Ocean Beach, took off our shoes, rolled up our jeans, and walked around. Other than the scenery, highlights included finding sand dollars (turns out they're not actual currency, so that was disappointing) and sitting on the sand, watching the sun set over the Pacific.From there, we tried to find Fisherman's Wharf for dinner, and thought we found it...didn't bother to ask anybody if we were right...but we later found out it was Pier 39, which has a pretty similar flavor to Chicago's Navy Pier. At this point, we were tired and hungry, so we decided to just go ahead and eat there anyway. Before we settled on a restaurant, we got a few tiny doughnuts because we were hungry.
Okay, so I'm realizing what a pain in the butt it is to add pics as I go, so I'm going to wrap up day 1 of the trip here, by saying that we stayed at the Sofitel our first night b/c it was near the site of the conference I was attending the next day, and can I just say that it was super expensive, and super crappy. I just hate how fancy hotels are so stingy with everything, but I digress.
I'm just going to post some of my favorite pics from the following days in a separate post. You can make up your own words to go along with them because I'm tired of typing.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
I know, I know
Okay, so our trip to San Fran has put me behind a week or so, so I need to do a couple posts before the week's out. Trouble is, the trip put me behind at work, too, and, as a result, I'm quite exhausted. Hoping to eat, rest for a short while, and get to bed, then tomorrow will likely be working on a report until bed, and then....maybe I'll just do 3 posts next week.
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