What’s up with the socks, yo?
Heh.. out of all the toys Ella has, she chooses to play with the weirdest things. Mommy’s socks.. go figure.
Hello Friends and Family!
Been a while since my last post, but things are starting to slow down now some. We have a lot going on, including work related stuff. More importantly, however, is that we really feel like the Lord is calling us to begin to pray for the Middle East - specifically Iran. We had an incredible speaker come to our church this past Sunday named Tom Doyle. Maybe you’ve heard of him? We are not sure where the Lord is going to be taking us or what the next steps are, but we are beginning to pray none the less.
I’ll have some work related news to post either later this month or next, so please stay tuned!
Linley went to the doctor for her 2-month checkin and she weighed a whopping (and I mean whopping) 14.7lbs! Yeah, she’s like off the charts. Perhaps she’ll become Daddy’s little (or tall) basketball player. Ahh early retirement! Go ahead, say it outloud - I did!
We had a great Christmas with friends and family this year. Because we had the new baby Jenn’s family came up to Dallas for Christmas, so that was fun. We also had my Dad in from Scotland as well and greatly lifted our spirits for the Holiday season.
Ahh yeah, Jenn and I bought an elyptical machine and have been flogging that thing big time. I’m having to get ready for basketball season and I didn’t want to start running to save my joints. Been doing really well on that together. Slim and sexy, that’s me!
Below is a picture of Jenn and the Girls during Christmas. Will write more soon - i’ve got to update this website, ugh!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Picture of Ella sleeping all crazy. Extra points if you can find her bible.
Longest Day of the Year… No, really long
Yesterday we were driving back from Destin, FL (close to Pensacola) that took about 14 hours. It so happened it was the longest day of the year as well (June 21st). However, it apparently wasn’t as long as the day my parents saw in northern Scotland, which is where they now live as missionaries. Below are pictures taken at 12am (yeah, Midnight) last night - technically June 22nd.
Vacation: First Day of travel - Destin, FL
Welp, we’ve left for vacation and drove about 8 or 9 hours today with our friends. We (along with 3 other families) have taken off to Florida. It’s good to get away - but with 8 adults and 7 kids (5 of which are 2 yrs old) I’m not sure that we are actually “getting away”; you know? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining - in fact I love being around all the children and away from work, it’s just that’s a lot of children!
It’s like I’m Clark W. Griswald on family vacation, but multiply that times 4 (minus the dog peeing on the picnic basket with all the sandwiches in it). So you’ve got 4 Clark’s leading the charge trying to figure this thing out - but we’ve got CB Radios!
We took pictures of Louisiana as we went through the bayou so that was fun. If I had the USB wire to my camera I would have posted some.
Good thing that our friend John and Cristi are house sitting for us while we’re gone, especially as we are trying to sell it. Thanks guys!
More to come as the days continue…
Still Here..
Been busy with family stuff as of late, so I haven’t been writing much. I posted some pics of Ella in the below post. She’s becoming the most darling thing I’ve ever seen. We are so blessed to have her in our lives.
Jenn is now in her 13′ish week of pregnancy. Baby’s doing fine and healthy. We don’t know the sex yet, but should in a few weeks.
We’ve got a vacation in Florida coming up in June and are excited to get a way finally. I haven’t had a vacation for quite some time, so getting away is going to be good.
Lost season finale is tomorrow tonight - I recommend that you watch it! If you’re behind and want to catch up, you can start with Season 1. You’ll need to watch about 3.9 Seasons worth of episodes, which is about 80-something episodes. Get busy!
Go Spurs Go? Not really; the “Go’in” has been tough and are down 3-1 to the Lake show. I know, I know - Barry was fouled at the end, but he’s got to create more contact. Pop - give the ball to Ginobili.
Yo!
Hey peeps. It’s been a month since I wrote last, sorry for such the long delay - that’s pretty uncharacteristic of me. So what have we been up to? Tons..
For starters Jenn and I have been busy busy catching up on ABC’s Lost. You see, ABC released all of their Lost seasons online and stream in HD. So we started watching them on my Mac and then decided to start renting the 3 seasons so we could catch up. Man, good series and we have hardly put it down. We are about half way through season 3, but are Tivo’ing the new season that started last Thursday.
I also got my old team back together and we are playing in a new basketball league this year. We’ve been playing together for about 5 years now so it’s a pretty good bunch. The Frisco league has some cool online features in that we can track everything online. You can go to our League Page here. I know, I know… our team name (Mike’s Team) is sort of lamo. But I couldn’t think of anything when I signed us up. I’ll change it later.
Ella is really starting to say a lot of sentences now. Every weekend I’ll go get us Donuts and when I tell her she says “Daddy, Nonuts?” Haha! Comedy I know.
My Dad, Mom, and younger brother are still in Scotland and are doing very well. I’ve also been traveling to Seattle as usual, but nothing new to report there.
Anyway - I’ll post a new video up in the next few days.. so stay tuned!
Emma & Ella; ‘Footloose’ or ‘Maniac’ - You Decide!
Taken from the previous tent movie, here it is with some hip music!
Ella & Emma; Life in a Tent
So as you can see, my wife made Ella and her cousin Emma a play “tent”. Now Jenn is no engineer, but she did the best she could. I wouldn’t trust this tent to shield the girls from the elements, but they had fun none the less.
Holiday Season Shopping: Find a CompUSA… Fast!
Last week CompUSA was bought out by a liquidator and they are officially closing down the stores all over. It’s a mad fire sale with Jenn & I getting in on the action. Our TV has a busted screen due to some extra curricular activities (more to come on that later) and so we are looking at nabbing a new one instead of spending the $1k to fix it.
Need help? Go here to find the nearest store - forget shopping online, shop where the loot is being looted!
This Monkey is Going to Climb, No Matter What
Amongst other things, Ella is pretty determined to make her toy monkey climb. Daddy’s determined to run and chase her, too!
No Free Rides, Lady
So mommy dear tries to ride Ella’s new bike (aka Beach Cruiser)… only Ella doesn’t necessarily want mommy to ride it. Proof!
Yes, There Is A Proper Water Slide Technique
The correct way to slide down a water slide:
The improper way to slide down a water slide:
The results of improper use of a water slide (which means you get a bunch of sad faces at this age):
Hi, My Name is Michael and I’ve Been ‘Windows’ Free for 1 Day
.. ok so it’s not that dramatic, but I’ve finally made the transition from Microsoft’s Windows to Apple’s Mac OSX. After years and years of bondage, I have finally been set free! Now instead of troubleshooting, right-clicking, googling solutions, uninstalling, blue-screening, things just work. It’s true what they say; on a Mac, it just works.
I’ve even got my wife set-up on the Mac now. Hello new hottness!
Vacation in Colorado - Missing Matt & Aren… Kinda
The first day we were there with Jennifer’s family we were already missing Matt & Aren (Jennifer’s brother & wife), which would have made the trip complete. So I took two videos…
The first I would classify as “real feelings”… the one below it is the “rehearsed” video.
Na for real… we missed you Matt & Aren!
So My Wife Wants to Blog…
I have been finding Jenn sifting through our friends’ blogs for a while now and I’ve been encouraging her to begin writing and posting her own pics… here on my blog. At first it’s “I don’t have the time” and now it’s “your URL is ‘itsmike’… and I’m not Mike!”
I try and reason with her - like how ‘itsmike.net’ is so unique that she should be proud of my wittiness (that didn’t work). Or how I’ve got some street cred by posting so many blogs (she doesn’t care). Or how a lot of our friends & family already come to this site (she hasn’t commented).
So I came up with some good domains for her (which may just forward to my site anyway). Here goes…
1) “oksoitsjenn.com”, or;
2) “oksoitsjenntoo.com”, or;
3) “itsmikeandnowjenn.com”
Don’t worry, this blog won’t go away, but I’m going to have to figure something out now. Eitherway, I’ll put it up on the server - which by the way has been up 436 days now 
You Know You’re From Texas When…
“If they are looking for weight lifters to come out of Texas, that’s not what we’re producing. There are a lot of guys who can bench press 300 pounds in the NBA who couldn’t play dead in a cowboy movie.”
Taken from ESPN’s article regarding Kevin Durant’s NBA pre-draft workout.