This was a school project of Holden’s. He had to invent something and then make a commercial about it. His invention was a paint brush with a paint key built into the handle. Patent Pending

Joe playing with his kids in the snow, Go Daddy GO!

Well as much as I resisted, I broke down and adopted a puppy last night. I saw the ad in the paper and drove an hour south to pick her up. She is Cockapoo and weighs 3.9 lbs

Merry Christmas! Check out this short video of Holden playing part of the song he is writing. He is playing on his new Ibanez RG120 that he got for Christmas. Pretty impressive if you ask me (but I’m biased). That is his little sister yelping in the background while playing a video game.

Here, for your viewing pleasure is a very shaky video of the youth choirs at my church performing this past Sunday evening. My tripod is a piece of junk so I pulled the camera off and… well you see the result. One of these days I’m gonna get me one of them there fancy tripods. Holden is playing the drumset and Lizzy is singing in the first choir. Wendy is singing in the second choir and she hates those robes! Just FYI. I’m using a very cool Wordpress plugin by Alex Rabe to manage the video on this site.

For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special “hotline” included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.” The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first “Santa” call on Christmas Eve 1955. Realizing what had happened, Colonel Shoup had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa’s position. Thus, the tradition was born.