Christmas Season

This is really a great time of year. I have just had time this morning to think back on this year and I am happy about everything that it has brought. I am getting to spend more quality time with my daughter!




We got a dog this year .....(Bear)




and then decided to get another.....(Bryant)





We also have had a ton of great friends enter into our lives through our new small group.




Over all I am very happy with where me and my wife are this year. I am just ready for things to keep on rolling. I want to wish everyone a great and peaceful Holiday Season and a Merry Christmas!!!!

If your name is Zach....this post may do something for you. If not then its still an 80's classic!

Eventful

Sunday after church I headed to Cape Girardeau, MO to see my little daughter's play. I planned to get there early, check into my hotel room and go to her school Christmas play that afternoon at 3:30. Her nutcracker play was the next evening at 7:30. Every thing was going as planned. I arrived on time, checked into my hotel room for the night and was headed to the school to see Sydney sing, when ALL OF THE SUDDEN.....I got this sickening thought that I forgot something. I DID-- my Nutcracker TICKETS!

About a month and 1/2 ago I purchased a ticket to see Syd in the Nutcracker. With the tickets back in Memphis and me in Mizzou I had no clue what to do. Well Liz had a great idea. She called her dad while she was downtown at a photo shoot and he met her with the tickets. After Sydney's Christmas play on Sunday I headed back down to meet Liz at a half way point. I met her, hugged and kissed, and returned back to Mizzou with tickets in hand (so much for a relaxing afternoon in Cape Girardeau).

The next day went as planned. I cruised around Cape and watched a movie (When the Earth Stood Still) and hung out at the mall and the bookstore for most of the day. That night was Sydney's show- She played a snowflake in the Moscow Russian Nutcracker. She is such a little star. She was the leader of her group and did a great job. I tried to take a video with my phone but it did not work. I gave her the biggest hug and kiss after the show. She was busy with her mom all weekend, so I didn't get to spend much time with her, but Liz and I going up again on Friday and Syd will be staying with us in a hotel for the entire weekend. Overall, I was so glad I could be there to support her while she performed.

I left Missouri around 9:30 last night. Normally, I would be home by about 12:30, but it had been icing and snowing all day in Missouri, so I didn't get back until about 2:00 this morning. Liz was freaking out a bit, but I made it home safe.

All in all it was a great trip, with a lot of adventure. But if I had to do it all over again, I would in a heart beat- just to see the smile on my little girl's face!

Number One..... is a underdawg?

I know that I have been out of the blog world alot over the past few weeks, but I could not let this week get by w/o posting on the TIDE's plan to smack up on Florida! I just don't understand why the TIDE is a 10pt underdog to the Florida Gators. I mean I think that the Gators have a great football team and that they deserve to be playing in the SEC championship game, but not to be the favorite. "To be the best you gotta beat the best" right? And for the time being that team is the ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE!!!!! Can you tell that I am excited about this football game? Last year we had Memphis making its run in March Madness and the Giants upsetting the Patriots in the Superbowl. Well if Bama wins tomorrow it will easily trump those two exciting moments in sports for me. This is a team with no superstars, a great coach and a completely focused unit on the field. Bama is basically one win away from playing for their first National Title since winning it almost 17 years ago in 1992. I could have never dreamed this up. Especially coming off of a tough finish last year and returning pretty much the same team.

I'm so excited.... and I just can't Hide it!!!!!