Here’s my first video blog. This is the video that Jenna was referencing in her previous post about the video that I did for Christmas Eve at church. It was a lot of fun to put together because the kids just say exactly what is on their mind. But it was challenging because we started with 57 minutes of footage and worked it down to this 3 minute presentation.
Credit where credit is due…. Thanks to:
- Trey Holt from KBTX for filming this with his excellent xD cam
- Doug Sweet for his creative efforts from start to finish
- Julie Hamilton for interviewing the kids
- All the kids’ parents who probably had no idea we were doing this until they saw it Christmas Eve!
- Jackie Stephenson for the piano background track
It’s late… so I’m not going to write much more. Hope you enjoy!
December 28th, 2006
I hope everyone had a marvelous Christmas! We had many Christmases… I think the grand total of gatherings was 5? So that’s why I’m just now posting Merry Christmas wishes, three days After Christmas. Kevin made this wonderful video of kids at our church talking about Christmas. He’ll have to give the link so y’all can watch it… and I’ll let him set it up a little bit better too. 
Kevin and Colby and I just got back from DFW last night. We stayed a little bit longer than we normally do, because we wanted to see people that we normally don’t! A lot of his h.s. and our college friends live in DFW and/or have relatives that live there, so we got to see some of them… Jeff (and his bro and his mom), Kyle G., Dan, Trey.. and Jason & Kim Ledlie with their 15 month old, Tristan. It was so fun to see Colby and Tristan “interact”.. Colby got very mad about having to share his cars at dinner. We’re working on that!
Another thing we got to do was buy Kevin a new suit! Kevin worked at Men’s Wearhouse while he was in high school and during the summers in college, so back then he was able to have a nice wardrobe. (And, the employee discount was always a plus.) Fast forward 10 years or so, and he hasn’t had a new suit since we got married! He picked out a charcoal suit that will go with just about any shirt/tie combo he could ever want. That was his Christmas present from me! (Oh, and Colby and I played basketball in the store while suit shopping. There was a plastic goal there and everything! Colby calls it a “gakket-ball” or “khaki-ball”.)
Yesterday we had to return some stuff at Kohl’s that didn’t fit or we already had, etc. (You know why you return stuff.) We intentionally didn’t go to Kohl’s the day after Christmas because we knew it would be crazy busy. So, we walked in the store 2 days after Christmas and found the line from the front door all the way down one wall and then right-angled down another wall… We both just stood there looking at it, speechless. It was the longest line I had Ever seen. And I’ve waited in many lines at A&M! I could NOT believe what I was seeing. So, we have the gift receipts for everything, and we’ll just return things when we go to Bedford next time… in like a month or two, surely the lines will go down, right?
So right now it is 10:18 am and Colby is still sleeping! Usually he’s awake before 8 am, but he’s catching up on all the sleep that he missed while travelling/partying! He doesn’t like to GO to sleep, but he sure does like to stay asleep, thankfully. On Christmas he had so much fun playing with his cousin Ryan (3.5 years old).. they’d run to one side of the house and giggle, then they’d play chase to the other side of the house and giggle some more. Colby came out of that event with a black eye and bruises on his face, but he loved every minute of it. (Ryan had his share of bumps too!)
Okay, I guess that’s about it for now. We should have Christmas pictures up soon. And, if you didn’t get a Christmas card/picture from us, we apologize… we ran out this year! We didn’t really plan very well, but we had lots of extras last year, so we thought it would be the same this year. Anyway, I hope each one of you had a Great Christmas and will have a Wonderful New Year! Oh, and I hope the Aggies beat the hell outta Cal tonight! Whoop!
December 28th, 2006