Today

Or tonight rather! Jem's way overdue new album "Down to Earth" and Marc Broussard's first all-original song album since his debut, "Keep Coming Back" are out! I stopped buying physical CD's about a year ago and it's the best decision i've ever made (well...one of the best) so I'm posting the links to the iTunes store so you can just head on over and check them out!

Click the pics

Looking forward/Disappointments

Looking forward to:

Shows: SYTYCD, Amy Grant
Fall Weddings (Sean/Allie, Liz/Josh)
Church growth opportunities/involvement
Seeing "The Dark Knight" again
Fall Music Releases: Marc Broussard, Jem, Keane, Kelly Clarkson
Continuing my reading streak
Fall TV returning
Keeping our plants alive

Disappointments:

The Olympics depriving me of sleep
Harry Potter pushed back to July of '09
Summer TV shows over
Movies in general (why can't I watch them anymore?!)

so you think you can dance!

i am not ashamed to say that this has to be one of my favorite shows ever. pure entertainment, emotion...it's all about the people and the DANCING!

huge congratulations to joshua!! katee was my favorite but joshua definitely deserves it as well.

countdown to the tour in october!

youtube "so you think you can dance season 4" and see what i'm talking about

Why so seriously awesome?!

We saw "The Dark Knight" midnight premiere at IMAX last night (this morning?) and it was very very awesome.

The movie just blew my mind on so many levels. The acting, the cinematography, the HUGE screen we watched it on, the STORY! Christopher Nolan is a freaking genius, if the only movies I ever see in my life are made by him I'll be happy.

Please please go see this movie it is money well spent, and I'm planning on spending even more on this film.

We're in!

As of this past Tuesday, Brandie and I have closed escrow and moved into and gotten settled into our new home. We love it and can't wait for everyone to come and see it.

Neglectful is almost the right word to describe how I've been with my blog. I've been doing little posts here and there from my phone (which, turns out, isn't as useful and fast as I thought it'd be), but other than that I've left this place in the dust. A lots been going on ok? Jobs, houses, season finales, I have my priorities!

The HOUSE. I know I'm getting sick of hearing about it too. We're excited. It's pretty much done being built (except for the master bathroom door that's missing...). There's surprise landscaping! We're hopefully closing escrow tomorrow which starts the dominoes in motion of the moving process. Moving your life is a pain and a mess, but when it's all over it will totally be worth it.

Needless to say our current place looks like a recycling center/dump. Who knew those slipcovers worked so well? We're very ready to get out of Tower. We will miss our friend Pliny the Younger though (see pics below)

I've been on "vacation" from work since Friday which is awesome, but our Dish Network service ended a week ago so we've pretty much been sitting around trying to get in local channels with the antenna, watching DVD's that we had to dig out of boxes and playing each other in Scrabulous. And of course when we have no lives all our friends are busy! It's actually been very nice to just be with my wife Bran, finding things to keep us occupied, just making each other laugh. I love her.

So I sit here blogging, thinking that when the moving process starts I'll probably wish I could be doing nothing. So I will cherish this down time.

I can die now

Just found out that Amy Grant is gonna be in Visalia in October! Best
Birthday gift ever!

Caspian and house

The 20 just started! We are currently waiting for the midnight
showing of Prince Caspian and it WILL be awesome.

And more importantly...we have a closing/move in date! June 16th!
Exactly a month from today we will b moving into our HOUSE!! The
countdown has begun...

Slabbin it

I'm here at Daltile signing off on the four granite slabs theyre using
for our house. Exciting stuff!

Sunday afternoon

Packing, cleaning, packing.

Resting. Relaxing.

Eating. Inventory-ing.

Reading.

Prepping for another week.

Sleeping (arguably the best part)