Lots of Little Big Planet

There was no church this Sunday and Amanda and I ended up playing Little Big Planet for the vast majority of the day, although we did take a walk at one point. We were going to meet Polly and Dace Clawson at Brixx, a new brick oven pizza place across the street from the movie […]

Christmas Pickens

Amanda and I stuck around Richlands one more day because Phil’s sister, Ona Pickens, was coming to visit with Peter, her husband, and William, her younger son.  Stanton, the older son, was going to be in Las Vegas as we’d heard earlier, but it turns out he’d been out partying the night before and had […]

2008 Annual Day After Christmas Get Together

Michael Mercer and I were up pretty late playing Left 4 Dead and Resistance 2 last night.  This morning I stayed upstairs for a while as Amanda and Karen got a few things ready to take over to Amanda’s grandparents’ house for the annual big family day after Christmas get together.  It’s thrown every year […]

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas! Amanda heard a little bit of noise downstairs this morning around 6:30 and, noticing Harvey wasn’t in bed, asked me to make sure he wasn’t nosing around in the presents.  After we came home from church a few weeks ago and discovering that he’d had his way with a few things that were […]

Christmas Eve 2008

Amanda took the day off and we spent most of it cleaning some more.  It’s amazing how much there always is to clean.  We bathed Bruce and Harvey too, which is always fun.  Bruce isn’t so bad- he’s small and doesn’t generally mind going into the bathroom.  His hair is short, too, so he rinses […]