A good story to warm up your spirits for Christmas.

There is a new story on ESPN that is a good read for this Christmas season.

Thanksgiving comes before Christmas

Here are some pictures from the Thanksgiving break. Thought I should throw them up here before Christmas comes around.

Only as good as the previous kick

When it comes to college football, it is no secret that I am a huge Nebraska Cornhuskers fan. The game last Friday was probably the first time I got excited about a Nebraska kicker. The 57 yard field goal for the go ahead points in the Colorado game was probably the most excited I have ever got for any kick in a game. There are some good videos up on YouTube on the kick (see here) (and the radio call, here), but today I came across a video from a fan in the stands - it is great.

Go Big Red! I am really excited about Husker Nation again, Bo Pelini certainly has brought back a good feeling to this program.

Lost Tooth & Sears Roebuck

Here are some new photos.

Me and my new pearl snap button shirt I found at a second-hand store. Then the other two pics are Elijah and his first lost tooth. As you can see in the bottom picture, he has another one he is about to lose. I have never seen a kid have loose teeth for so long. The last one definitely held on as long as it could, he never really worked good on them to get them out; he would just barely touch them.

Yuck

Just in case you were curious - nasty colds and law school just don't mix that well, especially with four weeks until finals.

Another one of those post things...

Hey, how about an update.

It's a rainy day & I don't want to do my work, so I'll post. I just found out that my wife's cousin and uncle were part of a triathlon team that won a race. Check it out, if for no other reason, check out Trout's haircut. I also found out they have a website for their band, Blue Coyote. Boy the things you can find out when you don't want to study. Speaking of studying (warning - lots of whining ahead) lately it has been: read until I want to poke my eyes out, go back and begrudgingly take notes, and then if I am not so mentally exhausted, try to add to my law journal article, which the other night took me three hours to write two sentences, what with all the citations and research just to get that little on the page.

But it's not all school, I manage to procrastinate and fit in other things. Like work - I work two mornings a week as a law clerk at a law office in Camp Hill. I actually get to do some really interesting work there, just recently I have worked on a free speech case, a first amendment retaliation case, and unfortunately a case where a family pulled the nutrition and hydration from their own mother at the hospital.

Sometimes, while reading, I'll mess around on the cpu so that I don't poke my eyes out. The latest distractions are a game called Scramble on Facebook and a Facebook game called Attack! that is really just Risk. My brothers and I challenge each other at Scramble, which is similar to Boggle, and I usually come out the winner, not always though: my brother David continually adds one of his friends that he thinks can beat me. On Attack!, you can join live games and they usually go very quickly, I have only had to continue one game during class once. (so far)

So yep, that is what is up out here. The kids and Nicole are doing very well. Both the kids received awards in their classes for being respectful and helpful to others, and Nicole, well, she is pretty respectful and helpful herself!

Take care everyone. Maybe I should add postings to my blog as one of my many distractions to get through Tax this week. [By the way, you know you are being consumed by your classwork when you are sitting in youth group helping the kids answer questions about the Prodigal Son, and you are sitting there thinking to yourself what the father's tax consequences are for breaking up his inheritance like he did so.]

[the picture above is from one of my bright spots from school this semester, our one class had a day long leadership seminar in Gettysburg]

'Bout time for a post

Hello,

This semester has been pretty hectic. Last week I had two papers to write, I also had two assignments due for law review. Let's just say the kids were a bit neglected a couple of weekends ago. This weekend was laid back compared to the one before. I still had a bit of reading to do, but I was able to take my time. I even did some of it while watching Jackie's first softball games on Sunday. She is doing better. She was actually the first one on Sunday to make contact at bat. The other team had a ridiculously good pitcher [fast-pitch]. By the time Jackie came up, she was the first one to face a new pitcher and made contact after two strikes. I think she was surprised (as well as all the coaches and players), she stood there for a bit not knowing what to do. I was just proud she swung the bat and made contact - we had tried to work with her the day before, and I got a bit frustrated. I should just be proud of how good she is doing for her first year and her age.

Cubs are in the playoffs! That should be wild - and hell on my study schedule, but it will be worth it if they go all the way.

Here are some pics from this summer and my internship. Boy do I miss it! One picture is from a late night (or I should say early morning!) euchre game, the other is from a quick Grand Canyon trip w/ the guys.

At least I did something productive this weekend

Elijah can ride his bike w/out training wheels now!

DC through the eyes of a child

We made to DC again a couple of weeks ago before school started. Here are some pictures the kids took.