The one about our trip to Chuck E. Cheese....and some funny stuff too....

Well, yesterday we spent the morning and noon time with Lisa (the other associate Pastor that I work with)...just to get to know each other a little...and after meeting in Tiffany's fav place to EVER go (Starbucks in Barnes&Noble) I suggested several places to eat that Lisa did not care for (ha ha Lisa I made you out to be the bad gal, heh) and so I decided for all of us that we would go to Chuck E. Cheese! Well, we went there and we decided to get the pizza drink combo meal that came with 25 tolkens...just so we could see if Lisa could back up her skeet ball skills that she "claimed to have", heh heh.....Well, I wasted all my tolken on some horrible spinning coin game (because I did not want to play any games that the kids were having so much fun on) and it ripped me off two times...but what does Tiffany do? She walks right over to the same machine and puts on tolken in and wins a HUGE amount of tickets!!! I could not believe it...I spent all my tolkens on that darn machine and she walks over and just put her first coin of the lunch in it and it spits out all kinds of tickets!!!! So, here is Tiffany and Lisa enjoying the crazy amount of tickets.....

and here is the amount of tickets I got from the stinking machine!!!!....

And Tiffany gloating and rubbing it in.....

and me with my tickets.....

once again...Tiffany.....and......

me....... 

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The great thing about it all is that we looked around for a deserving child to receive all of our combined tickets before we left and lets just say that we made one little girl VERY happy, heh....lots of fun...and for those of you who might need this information...this makes for an amazing date night and brings joy to everyone around...just FYI....

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OK, well, I wanted to share with you all a very funny comedian that I really love to listen to on the radio...He is on the Bob and Tom show every now and then...and trust me most of the time that show is horrible...but this guy most of the time keeps it clean...and I would love to buy some of he CD's...but I found a website that you can buy his CD's but they have also made on of his funnier songs into a cartoon...so if you would like a silly laugh then please check out....

Heywood Banks and his song, "Toast"...(please note that site is filled with very crude and very funny humor...and links to other bad websites...but just watch the cartoon and you should be fine....so be careful)

Ok well, I could not resist it..I wanted you lets yall have some more fun with stand ups in cartoon form...so here is another one from the same site taking about the VERY first baseball game...it is VERY funny..and has tons of biblical jokes in it...please note it is just meant to be funny and not offensive...so please have my apology if it offends in any way..but I think it is very funny....

"the first baseball game" By Dan St.Paul.... (oh and for both of these you will need the Flash player)

Well, yall have a wonderful night and please take care and know that I love ya and am praying for ya...so you might as well....KUTPs!!!!!!!

The one about our friends the Eatons and Tiffany getting her new Harry Potter book.....

Well, Friday night we went to eat dinner and hang out with good our good friends from Seminary the Eatons. We had lots of fun..but the best part of the night was Will their oldest boy entertained us with riveting songs of Itsy-Bitsy Spider!!! It was lots of fun to be had by all.....

Not sure..but I think this is the spider...might be a frog too....

Here is the family...minus the little girl who had already gone to bed....

And I had to put this one in...of all the times that Tiffany had to put up with me getting Halo and Halo 2 and various other video games....we went to Super Wally World so that Tiffany could go get Harry Potter The Half Blood Prince!!! As you can see she really wanted it and she still looks good @ 12:30 am after spending the entire day shopping and then eating @ the Eatons, heh!!! Man, I love this woman!!! It was so funny when she saw the book in Wal-Mart she was so excited that she danced a little jig...and she went on to get other groceries while I went back to get a cart...when I went back past the book pile of the Harry Potter books there was another little kid...probably around 10 years old...that was doing the exact same jig that Tiffany danced for the Harry Potter book, ha ha ha ha...oh man..I knew right then that I might be rubbing off on Tiffany..you know acting like a little kid every now and then, heh....Well, I need to go to bed because church is tomorrow...and guess what Tiffany is reading tonight, heh....but We did get Tiffany's laptop



, (ultimately price played a huge roll in buying it...after you throw in a backpack, wireless portable mouse, 2 year warranty, and one small case of CD-R's then you have spent well over the $800 the church gave you to buy it..and into your own pocket...but we had some help from parents donating a little to the fund and of course we kicked some in there too...after all it is money to the church and the youth really do need the computer!!!) and I spent until 3:00 am setting it up for her so she can use it on Sunday if she needed too...but other than that I wish you all a wonderful 1st day of the week...and may you all be blessed this Sunday...whither you go to your faith tribe or not...take care and God bless yall!!!!

The one about hey what no pictures from your camera?

Yep that is right..I decided to actually post a blog post without pictures can you believe that? Although I am sure I will hear about how this one is too long for Tom and Nanaw to read...but oh well, I guess yall can have Daddy read it to you if you complain (heh heh...I sure do love yall!)

Well, It has been a long time since I shared some of the cool websites I have found in the past few days...so I thought I would give you another good old cool set of sites to visit...(or programs to DL, heh)

well lets see my fav list up here......

Well, probably one of the coolest things I have been doing is playing around with a VERY cool VERY free program called....Google Earth....you can Download it here!

This program acts a lot like Google Maps...but this time you can do fly-bys change the tilt, look @ certain buildings in 3-D..and all kinds of stuff...I love looking at people's houses and stuff, heh.... so join me in spending way too much time playing around with this program...(note to everyone you have to have a high speed internet connection to play with this program!)(once you download it go to the top visited sites for some amazing stuff.... especially the Grand Canyon!

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Next would be....well, I used to have a blog post from some guy that had all 70 something commercials of the Budweiser "Real Man of Genius" ads...but now all he has up is a bittorent link to it...so if your a big fan and have bittorent..then I guess you can check them all out...man I love these commercials! they are all so stinking funny...well, I guess if you want the link here you go...right here!

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And next......for those of you who might get brave and try to eat Sushi...then you can learn how to eat it and how to make some of it @ this website!

And if you would like to know where to go to eat some then you can go here!

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This site.....will let you know if there are any free screenings of movies to come out soon in your area...now so far I have only seen stuff for Boston, and places like that..I am sure that some day they might have a few in Dallas, or (I am hoping)Cinci! heh...

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Oh man..I almost forgot...(how could I forget this one!!!) Here is a website that allows you to check out a tornado up, close, and personal...as it flies right past and over a cool science devise they placed in the path of (I think an F4) very cool!

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A while back I tried to show everyone the destruction of the tornadoes around my home town of Floydada...and I went to the Floydada newspaper website (found here) and I thought I would show yall some of what it looks like after a tornado and one of what one actually looks like right where I grew up!

Destruction:

"A JUNE 9TH TORNADO RIPPED APART THE BACK OF THE HARRIS HOME AND DESTROYED THEIR TREES. Staff Photo" (quotes from the website and Paper)

"TREE LIMBS ARE DUMPED BY TORNADO IN THE BACKYARD OF THE HARRIS HOME. Staff Photo"
I f you would like to read the article for these photos you can read it here!


"PETERSBURG/FLOYD COUNTY TORNADO--This photograph of the Petersburg tornado was supplied to us by David Drummond, Newschannel 11 First Alert Storm Chaser. The tornado grew as it swept through Floyd County damaging homes, cars, crops, and barns. No one was injured. Drummond also supplied us with pictures of the tornado while on the ground in Floydada, however it was so large (reportedly 1/2 mile wide) that the photograph appeared as only a large black cloud from the ground up. Courtesy Photo by David Drummond"

Oh man that rocks!!!!!!!!!!! and check out the damage!!! This will tell you that Tornadoes are not to be messed with....just chased, heh


"THURSDAY'S TORNADO PULLED UP POWER LINES AND REDUCED THEM TO SPLINTERED LUMBER. THE HOME BEHIND HIS POWER LINE ESCAPED SERIOUS DAMAGE. STAFF PHOTO"

"THE RICK REDDY BARN located at the McCoy Gin took a hit from Thursday night's tornado. The Delgado home across the street from the Gin lost windows and chickens in the storm. The Delgado's took refuge in a cellar and were not injured. The Reddy home east of the Gin was damaged by a well house that was thrown into their home. The Reddy's took shelter in a basement. Staff Photo"

"OVER 30 SPRINKLER SYSTEMS IN FLOYD COUNTY WERE DAMAGED FROM THURSDAY NIGHT'S STORM. STAFF PHOTO"

that stuff is just amazing! I love Tornadoes..not because of all the destruction they make...but the excitement that flows through my blood is amazing when I hear sirens or see the Thunderstorm Warning pop up in the TV...I guess growing up in Tornado country will make you respect them...and always have...but I have been crazy and chased them in college (with Ryan, heh) and been scared as everything during Spirit Wind in the basement of a church waiting for the funnel cloud to go over us and seeing it pick up lots of dirt just outside of town...they are amazing...and I promise if Tiffany would let me I would have loved to have been a spotter for the city or something like that...and I know if I would not have been a pastor..I might have gone into being a weather ma...or a chef, heh...both sound god to me...made be I could chase tornadoes while scarfing down an amazing French dish, heh....

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Well, I have give yall enough for tonight...I hop e you all have a wonderful weekend...and take care! Please know yall are in my prayers and God bless you all!

KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The one about this weekend...and my roommate in College having a Baby!!!!

Hello everyone!!! Well, I have had a very long weekend...but it sure was good...but before I get into the fun...I thought I would show you a picture of Halo barking at himself in the mirror with Sushi watching...heh...I man it was cracking me up.....

This weekend... we had Jeremy, Will, and Chris (see picture above) that come over and spend Friday night with us..and then Chris spent Saturday evening with us so he could stay and hear Tiffany preach...we had lots of fun playing Halo 2 & Fusion Frenzy, and then Tiffany talk all night long and I think we went to bed Friday night (Sat. morning) around 4:00 am!!! Oh man I was tired then we spent all day Saturday in Cincinnati and we went to the Apple store in Kenwood and ate @ http://www.johnnyrockets.com/index2.php, and went to go see the Fantastic Four (save the money for a DVD rent...not worth the price of admission if you ask me...a little too cheesy for me)...but a fun time was had by all and then I went home to finish memorizing the Parable (if you look hard enough in the book here in the link you can find the first page of the parable in the book..I think it is Pg. 13) I told for the sermon illustration for Gay our Sr. Pastor...it was a little hard memorizing it with all of the lack of sleep I had got..but I pulled it off with the help and Grace of god...heh....

here is another shot of Halo making Chris feel VERY welcome to the Hollums' house! Halo sure does give funny hugs...but it is obvious that Halo sure does love to give them....

And I think that Chris was traumatized by all of the hugging...but I bet he will be just fine wit a little counseling...he is such a good sport about the whole thing!....

Poor guy could barely eat anything or even keep it down...heh...well, today after Tiffany preached at her church and all of us ate some good Chinese food we drove straight to Lexington to meet up with our very good friends Corey and Amanda..it was great to see them..and then we made a mad dash run back to Cinci for Tiffany to get to youth tonight...and for me to go to 2 different meetings...and now needless to say I am going to bed! so as always...please KUTPs...and love that I love ya! 



Oh and I must not forget to tell you all about how great it is that one of my best friends in the entire world (Greg Anderson) just have a baby with his wonderful wife...check out his blog with baby pictures and a VERY happy Daddy!


Oh and one last side note...if you are a part of the Florence UMC Tribe....then I really would suggest that you check out the Florence UMC website...it is very helpful and includes everything from the church calendar, to a discussion board, to reserving the church or the church van...etc...lts of great stuff. and I really would appreciate if you could get the word out about it to everyone else...and those of you who are not part of the church check it out too...you might find something you like too! OK love yall and I have got to go to bed now, heh..... KUTPs!

The one about my parents leaving, Happy late 4th of July...and my sermon last Sunday....

Well, here are some pictures of my parents leaving town last Friday..sorry these pictures are late...but they were still in the camera and so I thought I would put them up for yall to see them leave and also see their "rig"....

Me getting my Mom back for taking so many pictures, heh....

"The RIG".....

Yesterday for the 4th (Happy late 4th everyone!!!) Tiffany and I sat and watched a wonderful short parade in front of our house in the morning and then we went to go eat with John and his new wife Sylvia!!! Here is John drinking Turkish Tea..(very strong stuff if you have never had it...very strong!!!) well, he always cracks me up so I thought I would take his picture.....

Now this one may need a little explanation, heh....this is the first drawing I have received from special someone (Jessica to be exact)! I love it...and even though I might look like Uncle Fester or a Vampire...or possibly one of Satan's minions...I know that she yelled to me on Sunday that she likes me..and maybe in her own way is telling me that she loves me...and you know what...I LOVE the picture! I met not too many of you have had a little child (that you barely know) draw you a picture (during the middle of your sermon...and it was a short one, heh) Well, thank you again Jessica (if you read this) and please know that I will treasure your art for as long as I am still around or this piece is still around...no amount on money from ebay will let this leave my hands!!! heh heh

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Well, just in case any of you would like to read the sermon I gave this last Sunday here you go (Please note the St. John's members have already heard it..and I might have posted it before...can't remember..but I made a few changes to it).......The Christ Cafe.......(remember you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it and if you do not have it then you can download it from the link under my favorites on the right side of the blog.....Thank you all for coming and God bless you! And never forget....KUTPs!!!! 

the one about Tiffany's good cooking and my parents and Aunt's last day with us....

Well, for the last day with my parents and Aunt...we decided to just go to Florence and eat and look @ possible computers for Tiffany...and then go home and cook a last meal (for this trip) together...and watch a movie....also...we gave the Asbury UMC (Tiffany's church) tour to my family...and we just had to get a shot of the board that the church did for Tiffany...all the hands had signatures...very nice!!!.....

I think this one was before dinner and I saw my Mom and Tiffany talking with halo just walking around our deck...so I took this photo...we ate Chicken Marsala, with garlic Mash (2 sticks of butter and heavy whip...oh yeah!!!...I am the one that made these, heh heh), fresh green bean...Spring salad, and strawberries with real cream and sugar to top it all off.....it was wonderful and Tiffany cooked it all...she is wonderful!!!! (man I love my wife!!!) and then we went over to the HT and watched Hitch...an excellent movies if you ask me and one I would recommend to anyone...well those of the right age, heh....well, love you all and please please please....KUTPs!!!! I am off to bed right now...because we are waking up early to help see my parents and Aunt Harryette off tomorrow morning...yall take care! 

The one with the fish zoo, heh....

Well we went to Newport and the fish zoo, heh...we had lots of fun...and here we are (except for Tiffany taking the picture) in front of a big fish metal art work...it was cool!....

Here is the picture that was worth the price of admission...my mom in the bird room...Oh man..I need to frame it and give it to the family for Christmas, heh.....

there is my family in the shark tube...sharks to come....

but first the sting ray...man I loves these guys!!!.... ||  

Shark 1.....

Shark 2....

Shark 3....

shark 4... and yes we were that close in the shark tube...very cool....almost as cool as a tornado, heh....

Well, after looking at fish all day we got hungry and went to a restaurant to eat them....here is Tiffany licking her plate...even if it was only salad, heh....yall take care and God bless you!! I am praying for you...yes you...and I ask you to....KUTPs!  

The one about my parents still being here...and the Florence UMC welcome Picnic.....

Well, the last two days have been wonderful with having my family here still....Yesterday we took some pictures of the gold fish pond @ the camp site that my parents and Aunt are staying @...and it is an amazing place to camp.....here is Tiffany and I with the pond....

Here is my wonderful Aunt doing what I consider to be probably in the top 15 favorite things that anyone can do to me...back scratch!!! and she is an expert! Thank you Aunt Harryette...man, I wish Tiffany could perfect your skill, heh....

Well, Florence UMC (the church I am serving with) threw us our welcome picnic...and here is a picture of me playing The Corn Hole Game(sp?)...it was a blast to play and for my first time to play the game ever...I do not think that I did it to bad...even if Gary and I lost...we will practice and I am sure the next church event we will be a force to be reckoned with....heh heh....(thanks to all the guys I played with)

And lastly...here is a picture to make Sheila a little sad that she is not with us...we are playing a new lots-o-fun card game called, KUUDUK....it is a blast to play and even when my Aunt an d I gang up on tiffany she still wins...I know Tiffany is cheating some how...but not sure what it is yet.......you can also see the new shirt that Tiffany got me yesterday....well, we plan on spending the afternoon and evening @ Newport on the Levy...so I am sure we will spend too much money...eat very well, and have lots of fun....so....yall please KUTPs!!!!!!!!! (and God bless ya!) 

The one about my family coming n to see us.....

Well, My parents and Aunt made it just fine here on Sunday and yesterday we had lots of fun finalizing our unpacking...and then just enjoying each other as much as possible....Here is a picture of Halo getting comfortable with the new house.....

this is a "wow" sunset yesterday! It looked very much like the shot of heaven in the movie Constantine...with it breaking through the clouds...but I had to zoom the picture to make it even noticeable...and it made it blurry...but you all get the idea....

And lastly here is my wonderful family! We had to eat @ Frisch's (thanks for the spelling Ben) Big Boy at least one time for my parents...because my Mom and Dad ate there on their Honeymoon and so my Dad had to order the hot Fudge Sunday for my Momma...even if she did not want it, heh.......Tiffany and my Aunt Harryette ate across from one another and all you could do is here them giggle and laugh...with their inside jokes...for some reason they both get along very well...maybe something about them both enjoying sweet sweet people (best summary of both of them) or maybe it is because they both enjoy Impish thoughts and smiles....what ever is the case...I sure do love having them both around...and having my parents here tops it all off....Now if we could have just got Sheila here and my Nannaw and Tom, heh.....oh well, that will have to wait until Christmas...heh....Well, I love you all and please have a wonderful week this week...and I sure that I will with my family in spoiling us with wonderful food and even better company....please don't forget to smile at a stranger today and let them know you actually do care about them...(don't' just do it to do it, heh) love yall take care and KUTPs!!!!!!!!!! 

the one about our new home theater chairs....

Well just one picture for yall today...... since we are still moving into our new home...we had to take today and go out and do some shopping...we first got a microwave...(best one that Consumer Reports for the money...and the we have been looking round since we decided to have a dedicated home theater some seating for it....We were looking all over the place for a love seat that would recline and that Tiffany and I could both sit in (and watch TV or movies......but everywhere we went we found that they were just too expensive..and the other huge problem we were having is that nothing we look at would be able to fit through the bedroom/HT room door....so we were stuck...then we saw dedicated HT chairs!!! And of course I drooled over them all..but alas the price was still not what we could afford...and after we had decided that we would bite the bullet and go for a couch or HT chairs (because they were comfortable, and all of them were on a rail system or the backs could be taken off and you could fit them into any room that way)....We decided to just check one more place and sure enough...we found these two that were left -overs of a custom order that went really bad and so they were trying to get them off their show room floor..and today I am glad to say we are very happy owners of two stink'n nice leather movie chairs!!! With cup holders on each arm and both recline!!!! So it is an open invitation for any of yall to come and visit us and enjoy these chairs...just make sure you only come two at a time, heh....Yall have a great night and God bless you all! never forget to....KUTPs!!!!!!!!!