Entries from December 2007

December 31, 2007

Best games of ‘07

As playing video games is one of the only hobbies I have any time for I thought I’d run down the games I loved this year. I bought my Xbox 360 last December and I have never had more fun with video games than I have this year.
Xbox 360 Retail Games:
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter [...]

December 31, 2007

DCifFPC Week 3: The Christmas stuffing edition

Diet Coke is for Fat People Challenge Week 3
Week 2 starting weight: 237 pounds
Week 4 starting weight: 239 pounds
Total Challenge weight lost: 2 pounds in 3 weeks
I haven’t done a weigh-in in the last two weeks because I’ve been gone for most of it. I was really afraid to see what I weighed. After [...]

December 28, 2007

The Brown boys

I had a blast shooting photo for the Brown boys two weeks ago. We shot out at the Stephenville Historical Museum. It was the perfect setting, and the boys were a lot of fun. You can view the rest of the photos here.

December 28, 2007

Required reading

If you’re reading this on the RSS feed, it won’t make much since. For the rest of you, notice the new section in the sidebar to the right titled “All about me.” One of the links is “Read what I’m reading.” It directs you to a page with all my shared items from Google Reader. [...]

December 28, 2007

2007 in words and numbers

I started this blog (well, not actually this one, but a blog that transformed into this one) in 2006. In all of 2006, I posted 57 times. At the beginning of ‘07 I decided to make a concerted effort when it came to blogging. I love writing and I think it’s made me a better [...]

December 28, 2007

Quote of the Year

“There’s a rusty Christmas tree in the front yard?!” — My Mom
You had to be there, but it was the funniest thing I’d heard all year. It’s why I love hanging out with my family more than anything in the entire world.

December 28, 2007

Two-week wrap-up

I haven’t had time to write much here in the past two weeks so I thought I’d do a quick list of things on my mind.
It didn’t feel like Christmas this year until Christmas day. Kind of disappointing considering I love this time of year.
This was our first Christmas traveling away from home for four [...]

December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone out there. I hope you are enjoying it as much as we are. I’m experiencing some much-needed relaxation at my parent’s house right now.
Toward the end of this week I’ll get back to my regular writing duties here with some thoughts on the last two weeks which have been the busiest [...]

December 18, 2007

Chili Cheese Fritos, God and me

I’m sitting here in the afterglow of a Chili Cheese Frito binge. The empty bag is laughing at me for stumbling. Like a drunk stumbling into an AA meeting, you can probably smell my breath through the monitor.
Hi, my name is Chad and I ate too much today.
This is the first time since I started [...]

December 18, 2007

Quote of the Day

People get passionate about something that changes their life. In order for people to become passionate about church–life change MUST be taking place there. — Perry Noble

December 17, 2007

DCifFPC Week 1: The great start edition

Diet Coke is for Fat People Challenge Week 1
Week 1 starting weight: 241 pounds
Week 2 starting weight: 237 pounds
Total Challenge weight lost: 4 pounds in 1 week 
Honestly, I planned on losing nothing this week. The first week of a “weight-loss” plan is when I lose maybe a pound and give up because I’ve basically starved [...]

December 16, 2007

Quick Notes 12-16-07

Today was a challenging day in the kid’s department at Legacy, but in a good way. It’s one of those things that showed me we are headed in the right direction.
God told me to take a nap this afternoon. I listened. He was right. I feel so good right now.
I took all three boys to [...]

December 12, 2007

Bowled over

I find as I’m getting older, my competitive streak is dying out. I used to hate to lose while at the same time making it look like winning was so easy it was nothing. Now, I just don’t care. Any time spent not working is just used for relaxing. Any time not spent working and [...]

December 12, 2007

Ba humbug!

Does it not feel like Christmas to anyone besides me? We’ve got the tree up. The lights are hung (mostly). The weather is overcast and chilly. So what is the problem? Around Christmas we always go stay with my parents for a couple of days which is hands-down my favorite time out of the entire [...]

December 12, 2007

Job or ministry?

Anne has a phenomenal post today about ministry being a job versus being the outflow of your relationship with God.
I’d encourage you to click over and join in the conversation. It’s very interesting. Below is my response to it.
The answer to the question is absolutely yes. However, people’s general reaction to the question will probably [...]