Happy New Year!

Here's the chicken police.

Dennis's Third Birthday

Last week was Dennis's third birthday. Happy birthday little man. Here is a video of him unwrapping some of his gifts. See if you can guess what kind of gifts he wanted.

Now a picture of his cake.

PVC

Well, I got through my first semester as a band director. Everything has been awesome and I am really starting to enjoy this job (as hard as it can be sometimes). However, I am very tired and ready for Cat-mas break. Anways, when hacking the webnet for cool music-related videos to watch in class, I happened to stumble apon the coolest thing in this universe. I plan to make one of these this summer:



Also, these Tomtom videos are pretty funny. I hope Kelly doesn't get fired and/or killed for watching them (or do I?):

FULL Minty Theme Song! @ TeamCoco.com Lyrics Included!

A Bed Intruder Christmas Carol

Bucket List for the next decade

Here's my bucket list for the next decade, in no particular order. Does that mean it's not a bucket list? Hopefully most of these will happen within the next few years! I'm curious as to what is on everyone else's bucket list?

1. Travel to every national park (this one is more of a lifetime goal)

2. Travel to Europe again.

3. Travel to Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Thailand)

4. Have a job that I love (hopefully that will start next or this summer!)

5. Build an environmentally conscious home surrounded by nature - in the mountains, next to a river, or somewhere else beautiful

6. Get out of Springfield for awhile and have an adventure

7. Live/work somewhere where it's feasible to sell my car and bike everywhere

8. Get my master's degree (I'm starting my MLS this Spring!)

9. Have one more baby

10. Go to the Harry Potter theme park and buy a wand! (might happen this summer!)

"NO BLAH BLAH BLAH" ~ Captain James T. Kirk

TMBG: Not Tired of Grammy's Yet

Yup, they've been nominated for a third Grammy for Here Comes Science.  One of their previous Grammy's was for another children's album, but the first one was for Boss of Me.  If I was in the children's album business, I'd be sick of these guys.  Luckily I'm not and never will be sick of these guys.

Axe Cop

Axe Cop is a comic written by a 5 year old and illustrated by his 29 year old brother. The result is hilarious.  This is from the "Ask Axe Cop" segment.