I just wanted to take the time to sing the praises of my favorite worship album Adoration: Worship Album by the Newsboys. I truly love this CD and it is consistently the one CD that is in or near my computer at all times. I love every single song on this album and it’s so easy to get wrapped up in- before you even realize it, you’ve listened to the whole CD. In fact, I often listen to this CD over and over for hours (Richard can attest to this, lol). It relaxes me and immediately helps me focus on positive things and on worshiping God even when I’m having a bad day. It’s great Christian contemporary worship and has a great mix of both fast and slow songs. I highly recommend this album for any Christian to purchase.

Well today Richard and I celebrated Valentines day, we watched a couple romantic movies this afternoon that were on TV, I fixed a romantic dinner which we ate by candlelight and then we turned out the lights and watched The Notebook. To tell you the truth I hadn’t paid much attention to this movie but when we decided to do Valentine’s in this year I went looking for what movies had recently come out on DVD. The Notebook had great customer reviews even though it didn’t necessarily have the best critic reviews and since I often don’t agree with the critics I went with the customer reviews and we rented it. I’m very glad we did, it was a great movie-we laughed and we cried. The ending is a real tear-jerker and I advise anyone looking for a great romantic movie to watch with your spouse to RENT THIS MOVIE.

So today and the past few days Richard and I have been working on redesigning Fairfield County Right to Life’s website. It’s outdated and although it was good when we first designed it, it has no longer anywhere near cutting edge and definitely a pain to update. So we’ve decided to go to a CMS for the site, a very good decision if you ask me. However why does it seem like every time we are doing a web project there is always some sort of thing (knowledge base management, layout, etc) that I am desperately searching for a piece of software to do and it seems NO ONE else ever thinks of doing it the way I want to do it! It always ends up that Richard has to write special code for whatever it is I am looking for. This is a good and a bad thing; good in that we design it so we get it to do EXACTLY what we want and Richard normally learns something different along the way, but bad because it inevitably takes a lot longer to create a bunch of new components yourself than it does to take someone else’s component and tweak it to get it to do what you want it to do. OH WHY, OH WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?

American Idol starts tonight!

Just like Richard said earlier, our DVR is working overtime and tonight is no exception. American Idol is on tonight and I can’t wait to see it. Why didn’t I watch it live? Well it overlaps with The Amazing Race, so I had to make a decision between the two and I decided to wait until Richard and I could watch AI together. It’s much more fun to watch the early rounds of AI with someone else, because watching people who have absolutely no idea how tone deaf they are… is… well…hilarious. Sometimes I feel so bad for some of these people who come on national television and make fools of themselves, but other times I think they KNOW just how bad they sound but are looking for their 15 seconds of fame. Whatever the reason, the earliest rounds are the most entertaining to say the least. However, I am hoping this year there isn’t another catastrophe like there have been the last two years. What am I talking about? Well I really believe the last two shows were fixed or tampered with at the end. I think Clay and Diana both deserved the top spots in their seasons. I didn’t watch the first season so I can’t comment on that season, but the last two have left me very disappointed. Maybe this year will be a good year and talent will win out…….we’ll see.

Welcome to our new site! We’ve been wanting to do a personal website for quite some time now but other web projects have always taken first priority until finally we said enough is enough, we NEED this site! Why do we NEED this site? We need this site because we want to be able to vent..er, um…blog. Yeah, that’s it….blog. No really, in all seriousness we are very excited about this endeavor. We created this site so that family, friends and anyone else who wants to wander in can gain a little insight into our world. We have friends and family scattered across the nation and in some cases across the globe and don’t get to see them near as much as we would like. We are hoping that everyone will be able to get to know us better through this site; much more than a yearly Christmas letter and family vacations. So welcome to our world! We hope you stop by, put your feet up and stay a while. Just remember, this is our house and even though you might not agree with all the conversation in our house, please don’t stain the carpet…it’s new.