mall city

The things my mom saves.

Snow

Snow

Sleepover - early morning Wii

2010 Books

Here is a list of books I read in 2010:

Dirty, Sexy Politics	Meghan McCain
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure Late, Late at Night	Robert Kowalski Rick Springfield
Do More Faster	BradFeld
Behind The Cloud	Marc Biehoff
The Northern Kingdom	Bernard Cromwell
Daemon	Daniel Suarez
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running	audiobook Haruki Murakami
Invictus	John Carlin
The Hamster Revolution	Mike Song
The Five Love Languages	Dr. Gary Chapman
Born To Run	Chris Mcdougall
The Lost Symbol	DanBrown
Epic	John Eldredge
Touch The Top Of The World	Erik Weihenmayer
The Extra Mile	Pam Reed
Now, Discover Your Strengths	Marcus Buckingham
A Million Miles In A Thousand Years	Donald Miller
Death by Meeting	Patrick Lencioni

2010 Movies

Here is a list of all the movies I watched in 2010:

The Matrix Grey Gardens

Grown Ups

The Tourist

The New Karate Kid

An Education

The Miracle Match

Twilight:Eclipse

Hard To Hold

How to train your dragon

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Alice in wonderland

G.I. Jane

Secretariat

Revolutionary Road

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Hachi

Dexter Season 1

The Book of Eli

Karate Kid

Penelope

Braveheart

The Rookie

Adam

To Save a Life

American Violet

2012

Whip It

Hot Tub Time Machine

Breaking Away

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Tender Mercies

Invictus

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

Vision Quest

Sunshine Cleaning

Expelled: no intelligence allowed

Leap Year

When in Rome

Shutter Island

Extraordinary Measures

X-men: united

X-men 1.5

I Love You Man

Toy Story 3

Knight And Day

La Femme Nikita

The Invention of Lying

The A-Team

The Box

State of Play

3:10 to Yuma

Shrek 3D Final Chapter

Young Victoria

The Tooth Fairy

Vicky Christina Barcelona

Bandslam

Pirate Radio

The Lovely Bones

Crazy Heart

Brothers

Goal 2

Spirit Of The Marathon

Friday Night Lights season 2

The Jazz Singer

Meet The Morgans

Twilight: New Moon

Friday Night Lights Season 1

Quantum of Solace

The Guitar

Benjamin Buttons

The Damned United

The Longshots

Double Jeopary

Turn The Beat Around

District 9

This Is It

Couples Retreat

The Bucket List

Up In The Air

Casino Royale

Tin Cup

Everest

Sherlock Holmes

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Sugar

The Omen

Fame

17 Again

The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3

Transformers

Avatar

Italian Sausage Soup

Christmas Eve PJs

With the good stuff in it!

My Date

Weekly Email

Hi Mom (Dad & everybody else),

Just a quickie as we get ready to run out the door for a W2W core-team Christmas party.

The girls are out of school. Chloe survived finals. Megan did *not* get the Annie part :-( So - they are both up for a good 2-week break.

Wouldn't you know it, Megan got sick the day before the audition. She managed to get through it. In the end a 6th grader in Ms. Keene's choir class got the part. Megan is the under-study for Molly - one of the other orphans.

Chloe worked really hard on finals - she really got organized, poured over notes, studied with friends, stayed up late - and in the end did pretty good with everything except math. Geometric proofs are hard - I don't even understand them.

We had another team building event at work - my boss took us to the movies. We saw "The Tourist" with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie - it wasn't very good.

Theresa and I also watched "Grown Ups" last night on OnDemand. It was pretty funny.

Interesting to hear about some of the movies you've been to see. How was Black Swan? That seems a little racey :-) We'd kind of like to see the King's Speach and The Fighter. I have The Social Network on my list to see too.

I just finished a few decent books. Rick Springfield's autobiography - Late Late at Night. He really suffers with depression. Do More Faster is about entrepreneurial start-ups by a local Boulder guy - Brad Feld. It's in interesting look at what it takes to start your own high tech company - in hopes of becoming the next Google, Facebook or Twitter - most don't make it (1 in 10). And finally, Meghan McCain's Dirty Sexy Politics - it was a pretty light-hearted look at her involvement in the campaign. Not very serious reading :-)

We are off of BSF for the next couple of weeks too.

I don't really have any plans to take any extra days off for Christmas. This coming Friday and Monday are the days off for Christmas. And then the following Friday is the day off for the New Years holiday. I'm on call during the daytime Tue-Thu between Christmas and New Year. So I can't really take those days off anyway.

We had super warm weather here today. After church both the girls had baby sitting jobs. Theresa and went to the grocery store. Then we split and went for a run and Theresa walked the dog. I had way too many clothes on for almost 60F weather.

Church was good. We are doing a project called the Advent Conspiracy. Worship Fully, Spend less, Give More, Love All.


Well that's about it. I'll try to get some new photos up on Ceiva. I have kinda forgotten about that
luv u,

Jeff

Weekly Email

Hi Mom (and Dad, and everybody else),

It's been a few weeks since I've written.  With you here for Thanksgiving I haven't gotten back in the habit yet.



Sure was a nice visit.  It seems like such a long time ago.  Now time is quickly marching on towards Christmas.  It was great to get a head start on the decorations while you were here with the Christmas tree and lights.  Theresa has been busy this weekend with the rest.  Garland and lights up the stairs and on the mantel.  Nativity scenes, snowmen, wreaths, etc etc etc.  It looks great and really starting to feel like it 'tis the season.  We haven't had any snow down here.  Maybe 1 1/2 inches so far this winter.  The mountains are getting a lot of it - good for skiing.  But it'd be fun to have some down here too.

One more week of school for the girls.  I really feel for Chloe - she has final exams all next week (2 a day for Tue-Thu).  She has been studying hard for the past couple of weeks.  But it's HARD!  I helped her with some world history and math a little and I can hardly answer the questions myself (Google and Wikipedia are your friend!).

Megan has been working hard on school too.  And she's been practicing for the lead audition in the school musical (Annie Jr.).  She has to sing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow".  She went and had a vocal lesson from Aaron Britton (worship pastor at church) and has a another one next Wednesday.  Then I think the try outs are on Thursday.  She also had a big part in the play for her drama class.  It was an excellent production.



Seems like we are always on the go.  With Theresa working on Monday's at the church and Tues/Thurs at Sport Solution it makes for a busy week.  At least W2W has ended for the year so she has some time on Weds & Fri now.  Tomorrow is my last BSF for the year - so that will be a nice break too.  We have a couple of Christmas parties to go to next Sunday and Monday.

We got your Christmas cards for each of the family yesterday.  I assume they are to wait until Christmas.  Thanks!


We've watched a couple of movies from Netflix the last couple of days.  An Education (coming of age movie w/Carey Mulligan in 1969s England) and The Miracle Match (USA soccer team in 1950 - beat England 1-0).  Both were okay.  We have either Twilight: Eclipse or Eat, Pray, Love for tonight.  I also rented The New Karate Kid for me to watch sometime (I can't get the girls interested in it :-).

Not much of a game for the Army Navy game :-(  I guess they scored a couple of touchdown's - that's a first for a long time.  But I think it's going on 9 years now since Army one.  We watched the Heisman award - no question Cam Newton was winning that.  Missouri basketball is still going good.  But they sure cut it close sometimes.  Terrible loss to Georgetown - they had that game won and threw it away.  3pt. overtime win against Vanderbilt.  Insight Bowl against Iowa for the football team.

We had a fun team building event at work on Friday.  Rib House for lunch and then to Indoor Archery for the afternoon.  It was great.



Well that's all I know for now.  Have a great week.

Luv u,

Jeff