Kontakion

I am obvious not as good a blogger as other people, in stead of taking time to blog about the holidays, I went and enjoyed them with my wife and daughter. It's late on Tuesday the 27th and I'm am taking time to finally catch all of you up on what I've been doing, getting, and thinking about during this holiday season. We've just spent three very hecktic days traveling around the country side visiting family and friends. Olivia was completely worn out by the time we arrived home at midnight last night, so we had to put off opening the presents we got for each other until the morning. I feel like I made out like a bandit. I recived so many wonderful and thoughtful gifts that I almost choked up several times in the process of opening them. The list runs from a dvd of U2's Virtigo tour, hard back copies of "Walden," and "Time Machine," a cast iron Duch Oven, saucier, new kitchen knife, and yes my most prized gift from my wife and daughter, a cas

Well here in Pa. on the 8th it snowed. Not a huge amount only about 4-5 inches but the big deal with this snow is that it is the first major snow that we have had as a family. Katie dressed Olivia up as a little pink snow monster then we went out and just jumped into the snow. I of course have no problem just getting down into the snow, Katie on the other hand prefered kneeling, poor Olivia could bearly move if she wanted to. Friday the 9th was the best. Katie normally works at the school that day so since school was cancelled we spent time relaxing. Katie played Christmas songs on the piano while Olivia played in her walker and I did the dishes. Suprisingly over all it was very relaxing. Here some pics from that day it will be a memory I will always treasure. This pic is of our third day eating cereal. Katie caught it, I was in class, she said everytime Olivia ate a bite she would look up and smile

Well we finally did it we dectorated our home for christmas. What started it off was the snow we found on the ground this morning. This was my daughters first real snow so what you see here is my wife and her playing happily in it. We're actually supposed to get more snow on tuesday so I'll have even more pictures come on that score. The next picture is Olivia hanging her first ornament on our tree. It was really exciting to realize that now we will have 3 people's ornaments going on the tree every year. The final picture is of Katie, Olivia's and my first year christmas ornaments. Katies is the 1980 one Olivia's is second and mine is last. Mine of course looks the worst having survived several tree related disastors over the years at my parents home. Well more pics will come as I get them for now enjoy this holiday time while you have it :)

Recently because of hours being cut at Lenscrafters (which is where I work) I've had to find another job. The job that I landed was actually on Lancaster campus painting hallway's in the apartment buildings. I have never been one to look down my nose at what may seem a menial task so as alwasy I began looking for the positive in spending 12-14 hours a week painting. What I decided to do is use the time while painting to listen to music (on my wonderful ipod that my wife got me for my first fathers day) and take the time to think and reflect. Now I do think of serious and important things while painting but today I found myself wondering if my life was made into a film what would be the various songs that are played. The reason I thought of this is because I was listening to the Beatles, one of my most favorite groups, and I just began to wonder what would my sound track be and of course with that what would be my theme song. This I feel has also developed out of working over my