Lit Up

A house in our neighborhood. It’s a tad much don’t you think?

A Christmas Carol

We had 2 shows yesterday, 2 & 7pm. It was great! My first time doing a radio show and it’s cool to see how they did it in the old days, doing sound effects and going live on the “radio”. Wonderful mix of cast from pros to newbies. There will be more radio shows in the future, I think.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

A small gathering of friends

Come and Watch!

I have two shows coming up (^_^)

An old fashioned radio show …

A play for kids …

Wii Night

Yesterday, the CWS (Children’s Worship Service) group held a Virtual Sports Night aka Wii Night from 4-8pm. The kids started with registration where they were grouped into 4 teams: red, blue, green and yellow, and they were given a badge. Finn was in the green team. There are 4 sports that they can participate in: Mario Kart, Tennis (singles and doubles), Baseball and Bowling. Finn joined Mario Kart and baseball. The badges were stamped once they’ve finished their game.

They did some physical stretching first before going into the 4 different stations for their games. The racing and baseball stations were upstairs, the tennis and bowling were downstairs. The individual scores were then tallied into the team scores. After the 4 events, the kids were gathered downstairs for the finale, which will then determine the champion. All of them lined up according to their team and the final game was bowling where each frame was played by a different kid on their team, that way everyone gets a chance to bowl. Everyone was so excited during this last game but the good thing is, everybody was cheering for everyone! It was really all in the spirit of brotherhood (^_^) In the end, the blue team won. Prizes were given away for the winning team, and the best individual scores.

You’ll see in the slide show below the bricks hanging from the ceiling. They contained coins and the kids would “punch” the bricks (much like how Mario does it) and if they’re lucky, a coin would drop. Prizes were also given away depending on the number of coins you get. Finn got 6 coins and he exchanged it for a coloring book.

Next week, the married couples will be having our own gathering. Although I hope they hold a Wii night for adults next time =P

 

Cozi

I’ve been meaning to have a photo journal where I can post a photo a day. Never was able to do it … until now. I found out about Cozi while looking for an online calendar. I liked this site for a number of reasons: it’s free; you can color code your appointments so you’ll know at a glance who that’s for; you can set reminders to be sent to your email or phone about said appointments; you can put your calendar on your desktop; it has a journal that you can choose to share or keep private; it has a to-do list; it has a grocery list that you can also choose to be sent to your phone if you forgot your written list; there’s a message board that can send your messages to either email or as sms; and you can sync your outlook with your cozi calendar so that whatever you put on your outlook calendar will be reflected in your cozi calendar.

So far, I have the desktop calendar, I’ve set up reminders for some of our appointments (we’ll see how that goes through email), I’m using the journal and have decided to make that as my photo journal, I’ve made a grocery list and I’ve used the message board to send an email to Jojo.

Oh and I forgot to mention something about the journal, you can choose to protect key words and replace them with something else like if you don’t want the names of your family members to be known – like how you would replace your child’s name with DS or DD for example. So when you write down your entry with their names, DS or DD will be posted instead when it gets published. This is great if you’re in a hurry writing your post and you forget to replace the names yourself.

I think Cozi is pretty handy especially if you have a busy family. This way your appointments don’t overlap and everybody can see where they have to be when and be reminded as well. The journal is a great way to jot down what’s happening and the message board is great too for sending quick notes without having to go to your email. I’m liking it so far (^_^) And if you get the chance, visit my Cozi page. You can also just click on the link above on the navbar labeled Cozi.

Fall Foliage

Last year we weren’t able to take a drive to see the foliage. This year, we were a bit late =P Most of the leaves have fallen already, but at least we were able to take a walk in the woods some, and take pictures.