I had the privilege of joining 3 friends of mine for a day of fishing on the Potomac River in front of Mt. Vernon. The weather was fantastic, the company was superb, and the fishing was pretty good too.
Check out the trip report here, and a few pictures here. That’s Ernie’s site, the guy who owns the boat and is gracious enough to take us along. There’s pictures, and a play-by-play report of the day…
Ok, I guess I’ll officially announce that we’re buying a house! Well, a townhouse to be technically correct, but we’re pretty excited. We close May 1, and will have a month to move and get everything situated with our current rental. The inspection went beautifully and it’s in immaculate condition, unlike many others that we looked at in the process. As an added bonus, it’s actually a traditional sale, not a bank owned or foreclosure. The market is crazy right now, and even though prices are low (relatively speaking, of course. We could buy a 4000 sq ft place in a country club back in College Station for this price), the nice properties are getting snatched up quickly. This was our 4th contract on a place, as we weren’t the first contract in on two of the other three, and the third was a short sale where the listing agent was a bit nutty.
The house is an end unit right at 2000 sq ft, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, but it has a rough out that we’re going to turn into another full bath. Single car garage, deck, and a 4th level loft off the master bedroom. It looks like Morgan’s going to move in with us and live in the basement, which is a win-win for all of us. She’ll pay us rent, but it’ll be about $400 less per month than she’s currently paying, so it helps us out with the mortgage, and saves her a substantial sum of money. The only thing that really needs fixing in the place is an owner-installed sprinkler system, but I’m pretty sure I can wire it up to code and make the thing work for us.
Anyway, on to the pictures! Note: The furniture and stuff in the house is not ours. Don’t go thinking that Heather’s pregnant because there’s a crib in one of the guest bedrooms, because she’s not, haha.
Full Gallery here.
Both of our families joined us here in Virginia for the Christmas holidays and we spent several days in Colonial Williamsburg. We had a fantastic time spending time with each other, as well as enjoying the living history lesson!
More Pics here. A lot more.
Our Christmas Eve service at CFC consumed the majority of my time in December, but it was worth it, as it went splendidly! We are also blessed to know Reuben and Allison Maher, the parents of Kaitlyn and Ethan Maher. You might recognize Kaitlyn from her time on America’s Got Talent, but we asked her to sing for us that evening and she did an outstanding job! Props and Kudo’s to Paul Kordon and the CFC worship band as well!
Check out Kaitlyn’s site here.
More Pictures from Christmas eve here.
Morgan joined the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and took Heather down to Arlington cemetary to place wreaths on the graves for the holidays…
More pictures here.
For those of you who haven’t seen me bald, here ya go:
And here’s a couple pics of the place setting for Thanksgiving. We had so much fun we forgot to take pictures of all the people!
This was awhile ago, but Rodney (Heather’s father) and I spent a morning fishing on the Potomac last fall…
Well, it’s finally here, at home and in use. It’s good to have a capable machine at home again that can edit pictures, as Heather’s old Dell Inspiron 5100 just wasn’t cutting it. It’s a beast of a machine, Intel I7 920, EVGA x58 mobo, EVGA GeForce 9800 GT, 6GB Corsair triple channel XMS DDR3 RAM, 1TB Western Digital server class hard drive… I skimped a little on the video card, as the latest and greatest cards are an extra $200 or so on top of this one. Here’s some shots taken by Ryan Yorde as I built the machine.
More pictures here.
