This Crazy Life

Kim and I just bought a new game for our Nintendo Wii. The word “game” brings up different connotations than the reality of the product. When one hears the word game, one thinks things like:

• Fun
• sitting on the couch
• killing bad guys
• wasting time

This “game” is not really any of those things.  This is the “My Fitness Coach” game for the Wii.  You start out by entering your vitals.  The game has you get your measurements: chest, waist, hips, biceps and thighs.  You then input your weight and resting and active heart rate. It then has you do some exercises and put in your results.  Based upon the information you input it tailors your workout to best suit you.  Right now mine is set in the “weight loss” section.  For me it involves lots of cardio and medieval torture techniques like “heel jacks” and the “v step”.

Kim and I like this better than the Wii Fit.  After 30-45 minutes of workingout last night, I was sweating like a dog, but feeling good.  I never thought I would be sore from playing a video game, but I have now reached that point in my life!

m0r3 l8tr,
Jacob

Our youngest will be on TV during the morning weather segment tomorrow 1/23 on KPRC Local 2.  They take photos that folks submit to use as backgrounds for the day’s forecast.  They show the picture, say who it is and then put the numbers for the day up.  Kim took a great shot of our daughter, and now she’ll be famous.  How cool is that?  This was taken Sunday at Kate Barr Ross Park, we were hanging out with family the day after Faith’s birthday.

Jacob

Our youngest turned 4 this week and we held the party for her on Saturday. We had three of her friends from school in attendance, plus family and friends.

Faith had a wonderful Birthday.  She was able to run and jump and play and have pizza, open presents, watch movies and even went out for dinner after her party later in the evening.

Pictures of the event are posted on the Spradlin’s Picasa photo pages.   The photos that start this particular album were actually taken at Faith’s school, but then they go on to Saturday’s party.

Faith even got to see her Boris and Leyla and Jamal via Skype late that evening, and they were all the way in Manila!!

So check out our pictures and leave comments!!

Dad, Leyla and Jamal have successfully moved to Manila.  Yes, Manila in the Philippines.  Exxon-Mobil has dad out there for what hopefully will be his last overseas stint for work.  They are 14 hours ahead of us.  This makes it somewhat of a logistical tap dance to find the best time to talk to each other.  When I get into work int he mornings at 8am, it is 10pm in Manila.  I spoke with them Sunday night our time and they were about to check Jamal into his school and then go home shopping.  As of now, they are camping out in a hotel.  The good news is that they do have High Speed internet down there, so we can skype/video conference etc.  There are many technology companies that have branches in Manila or call it home, so at least the infrastructure is there.

We are planning on the possibility of a visit once they are settled.  I believe the best case scensario would be to go in Summer of  2010 because our Youngest will be 5 at that point and much more able to handle the plane rides ;)  I am a little anxious about Dad being overseas as they last time he was overseas I lost a parent.  Now I know how irrational this fear is, but it still nags at me.  I really wasn’t able to put my finger on it until I started typing this entry, weird how one’s mind works.  Just looking at photos of this city though makes it look much more modern than Baku or Sakalin (sp?).

Hopefully they will be able to make it in for my Graduation in August from grad school.  Well, that’s all for now!  m0r3 l8tr - Jacob

We have some new Photos up. We’ve posted some Christmas and New Years stuff so take a look! We’ve also recently updated the theme for the site. Faith has her fourth birthday coming up, so expect more photos soon.