Dancing

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pictures from this morning

Paul as Santa

James and Noelle

(they were deocorating the

Christmas Tree in their PJ's)

That IS a bear.  

Cody's bear 

from last fall is coming 

to live with us.

Rolling Over!

I can do it!

(and now I do it all the time).

First tooth!

Paul has his first tooth!

Grandma Jane felt it poking through

last night...

and sure enough it is there this morning!

He also is big enough to 

hang out in the exersaucer.

Pictures

Noelle was unusually quiet 

in the back of the van on the way to school.

What are you doing back there, Noelle?

"These pictures are just so darn cute, I can't stop looking at them." 

Noelle finally said.

What are you looking at, a book?

"No Mom, it's these"

Noelle said as she held up the package 

of school pictures -

2 dozen of the same picture of her.

Perspective

This One's for Kelly

BJ Penn is the current UFC Lightweight Champion, the #1 UFC Welterweight Contender, and arguably the best pound for pound fighter in the world. BJ is Kelly's favorite fighter and after every fighter encounter she asks, "so how are you going to get BJ's photo?" BJ trains in Hawaii, so it's not an easy gym to frequent.

Paco, a colleague of mine, and I headed to the MGM Grand for dinner tonight. On our way in, I saw BJ and quickly said hello. I was of course kicking myself for being unprepared and not having my camera with me. Paco and I ate dinner and I took Paco to the airport. Afterwards, I went back to the MGM and camped out in a bar with the sole purpose of consuming a few Guinness to help me sleep on my redeye tonight. Halfway through my third beer, I saw BJ walk by and grabbed a picture with him - further proof that the MMA Gods really do like me.

The MMA Gods Love Me!

The reason I'm in Vegas this week is that Sonic Foundry is webcasting a sales conference for Hewlett Packard. As it turns out, HP paid Frank Mir, Wanderlei Silva, and Bruce Buffer to appear at one of their general sessions.

After their appearance, I snuck backstage and got some photos for my collection.

Wanderlei (left) is a former Pride champion and one of the top UFC 205 lbs. fighters. He squares off against Rampage Jackson at UFC 92. Frank is the former UFC heavyweight champion, current coach on "The Ultimate Fighter 8" and is also on the UFC 92 fight card. You'll also notice in my previous blog post that Frank Mir is one of the commentators in the ESPN video filmed last night at the UFC Training Center.

"Veteran Voice of the Octogon" Bruce Buffer (see my post on UFC 90)

UFC 91 ESPN VIdeo

This is the video that was filmed last night. When I arrived at Extreme Couture, the film crew was just leaving (note that the shirt Randy Couture is wearing is the same one that he has on in my picture with him). The video with Brock is at the UFC Training Center and filmed shortly after I had my picture taken with him.