Just a quick praise. Alexas and I went to the Doctor yesterday and found out that everything is normal with the baby and just as it should be at this point. Also I don't have Crohns. It's ulcerative colitis, which still isn't good but it's more manageable than crohns. God has blessed me with a lot this week, and I have been praying hard about this job position at work. I feel like God is really going to move on this for me. It's all in his hands. Please be in prayer for this for me. Basicly it's a promotion to a different department with much better hours.

Well last sunday night our small gourp had game night. The guys stunk up the place, so badly that you might go as far as to say that it, "smelled like death". Any way, as a reward to the guys for their smelly effort I have put together a little movie of the ladies looking a bit silly.

I've been really busy lately, sorry. I will post real soon.

This kid is really cool, wish I could do this.

Wow,

Don't feel bad Jonathan, your not alone. I found out how un-cool I am. Tonight at work I had to do this story on Teens causing problems at a theater. They weren't really causing problems just hanging out. But these teens needed some serious parenting. Girls wearing next to nothing, (bounce the eyes), and boys saying just what ever they please to these girls and acting like total morons to get there attention. Was I like that as a teen?

I was trying to shoot some video of these kids but instead ended up surrounded by them, and if nothing else I learned tonight that kids want to be noticed. Every kid there was trying to out do the other. Trying to say something more outrageous or do something cool, and they all wanted to be on TV. That's something adults never want. One girl ask me how old I was and when I told her 26 she said, "wow your 12 years older that me". My first thought was, where are your parent's? I can tell you right now I will never drop my 14 year old kid off somewhere and say have a good time and I'll see you at 10. That little girl was getting an education out there by some boys a lot older than her.

Another kid begged me to put him on camera but I kept telling him he was to young and I would need his parents permission. Just before I left he called his Dad and told him that I need to talk with him. Well I didn't but to humor the boy I talked to his father. Just before he handed me the phone I said,

"is this your Dad?"

"yes"

"I bet he would like to know all those dirty things you said to me earlier, maybe I should tell him."

Then the color droped from his face and I thought he might cry. I didn't rat on him though, I just explained to his confused father that he had ask to be on TV but I didn't need the interview but thanks anyway. The boy heard me do this and thanked me for not putting him in hot water. He also left me alone for the rest of the evening.

After all this I thought of Jonathan. How is he able to relate with the youth. I mean I think I stay on top of trends and I know the score, so to speak. But the age difference still separates you no matter how cool you may be. These kids made me feel like I was 45.

tired


So a lot of things have been going on this week. The positive side is that out podcasts are up and going again. Go to iTunes and search Catawba in the podcast section. The negative side is that in switching everything over to apple from windows I'm having to search out a new method for streaming our video because the program I need to save wmv files on a mac costs around $130. So for a short time, I hope, video will not be available on our website. I'm trying to teach myself how to stream mp4 instead of wmv.

There have also been a lot of things going on at work. Several opportunities have came up which I can't mention here. Stuff I may need to keep to myself for right now, but either way it's in God's hands and I'm not worrying about it. I also found out this week that I'm going to Seattle for a week next month for American Idol tryouts. Thats nice, because I didn't get to go on my secheduled trip to L.A. in May. So it feels nice that my Cheif Photog chose me to go on this trip. I would love to be able to work at CHBC full time, but until then I am thankful that I do have good managers at fox for the most part. Other than that it's the same thing each day. Start around 8:30 or 9 and I get back home around 11. I stay tired a lot, and I'm not sure if I can keep this same schedule once the baby comes along. Speaking of which here is a little movie of the ultrasound.

Couple of Videos for you to Check out

I know, I know.


It's been a while since I have posted a new blog. I have been really busy lately. Here's a little update on the past week. Alexas and I went back to the doctor on Wednesday and we got to see the baby again. You can kinda see the head and face in this pic. The baby was laying at a funny angle so we have to go back in 4 weeks just to make sure everything is ok. I will post video soon.

Tuesday night was a distant second to Wednesday morning, but it was still kinda cool. I had to cover The American Idol concert for work and after it was over we had to follow up on a rummor that Taylor Hicks, the american idol, was playing with his old band at a bar outside of town. I really didn't want to go, I wanted to get a good nights rest to be ready to see my baby in the morning but I had no choice. After waiting for about an hour Taylor did show up, aswell as sveral other of the contestants from the show. Derek and I got a bunch of interviews and some video of the after party concert and headed back to the station at 1:45am.

On Saturday my parents came down to help me cut some trees and clear some of my yard that looks like a forest. We worked all day and I felt real bad because my dad works him self to death during the week anyway. I love my parents very very much and they are always there for me but they need God in their lives so bad. My Dad is a good man and he knows Jesus died for him but my Grandfather has been such a negative influence on him and my Uncle for so long that it's made my Dad's heart hard toward going to churh. He's says he knows he should go when I ask him about it but yet he still doesn't. My Mom tries to go but she is afraid that it will increase the distance between her and my Dad if she gets involved in church. They need our prayers so very badly. Please pray that God will soften my fathers heart and give him compassion and love for my mother and that he will humble himself befor God. And that God would give my mother patientence with my father and those around her, and confidence in herself. I also pray that God would keep my mother company. My father works so much, and she gets very lonely.

That night my sister who had came down to my house was following my Mom and Dad up to her house rear ended my dad. It was rainy and my Dad had slowed down thinking he was in the wrong lane. Also my sister follows to close. There wasn't a lot of damage. Cassie's car will need a hood but other than that it wasn't bad. Dad's truck wasn't hurt at all.

Sunday morning started great. The video went very well at Church, and God has blessed me with some very talanted volunteers. After Church I went to help Cassie my Mom and Dad pick up a dryer from Home Depot. After we lugged it up to Cassie's condo and got it out of the box we found a huge dent it the front and back. So we had to take it back except they didn't have another one. So Dad and Cassie had to drive to Pineville to get a dryer, except they didn't have this dryer either. So then they went to Lowes and finnaly found the one they needed. While all this store hopping was going on my Mom and I were at the Urgent Care because I cut my finger open as we were taking the dented dryer back down the stairs. So if you see typeos in this post it's because i'm typing with just nine fingers. Dad had to ride my bike back to my house for me becuase after the stitches I couldn't squeeze the break. Right now Mom and Dad are driving back to Lansing. Mom in Cassie's car and Dad in the truck. I pray they make it safe. Dad is bad to fall asleep driving. They should be there by 12:00.

Please pray for my family, Alexas and the comming baby, my sisters new job, and me becoming full time at CHBC.