Well... It was my 29th birthday on Saturday and I couldn't think of a thing I would rather do than go to my brothers house for some grilling and baby-holding. I got there around 11 so there was SEVERAL hours that I got to hold some babies before we cooked around 3. Over all it was a good day, I didn't get thrown up on or peed on, so it was fun!

Now I have been accused of giving some crazy gifts in my day, but I have to tell you what... I think Niya's face says it all... Regardless I will wear it with pride whenever appropriate.

I guess we wore Niya out with holding her and stuff so she went to sleep... I have to say that she is an amazingly cute sleeper though...

This baby has the same influence on me as tylenol PM because when she curls up on me and falls asleep, I am soon to follow... Don't worry, if you look close she lets me know if I am snoring too loud.

Well, when we were out at the store we saw Halloween outfits, and even though they were a little too big for them, it was a moral imperative that they had them... No words for how cute they are!

Jeff was either picking Nick's nose or was making him make the b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b noise with his lips...

Nick has the most expressive face, and will most certanly be a ladies man once he learns how to talk rather than just grunt...

Overall it was a great birthday, surrounded by great people. It was nice to get a chance to decompress for a bit before we get into this next week... Our US105 Children's Miracle Network Radiothon starts on Wednesday.

I had heard about this event last year when I was still working in Sales, but didn't really think about it much. This year I have played an integral part in the planning and preparing for the Children's Miracle Network Radiothon. I have done quite a few interviews with families and children that have been affected by the amazing Children's Hospital at Scott& White. While quite a few have turned out to be happy endings where the children have overcome amazing odds to be able to live their lives to the fullest of extents, there have been a few that haven't ended on such a happy note. The girl in the picture above is Stacy Guiteriez and she is 7 years old and has Lukiema. I did an interview with her family and ended up having to sit there with her for quite a long time playing tic-tac-toe with her just so that she would open up and talk to me. She has touched my heart with her strength, and no matter where I go in my life I know that a few of these children will follow me around and give me something to be proud of. If you get a chance to listen, then please do, and if it is within your means to help out, then please do that as well...

I will be updating the US105 website often with pictures so that you can see what is going on with the Radiothon.

Thanks in advance for everything that everyone has done in the past that has gotten me to the point that I am. I hope that this goes well so that we can do amazing things to help these little kids that ask for nothing, but deserve the world.

More Pictures

More pictures from the visit... Such a beautiful pair of babies... I can't stop taking pictures of them...

Uncle Rowdy!

Well... For those that do not have direct contact with me there have been some amazing events in the last few days. Last friday I got an interesting TEXT from my brother, "The state just called, we pick up 2 day old TWINS tomorrow."

After I called my mother to verify that he wasn't just jacking with me I came to the realization that I would become an uncle within a 24 hour period. Here are the two blessings that my family recieved on August 9th.

Welcome Nicole and Nicholas to our family!

Sumo Tube

I do not know where my brother got this contraption, but I can only imagine some sort of deal with the devil. It sucks... Well, it sucks for me... Basically it is an aired up cone with holes for your arms and your head, that you drag mercilessly behind a boat and see how much lake water can be forced up your nose, into your eyes and your mouth.

This is me getting ready, taking deep breaths and preparing to skate across the top of the water at high speeds...

This is what actually happened... water in the face, mouth and eyes.

Once again getting ready to take off...

Once again water, face, eyes and stuff...

I still have hope, last try... I am dreading the sound of the boat taking off because...

Once again the end result is the same...

This is Alissa doing the sumo tube and why I hate it so much because as horribly as it works for me, it does the opposite for her...

I don't understand it... So graceful...

Alissa Heitz... Queen of the Sumo Tube...

June 5, 2009

Randy Rodgers Band was playing at Wild Country and we lined up a Meet and Greet to contest out for US105 and here are pictures of the line to get in, the band and the crowd right when they concert was about to start. I left and went and sat outside... Its slowly becoming evident that I am starting to dislike crowds...

May 24, 2009

Another thing that we have been doing at work is a promotion for our rock station called Eagle Eye Candy. Basically it is my job to find the hottest girls in the area and convince them to do a photo shoot with me, where I put the pictures on the Eagle website and they get a copy of the pictures. Easy sometimes and hard at others. This night I was at a club and we crowned the Miss Denim and Diamonds. It was 'interesting'... I was really there to just scope out women for the Eagle Eye Candy thing, cause in my mind if they were willing to get up on stage for a competition like that, then they would be willing to let me take some pictures...

I was somewhat focusing on the judging criteria. I didn't really want to do it but the Manager was a judge for my talent show so I had no chance to turn it down.

Probably focusing less than I should...

This was about the time I realized that Evan was KEEPING NOTES!

Later on after many many drinks had been consumed I saw a friend of mine dancing with another dude so I figured it should be photographed and added to my blog!

Eagle Eye Candy...

They had a dunking booth in the friggin bar... so I took pictures of the people falling in the water

I love her facial expression...

May 23, 2009

As I have been reminded a few TOO MANY times by my brother, I haven't updated this blog in a while, so I am going to put up some backdated postings separated by date at the top. Sorry for the delay y'all but we have been doing this campaign at the station and it has required about 60 plus hours a week and I haven't had the time to do too many extracurricular things. So here it is...


I took this picture at a concert, thought it turned out pretty cool...

This one as well... Since I have been doing this job I have been taking more and more pictures at events and am thinking about branching off and doing some more pictures professionally...

The guy on the left is the Program Director for US105 and the girl on the left is a friend of the station.

This was a butterfly that I saw on the back porch at work. Kinda cool cause it just came out of the cocoon... I'd never seen that before.