New Changes (see below)

New changes have occurred at the ChalkBoard. Scroll down to the first post below for an explanation.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Or the more politcally correct "Happy Holidays" :-).

As Holly and I continue on our "Holiday Tour de Family '05", we would like to show everyone one last look at our Christmas Tree with all of the presents tucked neatly underneath. After the pictures were taken, the presents were sorted, placed into bags, and sat outside for "Santa" (Jason) to "load into his sleigh" (his Taurus). Hopefully his faithful lead reindeer Rudolph (Holly) can help guide Santa to all of the many destinations that we have this Holiday season.

Merry Christmas (Happy Holidays) everyone!
--Jason and Holly

Look at Jasy in the Penguin suit !!!!

Jason and Holly got all dolled up for the Accenture Christmas party! Jason and all of the Accenturites dressed up like James Bond for the company Casino night! (By the way, Holly won more fake $ than Jas at Blackjack) But Jason won a large sum of fake money for dancing the YMCA for his co-workers :) All in all, it was a pretty fun night.

Jason and Holly dressed up for the Accenture party

We have a winner!!!

FIRST PRIZE!!!

My favorite sister-in-law, Jill Wagoner, is the first person to comment on our web entries. Kudos to Jill!

It's pretty easy to add comments, you just have to sign up for an account from Blogger. It's free, and is their way of registering who is making comments on blogs. It also keeps advertisers from coming on here and creating unneccesary spam. It should also not be risky for you to sign up either... the blogger software is controlled by Google and shouldn't fill up your mailbox with spam.

So comment away, and soon you too might see your name on the ChalkBoard!

Guess who's next?!?!?!?! Congratulations to Patrick & Amanda on their engagement. We are all looking forward to the big day on November 4th!

Decorating our Christmas Tree

Yes, it may be a tad bit early, but Holly was very excited about setting up our first ever Christmas Tree. We bought all of our decorations last year the day after Christmas, so they've been waiting in their boxes until today!!!

The infamous gingerbread man!

Our First Christmas ornament

The finished product

Holly making a few last touches.

Halloween Pictures

We decided to test how scary our jack-o-lanterns are on Sunny... he looks petrified.They are even scarier with the lights out.

The New Chalkboard

Welcome, everyone, to the New Chalkboard.

If you've been wondering where updates to my website have been lately, it's due to the fact that I felt that the technology of my previous website was starting to pass me by. Every time I had to update the old website, I had to do so by manually entering in the HTML code underneath of the page. Needless to say, that became quite burdensome and hard to do as the content of my site has grown over the years.

So, in keeping with the times, I have finally created a "Blog". For those not "in the know" (believe me that I wasn't completely until a few weeks ago), a "Blog" is a website that is much easier to update. It's kept in a journal-style format and is much easier to update. With a few clicks of a mouse, I can publish anything I want to my website, anywhere in the world. A few more clicks of the mouse and I can easily add pictures to my website, like the one above.

Also, dear reader, my past posts will be easily archivable and searchable, using the power that is Google, these things are not only possible, but actually pretty easy.

As I continue playing with this new format, the page itself will continue to change. However I hope to eventually get to a point that the page will stay the same, but the content itself will be able to be easily (and thus more frequently) updated by myself and hopefully Holly as well. Comments are welcome on the new format, but stay tuned to see what will happen in the coming weeks!

Also, you can always access the old chalkboard at its new location: http://oldchalkboard.dyndns.org.