Happy, Happy Dog

I'm a Happy, Happy Dog. Happy Dog. I'm a Happy Happy Dog, Happy dog dog dog dog.

Anyway, we just needed a new post.

So, Pete and I took our 'Life In The UK' test today and both passed. This means that in a year, we take the 'Citizenship' test and we will carry both passports, British and US. It also means Hayle can live and work here throughout her life if she chooses and all that comes with that.

Kathy, I am so sorry about your tooth. I assume you are not going to work until it's fixed? What I would do, is take pictures of your face while it is missing. I know right now it may not sounds like fun, but think of the laughs when it's all fixed! You can't repeat it. I would SO do it! Even if you don't share them with all of us (a crime!) you can laugh at it.

Mom, I sent your bday card and 2 days later had to go to the post office to mail bridgets because I used my last stamp on yours..and the lady told me it would be £1.35 (I only put .91 on yours) and they were the same size. I hope you get it......

Happy New Year!!

Even though we were a really small group, we had a really good time!!! Did you all stay up til midnight? Or did you go to bed early? what'd you do? We made it, but went immediately to bed afterwords. We had the most delish spaghetti and meatballs, and the next day a ginormous prime rib! YUM!! It was all about the food!! Right now, I'm anxiously waiting for the kennel to open to go pick up my scrumptious doggies!!!!!! Hayle has been going crazy to see them! Ok, I'm gonna head over, they open in 20 minutes!

Anyone else want some?????

Where are you for the holidays?

Has everyone already left for the holidays? Where is everyone? Hope you all have a Merry Christmas1

Say a little prayer for her....

I have only met this sweet little girl one time, through my friend Margie, but she touched my heart in a matter of minutes. She is the strongest little girl, with a smile and personality that glows. A few months ago, you would have never guessed that she is battling brain cancer for the 3rd time. She is only 3 years old. She just recently was admitted the hospital and has since fell into a coma. Please keep Cali and her family in your prayers.

Jimmy and Kathy at Centennial Park

We went to Atlanta yesterday to show Jimmy around and had a great time.

Share your Plans!

What is everyone doing for the Holidays this year? Inquiring minds want to know!

Dad's Cross in Dahlonega

For those who don't know it, Kathy bought a cross for Dad up in Dahlonega and every Memorial Day, Veteran Day, 4th of July they place the cross out on the roads through and around the city. Here's Dad's this year.

Prayers needed

Hey guys,

Stephen's dad is in the hospital. They think he may have had a stroke. We'll know more soon. But in the meantime, please pray for him and the whole Hayes family.

Thanks.
Melissa

Halloween 09

Anyone interested in booking a room on our next cruise?? We booked a 7 day out of Ft. Laud. the week after Easter (April 10) on the biggest ship on the planet, Royal Caribbean Oasis of the seas. It's maiden voyage is Dec 1st. It holds 6,000 people!!!! Go to vacationstogo.com and look it up, if you call, use our guy. Come on, it would be a BLAST!!!

Prayer Request

I am asking everyone to prayer for John's brother's daughter. She is the one that was born with health problems and apparently she has swine flu and they are not sure if she will make it. Her name is Britney Lesh.

Thanks

MY DAUGHTER THE CARTOON

Here is Melissa--the Maid--aka Melissa Hayes. If you would like to see a preview of the cartoon that is to come out in January--fromMelissa: Here is a link to some of the clips from the first episode. I recommend that everyone watch the clip "Two things Never To Bring Home"
http://vod.fxnetworks.com/fod/play.php?sh=archer

fresh blood

The Dean theme song....real video being produced in the coming days

A student wrote this song for rob....he thought rob should have a theme song

the dean song from John Biasotti on Vimeo.

This ugly spider received 3rd place in the Sweetwater Camera Club competition. It is a banana spider and if you want to see how nasty they are click on the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqeBtrpk3EA

Time for Some Change

Ever since John made the Farmer's Table for Christy's wedding I have wanted to use it in my Dining Room. With a Red Dining Room and a Blue table that didn't work so I painted. Here it is . . . If you forgot what it looked like here is a before

St Thomas on ESPN

St. Thomas will be playing live on ESPN tomorrow in Ohio. The game is on at noon, but I have attached the ESPN schedule anyway. They play on ESPNU here st STA in October too. Just click on the title post and it will take you to ESPN...scroll down for the schedule.

Slideshow

We got our wedding slideshow. It is PERFECT....enjoy!!!

Geiger Wedding

Oh yeah, and if you like any enough to get em....go to this link:

GO ORDER PRINTS

Disney Paris

Well, we needed another post change.  So Disney was SOO much fun!!  Is anyone thinking of coming over here in the next year??  I've been to more places this year and would love to show you around!!  Shakespeare's birthplace, Disneyland Paris, our town center is opening a massive new shopping mall in October, of course London, we have Oakwood theme park one hour away, Cornwall a beach town in England.  So Disney was really, really cool.  It's smaller but the cool part is we walked from our hotel to both parks and 'Disney Village' which is like Downtown Disney.  So you walk everywhere, easily.  And the parks are the same, but different.  And it really makes you want to learn another language!! I'm going to look into that again.  One more time on Italian.  But Pete said he'd try it with me, so it would make it easier to practice.  So, in the picture, Hayle is pulling Pluto's tail.  In our hotel room, we went to a VIP lounge for breakfast every morning, literally across the hall from our room, and character would join us.  

Me in 2-D

So just an interesting FYI...

A friend of mine is an art director. He has been involved in some Cartoon Network cartoons like Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo. Anyway, he just started work on a new show, and asked me to come in and have my face drawn for a character!

So I will be famous soon enough. Expect that I stop calling/blogging/caring about you all soon.

Here's a link to what the show's about. I'm not sure there's an official title yet, but it might be "Duchess" or "Archer"

No telling when it airs. I know my character is going to be poisoned. I had to have my picture taken making gagging faces and pretending to throw up in my mouth. He said that they'll probably use my face for other stuff to. I basically signed away the rights to my likeness so I don't have one anymore. And it may not look like me when it airs (he mentioned I could be blonde with warts). BUT for some reason, I'm still flattered. I should have my 2-D image tomorrow to show you all. Fun.

Hayle

Ok, Hayle is really growing up!!  You all know she started babysitting, opened a bank account, carries a debit card to access her bank account and makes her deposits, checks her balance and transfers money from savings and the debit part.  Well NOW, she was dying to spend money today!  She transferred money from savings so she could spend some.  We stopped at a local spa, and she had her eyebrows waxed!!  Really, it was a little 'tidy up'.  Not much taken off, but she was so cute!  Then we walked over to the Aveda salon, where she discussed some options and made an appointment for Monday for some highlights.  On to the drug store where she picked up some make up items.  She left feeling 'very pretty'.  Just what a girl needs!!  Yeah Day!

What was the best part of your weekend??

Ok, I wish everyone would post more!  I miss you all, and want to hear more about your lives!!  So, just for fun, tell me what was the best part of your weekend, or of yesterday??

For me, it was the unexpected walk to the pier, stopping for a beer/wine and enjoying the sunshine!  It's so rare here.  Then Pete made me a most delicious sandwaich for dinner, yummy!

Kilroy & Maw

Not sure how many of you know that I've started a little endeavor with a friend of mine, Sarah Watts. She's an amazing illustrator who shares with me a love of gig poster artwork. So we've started contacting bands and making posters. We collaborate on design, she illustrates, and then I've been screenprinting them. So far we've been doing really well, and I just wanted to share with the fam some of our work. You might not know the bands (mostly indie names), but the artwork is pretty regardless.

The name of our business is Kilroy & Maw. Kilroy is a reference to grandpa. Remember how he used to always leave notes all over that said, "Kilroy was here" ? Granted, it's a saying that has history and pop culture reference (this wiki article about it was interesting to me and added a bit more meaning). Maw is a reference to Sarah's grandma.

We've only done 3 posters so far, but we have more in the works. Pretty soon we will have a website up (thank you Christy!), but in the meantime here is our etsy site:
www.kilroyandmaw.etsy.com

Thanks for checking us out!

Prayers Needed

Jada's uncle passed in his sleep last night. It was her dad's brother. Please keep her and her family in your prayers.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GERRY!

Look at BJ's face!  It makes me laugh!  I went to get the dogs out of the dog pen area, and one of the dogs had dug  hole, rocks and dirt flung everywhere.  I was easy to see which dog it was, look at the dirt on his face!!!

Love is in the air!!!!

Congratulations to Carl & Gabby
Looks like we will be squeezing in one more wedding this year.

A Movie for the 4th of July Girl

This is Christy posting from my mom's account because I am not a contributor.

This is a short film about a couple returning home from vacation to find some strangers living in their home. When they call the police it seems something even spookier has happened nobody sees or hears the couple.

Background: Dedicated to Brittany our little 4th of July Baby. This piece started as a Twilight Zone scary movie, but quickly turned comical as we attempted to shoot this without editing. Toward the end you will notice some very good "special effects" as we attempt the final scene. Also, note that Neil's girlfriend, Vanessa, was an awesome sport she was in the house for about 5 seconds when she was informed she was in our movie and playing the character of Eddie's Fiance.



Cast in order of appearance:
Husband: Leeman
Wife: Christy
(In the house)
shelley
Carisa
Andrea
Eddie
and Vanessa as Butter Bean
Police Officer 1: Eric
Police Officer 2: Neil


Remember No Editing Here!

Coming Home from leeman on Vimeo.

Peachtree Road Race 10K

Charlie ran the 40th Annual Peachtree Road Race with 55,000 other runners today and finished in under an hour.

We are so proud of you.

Happy 4th of July to everyone.

Dance off

I got you babe

The Geigers

Our photographer posted a sneak peek on her blog from our wedding! Here is our one and only professional wedding pic so far :)

Thank you a billion & one times for all the traveling you did to make it to our wedding events this weekend. It was the best weekend of my entire life and I am so thankful for all of the time we had with family and friends!

Love you all! We're off to Jamaica :)

http://www.sweetlifephoto.com/blog/

One More Party!

The Good Looking Couple, The Good Looking Couple and the Good Looking Couple.

What fun we had!!

OMG

oh, we're having fun now!!

Happy Anniversary

Bridget is Drinking Herself Pretty!

You're Invited

Here's Joey and his date for the Prom

This is New and Exciting!

Look at our new toilet seat. We are ready for the grandchildren, hint, hint. We won't need a separate potty chair.

Pleeeeeeeze!

So Hayle and I walked into town with the dogs.  We stopped at the stationary guyw ho always gives the dogs treats.  Here's Buffett BEGGING him!!  Then just a picture walking.

Confirmation

Hayle made her confirmation and chose the name Beatrice, which means Happiness.  Isn't she sweet!!

Why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34EuTf5a01s

i dont know how to get the video to appear on the blog??

RSVP's

Thank all of you that have sent in your RSVP's. For the few of you we have not heard from, please send them back as soon as possible.

Melissa you need to check with the post office because we did send you an invitation to the shower and also the wedding. Are you guys getting any mail?

Liz's daughter newspaper article

http://www.jdch.com/jdchexperience/rachel.aspx

above is a link to the article that appeared in the newspaper about Liz & Rachel, it's pretty cool!

Charlie Graduates with Master's

Charlie graduated Saturday with his Masters in Higher Education Administration & Policy Studies from the University of Central Florida.

Congratulations Charlie ;o}

Gerry & Jada's Wedding Hotel Information

We have a block of rooms at the brand new Sleep Inn & Suites in Hiram, GA
They have only been opened a few weeks and is right in between us and Jada's parents (the wedding location).
There are 2 Suites with a king bed and pull out couch @ $89 a night & 5 king rooms @$74.99 a night blocked off for the Braun/Hutcheson Wedding. Reservations will need to be made by June 5th to get those rates. All of their rooms with 2 queen beds are blocked off for other groups but there is a possibility that on May 29th you could get one of those rooms. It would be best to make your reservation as soon as possible and let them know your preference and call back after May 29th to check availability on the those rooms. I hope that is not to confusing. Let me know if you are getting a room so I know if I will need to block off any more rooms. If you click on the title of this post it will take you the hotel's website for more information, but you will need to call in your reservation to get the Braun/Hutcheson Wedding rate.
Can't wait to see everyone and party.

Jen + Adam

We just got our engagement slideshow back! Enjoy :)

Click here!

Honey Do Shower

We had Gerry and Jada's "Honey-Do" Shower today and I think everyone had a good time. Gerry wanted to know if instructions came with everything. He did get a book with pictures on "How to fix things around the house". We all need to say some prayers for this boy.

LeClair Wedding

Do you have shiny eyelids?

Well, as a Braun, I do. But I found a makeup that has kept the shinyness at bay all day! My lids actually look good. Does anyone need the secret product?