Nintendo Wii!?

What genius had a nueron misfire with the new name for the nintendo!? The Nintendo Wii?

Can you picture yourself, or your kids saying "Hey, you wanna come over and play with my Wii?". If I overheard my child (assuming I had one, of course) asking that of another of his friends (my hypothetical child is a boy) I would immediately put them in an intensive therapy program and cut them off from all Disney movies.

I can't even say, or even write it without a little piece of my manliness dying. One of my chest hairs just fell out spontaneously after writing that.

End of the Honeymoon

Right now we're in the airport in Knoxville, TN, having checked out of the berry springs lodge, returned the rental car and printed out our boarding passes for the two flights we have to board to get back to Shreveport.

We got to picnic in the great smokey mountain national park, drive to the North Carolina/Tennessee border, watch a sunrise from our balcony (10 minutes late), take a helicopter tour of part of gatlinburg, TN, and spend a lot of quality time together watching movies and snuggling up in the Berry Springs Lodge.

I've posted some of the pictures from the trip on my flickr account, though I plan to post another considerable amount of pictures from the last day and a half that didn't make it to that flickr account.

We had an amazing trip and are looking forward to getting back and starting our married life.

Lastly, Thanks to those who wished us well before or after the wedding, we appreciate your thoughts.

Today, I'm getting married.

Well, today's the big day. April 15th, 2006. It really snuck up on everyone involved in planning the wedding. It seemed so far away until recently when everyone went into scramble mode to get things done, and our schedules didn't make this last week any easier on us.

Monday we had a "farewell" dinner at Katie's mom's house, Tuesday a dinner with Billy & Emme to discuss vows, music and other general wedding items, Wednesday another "farewell" dinner for my brother and I both (since he bought a house and will be leaving in the same week as I will), and Thursday was the official run around like a mad man to get all the things done that should have been done a month ago but instead are being done two days before the wedding day, day.

Last night was a nice change in pace though. Most everything that was left to be done had been taken care of by yesterday, so we were able to relax a little more. We were able to have a nice, slow, low-stress rehearsal yesterday afternoon and managed to have a great rehearsal dinner at Macaroni grill. So, now all that's left to do is finish up with packing my things and make Katie and I official at 2.

I hope everything is going well with everyone else, and I hope today for Katie and I goes off without a... hitch... *nudge nudge*. Actually, I hope it does go off with a hitch, but enough of my corny jokes. I might make a few posts from the honeymoon spot in the Smokey Mountains, since we're supposed to have thunderstorms for three of the four days we'll be there (and on account of the killer bear). I'll put up some good pictures and may get time to talk about our wedding band fiasco.

Easter eggs! They smell great too!

Friday night, before all the moving events of latter half weekend splendor, Ann invited people over to her house for an egg dye-ing party. It sounded pretty darn girly, so I said "count me in!", put on my best pair of lacy, pink panties and went to dye some dern eggs with the ladies.

Here are Ann, Lindsay and myself enjoying the egginess.

A few of my first eggs didn't turn out so well... especially the first one, which was just a little face with the belt around it. He was an angry karate kid. If I would've given it a little more though, I would've designed a Mr. Miyagi to go along with him. Alas, my night was not so inspired.

I did come up with two eggs that I was proud of though, included here for your viewing pleasure along with Ann's great dinosaur egg     ...    egg.

I was at an egg dyeing party. The testosterone had to come out somewhere... and their chairs looked expensive.





I free-handed this one with some food coloring pens. Edvard Munch's Scream, if you don't recognize it.





Ann's incredible dinosaur egg with waxy, bumpy goodness. A dinosaur hatched in her kitchen some time this weekend. Ted, their black lab, promptly issued a code black gas attack, and the last dinosaur died... a tragedy for michael crichton fans everywhere.

It's almost wedding time.

In less than a week Katie and I will be married... and things are getting busy over here. Every night this week we've got something else going on either directly or indirectly related to the wedding. We've got "last" family dinners and vow preparation, our weekly bible studies on Thursday, then finally a rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding. We're booked up this week.

Knowing that going into the weekend we figured Saturday and Sunday would have to be reserved for moving my junk into Katie's apartment to cohabitate with her junk. Sure enough, bright and early Saturday morning the Katie machine came over and we both packed and transported most of the day. The only thing left at the house now are my clothes, my bed and my computer - two of which aren't essential.

Look at this packing job. Not an inch of space left. We spared no crannies (crannies sounds suspiciously like grannies *snicker*) and had to special order nook sized objects to fill remaining nooks... and got all my movable possessions gone in a truck load and a car load.

By the way, yes, that's a bench with a hole in it on the left there. That's what's known as a "massage table" for giving "massages". Chris (Katie's uncle) and I picked that up in New Orleans off the curb of a chiropractic office that had severe flood damage... but I digress.

This afternoon we got around to unpacking the remaining items that were boxed up at her apartment, set up my shelves over there and re-placed all her computer paraphernalia on newly rebuilt shelves. That's pretty much been the story of the weekend... however, we did manage to get out and start looking at a few houses in bossier city. I doubt that we'll get anything until after November at the earliest, though, since we've decided that Katie will go back to school for two more quarters.

I'm looking forward to this week, and the wedding... and especially the subsequent honeymoon time. It should be great. Hopefully I can get back into the habit of posting once all of our stuff is in the same place and I'm not constantly shuttling back and forth between home and Katie's place.