UACL stands for University Avenue City Limits. This is a banquet that our church family (University Ave church) held tonight. It was just a fun event and a few members were asked to perform and show off their musical abilities. Matt was one of them! :) He did a really good job and everyone really loved it. I think he surprised a few people. :) One woman said, "Matt Porter... that is a good name for a white guy with soul!" Hahaha! I'm not sure exactly what that means, but Matt liked it. ;-) I had plans to tape him AT the event, but we had some people around us who were pretty loud and I know the video wouldn't have turned out. I convinced him to let me record him doing ONE of the songs when we got back home tonight. (Don't worry... I'll work on the others later!) He sang I Don't Need No Doctor by Ray Charles, Superstition by Stevie Wonder and played Misty on his trombone.
This video is him singing Superstition...
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Ginny's Pokes
Ginny does this really annoying thing where she will come up to you and poke you with her nose. She will do it over and over sometimes and she doesn't always just TOUCH you with her nose... she will really poke you hard sometimes! It drives us absolutely crazy. Yesterday I got online and typed in "why does my dog poke me all the time" and one of the first things that came up was a message board titled "My Catahoula pokes me all the time - anyone else have that problem with Catahoulas?" I opened it up and it had tons of people commenting that their Catahoulas do the same thing. I couldn't help but laugh! I guess it is something with that breed. That doesn't make it any less annoying though. :)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Matt
Matt has actually posted a few things on his blog lately! I'm impressed! ;-) Check it out!
http://charis-humin.blogspot.com/
http://charis-humin.blogspot.com/
Monday, February 21, 2011
Ginny's Class
Well we survived Ginny's first day of school.... ;-)
She was such a mess. She NEVER barks in our apartment but she barked nearly the entire time in class because she wanted to get over to the other dogs in class. At one point the teacher looked at us and said, "Umm... can you do something to calm her down?" *sigh* We went over the basics like sit, down, stay and she did all of them perfectly. We learned a couple of new things and she picked them up almost immediately. The teacher told us, "She is really smart!" Well.... we know, but she is also stubborn, hyper and easily distracted! The teacher told us that she should learn how to "focus" in this class and that she still thinks the class will benefit us. Let's hope so!
One week down.... five more to go. :)
She was such a mess. She NEVER barks in our apartment but she barked nearly the entire time in class because she wanted to get over to the other dogs in class. At one point the teacher looked at us and said, "Umm... can you do something to calm her down?" *sigh* We went over the basics like sit, down, stay and she did all of them perfectly. We learned a couple of new things and she picked them up almost immediately. The teacher told us, "She is really smart!" Well.... we know, but she is also stubborn, hyper and easily distracted! The teacher told us that she should learn how to "focus" in this class and that she still thinks the class will benefit us. Let's hope so!
One week down.... five more to go. :)
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Ginny's First Day of School
Ginny starts school today! Matt and I are excited AND nervous about it! She is so sweet, but she gets so distracted and excited around other dogs. We're really hoping being in this class with other dogs will help.
(as you'll see at the end of this video, one of the "bad habits" she has developed is jumping on people... she is WAY too big to be doing that!!)
(as you'll see at the end of this video, one of the "bad habits" she has developed is jumping on people... she is WAY too big to be doing that!!)
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
What's Going On?
I know I haven't posted much lately! I'll update you all on a few things going on around here!
First of all, I am so excited about having a new niece AND a new nephew in the next several months! Matt and I have three pictures up in our hallway... one of Elijah, one of Judah and one of Jonathan (who is turning 1 in a couple of weeks!) We were just saying that we're going to have to buy some more frames! :)
In other news, Ginny starts school on Saturday! She is such a sweet dog and so smart... but she has developed some bad habits lately! We are hopeful that the class will do her some good. Her main thing is that she is SO easily distracted, especially around other dogs. She is SO playful and wants to play with every dog she sees and she gets so hyper that it is sometimes hard to control her. So anyway, she starts school on Saturday and will go for 6 weeks.
Matt and I have the opportunity to do some cool stuff with a couple of students at UT coming up. We met a guy who just started at UT this semester and he sought us out at church one night looking for some people to keep him accountable. We had him over for dinner and he is a very sweet, intellegent, Christian man. Matt and I are going to start going downtown near UT's campus (and near our church's building) and doing some kind of study with him once a week. When we first mentioned that idea he got really excited and asked if he could bring some friends. These are guys who face (or will face) a lot of temptations being in the situations they are in, so hopefully Matt and I can make a difference. Be praying for this!
Remember that wreck we were in almost 10 months ago? Well we are getting close to being COMPLETELY done dealing with the insurance company about all of that. It has really been a pain in the butt (and the foot!) and we'll be happy to be done with it. Hopefully that will all be resolved in the next couple of days.
We have an event coming up at church that Matt is going to be playing and singing at. He is doing some awesome songs and I've already convinced him to let me record them to share with everyone. ;-) The event is next weekend so be on the lookout for some videos in the next week or two!
Well there is a quick "catch up" for you! I'll try to get pictures of Ginny's first day of school and Matt's videos up soon.
First of all, I am so excited about having a new niece AND a new nephew in the next several months! Matt and I have three pictures up in our hallway... one of Elijah, one of Judah and one of Jonathan (who is turning 1 in a couple of weeks!) We were just saying that we're going to have to buy some more frames! :)
In other news, Ginny starts school on Saturday! She is such a sweet dog and so smart... but she has developed some bad habits lately! We are hopeful that the class will do her some good. Her main thing is that she is SO easily distracted, especially around other dogs. She is SO playful and wants to play with every dog she sees and she gets so hyper that it is sometimes hard to control her. So anyway, she starts school on Saturday and will go for 6 weeks.
Matt and I have the opportunity to do some cool stuff with a couple of students at UT coming up. We met a guy who just started at UT this semester and he sought us out at church one night looking for some people to keep him accountable. We had him over for dinner and he is a very sweet, intellegent, Christian man. Matt and I are going to start going downtown near UT's campus (and near our church's building) and doing some kind of study with him once a week. When we first mentioned that idea he got really excited and asked if he could bring some friends. These are guys who face (or will face) a lot of temptations being in the situations they are in, so hopefully Matt and I can make a difference. Be praying for this!
Remember that wreck we were in almost 10 months ago? Well we are getting close to being COMPLETELY done dealing with the insurance company about all of that. It has really been a pain in the butt (and the foot!) and we'll be happy to be done with it. Hopefully that will all be resolved in the next couple of days.
We have an event coming up at church that Matt is going to be playing and singing at. He is doing some awesome songs and I've already convinced him to let me record them to share with everyone. ;-) The event is next weekend so be on the lookout for some videos in the next week or two!
Well there is a quick "catch up" for you! I'll try to get pictures of Ginny's first day of school and Matt's videos up soon.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Michael Young - Rangers
This is too funny... and kind of sad and cute. :) Michael Young has requested a trade from the Rangers and that has been the big news lately. Watch this reaction from a 3 year old...
Friday, February 4, 2011
Snow!
We have heard from everyone in north Texas about all the snow they've been having, but we didn't get any until last night/this morning! We didn't get a lot of snow, but it was enough to go play in. :) We weren't sure how Ginny would react, but she loved it! Our camera battery died after just a couple of pictures so most of these are from our phones... enjoy! :)
It wasn't really snowing when we were out there... :) I just enjoyed throwing handfulls of snow in the air!
She didn't want to sit still! She wanted to check everything out!
She started running in circles as fast as she could! It was hilarious... she was having a blast!
Matt got a quick video of her playing...
This was not long after we got back... she wore herself out!
It wasn't really snowing when we were out there... :) I just enjoyed throwing handfulls of snow in the air!
She didn't want to sit still! She wanted to check everything out!
She started running in circles as fast as she could! It was hilarious... she was having a blast!
Matt got a quick video of her playing...
This was not long after we got back... she wore herself out!
I think we are done with the snow, but they expect some of it to melt today, then to freeze tonight. So it sounds like we'll have lots of ice tomorrow. :-/
Stay warm everyone! :)
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