My wife's sister Kristy, her husband Brian, and their two children stayed with us this past weekend. Kristy and Brian are professional dance instructors, and they stopped to visit with us as they were traveling through Califorina ( Read more... )

My children and I were sitting on family room floor this afternoon when the house started mildly shaking ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I opened our garage door to send the boys off to school on their bikes, and I realized immediately that our mini van was gone. Just gone ( Read more... )

Holy cow.I bought the original Mass Effect a couple of weeks ago on the PC, after reading the reviews of both the 360 and the PC version. I'm honestly glad I did now, because I would likely have driven myself insane trying to aim properly with an analog controller instead of a mouse. (Just a personal thing, mind you--this is not a dig against ( Read more... )

...our company went over to a place called 'Brew Bakers', which is a little Beer Brewery here in Orange County. Now, I've never had a drop of beer (or any alcohol for that matter) in my life, but this was a celebration of our recently completed project, "Fat Princess Fistful of Cake ( Read more... )

Whew... don't get me wrong, I absolutely *love* working as a game developer. But sometimes the work schedule is really harsh, especially around deadlines ( Read more... )

The other day, Nathan (the 5-year-old) was dancing and spinning around in the family room while I was making dinner. He must've gotten dizzy or wasn't watching where he was going, because I heard a loud thump, followed by my wife's urgent voice calling me into the room. I knew at first sight that Nathan had hit himself in the mouth somewhere, ( Read more... )

I *finally* got to see the movie 'Avatar' for the first time last night. Our friends in the neighborhood offered to take our four boys while Kimberly and I went over to the IMAX 3D theater to watch the movie ( Read more... )

During the convention last month, my roommates and I played a two-hour session of The New Super Mario Bros. Wii. For all of you who loved the original Super Mario Bros (waaaaayyyy back in the 8-bit nintendo days), this game brings back all of the original magic, with simultaneous four-player action. Needless to say, it was crazy fun, and with so ( Read more... )

Here is Carter Wilson during his first couple of hours of life:


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