My Wife, The Country Music Sensation...?

Did you know that my wife is a country music hit? Here's a short clip of her new hit single. Inspired by the Christmas hit, "Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer", here's Erin singing "My Wife Ran Off With The Marlboro Man". Instant classic!

Christmas at the Slays'!

Well, Merry Christmas a day late! My wife and I had such a wonderful day together yesterday, and I would love to share a little about it!

Can I first just say how blessed we are? Erin and I are so grateful that we are healthy (well, mostly in Erin's case), able to live in a wonderful place, work for a wonderful company, and have loving friends and family. We are grateful that the Lord has blessed and given so much to such selfish and undeserving people. It baffles me sometimes, and I am also grateful that the Lord's greatness is well beyond my human comprehension.

With that being said, Erin and I were blessed enough to give and receive some wonderful gifts for Christmas this year. We spent Christmas morning at home with just the two of us. It was lovely. We woke up at around 7am. I have to admit, I was more the antsy one. I wanted to open gifts right away, and Erin was the one who was like, "hey, make some coffee first, we have all morning". And she was right.

Here are some of the awesome gifts that I received: Erin got a killer deal on a laptop, which I showed you in my last post. LOVE this thing. It's totally awesome. She also got me 3 great t-shirts! I was totally in need of new t-shirts, because my old cool ones all had holes in them. I got a Goonies shirt, a Star Wars shirt, and a Green Eggs and Ham shirt. She also got me seasons 6,7, and 8 of Seinfeld. A new wallet because I was in desperate need of a new one. I've had the same wallet since high school, and it was literally falling apart. She got me some Nautica cologne. It smells really nice. And I also got some really fun stocking stuffers, like a balloon helicopter, a yo-yo, some candy, some cofee, and a slinky!

Also....

I have killer in-laws!! My parents-in-law got me the drill and bit set. Funny story: I opened the bit set first not knowing any better... And I was like... oh... cool... that's a nice set. Not knowing that the actual drill got mixed in to Erin's presents. HAHA. Needless to say, I was super grateful because I've been wanting one for a while!! And my bro in law Brian, and his fiance June got me the beer kit!! I think I'm going to tear into that puppy next weekend. It's gonna be aweome.

 One of the funniest gifts is what my Mom, Em, and Robbie got us. Pictured to your right is "The Night Before Christmas". Not exactly the "funniest" book ever written. BUT, the cool thing about this version is the recorded commentary from my Mom, sis and step-dad. It's a book that you can record your voice for each page! And we always used to read this book Christmas Eve before bedtime. Well, a couple of years ago, Em and I were both at Mom's on Christmas Eve, and let's just say that Mommy got her money's worth that night. We desecrated this book with our "humorous observations" of said story. So, basically Mom, and Em tried to re-create that, and send it as a Christmas gift. I nearly threw up from laughter. :)

I got Erin a Kindle for Christmas! She loves it, and she's hardly stopped reading it since. I also got her a whole bunch of other things which I'm sure she'll tell you about on her blog.

Needless to say, it was a fun Christmas! I loved just hanging with my wife on Christmas day. It was nice and chill.



The end. :)

New Blog Title, New Meaning

Well everyone (and by everyone, I mean all 6 of you), it's been over 6 months since my last post. What can I say? My last post was just so.... um.... deep... that I couldn't figure out anything to top it?? Or, I just got bored and busy, and didn't care to write anything else. Plus, I didn't really like blogging on my fiance'/wife's laptop... so, being that she's such a sweet, awesome chick, she hooked a husband up with THIS:

MERRY CHRISTMAS ME!!!!!!!!!!!! Wife totally hooked it up! So, I with the wonderful gift that I have now received, it should make it a little easier to blog and keep up with the world! I'm not gonna lie.... it's a pretty sexy laptop. :)

So, on a completely different note, you're probably wondering why I changed my blog name, and address. Well, there's a couple of reasons actually:

1 - ramlingsofarandomrambler was really long, and confusing, which is probably the main reason that not many people followed my blog. Heck, I forgot the name of it sometimes, and had to go look it up in my browser history.

2 - It was time for a change in general. I really wanted to give my blog a newer, more "grown up" look. So, naturally, when someone wants to make a change, the wise thing to do is solicit the help of an expert. I just so happen to be fortunate enough to live with a blogging legend/blog layout expert. Seriously, she's the bomb at blogs, so she helped me with the new look. And by help, I mean I told her a general idea of what I wanted, and she created the awesomeness that is now my new blog! Yay

 3 - final winter has meaning. My new blog name is a reference to my first real live rock band that I played in right out of high school. We were called final winter, and we were what you would refer to as a Christian rock band who thought we were going to change the world. But, we were all like 19/20 and sucked really bad. But we had TONS of fun. The name final winter signified an attitude that we wanted to project as a band, and people in general. Winter is symbolic of cold, dreary, dark, and in some parts gloomy. But winter also is the prequel to a new beginning. It's symbolic of a new life in Christ. As new believers, we are in a spring time, and we've lived our final cold/dreary winter. We are a new creation, like fresh buds on a tree. It's new, and fresh.

We had a good time. I played rock music with 2 of my best friends in the whole world Who wouldn't love that? We didn't care how off key we were, how loud we were... We just played music we loved in a cold garage in the middle of the woods. To this day, I still wish I could go back sometimes and just hang out in that time. But, that's all part of growing up. We all moved on, got married, and lead our own lives. Still best friends, just live far away from each other.

But, we'll always have the Roxy....