Cuteness that made Momma cry

 All ready for her arctic expedition!

Smiling for Mommy

Cousins!

Yesterday Penelope came to visit her cousins for the 1st time. Though she was excited the girls? not so much!

Firefly Bad Company (Review)

This one-shot comic came out over a month ago and I forgot to review it until now. It goes into a possible background of Saphron from the TV series.

Though not terrible it's only a one-shot and there's not much that they do with it but tie it in to the ongoing series in a very lose way. The comics have never been that good and are basically middle-of-the-road.

To be honest, this fits in the same category as all the others before it. If it weren't for 2 excellent novels, I'd say Firefly's Expanded Universe was in bad shape but so far it's been ok.

My Girls: Living the dream, to dream.

Most influential Reviewers

I look at a lot of YouTube videos daily searching for new board games to try out. Here are the Top 5 reviewer of whom have convinced me to buy the most!

Rhado Runs Through

Nearly 40% of the games I own are because of this man. I love his play through and reviews. Simply the best!

The Dice Tower

No surprise here. I don't think there's anyone in the gaming community who hasn't been influenced by them to get games. About 15% of my collection comes from watching their videos.

 

Game Boy Geek

Dan's reviews are thorough and very easy to catch on. Here's pulled up right even with the entire Dice Tower staff as he also claims 15% referrals on my collection.

Glover

Though they don't make reviews anymore, the "Glover" videos STILL convince me to buy games all the time. I miss these reviews. I wish they'd come back. They were done SO well! 7% of my collection comes from the white glove!

 Bower's Game Corner

I love Bower mainly for his character and the questions he gives at the end of each review. Yet the man has been responsible for 5% of the games in my collection. He's a really nice guy too! I've met him several times at conventions in the past.

 Board Game Museum

I've told Norm this but he also has a big impact on my collection. 5% of the games I own are because of the only man making vintage reviews on YouTube besides myself and the Retro Board Gamer (who only makes one a month)

So who makes up the remaining 13%? It's a bunch of other reviewers I'll list briefly here:

Board to Death - 2%
Watch it Played - 2%
Jeremy Reviews It - 2%
Down from the Attic - 2%
Misc/On my Own - 5%

Donkey Kong Card Game (Rules)

May Movie Preview

Ok....I'm ready..

Didn't know about this. Just watched the trailer....yeah, I'm interested. It can't be any worse than the Lord of the Rings trilogy....right?

Ryan Reynolds is in it!!!!

Yep, and if he wasn't we wouldn't be talking about this crappy movie. PASS!

Have you SEEN the previews for this movie?! They look awful! I loved the cartoon but I'm with the public on this one and have no interest in seeing it.

Megan said she's not interested, which means I don't have to watch it, which means I'm happy to watch it on Redbox....with a free coupon....and free time to do something else while it plays in the background.

JOHN. WICK. 3.

Oh yes...I will be seeing this one. To be honest, this is in the running for best movie of the year for me because I loved the first movies so much. Really hope this final one is the best of the all!

Dr Visit

 The girls went to see the doctor today. This was their feelings about it for the entire morning! Seriously. WHY does it take 2 1/2 hours to get their first check up? My girls we poked, prodded and then once we'd gotten in the car, asked to come back for MORE tests!!

Ridiculous.

Thankfully they got to be treated by a number of guest, one of those was their cousin Regis who was extremely happy to see them.

Worst Christmas Ever

One year I was sick for the holiday. I felt awful. We showed up at my parents house that morning and opened gifts. Then I went back home to sleep, came back for dinner, then went right back to bed. No one should be sick on Christmas Day. It ALWAYS sucks!

And that's it folks! Hope you had fun this month as I counted down my best and worst holidays of the seasons!

Have a good one!

Twin Story 3

Here are my girls leaving from the hospital on Saturday. They look like cabana girls. But Megan loved it.

I won't lie, it's awesome having them home. Feels great to have a fuller house than when we left.

Twin Story 2

These girls LOVE their Momma. Let me tell you.

No matter how hard they're crying, Momma can always calm them down. And it's instant each time.

I'd be lying if I said the Mrs didn't love it. It's one of her favorite things about the girls....and she has over a million things and counting about what she loves about them.

Twin story

 So now that I'm a Dad I have to talk about my baby girls. At the hospital this week I placed them next to each other....

...and within a minute they were like this.

Like putting my heart in a microwave. Melts.

Best Christmas Ever!

Oh man, this is an up and comer for "favorite" holiday for me. The past two years I've REALLY enjoyed the holiday putting it right behind Thanksgiving Day as my 2nd favorite.

But I think I know which one I loved the most. 1986. We were kids and Dad bought us each an entire box of baseball cards. So get this, instead of opening up a couple of presents that year, we got to open an additional 36 packs of cards!

It was amazing. We sat there, trying to build sets out of them (and got pretty close out of 3 boxes for 3 sets!) I remember a few years back we re-created the experience again, using old baseball card boxes from 1987. It was a blast but can't beat being a kid and having your eyes go wide when you're looking at a Dwight Gooden or Dale Murphy in your hand.

What a Christmas!

TWINS!

Hi world. Meet my two little girls Meridian and Piper!

Mom's doing fine. : )

Worst Thanksgiving Day Ever

There is no such thing as a bad Thanksgiving Day

Last day before becoming a parent

In less than 24 hours I'll be a parent. It's a lot to take in. Of course I have the doubts that a lot of new parents have I'm sure. Will I be a good Dad? How do I handle "X" situation when it comes along?

But the most important thing to keep in mind is to enjoy the moment as it is and as they come.

I'm super excited to meet my girls. I love them even though I haven't met them yet. Maybe I'm a parent already.

Here's to the next level in life, I'm sure it's going to be the best!

Best Thanksgivng Day Ever!

This is a hard one for me since I love this holiday so much and it's hard to choose which one was my favorite but I'm going to go for it here and say it was back in the day when we were all at Mom and Dad's house for the holiday (I think only 2 brothers were married back then) and we sat around the table (8 of us) and played the most incredible game of Nerts I've ever experienced.

Mind you, this was before my revival of boardgames became a passion for me again. I LOVED that day! Lot's of yelling, laughter and love.....just like every Thanksgiving Day. MAN I love this holiday!!

Worst Halloween Ever

Ugh! Pick one!

I remember our church was holding their annual "Reformation Day" on the 31st once when it was raining and cold. Everything was moved inside, which made things cramped, and overall it was a huge mess to the line with not enough food being provided.

I remember leaving, driving to McDonald's and spending the rest of the night alone in my apartment. (I was living by myself back then) As if I needed a reason to hate this holiday more!

Best Halloween Ever!

Now we're getting to the "big" holidays!

This one is kind of hard for me because we've had some pretty rocking parties at our house back in the day but overall, I don't really care for the holiday that much.

My best one may have happened to me a little after college when I was invited to attend the "secret" K Street party located in a neighborhood in Monroe.

This party is invitation only to those who live on the street and the only exception to the rule is if you decide to bring a date, which is what I was to this friend of mine.

I'd never really attended a Halloween party before so this was kind of my first. And it was amazing! The entire house we went to was decorated like a haunted mansion. Music played in ever corridor (which was harder to do back in the day before wireless was invented) and food was everywhere. (hmmm, starting to see a theme here about "best" holidays and "food")

I never was invited back (not my fault) but I think that was the most fun I ever had on Halloween!

Ugh

Oh man, why does the season have to be so hard? The Braves I figured would be good but the Phillies?! Nope, never bought in the hype but so far it looks to be true.

Going to be a hard season....hope we can stay in it.