It wasn't quite the 12 days of Christmas, but it has been the 6 days of Christmas for Emily and I.
Monday night we had a Christmas party with both of the youth small groups we help lead. The White Elephant exchange was pretty fun. The picture below pretty much sums it up, but click on [...]

Saturday night involved a combination of multiple computers, pen drives, ink jet printing, ironing and whitey tighties (schemes and contraptions as my cousin Dan would say). Definitely fun times as we helped Mark create the ultimate White Elephant gift, commemorating Sean's last event with the Grace Church Powell staff. 

So… Mike and I began taking our budget seriously back in August, and since that time, I have been trying to do my part in stretching the money in each area as far as possible.  It's been a process of trial and error, but I feel like I've learned a lot.  I thought some of [...]

I got on the treadmill this morning at 6:45 and had a great run. I wish there was a way I could bottle that "post early morning run" feeling and inject myself with it at 5:30 while I'm deciding if I'm going to get out of bed or not. Oh wait. Scratch that. They have [...]

Emily and I had an amazing weekend up in Holmes County, Ohio. The room at Simple Blessings Cabin that we got was great and the homestyle Amish food was delicious. Overall, a very relaxing weekend of sleeping in, playing (winning) Scrabble, and just hanging out with each other. I love you, honey! 
It snowed pretty hard [...]

Just the two of us, getting away from it all
http://www.simpleblessingscabin.com

(Commercial for Heroes on TV)
Emily: "You know what we haven't seen on Heroes?" 
Mike: (Trying to think of a forgotten character or plot line) "No, what?" 
Emily: "Animals. When's the last time we saw animals on Heroes?" 
Mike: (many minutes later) "Syler turned into a cockroach when Hiro killed him at the end of Season 1." 
I'll throw some [...]

To the land of the living, that is. 
It seems that Emily has turned the corner and is heading full throttle into the second trimester. She's been a cookie making, house cleaning, support raising machine the last couple days. Needless to say, the McCaman household is quite upbeat these days! 

My good buddy, Nate Zuck, recently graduated from air traffic control school in Oklahoma City. Check out this video that ABC News did on the school and look for Nate at the -1:23 and -1:05 marks. 
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/story?id=6288797&page=1