Benton Baby

A couple in our church who we consider to be two of our closest friends in Lubbock recently had a baby girl. We visited the baby (and our friends) two days after she was born. I love holding newborns because they are so soft.



On our way to the hospital Chris was sure that he would not hold the baby because he had never held a newborn before. It turns out she was too irresistible even for Chris...



I must admit that for a couple who isn't even considering children at this point, we do look awfully nice with a baby.

Month Ten: Introducing Chrim

This month makes ten months that Chris and I have been married and 6 years that we have been together. As evidence that we may be running out of stuff to talk about, we recently decided that our Hollywood, celebrity-couple name would be Chrim. I googled Chrim and found a substantively lacking website devoted to the RX-7. Thus worried that Chrim may reflect Chris more than Kim, I googled our alternative: Kiss.

While there were a couple of good hits, like




There were far more hits like this:




Chrim it is...

Lubbock News

Tonight, during the election coverage on our local NBC station, the announcers abruptly interrupted coverage of the local elections to announce that NBC had forecasted Obama as the next president-elect. The coverage quickly switched to the celebrations in Chicago. When the coverage switched back to the local newscasters, the male newscaster said something about an emotional scene. The female newscaster responded with a tight-lipped “Hmmm,” followed by an awkward silence while both looked down and shifted papers. For those unaware, Lubbock is a very "red" city, and this was the first a few instances where the "red" seemed to leak through the newscasters' unbiased facade.

For an even more amusing Lubbock newscast, watch this link (my written description would be inadequate).

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=5A2874676221C7F6F93B550FC8F58402?contentId=7154869&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

Lubbock’s local newscasts never cease to amuse me…