Silhouettes

My sister Courtney did these silhouettes of DJ for me. It's a new twist on something old. I remember making silhouettes of people's faces when I was little by tracing their shadow on a piece of paper on a wall. They never turned out very good.  I'm going to put these pics in the baby's room.

Good Night Nobody

I just finished reading "Good Night Moon" to Darren before he was off to bed, and can't stop laughing when I think about it. This book has been around 60 years and is a bedtime favorite around here. I turn the pages and read, "Good night moon, good night bears," as the bunny continues saying good night to all the things in the room. And then a strange twist in the story comes, I turn the page to find it BLANK with the words, "Good night nobody." 

What! Good night nobody, I'm stumped. You would think I could easily follow and understand the meaning of a child's book. I don't get it. Does it have some deep literary meaning that is beyond me? Or maybe there's a simple answer, like the printer made a mistake and printed a blank page that they then tried to work it into the story. 

Anyways it remains a favorite of Darren's, he obviously gets something I don't.

Good night nobody?!?! 

One big month

Our little man turned ONE year old in February. 
He got to eat ONE cupcake. 

And he took ONE step on his own this month.

All before even getting ONE tooth grown in. What's up with no teeth yet?

Keep Smiling...

Okay so Carol and I randomly got to singing this song. I won't get into details but if you know me it was really random how it happened. While this song was fresh in my head I decided to Youtube the video and was amazed at how awesome a video it is! I have noticed two things which make this video great:

1. Gladys Knight Getting Down: After a brilliant set up from Stevie Wonder, once Gladys is up to bat with her verse notice how crazy she gets down at 2:40. I am sure glad she is one of my peeps...Mormon peeps that is. 

2.Elton John aka Spanish Priest aka Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat: After a brilliant delivery from Gladys the "Spanish Priest gets all crazy in his Spanish outfit.  Sir Elton also reminds me of Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat. I have attached a picture so you can compare the two. This all goes down at about 3:18. 

I hope you enjoyed my analysis of That's What Friends Are For. I am laughing so hard while writing this. If any of you know me then you will probably be laughing too. 

Christian Bale Meltdown

Meltdowns are funny but this one takes the cake. By now all of you have probably have heard of Christian Bale's Meltdown on the Terminator 4 set when his Director of Photography distracts him in the middle of the scene. Well anyways, one of the things I miss about L.A. is the Kevin and Bean morning show. They are hilarious well anyways, they like to have fake interviews with people and one of those people happens to be Christian Bale. Check out the link below and have a good laugh at this impersonator. On a side note, Christian Bale actually did make his first public statement on the Kevin and Bean show to address this. I hope you enjoy it. 

LINK

Left 4 Deej

Over Christmas we made a Horror film with our nieces and nephew. Nothing makes you feel the spirit of the season more than a nice horror film, check it out.

California vs Texas Beaches

While visiting California for Christmas we made a stop at the beach. Jimmy misses the California beaches and complains that Galveston is a lake not a beach. Then when we got back from California my family went to Galveston for a day. My conclusion, I think I have to agree with Jimmy on this one.  

First a picture from Galveston, aka the lake. 

And a picture from California, see those waves. 

Atama Tournament 2008

I finally completed the video of Jimmy's jiu jitsu tournament from the beginning of November. He ended up winning two matches and losing two, not bad for his first time. 

What is it?

1 canvas

20 magazines

2,000 strips of paper

1 modern art piece

I don't consider myself an artist, but check out my skills in cutting and glueing. Proof that everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten. 

Over half way through  Jimmy told me I should have just put the magazines in a paper shredder to get it cut small.  My response, "Yes that would have worked, too bad you're just now telling me!" So next time I make one (which will be never) I'll use this idea. I cut out my magazine pieces with a x-acto knife and ruler. 

Halloween Pics

With the cousins


How do you think an Obama/Palin ticket would do?

Jiu Jitsu Advancement

As you all know I am pretty into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I love it! To progress in Jiu-Jitsu there are 5 belts in this order: White, Blue, Purple, Brown, and Black. If you train at a legit school then you know that it takes about 10 or more years to get a black belt, especially if it is from a good school. Good BJJ(Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) instructors don't just give these out like candy. At my school to progress in within the belt system they issue stripes. After three stripes, you get the next belt. Now I digress.

Currently, I am training under the great Vinicius "Draculino". He is considered one of the best instructors in the world and lucky for me he chose Houston as his home away from Brazil. Well, I have been training at his place for about 4 months and last thursday, he advanced and gave me all three stripes at once! I was extremely honored by this gesture and know now that the competition is going to get tough. I plan on competing in November at a BJJ tournament and see how I do. I added some pics and a video about Draculino's school in Brazil so you get an idea who he is and how awesome an instructor he is. I will keep you posted on tournament results with maybe a cool video.

Secret Loves

When you ask Jimmy and me about our favorite bands the names might not seem familar to the average radio listener...like Fleet Foxes, Black Kids, Band of Horses are some the ones that currently occupy our cd player. We like to listen to bands that don't even exist yet, but every
once in a while we fall from our indy music ladder.

Jimmy discovered Hanna Montana's brother formed a band and I catch him listening to the songs all the time. Check out Metro Station here. Her brother is the one with all the tatoos.

I, on the other hand, have been going around humming American Idol's David Archuleta's new song. Yes it's really good I promise :)

Do you have any bands you secretly like, I know Jamie was a big fan of Hanson Brothers for a long time!

Hurricane Ike!

We stayed through the hurricane, and taped up our windows and stuck the kid in the walk-in closet the night of the storm. We heard the wind all night and then it suddenly stopped, I thought the storm was over...no that was the eye, because it came back even stronger. We were hit with 60 mph wind and 90 mph gusts. Here are a couple pics of what I saw the next morning.

These are trees around my apartment, big trees like this came down everywhere, what a mess.

But after a day and half without power we called it quits and drove out to Austin to visit my sis and her new baby until the power came back. We got power on Wed., but my parents' hood is still without power. A power guy on the news this morning said, "The name says it all, take Kingwood...there is king-size wood on the powerlines!" I think he's saying my parents aren't getting power for awhile. 

Jimmy has had work cancelled all week, he thinks hurricanes are great now.  Yeah great if those trees didn't end up in your house.

Dress Up

Darren as Batman.

Darren with Mr. Potato Head glasses.

He's gonna LOVE me for this one...

Shelly's Surprise 40th B-Day

I have 7 sisters and 3 sister-in-laws and when my oldest sister turned the big 4-0 everyone came to town to surprise her and celebrate. Here's a little video of our trip with our memories of why Shelly is the best! Sorry the video is so pixelated it's hard to upload a good quality one with your limited memory space on youtube.

Little Friends

Here are a couple of pictures of Darren with his little friends. 

Darren and Landon were born just two weeks apart, Jimmy would say these two are going to "get chicks"! They might have to lose the pacifiers first. 

Darren and Avery were born just one week apart. Look he's already "getting chicks", holding hands and all. 

The Team

Well it always fun to have my wife's family in town because I get to do fun things i.e make a cool new movie. So we were all playing around and we decided to shoot a short film. What do you think young boys are into these days? You got it guns, explosions, and fighting so here is my crack at making a short action sequence for the opening of our little film project. The Team. Enjoy!

Here's my latest video featuring Daddy Max, enjoy!

Video Contest

You can call us the new Joe Simpson because we're pawning our kid for cash. Happyslip.com is having a video contest where you have to download this song and make a video to it. The top five videos with the most votes win a new video camera. So this is how you can help.

1. You will probably need to get a youtube account and it's very simple

2. Watch our video here and leave a comment like, "Man jsanti3 video is the best, I will vote for him." 

3. Voting starts May 18th I'll update you on how to vote when it's all set up on Happy slip's webpage.

Jimmy's Nerdy Side

Okay, so Carol has handed off to me the next blog post. So I decided to blog about some of my nerdy things I am interested in doing or currently doing. I was always into sci-fi and fantasy. However, when I was younger, I heard about kids playing Dungeons and Dragons and was interested. I never got to play because if you did then boy...that would be the end of your junior high/high school career. Not playing just made my interest get bigger.

I am about 30 years old. I feel pretty secure about myself. I am married and really have my friends set. So what does that all mean? Well, I have finally decided to whip out the D&D and try it for the first time. Thankfully, I have cool brothers in law and a nephew who don't mind getting "sweaty" ( By sweaty I am referring to the guys who hang out at those obscure game stores and wear black trench coats, are fairly large, and sweat profusely....oh yeah and they tend to talk about the weirdest things like Dungeons and Dragons)

I know this is the nerdiest thing anyone can do but I also can say after the experience I have played Dungeons and Dragons. Be sure to see updates of my adventures as I create my level 1 barbarian and see how my bro-in laws decide to play their level 1 half elf ranger, cleric, and paladin. I plan on recording these adventures on tape so this is going to be pretty awesome! Maybe if we get into it, then all you guys will want to start playing right?