If you are looking for a good place to get some last second gifts for that gadget guy in your life, check out Restoration Hardware’s Stocking Stuffer page. It is chock-full of products that I would love to receive.

Take for instance this lighted water hose… I have no idea why, but yet I am compelled to say “Why not?” You never know when you might want to water your plants at night.

I still can’t wait for Christmas!

Ok, I saw this for the first time two years ago, or was it three… anyway, it is still one of the coolest things I have ever seen…

I did some investigation on the intertubes and found out that this light display was first put together by an electrical engineer named Carson Williams in 2004. Here is more about him on Snopes.com. The posts also includes some of his other creations as well as a 2005 Miller Lite Commercial based on this video.

Miller Lite has another Christmas commercial in heavy rotation this year that made me remember this video.

You can see Carson and his family in an interview with the Today Show.

I just can’t wait for Christmas

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Originally uploaded by Murray Williams.

This is one of the keepers from this Christmas. I caught MH in front of the Christmas tree, and if you notice she has on her Mrs. Claus dress. This is one looks like an album cover or a magazine pic. (If you think I am sounding a little full of myself, I did throw away 160 other pictures that weren’t good.) I captured lightning in a bottle.

MurDog

Christmas lights! Hooray! I love it! I love my EOS 20D…soooo much fun!

MurDog OUT!!!

PS MurDog Podcast coming soon. I am trying on outboard compressor. I wonder if it will sound good. You tell me

Here is a shot I took today at Mary Hadley’s Kindergarten Christmas Party. Megan put together this craft where the students put together bracelets with beads and jingle bells. Other mothers put together more fun activities, and I played some Christmas music on the guitar. It was a great way to celebrate the last day of school and kick-off our Christmas Celebration.

We also put up our big Christmas tree. I know, I know, it is really late to be putting up a tree, but it looks great. I took some pictures of that but I haven’t retrieved them off the camera yet.

Merry Christmas if I don’t blog soon.

MurDog OUT!!!

Here is Wyatt standing outside the Christmas train. We had a great time riding the Christmas train.

I hope to have a little more regularity when it comes to blogging. I have been Uber-busy for about the past month. Every year around Christmas, I help Crossland Construction put together their corporate Christmas party. It is great fun, but it takes up a ton of time… Time usually devoted to other pursuits such as blogging, and Halo 2. I have been lagging severely in both lately. (I went on Xbox Live yesterday and was absolutely LIT UP by everyone. I have got to get some practice in.)

Anyway, back to the Crossland thing, we put together (Josh G and I) over 50 videos. That is a ton! We helped them put together an awards banquet a la MTV Music Awards. Pretty cool.

Imagine a room of about 700 rowdy construction workers and their bosses. It is no easy task keeping them occupied for 2 hours much less interested. It is quite a task.

This year we did a Pimp My Ride/Overhaulin’/American Chopper theme. We even put together a short 4 episode Mock TV show called Pimpin’ Your Truck. We took one of the Crossland Supervisor’s trucks and pimped it out while video taping the whole process. It turned out surprisingly good.

Needless to say, after all that editing, I had no energy for blogging. But, Now I am done, and I am back. I hope to do some serious blogging over the holiday season.

Dog OUT!!!

Wyatt loves trains. All 3 year olds.. well who am I kidding.. all guys have fixations, things that we spend in ordianate amounts of time thinking about. Wyatt, my son is no different. He loves trains.. In case you missed that, HE LOVES TRAINS. A couple of weeks ago, we took him to see The Polar Express. It was the first movie he ever sat all the way through. (And, that includes a little 12 - 15 minute movie we saw about the making of chocolate at Hershey Park last month.) The train held him in rapt attention.

Well yesterday, we were able to do something for him that he will never forget. We had his birthday party on a train ride from Springdale to Fayetteville. It was a Christmas train. Wyatt loved it.

The really bad thing is, I had already promised my time to someone to help out on a project that is due VERY soon, and I couldn’t go on the train ride. I saw the pictures though, and I am so excited for him.

I did get the project done earlier than expected, so I did get to come home in time for the cake and playing with the little man.

We will have to do that again.