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After a brief vacation and letting Obama enjoy his celebrations, Bryan for President in 2012 comes back to put the pressure on the new president.

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Christies B-Day Party

We had a surprise birthday "cook in" last weekend in honor of Christies birthday. We had over some guest and I george formaned some hamburgers. Good times. Had by all. The guest list included Uncle Dan and Granny....Mike and Michelle....Danny, Alison, Alyssa, and Abigale.
Mike and Danny took on Robbie in a two on one handicap match during the festivities. Robbie fought bravely but ended up overwhelmed. Here he is caught in a head lock by Mike and a figure four leg lock by LDG.

Alyssa gets her pirate on, with the help of her daddy, LDG. Arrrgh, matey.


The birthday girl, opening a gift. A box of olives.

The strawberry shortcake was made by chef 'Chelle, and it didn't last long.

The birthday girl. Completely caught off gaurd by her own party!

Indiana Review

The summer movie season is currently playing at the Vinson household.

During the winter.

There were a lot of good films this past year, but we've put off the summer movie season to the winter rental season. Here's my review for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I found this movie riveting. Full of flawed characters and traditional American values. Indiana follows in the footsteps of Rocky and makes a comeback in his old age. Although, through the magic of special effects and stunt doubles, Indiana hasn't lost much of his step. The movie brings the nostalgia on full force with the return of Marion, Indys love interest from "Raiders".

Indie mostly succeeds in recapturing the old feeling of the movies hey-day, although, Harrison does falls flat in a few of the opening scenes. He appears to be "phoning it in." He gets into it though later in the movie. The nice thing here was a little trip back in time. Indy goes up against a villainous soviet union agent, depicted with cartoonish fun by Cate Blanchett, in the middle of the cold war. This is old school Hollywood unearthed from all the glitz and over complex, computer generated, politically correct new Hollywood.

It's not the best film in the series. The master pieces have already been made. It is a fun tribute to a fantastic movie series that both honors the originals, and does them no harm. Nick Cage and National treasure, and Angie Jolie and Tomb Raider better watch out. Grandpa still has a little left in the tank and a little zip on the whip.

Arrgh. Robbie's birthday it be, matey....

COOLPICS!

Elizabeth, AKA - GAB, AKA - Greatest Sister ever, sent us a new digital camara for christmas! Best Christmas gift ever! It's one of those little Nokia Coolpix! You see, we had been using an old digital camara that was a bit large, and did not hook into the computer with a USB. This caused a delay in pictures since we had to go get them put on disk at Target, and then put on the computer. (Aunt Mary attempted to fix this by giving us a memory card reader that would hook up, but we could never get that to work right...) Often times this resulted in a delay of pictures getting to Bryan Central. Like Robbies Halloween pics, which finally showed up in December.

Without further ado, I present the first coolpix pics from Christmas 2008! Thanks EV and TV!
Robbie with his prized gift from Santa. A whale. Our little marine biologist has tried to make the whale eat the rest of his toys. Robbie actually spent Christmas Eve at the hospital after registering a 102.7 fever that night. He also had a horrible cough. After returning at 3:30 in the morning he finally got to bed. Santa, who had already been through the area circled around and made an extra trip back to North Carolina to give Robbie his toys. Robbie woke up at about 10:50 ish to enjoy his Christmas. You can tell he looks a little run down, but he's a little trooper.
Nanna and Robbie discuss Christmas season theories. How to get the most toys from Santa while getting away with a t least a little bit of bad behavior.
Granny, and Uncle Dan. Nanna and I went over to Grannys house for an old School style Christmas Eve dinner. Robbie was unable to attend because he was sick. Here Granny shows off her lightening fast reflexes by blinking with the flash.

More coolpix to come for Christmas and other events, thanks to EV and TV.

Christmas hinders blogs

Everybody's been blogging slower since the holiday preparation time has gotten into full swing. I do not blame. It is a very busy time of the year.

First of all, I'd like to say that my former friend, co-worker, and fantasy football rival, Ken, and his Barking Spiders team ended up winning the PETA League championship. I was okay with my 8-6 record until this stunning piece of news. It just means that the Thunderbolts will be fighting even stronger in next years fake football season.

Secondly, in an effort to purge our house of some junk, I donated some of our old mugs to Goodwill. Apparently I accidentally donated some mugs that Christie loved! When I got home from work I discovered that they were back in the house. She had gone to Goodwill and bought them back. Oops.

We are preparing the best we can for Nana's arrival for the holidays. Robbie hasn't seen her since he flew over her house on his way to New York. But the poor little guy has been sick and Mommy hasn't felt well either. (Just in time for Christmas!) We rented Wall E, hoping it would encourage him to stay on the couch and rest. It has. We've seen it about a dozen times this week. He loves Wall E. It's a cute little movie.

That's all the big news here lately.

There will probably be a Christmas update, and then that will do it for the year 2008 at Bryan Central.

Out.

Robbie in flight

For some of our family, jet setting around the globe is no big deal, but for me.... no one in our cluster hardly takes to the air. Which is why it is a big deal. Especially since it was Robbies first ride in an airplane. Something I have yet to do myself.

He and Mommy flew to New York this week while I slaved at work. The ever protective father and husband, I tracked the flight via the Internet, where you can watch a little blue plane as it progresses over Google maps. Here is "The Flight of Robbie!!!!"
The blue line represents the jets rout. Robbie practically flew over Nanna's head! The red circle indicates Nannas general location. Many of you may recognize the giant farm field behind her house. Robbie could have parachuted down and said hello.

I caught up with the plane as it was hitting Virginia, home of grove avenue bride. In this shot you can see little blue plane as it zooms through Maryland at plus 30,000 feet and heads for Ocean City, home of senior week class of 94. I'm old.

At this point the little blue plane had safely landed in New York. Satisfied that my wife was on the ground I got this one last screen. It appears here that the plane decided to land perpendicular to the runway instead of on it. What an odd piloting decision!

The story from the plane is that it was Robbie who kept Mommy calm during the take-off and landing. Good job Robbie! Little Jet setter!

Join me next time as I track
"Bryans Drive to Work!"