Archive for August, 2011

1 Month and Counting

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

It seems we have made it to the 1 month mark with great success. Link seems to be getting bigger every day. The last week or so he has started to smile… although we have yet to capture it on Camera. (and no, it’s not just Gas). We’ve found that if Daddy sings to him, he tends to smile.

Amber is having us take photos every month I guess. I did my best, but to be honest, the camera doesn’t seem to capture him the way I see him. For that though… there’s photoshop:

Now we wait for his friend, Baby Benson to arrive!

The Family Gets Netflix

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

I always find it interesting when my family changes our entertainment habits. So here goes the latest round.

About 9 months after Amber and I got married, we made the decision to get rid of Comcast Cable Tv. There were a few reasons for it including:

  • They had just double our cable bill when the “triple play” went away.
  • I told Amber we could get the purple charger if we got rid of cable tv
  • (I felt) The amount of TV watching was affecting our marriage in a mostly negative way.

So we canceled our TV service and went to a hybrid solution of buying 1 or 2 TV on DVD’s a month and Hulu for everything else.

For the most part that worked great. Over-The-Air TV covered most of the live things we would want to watch, and TV on DVD was a great way to avoid all those commercials, and to do them at the pace we wanted.

Things changed with the birth of Link.

Amber is home more now, and has a lot of extra time while feeding him that seems to go by faster if she can watch something. Someone recommended to her that she get Netflix streaming for our Wii. I said, sure why not, and lets throw in the the 1-DVD package as well for a total of about $15.00 a month.

A few minutes later, we’ve got a few TV series queued on up the streaming (Way easier to do with the wii than it was with the laptop and hulu). We also put a few other TV series that were DVD only on our DVD list, and sure enough it was here almost the next day.

So far, I’m pretty sure we’ve gotten our monies worth out of it… Numerous episodes of American Pickers, Psych, Wizards of Waverly Place, Hannah-Montana, Jag… as well as some movies, etc. have already been watched…

Had we bought everything that’s been watched, it’d probably be in the 100′s of dollars…

Amber still says she’s going to buy the TV series that she watches over and over again (I think she’s on her 4th viewing of Grey’s Anatomy)… but I can say this for sure… Netflix has become the new staple around here, at least for now. If you have a device that supports it and makes it easy to use, I’d recommend at least trying it for a month (maybe cancel the Comcast TV for a month so you can get the triple play again the next month) and seeing how you like it.

Life with Link

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Life with Link is quite the amazing adventure!  There is so much to learn about him, but at the same time, I feel like I’ve known him forever.  I have known him longer than anyone else, since I spent 41 weeks and 2 days growing him and learning some of his characteristics.
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