As we launch ourselves into a new year (which is a 15 yard personal foul penalty in NCAA football) we generally start thinking about the things to come.  We start trying to come up with resolutions that we think we might actually be able to keep.  We think about changing the 2010 to a 2011 on everything we have to sign and date.  We think about those things.

But hopefully we aren’t moving on too quickly to remember the year past.  Yeah there were hard times, but there were also good times!  As the last day of the 2010 year, take some time to think about everything you have been through this year and thank God for what He has done in your life through it all!

For the James family, we are thankful for all the brutal weeks of the pregnancy that lead to the most beautiful and awesome baby girl in the history of the world.  We are thankful for the amazing place in which we had the privilege of living.  We are thankful for everything we have learned through all the good times and hard times of the year.

Oh, and we are thankful for our little Jessi James!

What are you thankful for when you look back?

It is hard to believe that we are already in September.  This year has absolutely flown by (and really dragged it’s feet in others)!  There are only a few months left in 2010!  Didn’t we just break the habit of writing 2009?  Well, in any case, the year keeps on coming.  Another week brings another chance to come together with a bunch of like-minded Christ followers and worship!  Here is what we are playing at Kingsfield this week.

Everlasting God – Lincoln Brewster – Let The Praises Ring – The Best Of Lincoln Brewster
Healer – Hillsong – This Is Our God
The Stand – Hillsong United – United We Stand
Our God – Chris Tomlin – Passion: Awakening

Don’t you dare close your eyes!

Happy New Year!  Yes 2010 has finally arrived.  We all now embark down the difficult road of remembering to say 2010 instead of 2009 AND trying to figure out how to say the year with just the last digits.  None of us were alive for the 1900′s “teen” years so we don’t know how it is done!  We have engraved in our minds for the last 10 years that it is “oh five”, “oh eight” and so on that now we will all fight the battle of saying “oh ten” because we all know that is wrong.  Do we just say ten?  Is it twenty ten?

But regardless of how you say the year, we are in a new one!  2009 is gone and while it held lots of great things, we have a new year in front of us!  It will be filled with tons of things that I am so excited about!  We are going to have a baby this year!  I’m not sure you can beat that!  On top of that tons of our friends are having babies, too!  I am really excited about this year and what God has planned for us!  Bring it on 2010!

So ladies and gentlemen, welcome to oh ten!

Hulu.  Watch your favorites.  Anytime.  For free.

Well, not anymore, apparently.  As many of you already know, Hulu.com has announced that in 2010 (I know that date seems very futuristic and forever away, but that’s actually next year) they are planning to start charging a subscription fee.  Awesome.  This actually was announced a few weeks ago and I am just now getting around to writing about it, but as I sit here catching up on a show I missed this week online, I ask, what are they thinking?  Do they not make enough money off of the advertisements that they already have all over the site?  Why in the world would I pay to watch the shows on their site that I can watch for free on the networks?  All the new shows are only available on Hulu until they are no longer available on the network sites.  Yeah so they have more old stuff.  Good deal.  That’s not gonna keep me around.

What about you?  Will you pay to keep using Hulu?  Will hysterical commercials with Seth MacFarlane and Alex Baldwin be enough to keep us interested if we have to pay?  Are the old shows there worth a subscription fee?  Anyone know what kind of fee they are thinking?  Will it rival redbox or the failing Blockbuster Movies?  Hmmmm…