Trading the Space Needle for Vulcan’s magnificent buns of iron. Seriously, he is a physical specimen to admire.

I’ve accepted a job with a Birmingham-based software company. Chelsea and I will be residents by December 19.

Moving back to The South has always been a goal for Chelsea and me long before we were married. Chelsea moved to Los Angeles in 2005 right after college. I moved to Seattle in September 2006, convincing Chelsea to get her own place in Seattle in 2007 when we started dating again.

Birmingham is an amazing city and there’s never been a better time to be a resident. Home to one of the best restaurants, best pubs, and best music venues in America, it doesn’t lack in culture. An international hub for physical therapy and health care for years, it’s also home to one of the fastest growing small business/technology incubators in America.

An afternoon drive takes you to the beach or the mountains, Atlanta or Nashville, the lake or the plains. Birmingham is big enough to feel big, small enough without feeling too small, and it’s the perfect place to start our family. I absolutely love this city.

To top it off, we’re closer to many of you. At this point in our life having friends and family within arms reach seems almost a foreign concept, and that’s not ok. We like you.

So, we’re pumped. Very.

As excited as we are to move to Birmingham, we’re equally as sad to leave Seattle. Seattle will get many posts over the next few days. This city has been amazing in both the experiences it provided and the people we’ve come to call close friends. For the rest of our lives we’ll find any excuse possible to visit.

For now, we plan and pack, and listen to a Randy Newman classic. So you in three weeks.

For all we’ve done wrong this year, things still dwelling just above mediocrity and just below a BCS buster.

All you could ever need from Snowpocalypse 2010 from the Seattle P-I. Seriously… all you can ever want.

A Dog Named Christmas
Moonlight & Mistletoe
Farewell, Mr. Kringle

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Please be a fake.
Please be a fake.
Please be a fake.

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I completed my page last week. It’s easy, insanely simple and plain, which will keep this from being some sort of mini MySpace.

Maybe 9 of you will appreciate this post. (Short ‘n sweet background: Phyllis Dotson raised us.)

Thanks for the video Jody Gambrell!

Article: UPS Store offers more than shipping

Thanks for the video Justin Gundy!

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Our Thanksgiving dinner table.

Hey-o. So there was this snow storm. If you follow me on Twitter, I apologize for the insanely uneccesary barrage of ‘omg there’s snow-n-sliding cars, y’all’ posts. God only knows what my Facebook/Twitter will look like once I have a kid.

This series of events in the attic never gets old to me. The floor board scene catches me off guard every time.

My favorite part about this image is the elf in the background. Recognize him? That’s ‘Ralphie’ from A Christmas Story.

Reindeer are the only species of deer in which both males and females grow long antlers, however, the sexes shed their respective antlers at different times! The females shed them around May, while males lose their racks during November. This means that male reindeer typically would not be sporting their antlers around Christmas

Then again, if reindeer could fly I’m sure they’d find a way to grow antlers in November.

The only thing I love more than this commercial is the fact that Hershey’s continues to run it every year, recognizing that schmucks like me remember this commercial playing over and over as a child.

As silly as it may sound, the season hasn’t begun until I’ve seen this commercial.