Category: Videos

I’m a geek and that’s ok with me. Two weeks ago the boys and I sat at my desk and watched nasa.gov online tv of STS-127 Endeavour space shuttle lift-off from Florida. It was AWESOME! We watched the live coverage all the way until main tank separation and we’ve been keeping up with the mission since then.

We have the NASA channel at home and sometimes I just load the web page and leave it on all day. Almost two weeks later now we’ve seen a few space walks and the shuttle separate from the ISS (space station). Last night we stepped outside a little after 9pm and saw two brightly glowing objects zoom across our sky. The first was Endeavour the second was the space station (it was much brighter because of it’s solar panels). It was completely AWESOME! Both boys got a real kick out of it. Tonight you’ll be able to see them again a bit after 9:30pm. You should really check it out.

To add to our knowledge quest on space we launched our first Estee Rocket last week. It was AWESOME too! No really. It’s not like a toy, it’s so much cooler. We used up both of our engines so we must purchase more from the hobby shop and maybe another rocket to add to our arsenal.

I think maybe I was an astronaut in another life, or maybe I slighty missed my calling. So instead I’ll share as much real life AWESOME space adventures with my boys as I can. Next adventure two days in Concan with the boys and other family. Please let the water in the river be refreshing and not nasty!

It’s been a long while since I’ve added a new story here. I haven’t even tried to make an excuse this time, or a promise of something new coming. I’ve been busy. No, seriously. With work like things too… I thought summer might bring a bit of time to do things, other things like relax. It’s only taken my about three weeks to write this post. So I’m going all bulleted list style on this one.

• I spent about three intense weeks completely re-designing our church’s website. It’s been up and running for about two months now and I continue to help update the site and create graphics for the site and our series. You can see the site here!
• I went on a ten day road trip with some folks I worked for in college to the east coast again. Specifically Norfolk, VA which made the round trip somewhere over 3,000 miles. You can see some of the pictures I took on that trip on flickr.
• The boys have taken two sets of swimming lessons and they’ll take one or two more before the summer is over. Casey J can swim as fast as Michael Phelps but it’s only because he’s afraid to sink so he turbo kicks at all times. Z Man is a little more laid back and more likely to sink but not as concerned about sinking.





• We’ve been to the movies, spent time at a friend’s swimming pool, time outside on the water slide, time at the coast in Port O’Connor fishing and going to the beach, and a lot of time trying to escape the extreme heat we’ve been having here in Texas.
• We found a nice young lady who watches the boys three days a week at home so that we can make and attempt to get some actual work done at the office.
• I spend the first part of my mornings at the gym, Big C has taken to calling me a “gym rat”. I don’t think I have any rat like qualities….
• Z went to Mega Sports camp at our church. Check out the video they made here (you can see him in some of the pictures).

  Undefeated MegaSports Camp 2009 from Cole Phillips on Vimeo

• Casey J wasn’t really interested in going to the sports camp. Go figure.
• I spent a few nights re-designing kimmoreland.com and I’ve actually been updating with photos.
• I’ve become addicted to the DIY channel and that may explain where all my free time is going.
• We went to the Terri Hendrix Summer In The Park concert. Z just loves her music.



• We’ve started arts and crafts projects on Thursdays, last week was the ocean, this week is space. Be looking for some rocket pictures later this week!

That’s about all I’ve got for now, next up is a weekend spent fishing….