YL Visits the Batley's

Yup, that's our Associate Pastor's family. The week after we showed up at their house at 6:30 AM and no one was awake to let us in. Good times.

Throwback Thursday: Chewbacca Dancing

Back by popular demand...



This was done at Lake Champion 3 years ago when I was up there for the summer as video intern.

Zuidema Family Cruise

CM and I just returned home from the Zuidema Family Cruise/Family Reunion/Birthday/Anniversary Celebration. We had a great time and it was a fun opportunity to get to know her side of the family. If these photos look familiar, it's because I went on the same cruise last summer with my family. Good times, including this hum-dinger of a photo below. Dutch Girl never saw it coming.




You can view the entire collection by clicking here.

The Zoo

OK so this post is interesting because it can be hilarious, sad, disgusting and downright dirty. On Saturday CZ and I took a trip to the zoo.

We saw lots of cool animals...


The beauty of nature...


We visited the giraffes right after one of them had been euthanized....


And then came something that made us want to laugh and vomit all at the same time. Let's just say this is a little re-enactment...



For the brave in heart and strong in stomach, here are all the pictures.

The Hills Camp Promo

Check out this little diddy we put together for club last week.

La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya)

Today was a pretty good day. I set foot in the Pacific Ocean for the very first time, I ate at In-N-Out Burger for the very first time, and stopped by Petco Park home of the San Diego Padres. Many thanks for Tim's friend Jen who drove us around from place to place.

Now for the picture of the day...

Ah, thank you. For the rest of the pictures click here.

Throwback Thursday: Bringing Campin' Back

A little diddy that Ben and I whipped up in about an hour.

Throwback Thursday: Steve meets Derrick

So back in the fall 2004, my brother Steve was a senior at Severna Park High School and played football on both the offensive and defensive line. One of the first games of the season was against Eleanor Roosevelt High School who was ranked in the top 10 in the state and boasted Derrick Williams (2.8 GPA and 810 SAT according to his bio) who happened to be one of the top recruits in the nation. SP won the game in an upset and Steve made a couple of great plays.

Fast-forward one year later to the fall of 2005. Steve has started attending the University of Maryland, Derrick and his 810 SAT score are now at Penn State University, and I'm sitting in my new digs at the White House watching a College Football preview show on TV. I see that Derrick Williams is being mentioned as a Freshman to Watch in the upcoming season so I think to myself, "That's cool, maybe they will show some footage from the SP game." That's when this came on...



Yup, my bro, #50. It's OK though, Derrick has gone on to do this and this to certain teams that Steve and I both dislike. Plus he has never beaten Michigan, so I guess he's really not that bad of a guy after all.

Update: Team Towson Portraits

A little while ago I posted pictures from Team Towson's trip to Sears with cheesy Christmas sweaters. CZ and I decided to hold a couple back so we could give our parents the picture of Christy with her arms around me in a nice, K-Mart frame. They love it. Christy's mom is begrudgingly proudly displaying the portrait on her mantle. The full set can be found by clicking here.

Throwback Thursday: The Gallon Challenge

Filmed in January of '06, I just recently got around to editing this for my brother. I gave this to him as one of his Christmas presents (this year). Please do not watch if you are "weak of stomach".

Throwback Thursday: TDS

So amidst all the craziness of getting engaged last week, Throwback Thursday was neglected. Therefore due to popular request, I dug up an old Gary Wilmer classic. Enjoy.

Team Towson Portraits

So each year our team of Young Life leaders decides to wear some sort of "uniforms" to the YL Christmas party. This year we chose cheesy 80's sweaters and stopped by Sears to get our pictures taken before going to the party. You can see the rest of the pictures here.

Throwback Thursday: Wake Up with YL

Barry Tolton almost wet his pants from laughing when he first saw this video.