Celebrating Baby Tolbert

I was able to throw a baby shower for Dana the other weekend. This is their first baby and she’s having a baby girl J I had a lot of fun planning the shower and decorating everything. It’s definitely more fun decorating when it’s a little girl. Before Kate was born I was kind of anti-pink. Well, things have changed and I love pink, especially little pink baby clothes and blankets. Dana got some super cute gifts and I’m so excited for her to be able to use all of them! October 16^th isn’t very far away!

The cutest ever mom to be

Our fancy table

The food that my Mom helped me make and Rebecca made amazing the fruit bowl

Strawberry Cupcakes

Dana getting ready to open all her gifts

The Guests

It was a mixture of girls Dana used to work with then girls from our Athens days at UGA. Thanks everyone for coming!

Robyn, me, and Rebecca

Good Bye Cable!

When Emily and I were first married and I was finishing up college we didn’t have cable, just some rabbit ears which picked up some fuzzy channels. For the last 3 years we had cable with over 300 channels, on demand, HD… the works. We always said when we had a child we would not have cable, so I canceled it. But we still have TV, just the kind you get over the airwaves, which in Atlanta is a lot! I really do feel like when you have less channels you naturally just watch less tv.

The more I thought about it the more it made sense. For all those years we would only watch about 10 of the 300 channels, many of the same ones available for free in HD over the airwaves. We were paying anywhere from $50 - $80 per month just for the cable, it just seemed like a lot of money to me for what we were actually watching. Now I get over 20 full (uncompressed) 1080p HD channels with a home made antenna made from coat hangers (see image above):

ABC
RetroTV
GPTV
GPTV Kids
GPTV Knowledge
NBC
NBC Weather
Universal Sports
Peachtree TV
FOX
CBS
The CW
2 Korean Channels (which are highly amusing)
A ton of Christian channels (which I block, they annoy me)
A ton of Spanish channels (which i also block, since I can't speak Spanish)
PBS (different than GPTV)
The Atlanta Channel

My ATL

For additional entertainment (weekend movies, documentaries,…) we joined Netflix, and got a Roku so that we could watch all of the streaming movies, TV Shows, and Documentaries from Netflix on our TV. So good bye to cables running to our house, the cable company, and the phone company. (we get our internet over Clear WiMax, which is great by the way). We’ve decided to spend the money we save from cancelling cable on travel. Why waste time and money watching people travel, when you can be traveling yourself?