President Obama's Inauguration Speech

*This post was started the day after the speech, just never got finished because I ran out of time, as explained. So here's the rest...

Well, I was

 working yesterday when President Obama gave his inauguration speech. So I decided to watch it today before I go into work (which is about in 20 mins, so I can't take long).

I'll just say that I thought his speech went very well. Of course, as long as you're a good reader I'm not sure how you can mess up the speech. I wish I could know how much of it he wrote. He might have written the whole thing? But I doubt it. For the sake of this post, I'll just assume he wrote it, because even if he didn't I can at least assume that he meant all of it.

I only watched it once, so I didn't completely grasp everything he talked about, and I'm not going to "nitpick" the speech. I just wanted to give a few 

thoughts I had for the sake of blog

ging.

First,  I was completely dumbfounded at the amount of people I saw on the lawn in D.C.! I heard it was in the millions! I'm not sure if that was normal or not. But I'm sure lots of people went so they could say " I WAS THERE!" the day history was made.

Second, I am very proud of our country for picking a "mostly" African American President. And I'm glad I that I will be able to talk about it first hand, even though I did NOT vote for Obama. I still disagree 

with some of his points, morals, and I wish he was a Republican.  :)    

Nonetheless, I still respect him as my President, will gladly fight for my country under his leadership if drafted, and will support his decisions unless they conflict with the Bible. I believe this level of respect should be given to EVERY President! Past, Present, and Future. But I never expect that to happen in our society.

Third, I will say that he's got a lot of work to do and he probably has the biggest expectation laid upon than the past three Presidents. 

If you ask me, he always looks like he's tired. 

I

'm sure he is.

Forth, I'll be praying for our Obama that God will give him wisdom and, most importantly, that Obama will seek it. Whether he does or not, I can have peace knowing that God is in control.

Dec 20- Jan 13

Well, Christmas was great! We went home for the holidays and spent some time with our families.

So what does our Christmas look like?  ...Before we left home for TN Jordan and I swopped gifts! I got Jordan a chair massager, clothes, and a locket. (Which she didn't get until a couple of weeks ago...   long story). Jordan got me some cool gadgets, an espresso machine (LOVE IT), and a cool man purse! We left for TN December 22nd.

Christmas Eve the Thompsons all get together. Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents...  the whole bunch. This is anywhere from 20-30 people. We've being doing this for about 3 decades. Everyone brings a dish, we all catch up with what's going on as we eat dinner. The we all gather in the living room. We sing some Christmas carols and some of the cousins will normally perform on an array of instruments that have been learned or perfected over the past year. Jordan and I sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" while I played guitar. The Kings got to come a little later, which was great!

Then the gifts are past out. A couple months prior everyone draws a name for who they will be buying a gift for. This prevents everyone from buying 30 gifts!

After we open gifts we thank everyone and people start to head off to the other Christmas events they have going on.

Christmas day we opened presents with the Kings! 

That was lots of fun. Jordan's dad got us all these little "musicians". I like them a lot. Jordan's parents also got us  Wii! Which I have wiily enjoyed! Go to my facebook if you want to see who got what...    Why Scott is the tall guitar player, I'll never know.

After that we went over to my parents house, opened presents and ate breakfast with my grandparents. My parents got us lots of cool stuff! Mom got jordan lots of crocheting equipment and they got me lots of Starbucks stuff!!! Yeah!   ...I know, it's said that I work there and yet I still love it to get presents from there! They also got us a 4gb camera card.

While we were home, my brother Logan and I also filmed another Afro Man episode! 

We've been doing these periodically over the past 2 years and they're lots of fun!

 If you want to check them out...    click here...   Afro Man.

You can see episodes 1-3.5!   :)

New Years Eve we were with Jordan's parents! They took us out to the Spaghetti Factory in downtown Nashville! Then we walked over to the piano bar to go watch some live music (it was extremely cold outside). We walked up to the front and it was $50 a head! Yeah right! So we walked back to the car, drove home, had some cake and ice cream, and watch the ball drop.

Hope everyone a great holiday and doing well on your resolutions!