Andrew Acomb

We had a few friends over on New Year’s Eve. Instead of playing Rock Band, Jennifer and I decided to try out an Xbox 360 game called Lips. It’s basically a high tech karaoke game. It can tell when you stop and start a word and what tone your singing in. If your singing right, you’ll get points. It’s much more detailed than Rock Band. Plus, the mics that come with it have a sensor in it to detect motion. So you get extra points by moving around when prompted. It comes with 40 songs and you can download even more from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Each song comes with its video.

I had a lot of fun, but Jayden beat me in the first round! He ended up going to the final round against Jennifer. It was close. The scores went back and forth, but Jennifer barely beat him.

Yesterday, we had a little Winter party with a few friends. One of the things I did was teach Kayla how to make hats with a loom. Super easy!

We also made some cookies. We didn’t make as many as cookies we made for Halloween because there was a little cookie disaster earlier that morning, but I saved the day! I also made red, green, and white icing. In the next day or so we are going to make a lot more.

This past weekend, my friend Angee asked me to take photos at her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party. It was an 80’s themed celebration. Lots of eighties inspired outfits. Armed only with my Nikon D200 and SB-800 Speedlight, I was able to walk away with some good candid shots of the evening. I’m not posting them all, but you can see a few more photos of Kayla’s party on my Flickr site.

We had a few friends over on Christmas Eve. Tim’s son Phoenix really liked Photo Booth! I think he took about 50 photos! That’s him in the front with me in the back.

Last Sunday, I spent a couple of hours with Bourbon Renewal at Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, New York. Clockwise from top left: Per “Bacco” Bergquist (bass), Dennis Cotton (drums), George Fletcher (guitar/vocals), and Peter Pashoukos (guitar/vocals).