Are you kidding me? The Colts not only won the biggest game in the history of the Indianapolis Colts, but they were came back from a deep 21-3 hole. Manning had just thrown a pass that was picked off for an easy TD for New England and the whole world was thinking "Here we go again. The Colts just cannot beat this team in the playoffs. Manning can't do it - he choked again". I don't care what you say, everyone was thinking it at that point. But they came back....somehow.....It's hard to really even describe how....but they did. Addai scored a TD with a minute left, and then Marlin Jackson picked off Brady with 20 seconds left and they did it. This game was basically a miracle. The Hubers were over and we were going nuts...our phone was ringing off the hook. I remember tossing Jackson up in the air. I remember holding Emma up in the air....I remember running down the hallway...I remember shoving Judson Huber out of excitement. So the Colts are going to the Super Bowl. It's so crazy how it happened. I recorded it onto my hard drive, so if anyone wants a copy, let me know and I may be able to burn it once I edit out the commercials.

Check out this picture of offensive coordinator Tom Moore on the sidelines by himself after the game...What an awesome picture.

I had quite the scare this week. Good thing that I happened to be talking to God at the time, because He was right there with me and kept me safe.

I was heading to work Tuesday morning, and we had gotten a bit of a dusting of snow during the early hours of the morning. It was one of those deals where it was windy and the snow was swirling around on the roads. I was about 30 minutes into my 40 minute drive to work and was just getting ready to merge from 46-east to 37-south, right there in Bloomington. I was behind 2-3 other vehicles and nobody was immediately behind me. Suddenly, my back end swung out from behind me. I was going about 55 mph. I turned into the slide and it quickly swung back around to the right. From there, it’s kinda hard to remember exactly what happened but I ended up coming to a stop with my back wheels off the road and my front wheels on the shoulder of the road and it was stalled. Slowly 3-4 cars came up on me and checked to see it I was alright and I stuck my hand out the window and gave them a thumbs up. Then I went to work and changed my pants. I had kept putting off getting new tires for the Jeep and I think this was God’s way of letting me know that I had better get that taken care of immediately. Needless to say I get a new set of tires the next day on my lunch break. Honestly, that could have been pretty bad. Anytime you lose complete control of your vehicle going 55 mph on a highway during the morning rush and hit absolutely nothing – you must consider yourself blessed.

So we have the Colts and Patriots facing off tomorrow evening in the AFC championship. It is the first time that such a game has been played at the RCA (Hoosier) Dome. This is our time. It is the biggest Colts game ever. I have been excited all week. Manning vs. Brady. Dungy vs. Belicheck. We have heard for years (justifiably so) that the Colts cannot win the big game. Manning can’t do it. Dungy can’t do it. The Colts are soft. Defense wins championships. Can we please just shut everybody up….finally? It is amazing that as good as we have been over the last 4-5 years that we have never made it to the Super Bowl. It is time for that to change. Another disappointment would be devastating to the franchise.

Kim and I declared 2007 as the year we get our act together. By January 9, we felt like we were right back to reality and chaos in our home.

Maybe that is evident by my lack of recent postings. There has been alot to post about, but little time to do it. I am home with the boys right now, as they are both recovering from round 2 of the stomach bug that they experienced at Christmas time. Now that they have been back at school and daycare, they have picked it right back up Jackson woke up after going to bed last night and puked, luckily he made it to the torlet. Carson wakes up every night during the night at least once now. Not sure what the deal is with that. We took him to Dr. Schechter on Monday and NO EAR INFECTION. That is a foreign concept to us, so we were surprised, must have been some stomach aches or maybe his teeth coming in (molars).

Here is Carson on his actual 2nd birthday, January 1, 2007. He is enjoying the fact that we are singing happy birthday to him. He can't wait to get into that homemade cake that Mommy made for him.

Last Saturday we had Carson's 2nd birthday party. He got a bunch of cool stuff and more Thomas train stuff, which he thoroughly enjoys right now. Here are some pictures:


After the party, Tom & Alex and Mom & Dad stayed to watch the Colts defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the playoffs. We we surprised by the absolutely amazing performance of the Colts defense, which stifled Larry Johnson for only 35 yards. The Chiefs did not get a first down until it was nearly the end of the third quarter. Here is a shot of Alex and Jackson with all of their Colts garb on. Notice the "Lucky Colts Beads".

Let me get this posted......more later.