Gone Too Far?

So the girls in my office have chosen today to put up their "Christmas" decorations... these consist of:

Snowmen figurines, Tiny Trees, Santa figurines, Gingerbread men, a Rug that says "I Believe in Santa", and a sign that says "Happy Holidays"
NOTHING about Christ or the REAL reason for the season or Merry Christmas or even a manger scene!

Now... last year when they found out that I told my, then, 5 and 7 year old stepdaughters the TRUTH, that Santa is not real and mom and step-dad work hard to provide for them and WE buy them the gifts under the tree, they were outraged!
Note: I also made very clear that we emphasis the actual real reason for celebrating Christmas is the birth of our Saviour and not some fat sicko in a red suit that lets children sit on his lap.
They made a sign that said Grinch and something else along that line that I can't remember the exact wording... oh wait i think it was "BAH HUMBUG!"

Anyway, this year i decided to be pro-active and counter their lies that they tell their own children and everyone else by putting up this sign above my desk so its clearly visible when any employee brings their dear little deceived child into my office. I just put it up just now as kind of tongue in cheek to their decorations and you would not believe the OUTRAGE again!!! They showed it to 3 other people within a matter of minutes and they all evidenced disgust and displeasure at my insensitivity to the dear sweet children of the world.

Question: Why do some people fight so hard to keep others believing in something they KNOW to be completely FALSE and empty of any REAL meaning?!

Answer: Why don't Christians fight harder to get others to believe in something they KNOW to be absolutely TRUE and LIFECHANGING.

Did i go to far?

I plan on changing the sign to something about Christ and seeing what happens then.

A friend (thank you Jason "the nag") sent me this link, all disclosures about not-agreeing-with-everything-certain-websites-say aside, i think this is a very simple clear argument to the whole santa business.

http://www.geocities.com/cobblestoneministries/QA_IS_SANTA_OK.html

SAVE STAR WARS POCKETMODELS!!!

HI ALL!!! Well you may have heard the news that TOPPS (the big ogre company!) has decided to close down Whizkids and cease operations on all their product lines!!

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=41914

On the AWESOME forum that I talk all things SWPM and some things SW someone had a great idea to have all the kids that have been at the tournaments and play the game take a picture with a sign to SAVE SWPM!! So I did it!

We are supporting the grassroots efforts to continue the games! And since Heroclix is the mainstay of WK games and the fellas that have started a company to try and secure the games from TOPPS are involved in the HUGE Save Heroclix effort as well, we added their sign and URL

Sorry that you can't see the sign with the URL's that well, here are direct links:

http://www.Saveheroclix.com

http://www.Pinatagames.com

http://www.Swpocketmodels.com

SO folks here we have a portion of our little group that plays SWPM!

Note those cute little girls holding the signs in the front, they don't really play the game but the carry ships and cards around in their purses! so CUTE

I will be posting some pictures later of my AWESOME WIFE making those great looking posters! The girls and I did the coloring.

And there I am with my pretty face holding a bunch of packs!
I brought a bunch as incentive for the kids to keep playing and for the pictures!


HEH! We are sooo cool!

Someone's silly kid got a hold of the camera! lol WE HAVE A TON of pictures like this on our memory card!

Aha! we have discovered a closet geek!

Well Well, sitting on the floor... what is that your sitting next to?

A SECRET stash you have been hiding!! GOOD FOR YOU!!!

GEEK!!

GIRL GEEKS! AWESOME!!!

Yep im a geek too!

327 Star Corps!

The large outer room... obviously we need some more tables at church! lol

Geeks!

One of the smaller SWPM rooms!

Another room full of geeks!

Long time no POST!

The prize table!!!

Yoda was awesome!!! and cute!

The kids playing with my Vader helmet

A too cool kid and a Padawan

Mace Windu... i think!

Using the Force to extract their fleets from their boxes... sheesh, GEEKS!

There i am without my Vader mask... that thing was HOT!

Obi Wan bestowed much wisdom upon us that evening... and also won 2nd place!!

Han on the left, a Padawan in the middle (note the braid) and Darth Maul on the right, some kids went all out!

This one is for you Slightlyiffy!! AT-AT at Hollywood Studios in Disneyworld!! It was HUGE!!

Some proof that we really went to Disneyworld... i mean who would photo shop themselves into a picture of the park entrance... unless they were a HUGE geek!!!

Sheesh i wish that pregant lady would stop blocking everyones view of the castle!!!

Some people thought these two should have stayed where they belonged... with all the OTHER animals in the park!!

Hey all,

So I just was doing some blog reading and realized that i have not blogged since September!!

Yikes!

Well since that last blog alot has happened!

My Lovely Wife and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary!

We took a little mid week trip up to East Tawas by Lake Huron (i think, i was too busy staring into her beautiful eyes to notice a silly little lake!)

It was a nice 3 day get-a-way for both of us. With both of us working and getting up at all hours of the night because our little guy is kicking and pushing on bladders and making one of us generally uncomfortable, some nice R&R was much appreciated!

Then after we got back we took the girls on their FIRST PLANE RIDE!!!

No we didn't just hop on a plane just so they could experience it! We actually took them somewhere!

Oh you want to know where?

Well... DISNEYWORLD!!

And let me tell you, i am glad the parents got some R&R the week before because it was a non-stop week for us seeing everything we could at all the parks we could squeeze in!

Then after Disney (dont worry ill upload more pics later)

we just loafed around for about 5 weeks waiting for the EVENT of the year!!!

The Costume themed Star Wars Pocketmodel Tournament!!!

The above pictures tell a bit of the story, some of the kids dressed up... quite well actually

And some were just too cool to dress up!!

Anyway got to run to church more to come maybe on Saturday while i loaf around like some other bloggers do all day!!

Tournament Pictures!

Here are the pictures of the tourny

All you readers out there im hoping to have another one on Oct 31st in the evening...

Clone Trooper wannabe
Packing their fleets for the ride

The Draft
Assembling ships from the draft


Our token female player in the van

Still assembling
still more assembling
Yet still more assembling
The layout: Ping Pong table and another long table for play
Kayden and Kennadi helping Lydia with her cool ships

preparing their fleets and decks for battle

Prize and Freebie table (notice the super glue bottle! lol not a prize)
The three prizes were a Mega Model of a Victory Class, an IPUP and an O66 Assault Deck
Andrew seems overwhelmed by the ships he is making

Jonathan and Daniel... Friends even in battle!
Peter is a little too excited to get beat by Nathaniels Millenium Falcon!

Daniel obviously thinks its gonna be funny

Lydia brought her sweet playmat, i thought it was the coolest!!

Andrew seems to have like it too
Jacob K. mounting what looks like a formidable ground assault

The Ping Pong table was a little big to play accross so some of the shorter members had to adapt.
The Jacobs squaring off
The sweet Poster from Small Boy, Thanks again Slightlyiffy!
Pretty sweet looking!
At play in round one

The excited group! There I am with my cool Imperial Domination shirt, and Jonathan with the Clone Trooper helmet
Now I have the helmet on
Ok here goes from left to right, back row first: Leah, Jacob M, Jacob K, Nathan , Nathaniel, Josh. 2nd row: Lydia, Sarah, Christian, Daniel, Andrew and Jonathan

Front row: Kennadi and Peter... what a cute couple they make!

ouch the reserves look kind of full there Nathaniel... keep that Millenium Falcon alive!
Jacob vs Andrew; Nathaniel vs Daniel
Again the challenges of the ping pong table
Lydia got the first round bye win

Lydia with her cool playmat, about to put the smackdown on Chris

SWEET playmat!!!
Leah and an unknown player...
Brothers at war