Congrats to Hope & Webster!

We are proud to say congrats to the first YSA (Young Single Adults) class members who found each other at CCC in YSA! What an honor to be a part of God bringing two people together...

We attended their wedding tonight at Fielder Road and they are off on the journey of bliss called marriage...it is bliss.....all the time, right?....ok, maybe not ALL the time....

First Vacation in Years! SKI TRIP 2007

Thanks to the hospitality of my best bud, Clint Locks and his wife Alysa, in Boulder, CO, and some amazing grandparents back here in DFW, Julie and I were able to finally sneak off for a quick 4 day vacation! We escaped to the slopes of Copper Mountain along with partners in crime, Matt and Melaine Sherman for some fun on the slopes!

We endured road closures, 90mph winds, 10inches of snow in one day and much more, along with a worthless Buick rental car!!! Ahhhh!

More pics will be posted on our website soon!

2007 Fast-Starting Like Mad...Like Usual!

The holidays of 2006 are begining to fade away into the distant past already as 2007 is rocking and rolling for the Speers gang!

Here is the latest:

1. Julie has started a fitness program called SupperMommies and I have started a new fitness program using BodyBugg with 24hr Fitness www.bodybugg.com . (My trainer starts kicking my arse on Tuesday! I need it.....gonna drop 40lbs people....just you all watch.)

2. Grandma Kat turned 84 last weekend! She is trucking right along and still amazes all of us. She might just outlive some of her own great-grandchildren!

3. Business is off and running again this year as we offically launched our health insurance division with Equal Health & Life via www.equalhealth.com . Funny thing is we are going to be one of the top sellers for Standard Life & Insurance Company (www.slaico.com) which has been around since 1888 and is based in all places in Galveston, Texas! They OWN Moody Gardens adn all things Moody - Moody Mansion, etc. Funny how 37 years later in life I now work with a company I never was there after all of those years living and playing in their backyard.....God is good.

4. We started a new equity finance division as well called Equal Access Financial Services. If you are making house payments or have a 401k plan you have got to get this book (Stop Sitting on Your Assets by Marian Snow) and read it. It will change your retirement plans. Anyone can be a millionaire by age 60 easy with this concept. Her book is on the top ten on Amazon and she is working directly with us as we launch this new program in the DFW, Houston, Austin and Oklahoma markets this year... http://www.StopSittingOnYourAssets.com is her site.

5. Julie turns 32 this weekend......moving yet another year further from 30!

6. My sister, Becky, turns 33 next week!

7. Julie just got back from a quick 3 day trip to Vegas with Katherine Curlee and my sister! See the photo of them riding the insane 1200ft high ride called INSANITY. From what she says, they were nearly in tears while waiting, but the the ride itself wasn't near as scary. Regardless, they are braver than I. http://www.insanityride.com/

8. Our young singles class at Crossroads is going very well. The first couple to come out of this group gets married next month.....exciting! Will there be more? I bet, but regardless, they are a great group of young people that love God!






9. We had our first snow and ice of the year too! It sure was pretty!


Hey, since you was up....check out the Curlees website.....you will laugh! http://www.thecurlees.com/thecurlees/Curlee_wp/

9. We are going skiiing in Colorado while visiting Clint and Alisa Locks in just two weeks! We are taking Matt & Melaine Sherman with us! Gonna be a blast!

10. Oh yea, in other big news, Bill Parcels has resigned as coach of the Boys after they blew it in Seattle during the playoffs....looks like it is going to be another long off-season as we tryu and figure out who the new coach will be!

See my Cowboys update and prediction.

Later!

For an update on our girls, click here... http://www.bradysgirls.blogspot.com/


Our website is updated with new 2007 photos as well - http://www.thefamilypost.com/speersfamily/

2007 DALLAS COWBOYS Prediction

For the record, here is what I think will happen...

Norv Turner and Jason Garrett will take over the team in 2007 and lead the team and star QB Tony Romo to its next SuperBowl appearance!

Turner will retire and Garrett will take over as head coach. He and Romo will help the Boys win TWO more SuperBowl titles - one in 2009 and another in 2011, which will be held at the NEW Texas Stadium in Arlington!

You heard it here folks!

181 Days Until TRAINING CAMP 2007 in San Antonio!

Get ready BIG DADDY....I'll be coming to see ya!

The Big Tuna is Done Fishing....

There will be no more Tuna Talk on channel 4 news....it's over. The Big Tuna, Bill Parcells, has decided enough is enough....even he can't fix these Dallas Cowboys.

Jerry oh Jerry what will you do now?

Bye Bill.

Christmas Pictures!

What a great time of year Christmas always is.....this year was exceptionally fun as we got to spend time here instead of traveling! The family came to us! The girls were a blast this year too as they really got into it for the first time. Though, they still aren't pals with Santa just yet!

See our website for pictures which will be added soon!

http://thefamilypost.com/speersfamily/

2006 Family Visit to HPU and Brownwood!

Now, Brownwood is not a place normally one thinks of to "get away" from it all during the holidays.....but for us, it was nice to go ANYWHERE, after being locked up in the house all week long with the girls having colds!

We did though, and it was a blast. Just a great, fun way to end one year and get ready for the New Year.

We got to see Clint, Alyssa, Brianna (their 13mth old daughter), and Pat. It was such a fun day that include Underwoods for lunch, touring of the massive HPU campus (sarcassim) and then some farm animal fun!

Happy New Year SADDAM!!!!!!!!

It's a great day for America and a great day for the world as SADDAM is dead, hung for his murders of thousands of innocent men, women and children!

Happy New Year everyone!

Freedom has a price, and Saddam paid his for refusing to allow others to enjoy it....

Christmas Time Is Here!

Merry Christmas everyone! It's hot in Texas so it really is hard to get into it all, but then again, it could snow tomorrow!

Have a great holiday - be safe - send us a card - and Happy New Year!

New pictures and videos have been uploaded to our website!

New EAH Car Program!

I rarely post business related matters on our personal blog, but I wanted to brag a little about our new Car Wrap campaign taking off in the DFW market. We plan to launch this into many other major cities over the next year as we focus on making EQUALHEALTH.COM a household name!

Look for us driving around!

Happy Thanksgiving Week Everyone!

It is just freaking us out that the holiday season is already here. Last night the family went with the Curlees to the Parks Mall in Arlington to see "Santa arrive"....we ran into some old HPU friends along the way....how time flies.

Enjoy the season as it is upon us! Get the turkey cooked, the house decorated and start doing some shopping!

Julie's Sister Has Baby!

See the details of our newest family addition, born last night!

http://papajackfamily.blogspot.com/

New Family Fall SlideShow!

Check it out!

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewalbum.html?alb=121146

Dad Turns 37....Girls Turn 14 months!

In many ways my life is flying by....37 years and counting as of today!

For the girls, though, theirs is just getting started, 14 months and counting today.

Today was daddy's day with Sidney and Chloe. I loaded them up, along with our two dogs and headed to the City of Mansfield "Pets Mania" day. Got the boys all registered and sniffed some butts...not me of course...the dogs did.

State Fair of Texas 2006

How can any Texan living in the DFW area, NOT visit the State Fair of Texas every year? Well, we missed last year too! But, no more misses!

What a great tradition. My wife and I had a great discussion about how great it is to live in Texas. Can you imagine singing, "The stars at night, are big and bright! (clap, clap, clap, clap)....deep in the heart of Idaho!"???

Give me a break. We know how to do things right and big in Texas. HUH-HUGE!

BTW - Check out the Ten Commandments stone at the entrance to the Fair....wonder how long that will last....?

Rayfield Wright to Speak at EAH Christmas Bash '06

A month back, I met this incredible Hall of Famer from the 70's in Fort Worth at one of his random appearances. I struck up a conversation with him and his publicist and next thing you know....he agreed to come speak at our annual EAH Christmas Bash this year!

NOTE - From those you non-Cowboys experts.....Rayfield Wright was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame this last summer, along with Troy Aikman and is one of only 6 Cowboys in the Hall! He's one of 200 men in the Hall, out of over 20,000 that have played in the NFL!

He is truly a great man of God and was a great man of football too!

Wanna come to the party? Just email me and I will get you a ticket!

Only 3 Years From The Big 40

In just 5 days, I will be THIS MUCH closer to turning 40! Holy Cow! I will be FORTY in just 3 years!

I guess it's time to go die my hair, get a new set of duds, a newer Corvette and see if I can win Julie's heart one more time.....

Life is flying - enjoy every second!

Thanks EAH family for throwing me a party at the office and getting me this insane Baskin Robins Cowboys cake....

New Website for Brady & Julie

Due to the high demands my web guy has at work (uhumm...Dave)...I have moved our family site to a new, easy-for-me-or-anyone-else-to-do site... check it out at http://www.thefamilypost.com/speersfamily/

It will be up and running by weeks end!

Meanwhile, all current posts will happen here or on our other blogs!

Love you all!

Go Cowboys!

9/11 Five Years Later....

Have you forgotten what happened on this day 5 years ago?

Many have....

Read this....

www.nobonesaboutit.blogspot.com

Babies Galore Update!

Over the last year, we have had tons of friends who have added children to their quivers!

Here are some photos of each of the newbies....

Clint & Alyssa Locks - girl "Brianna"














Michael & Brenna Heald - boy "Hunter"











Roy & Dondi Hayhurst - boy "Jordan"










Russell & Jenny Winter - girl "Briana"














Donnie & Sarah Franklin - girl "Riley"














Landon & Amy Doyle - girl "Avery"











Dave & Katherine Curlee - girl "Jillian"












Fernando & Heather Juarez - girl "Macie"













Tim & Megan Williams - boy "Nathan"














Glenn & Cassie McClelland- boy "Caleb"

Beach Getaway a Wave of Fun!

Our first family vacation was a success! It started a little rough as we had to finish packing in the pouring rain. Beck's truck door was left open the entire night as it rained so they were delayed in meeting us (yea, she was a little ticked off at one of her girls!). Plus, we thought we were going to have to turn around and come back home the next morning....but we stuck it out and things went fine. Sidney was having a reaction to the MMR shot she got last week and it gave her a high fever the day we left. She responded and was better on Tuesday morning though....so our plans went forward.

On the way down we stopped at the Sam Houston Statue close to Houston and then went on to near Friendswood to eat dinner at Casa 'Ole of course! Finally, we got to Galveston after a nine hour journey and our beach house was great. Way down the island far away from most activity which was nice. We ate at Marios one day, then Fuddruckers and ended the trip with dinner at the Rainforest Cafe, which was really cool.

We walked down the Sea Wall and we shopped The Strand. Our big thing was going to Moody Gardens and seeing all of the animals they have. Very neat. We drove into Houston Wednesday night to go see the BodyWorlds3 exhibit....which was INSANE!!! Wow. Go see it! It was at the Houston Museum which brought back even more memories for me. http://bodyworlds3.com/

The girls were just troopers then entire week. I mean they were great. They were in perfect moods and a ton of fun. They really love being out and about...thank God!

Of course, we spent lots of time in the sand and sun and what fun that was. The girls just freaked out over the waves and sand.

We built a huge sand castle which brought back so many memories for me of me, beck and mom. I sure thank mom for all of those beach getaways when I was a kid. They are some of my favorite times with her and my sister. I love Galveston and hope to own my own beach house there one day! So much about Galveston is the way it was 30 years ago when we first started going. Yet, so much has changed too.

It's not Cancun...it's just the Gulf Coast. But, it's only a cheap and quick 1 hour Southwest flight away!

I can't wait until we go back next year. We have much more to do and see...


Here is a slideshow of even more good pictures! (if the link doesn't work just look around in the different folders listed - it's there)

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.html?fl=2662864&alb=117305

Heading to the Gulf Goast!

I am excited. Not only am I heading back to my old stomping grounds of Galveston, but this will be our first "official" family vacation with Chloe and Sidney!

We leave in the morning as we are going with my sisters' family and we will be tested right away as a 7-8 hour drive will be in front of us. Hopefully the girls will sleep most of the way. Their farthest car travel so far has been to Tyler....just 2 hours! So, we will see!

We are renting a beach house for the week just feet from the water. So there will be plenty of sand and beach time! We also plan to visit The Strand, Moody Gardens and make a stop in Houston at the incredible "Body Exhibit". Of course stops at Casa O'le and Marios Famous Pizza will be in the plans as well!

It's gonna be a blast...

Da Boys and TO Looking Good!

Just got back from spending some time in the LA area for my annual stop-down at Cowboys training camp. To those of you that care....they look pretty darn good.

I'm sure gonna miss the 83 degree days in Cali next summer when it's 100+ here as usual....though I'm sure the wife is thankful I won't be away for 3 days anytime soon. I loved the three years of going out there....next year it will have to be the hot and humid San Antonio for fun! I can't wait to take the girls and see who we can get to sign!

Here are some neat photos I took during the two days I was there in Oxnard. (Click on them for larger versions)

DC Camp Photos