Nate needs your help!

FINAL PUSH!!! - Contest ends tomorrow, January 15th!!! I still need more people!
Update: I'm sharing $100.00 of my prize money with one of YOU! To give everyone a little incentive, we've decided to put everyone who signs up for an account and adds nate as a friend in a drawing, and if I win the contest, we'll draw a name, that person gets $100 bucks. And you can get an extra entry in the drawing for everyone you get to sign up and ADD NATE as a FRIEND. Just tell me who you referred. And I'll give you another entry for putting it on your facebook, twitter, myspace, or whatever other web page. $100 bucks can be yours people!

If you simply want to help out, and don't care to read the mumbo jumbo, just do these three things (completely free and fast):
1. Register for an account at http://www.wishteller.com/Home/Register (Note: all you need to provide is a username, a birth year, a password, and an email address. No need for the other stuff)
2. Then go to this link: http://www.wishteller.com/Friend/Search (or just hover over "My Friends", and click on "Find Friend". )
3. Then search for "nate packer" (without quotes) in the search box, and click on "Invite" next to my name. (you'll see my username as paqman)

Thats it!
OR you can leave a comment saying that we can sign up your email address, and we can do the registering part for you.
Read on if you want to know what's going on...

The company I work for just built a new website, and to promote it, they are having a contest among all the employees to see who can get the most friends on the site. It's called WishTeller.com. You basically make a list on the site of stuff you want, making it easier for everyone to find gifts for eachother that they actually want/need.

Anyway, you can read more about the site on the site if you want. But what I need from you is to simply register for an account and add me as your friend. The person with the most friends by January 15th wins $1000! (Only employees, sorry, you're not eligible.)

Anyway, here's all you have to do:

1. Register for an account at http://www.wishteller.com/Home/Register
2. The go to this link: http://www.wishteller.com/Friend/Search and search for "nate packer" in the search box, and click on "Invite" next to my name. (you'll see my username as paqman)

Thats it!

p.s. If you get errors on the website, don't worry about it, you're not doing anything wrong. The site isn't perfect yet. You can just try again, or try later.

Please see the post about the contest and help.

It ends tomorrow! Link- http://packerworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/nate-needs-your-help.html

Ryan vs. Velociraptors

What do Ryan and Velociraptors have in common?

They can both open doors. >:-(

Michael Jackson vs. Mr. Bean

I know this is supposed to be a blog about us, but I just couldn't pass up posting this. It's short, and it's funny. The way all good internet videos should be. Enjoy!

Long over due pictures

The kids loved camping this summer and Maddie is so upset that she now has to wait all the way until next summer to go again. She says that's FOREVER.


Celebrating birthdays at Grandma's! This summer Maddie turned 5 and Ryan turned 2.

Ryan does his "big cheese" for every picture now!
Riding the Train and Lagoon. Ryan loves trains and this was one of the highlights of his summer.




Don't ask me why the the vacuum is one of his most favorite things. He begs me to pull it out all the time.
Ryan's grumpy face. He does this face all the time too because he loves the laughs he gets from it.

Maddie's Easter dress. That smile is because she absolutely loves getting all pretty'd up.

Shower Surprise

I go to the gym every day before work. Most of the time I shower at the gym as well. Some days I shower at work. Today I showered at work. Today there was poop in the shower at work. Poop. Human poop. Who would do such a thing? A jerk, that's who. Luckily, there are two showers at work, and the other one was poop free. Because I'm such a nice person, I did not take any photos of this to share with you. But I really wanted to.

Toy Story 3 Trailer!

It's here! The official theatrical trailer for Toy Story 3 leaked onto YouTube recently, but it may not supposed to be there, so you better watch this before it gets pulled. Is anyone else as excited for Toy Story 3 as I am? (Hit the full screen button. You'll enjoy it more.)

Update: Looks like they've pulled it, so if the video below doesn't work, the folks at SlashFilm have archived it, so go to this link to watch it.