05/23/2026
The best days I have at Bay Audio Video are the days I get the least work done. Not because my kids are demanding my attention - they're incredibly good and entertain themselves. It's because I can't stop listening. I stand/sit at my desk and I hear their laughter through the wall, their joy, their excitement to be at work with Dad, and I just stop working and soak it in. A couple weeks ago my four kids built a fort in the storage room with sheets and blankets to set up rooms to play family, took turns on the spare phones pretending to call customers, walked on my walking pad while I worked at my sitting/standing desk, and recorded their own podcast on my podcast gear. The fort, the family, the phones, the walking pad - that's a normal couple times a month at Bay Audio Video. The podcast was new. And it was one of the most life-giving days I've had at the office, just like every time my children join me at work.
In these pictures, you are getting to see the most important things in my life. Our customers are incredibly important to me. Our employees are so valuable. The business is a good thing, and money is necessary to live, but every single one of them ranks far below what you see in these images.
The number two most important thing in my world is my marriage; my amazingly awesome, incredibly beautiful wife, Dae. Third are our children; an indescribable gift given to us to steward and cultivate by the Creator of the universe. And the number one most important thing to me is my relationship with Jesus.
Maybe you're wondering about being able to see Jesus in these pictures. Because my family, my wife, my children, and myself bear the image of our Creator. Our marriage is a picture of His relationship with us, and He gave us the gift of creating children together.
I so enjoy serving our great customers and cultivating and serving our employees and running Bay Audio Video and solving problems and providing solutions, but the reason I'm able to do those things is because of the gifting that God has given me and the greatest gifts that He's given - first Himself, second my marriage, and third my children.
The kids ask if they can use the spare phones and they sit in the back and pretend that they're calling customers and having business conversations. Or they just call each other and talk about life. This last time, they saw my podcast gear set up from the day before when I was recording, and they asked me if I could leave it set up and record them. So I turned everything on, pushed record on the computer, and then set up Mario Kart for them to play on the TV, which they played for over an hour while talking and laughing all while the recording was going on. And I could hear their laughs and their conversations from my office, and it brought me so much joy and was a great reminder of why I do what I do. Once they finished playing Mario Kart, they asked if they could use the headphones and a microphone, and my youngest daughter sat down to interview her siblings one at a time and talk about their lives in our family.
Why do I do what I do? Why does Bay Audio Video exist? If you're still wondering, look at the pictures and you'll see the image of God displayed in my family, a picture of my marriage and the family that we have created within our marriage. I hope these pictures give you a little window into my heart, who I am, why I do what I do, and why I exist. Thank you for allowing me, my family, and our team to serve you. We look forward to many, many more years.
-Skip Emminizer
