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Lost, Vantage Point, Private Kicking, and a Funeral

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Ok… today was a fun day.

  • I just got done watching Lost episode 5 of Season 4 – “The Constant”. Holy Cow! Lost is so creative and imaginitive and insane – it’s just crazy.  I am so proud to be a Lost fan! 🙂 What would your constant be?
  • I watched Vantage Point tonight with Everett. It was a REALLY GOOD (not great) movie.  It is definitely worth watching. I actually caught myself biting my knuckles at one point (not just because I had to go to the bathroom badly).  I had really high expectations of this movie because it looked so awesome from the preview. But if I went into that movie with a “tabula rosa” (clean slate) mind and had never seen the previews, I would walk away happy.
  • Private Kicking – So I watched the Truth building today – meaning from 3-6 we have kids there hanging out and I’m responsible. Well at closing time I walk outside and see a kid laying on the ground and another kid sees me and starts walking away (at a hurried pace).  I go to the kid and I can see a tear in his eye and I ask him if he is ok. He doesn’t move. So I’m like, “uh-oh.”  Long story short he finally started talking. Turns out he and his friend were trying to kick each other where it hurts and apparently the other kid won. Oh the stupid games we boys play.  There’s more to this story but I don’t want to say it on here because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
  • I went to my first student ministry related funeral today. Nick’s (drummer in band) grandfather passed away this week and the service was today. I feel so privileged that God has called me to minister to students. I hope I am way over communicating to them that I care and that they can come to me about anything.

It’s time for bed. Tomorrow I am going to search desperately for a place to rent for my family and I. The church is going to help my family and I out so they don’t have to wait until the house sells to move here.  So the ball is in my court. I have to find us a place to live temporarily and then I can go get my family. Kinda reminds me of “I have gone to prepare a place for you and now I am going to go get my bride.”  It has officially been a month now since I have seen my wife and kids. I miss them terribly.

Missing da kids

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I was looking through photobooth pics tonight and was really missing the kids. (sorry honey, no pics of you in photobooth)

Thought I would share this one.

I'm Your Uncle Barry!

Funny Thoughts

I’m Your HuckleBerryLuke Got this gun and holster today. I told him to go say to his mommy, “I’m your huckleberry”. Instead he went in there and said, “I’m your uncle barry!”

It's Been Awhile

Cool God Stuff Family Thoughts

Wow, I haven’t blogged in a while.  It’s kind of a shame because I have had a lot of blog-worthy events going on.

  • Top of the list – I got to baptize my daughter.  That definitely ranks up there with one of the best days of my life.  It was an unforgettable experience.  It’s pretty awesome to baptize anyone and I’ve had that opportunity a few times, but this was the best.  I also baptized my two cousins Autumn & Eli on the same day.
  • My grandmother had a very bad accident.  I am still praising God because she walked away without a scratch.  She called me while in the car after the accident telling me she had a wreck.  I didn’t think it was that bad, but when I pulled up to the scene there were 3 Counties and 2 ambulances.  That kind of freaked me out.  I walked down into the ditch and first thing she did was hand me the check she was delivering to me.  She was on her way to see me @ the church office.  I knew then she was ok. 🙂  They put her on a stretcher and took her to the hospital for x-rays.  Everything came back ok and they sent her home.  She is still sore today, but doing great!
  • Today is my last day before I take a week of vacation!  WHOOO-HOOOO!
  • Had Lost night last night, never noticed before – but in the episode “Adrift” of season 2 the shark in the water has a Dharma logo near it’s tail.
  • Halo 3 is AWESOME!
  • Bought Madden 08 with my birthday money from my Grandparents in Florida.  It is awesome.  Currently I’m doing the superstar mode because I don’t have much time to play and that way I get to play only when my player is on the field.

I know I’m missing something I wanted to blog about, but oh well. That’s what happens when you don’t do it everyday.

Going wakeboarding

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I am getting ready to go out on my Mom’s boat.  I am pumped because the last time I wakeboarded I jumped wake to wake.  This was the very last thing I did and then had to quit for the day.  So hopefully I can do it again.  Only problem is, it’s not on a wakeboarding boat, it is a bayliner. But it should help me get better at popping off the wake.

C-ya!

No he didn't!

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Tim Stevens who is a pastor at Granger posted this blog the other day! Can’t wait until all of our kids are at school because I LOVE PIZZA!

Benefits of working late?

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The reason I am working late:

My daughter had to get a shot today for Chicken Pox for school tomorrow and she wanted me to take her because last time I held her hand and she didn’t cry. I love being a Daddy! 🙂

Mini-Vacation Day 1 and 2

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Well.  In case I got you curious.  We went to Wytheville, Va.  It’s only about an hour away from home.  The purpose of this trip was just to get away before summer ended and let the kids have fun at the pool at the hotel.

We came up yesterday.  It’s my family (wife & 3 kids), my Mom, Grandma, Uncle, and his two kids (Autumn & Eli).  Everyone came up early yesterday except my Uncle and I.  We came up after I got off work.  When I got here, we ate at the best Chinese place ever.  I say this because I have never eaten at PF Chang’s, so in my world, Peking is best!

Then we went swimming for a long time.  Mia made two friends (as usual) and Luke made two friends.  Luke’s friends were probably 12 yrs old each.  Luke is 3.

Then we came up to the room and played some wii until it was time for bed.  Still loving the wii!

This morning we woke up late (9-10).  Uncle, Mia, Autumn, Eli, and myself all went to Galewinds Amusement Park.  We played putt-putt golf, drove go-karts, and spent money in the arcade.

Then we ate at Troy’s Original Philly Cheesesteak.  I of course got a cheesesteak.  It was awesome! Highly recommended.  Everyone else got a pizza.

Eli and I played more wii while everyone else went swimming.  Now Tyra is asleep and the girls are gone shopping.  Thought I’d take the quite peaceful moments to blog.

I’ll post more tomorrow hopefully!  The plan is to go to some wildlife reservation and let the kids see all the animals.  Then we will come home!