May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
May your feet never sweat,
your neighbor give you ne're a treat.
When flowers bloom, I hope you'll not sneeze,
and may you always
have someone to squeeze!
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Monday, March 14, 2005
The Weekend
Well the weekend was really productive. Manage to get a good portion of the house really clean. We are talking emptying cupboards and cleaning them out, reorganizing, dusting, dishes, vacuuming, and even Julianna's play room is fairly straightened up. Well until she got home and played for about 5 minutes. Oh well, can't be perfect. But it felt really good to get so much done.
Then on Sunday after church we had the college students from church over for pizza. It too was a good time. We were trying to see where their hearts were and what they were looking for from our church. I was really happy with what I heard come from them.
And in church Joe preached a stirring sermon that goes well with the idea Kevin has been talking about, how the gates of hell will not overcome us. (They are on a defensive and we are on the attack and we will not be overcome!) I am getting a new excitement stirring.
Then on Sunday after church we had the college students from church over for pizza. It too was a good time. We were trying to see where their hearts were and what they were looking for from our church. I was really happy with what I heard come from them.
And in church Joe preached a stirring sermon that goes well with the idea Kevin has been talking about, how the gates of hell will not overcome us. (They are on a defensive and we are on the attack and we will not be overcome!) I am getting a new excitement stirring.
Friday, March 11, 2005
5:00
Wow this day is dragging.
Can't wait for 5:00!
An evening alone with Amber tonight, Julianna is staying at the babysitters tonight.
We have a romantic night of cleaning and painting planned.
Have a great weekend!!
Can't wait for 5:00!
An evening alone with Amber tonight, Julianna is staying at the babysitters tonight.
We have a romantic night of cleaning and painting planned.
Have a great weekend!!
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Names
Why are names so hard to come up with? For starters, Amber's familiy if quite large and they see each other all the time. So you don't want to use any names of close family. Then like our top 2 or 3 names have been names of babies that were lost very young in her family, so defintely can't use them. Then Amber is a teacher so all those names of those (how to put this nicely) "problem" kids she has had she can't use.
Her dad has been doing family trees since before it became popular and easy with the internet. Dragging Amber along to old filing rooms looking through hours of papers. So we are both from Welsh backgrounds and thought a good Welsh name would be good. Well there are not a lot of those and the good ones wouldn't you know are all considered popular now. Everybody and their brother is suddenly jumping on the old English/Irish/Welsh name kick.
Well luckily we still have another 2 months to figure it out.
Her dad has been doing family trees since before it became popular and easy with the internet. Dragging Amber along to old filing rooms looking through hours of papers. So we are both from Welsh backgrounds and thought a good Welsh name would be good. Well there are not a lot of those and the good ones wouldn't you know are all considered popular now. Everybody and their brother is suddenly jumping on the old English/Irish/Welsh name kick.
Well luckily we still have another 2 months to figure it out.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Talk over Pizza
Well we had another good lunch at Pizza. Our discussions revolved around one of our favorite subjects sports. More specifically baseball and the upcoming season. Who is going to be starting on opening day and the such.
And we had a discussion that Kevin had in his class:
Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
His prof pointed out that gates are defensive units. Gates are not used to attack. So does that mean that when the church attacks, Hades will not be able to defend itself. Or is that the gates are used to mark your territory and Hades will not bring its territory over the Church? I like the first idea a little better. What do you think?
And we had a discussion that Kevin had in his class:
Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
His prof pointed out that gates are defensive units. Gates are not used to attack. So does that mean that when the church attacks, Hades will not be able to defend itself. Or is that the gates are used to mark your territory and Hades will not bring its territory over the Church? I like the first idea a little better. What do you think?
Birthdays and Pizza
I can't believe I forgot to mention yesterday was my mom's birthday. I sent her a card and I did call her. But she does read my blog as well so I wanted to mention and say "Hope you had a Happy Birthday Mom!" Hope dad bought you a milkshake.
Going out for pizza with the guys today. I so look forward to these days. We always have fun and good talks.
Going out for pizza with the guys today. I so look forward to these days. We always have fun and good talks.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
They cheated
Well I said I would not mention the bowling again if we lost, but we did, but they cheated. Okay so they didn't technically cheat. They just failed to mention that two of the girls use to league bowl. The one who scored the highest even had her own ball with her. She scored a 224 and the other one scored a 198. I did manage to score the highest score on my team the first game with a 140. Then on the second game I had the highest overall from both teams with a 182. We only lost by a total of 15 points on the second game. My boss was there and we were down by 17 on his last frame. So since we lost by 15 you can probably guess that he knocked all of two pins down.
But we had a lot of fun. There was a couple of people there who it was only their second time bowling. It was fun to see them get strikes and do pretty well. (for their second time bowling.) Just our two teams from work raised almost $500 for BBBS. By far the most raised there by any group, so we were glad we decided to do it.
But we had a lot of fun. There was a couple of people there who it was only their second time bowling. It was fun to see them get strikes and do pretty well. (for their second time bowling.) Just our two teams from work raised almost $500 for BBBS. By far the most raised there by any group, so we were glad we decided to do it.
Friday, March 04, 2005
Bowling
Tonight I get to go bowling. 5 guys against 5 girls from work are competing tonight in bowling for Big Brother and Big Sisters. The nice thing to say is that the real winners are the little brother and sisters. But we also know the winners are going to be the guys tonight! If you don't hear anymore about this next week the girls won, but I have a feeling I will have another posting about this on Monday.
P.S. I have had no practice, haven't been bowling in....months? Can't remember the last time?
P.S. I have had no practice, haven't been bowling in....months? Can't remember the last time?
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Cavs and Spurs
Went to my first NBA game last night. My friend, Ron, got us a couple of free tickets to go last night. They were good seats, but would never have paid the $60 face value for them. So it was cool I got to experience something I would not have otherwise.
We left right after work and drove (well Ron drove, I rode) for 2 hours through the snow to see the game. The first 3 quarters were a little slow, but it was a close game most of the time. The Cavs came back to tie it up with 12 seconds left only to leave Tim Duncan (in Ron's words) "wide wide wide open", to make a game winner at the buzzer.
LeBron had a mediocre game for him. But it was pretty exciting and glad I got to go. I spent most of the time taking pictures and will try to post a few in the day or so. Thanks Ron!!
We left right after work and drove (well Ron drove, I rode) for 2 hours through the snow to see the game. The first 3 quarters were a little slow, but it was a close game most of the time. The Cavs came back to tie it up with 12 seconds left only to leave Tim Duncan (in Ron's words) "wide wide wide open", to make a game winner at the buzzer.
LeBron had a mediocre game for him. But it was pretty exciting and glad I got to go. I spent most of the time taking pictures and will try to post a few in the day or so. Thanks Ron!!
Monday, February 28, 2005
The 100 List
I read on another blog that it is a rule that to be an official blogger you have to have a list of 100 random thoughts, facts and or figures about me. So after 3 months of doing a few at a time, here it is:
1. I love my wife.
2. I love my daughter.
3. I am 31.
4. I grew up in Delaware.
5. Star Wars brought me and my wife together.
6. I love going to the beach
7. I beginning to hate this cubicle.
8. I am approx 5' 10"
9. I was always really short for my age until I was about 17.
10.I am already getting stuck and I am only on #10
11. I love Classical music
12. My high school art teacher designed the back of the Delaware Quarter.
13. The back of the Delaware quarter was my high school's logo. (We were the Caesar Rodney Riders)
14. I have attended two Nazarene Colleges.
15. My best man's name from my wedding is Bubba.
16. He was my college roommate.
17. I lost one of my first best friends when I was 15.
18. He was my brother in law.
19. I now have 3 best friends, Lee, Pat and Bubba.
20. Well and of course my wife, Amber, but she is in a league of her own.
21. My degree is in Christian Education / Youth Ministry
22. I have a second child on the way.
23. I am hoping for a boy.
24. I will love whatever God gives us.
25. My parents live in Florida.
26. I miss them.
27. I wonder why it is that when you finally start to get your parents, that is when we move?
28. I have 2 older brothers
29. And an older sister.
30. My sister use to take me with her every where as kid. She's great!
31. My sister has given me a niece and a nephew. They are really great too.
32. I have been as far south in the US as Homestead, Florida. (Outside US to Ecuador)
33. As far North as Maine. (and to Canada)
34. As far West as Arizona
35. When in Ecuador, stood in northern and southern Hemisphere at the same time.
36. When I was in Homestead, it was 2 months after Andrew hit and it still looked like a war zone.
37. When in Ecuador, Arizona and Homestead, I was on a missions trip.
38. I have had 18 different jobs.
39. Besides Amber and I, there are 4 other expecting couples on our block alone.
40. Besides those 4, I have 4 other couple friends who are expecting as well.
41. I am a Pepsi person.
42. I use Crest toothpaste.
43. My most popular dish that I can make is fried macaroni.
44. I once met Michael Tait from DC Talk in a mall in Nashville.
45. I played football before a concert with The Samples and Jars of Clay.
46. My brother had dinner with the real Rudy the movie was based on.
47. I am wishing this list was only to 50.
48. I like Letterman much more than Leno.
49. I took photography in high school.
50. My favorite artist is Van Gogh.
51. I eat lunch every other week with 4 really good friends from church.
52. We usually go to Pizza Hut for the buffet.
53. Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic of all time.
54. I like the show Smallville.
55. I also like Enterprise.
56. And Alias.
57. My wife likes the CSI shows.
58. I have been surfing at 5 different beaches. (all on East coast)
59. I have been golfing in 6 different states.
60. I have visited 31 of the 50 states.
61. It has taken me so long to get this far that #3 was originally, I am ALMOST 31.
62. I love Ansel Adam's pictures.
63. I have a library card.
64. I also have a pretty big library fine.
65. I have spent 2 summers in Iowa.
66. I've had a picnic in a tree.
67. I proposed to my wife after singing "I want to grow old with you"
68. I had to erase this one b/c it was a duplicate.
69. I took second place in my fantasy football league.
70. I could have won if Donovan would have played the next to last game.
71. I have met Jim Thome and have is autograph.
72. At the same game I caught my first foulball.
73. It was the Phillies vs. the Reds.
74. I have more Star Wars stuff than I know what to do with.
75. I would love to sell a lot of it.
76. I am not good at eBay.
77. I have a talking picture frame at work that has Anna yelling "LUV YOU!"
78. Everybody at work "aw"s each time I play. (Well the ladies do)
79. I am looking forward to playing softball again this year.
80. I love to play Ultimate Frisbee as well.
81. I rarely get to anymore.
82. I have since moved to a different cubicle since typing #7.
83. Still not fond of this one either.
84. I should find out the sex of our next baby on the Anna's birthday.
85. I am disappointed Enterprise is being cancelled.
86. My new favorite site is J-Walk Blog.
87. I helped a friend get a free i-pod.
88. If he had bugged me much longer, the previous statement would have read, "former friend"
89. But he might help me get a shuffle.
90. I like my gmail account.
91. I am excited that after 4 months I am only 9 away from finishing this.
92. Although I have 3 best friends from growing up I have a few more newer ones that make the list. (Pizza Hut gang)
93. I have lived in Nashville for awhile.
94. Bavarian cream is my favorite kind of doughnut.
95. Mmmmmm...doughnut!! I like the Simpsons.
96. Sometimes I wish my blog talked about deeper things.
97. I am doing terrible so far on my new year's resolutions.
98. I love to watch Anna sleep at night.
99. I miss my family while at work.
100. I love Amber and Anna and my unborn child. (Ok so 2 out of those 3 were the same as the first 2, but they are worth repeating!)
1. I love my wife.
2. I love my daughter.
3. I am 31.
4. I grew up in Delaware.
5. Star Wars brought me and my wife together.
6. I love going to the beach
7. I beginning to hate this cubicle.
8. I am approx 5' 10"
9. I was always really short for my age until I was about 17.
10.I am already getting stuck and I am only on #10
11. I love Classical music
12. My high school art teacher designed the back of the Delaware Quarter.
13. The back of the Delaware quarter was my high school's logo. (We were the Caesar Rodney Riders)
14. I have attended two Nazarene Colleges.
15. My best man's name from my wedding is Bubba.
16. He was my college roommate.
17. I lost one of my first best friends when I was 15.
18. He was my brother in law.
19. I now have 3 best friends, Lee, Pat and Bubba.
20. Well and of course my wife, Amber, but she is in a league of her own.
21. My degree is in Christian Education / Youth Ministry
22. I have a second child on the way.
23. I am hoping for a boy.
24. I will love whatever God gives us.
25. My parents live in Florida.
26. I miss them.
27. I wonder why it is that when you finally start to get your parents, that is when we move?
28. I have 2 older brothers
29. And an older sister.
30. My sister use to take me with her every where as kid. She's great!
31. My sister has given me a niece and a nephew. They are really great too.
32. I have been as far south in the US as Homestead, Florida. (Outside US to Ecuador)
33. As far North as Maine. (and to Canada)
34. As far West as Arizona
35. When in Ecuador, stood in northern and southern Hemisphere at the same time.
36. When I was in Homestead, it was 2 months after Andrew hit and it still looked like a war zone.
37. When in Ecuador, Arizona and Homestead, I was on a missions trip.
38. I have had 18 different jobs.
39. Besides Amber and I, there are 4 other expecting couples on our block alone.
40. Besides those 4, I have 4 other couple friends who are expecting as well.
41. I am a Pepsi person.
42. I use Crest toothpaste.
43. My most popular dish that I can make is fried macaroni.
44. I once met Michael Tait from DC Talk in a mall in Nashville.
45. I played football before a concert with The Samples and Jars of Clay.
46. My brother had dinner with the real Rudy the movie was based on.
47. I am wishing this list was only to 50.
48. I like Letterman much more than Leno.
49. I took photography in high school.
50. My favorite artist is Van Gogh.
51. I eat lunch every other week with 4 really good friends from church.
52. We usually go to Pizza Hut for the buffet.
53. Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic of all time.
54. I like the show Smallville.
55. I also like Enterprise.
56. And Alias.
57. My wife likes the CSI shows.
58. I have been surfing at 5 different beaches. (all on East coast)
59. I have been golfing in 6 different states.
60. I have visited 31 of the 50 states.
61. It has taken me so long to get this far that #3 was originally, I am ALMOST 31.
62. I love Ansel Adam's pictures.
63. I have a library card.
64. I also have a pretty big library fine.
65. I have spent 2 summers in Iowa.
66. I've had a picnic in a tree.
67. I proposed to my wife after singing "I want to grow old with you"
68. I had to erase this one b/c it was a duplicate.
69. I took second place in my fantasy football league.
70. I could have won if Donovan would have played the next to last game.
71. I have met Jim Thome and have is autograph.
72. At the same game I caught my first foulball.
73. It was the Phillies vs. the Reds.
74. I have more Star Wars stuff than I know what to do with.
75. I would love to sell a lot of it.
76. I am not good at eBay.
77. I have a talking picture frame at work that has Anna yelling "LUV YOU!"
78. Everybody at work "aw"s each time I play. (Well the ladies do)
79. I am looking forward to playing softball again this year.
80. I love to play Ultimate Frisbee as well.
81. I rarely get to anymore.
82. I have since moved to a different cubicle since typing #7.
83. Still not fond of this one either.
84. I should find out the sex of our next baby on the Anna's birthday.
85. I am disappointed Enterprise is being cancelled.
86. My new favorite site is J-Walk Blog.
87. I helped a friend get a free i-pod.
88. If he had bugged me much longer, the previous statement would have read, "former friend"
89. But he might help me get a shuffle.
90. I like my gmail account.
91. I am excited that after 4 months I am only 9 away from finishing this.
92. Although I have 3 best friends from growing up I have a few more newer ones that make the list. (Pizza Hut gang)
93. I have lived in Nashville for awhile.
94. Bavarian cream is my favorite kind of doughnut.
95. Mmmmmm...doughnut!! I like the Simpsons.
96. Sometimes I wish my blog talked about deeper things.
97. I am doing terrible so far on my new year's resolutions.
98. I love to watch Anna sleep at night.
99. I miss my family while at work.
100. I love Amber and Anna and my unborn child. (Ok so 2 out of those 3 were the same as the first 2, but they are worth repeating!)
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Baseball Movies
Just had lunch with a great friend of mine at Pizza Hut. We were discussing good baseball movies to add to my dvd collection. We came up with in no certain order: (except #1 really is #1)
1. Field of Dreams
2. The Natural
3. The Rookie
4. Eight Men Out
5. The Pride of the Yankees
6. Little Big League
7. The Sandlot
8. Major League
You will notice Major League II and III are purposefully missing because we were discussing GOOD baseball movies. If anyone can think of more please add to the comments. Thanks!
1. Field of Dreams
2. The Natural
3. The Rookie
4. Eight Men Out
5. The Pride of the Yankees
6. Little Big League
7. The Sandlot
8. Major League
You will notice Major League II and III are purposefully missing because we were discussing GOOD baseball movies. If anyone can think of more please add to the comments. Thanks!
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
America's Past Time
Baseball starts in less than 6 weeks. Yeah, they get paid too much. Yes, ticket prices are too high. Yet it is America's past time and I love to go out to a live game. The great outdoors, peanuts, hotdogs, the sound of the crowd, the crack of the bat. It also doesn't hurt that a friend of mine gets me great seats for free, or we go to the minor league games for a much smaller price as well and can still get great seats. Last year I got my first foul ball in 20 years of going to games.
My favorite team is the Phillies and I went to a game at the Vet thanks to my wonderful wife who bought my dad and I tickets for Father's Day in the Vet's last year. And for the first time in all the years going there as an adult I was just as excited to get to meet the Phanatic. I'll try to post the picture of me with him soon. So I am looking forward to the start of a new season.
My favorite team is the Phillies and I went to a game at the Vet thanks to my wonderful wife who bought my dad and I tickets for Father's Day in the Vet's last year. And for the first time in all the years going there as an adult I was just as excited to get to meet the Phanatic. I'll try to post the picture of me with him soon. So I am looking forward to the start of a new season.
Friday, February 18, 2005
More Anna stories
The other day Anna is going through my wallet and one of my business cards are left laying around. I have no idea where she heard this? She brings me my card hands it to me and say, "Call me" and walks away. Amber and I were rolling.
Then about a week ago she brought a Capri sun out to drink. I took it from her and gave it to Amber to open. Well I guess she thought I was taking it from her so that she couldn't have it. So she went back to get another one but didn't want me taking the next one from her so she pointed at me and said "Stay here, I get juice." She is so cute....sometimes.
Then about a week ago she brought a Capri sun out to drink. I took it from her and gave it to Amber to open. Well I guess she thought I was taking it from her so that she couldn't have it. So she went back to get another one but didn't want me taking the next one from her so she pointed at me and said "Stay here, I get juice." She is so cute....sometimes.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Blog Review
Now everyone who has a blog can get a positive review, thanks to PageBoost.
Here's what Joey Hay, Daily new News, of Best links has to say about this blog:
"I just saw Medium Depth Thoughts. If only the W3C would have an awesome page like that. The source for this page is completely uncluttered. It must have taken eons to design the page. The color scheme is fantastic. There are 26,159 characters in the HTML, which is a high-quality length for American users. Glorious. The URL has 31 characters. That's just the right size.
Seeing Medium Depth Thoughts, I'm simply speechless. Powerful but elegant. (...)
Of course, I expected the creator to achieve only the best. The page contains 59 links, a balanced amount. What a swell page! I totally loved it."
Here's what Joey Hay, Daily new News, of Best links has to say about this blog:
"I just saw Medium Depth Thoughts. If only the W3C would have an awesome page like that. The source for this page is completely uncluttered. It must have taken eons to design the page. The color scheme is fantastic. There are 26,159 characters in the HTML, which is a high-quality length for American users. Glorious. The URL has 31 characters. That's just the right size.
Seeing Medium Depth Thoughts, I'm simply speechless. Powerful but elegant. (...)
Of course, I expected the creator to achieve only the best. The page contains 59 links, a balanced amount. What a swell page! I totally loved it."
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Name Blog
I found this interesting blog about names. Just thought I would post on my site since I know so many people who are currently expecting.
http://babynamewizard.com/blog/
http://babynamewizard.com/blog/
Friday, February 11, 2005
TGIF
Well it is Friday and once again very grateful for the weekend. Going to go out on a date with Amber for the first time in awhile. (Yes unfortunately it took the Hallmark holiday for us to be able to plan a date. Something we plan to remedy in the near future.)
During this week I have become even more thankful for good friends. Had a good talk about where I am and where I am going with one friend who I appreciate more than he probably knows. (but since he is one of the few who read my blog he probably now knows) And I had a good lunch with another friend who I was able to just talk very comfortably about just the regular things of life and who I can email back and forth to keep my day going.
I have things I need to evaluate and some major adjustments I want to make to my routine of life. Be praying I have the strength and wisdom to get them done.
During this week I have become even more thankful for good friends. Had a good talk about where I am and where I am going with one friend who I appreciate more than he probably knows. (but since he is one of the few who read my blog he probably now knows) And I had a good lunch with another friend who I was able to just talk very comfortably about just the regular things of life and who I can email back and forth to keep my day going.
I have things I need to evaluate and some major adjustments I want to make to my routine of life. Be praying I have the strength and wisdom to get them done.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Typical
Well the Eagles loss in typical Philadelphia tradition. It is not that they are a bad team. They definitely could have won. My thought is that they beat most teams so easily all year long that when it came down to coming from behind and managing the clock it was foreign thing to them. They beat the majority of the team by more than 10 points and had no need for a hurry up offense all year long. Luckily for Philadelphia fans we have grown use to this kind of pain and have learned how to heal a little quicker. Well I guess it is going to be a long 6 weeks of winter.
Friday, February 04, 2005
6 weeks?
Well groundhog day was this week and Phil saw his shadow. 6 more weeks of winter....Which I believe pretty much happens even if he doesn't see his shadow? We are trying to warm up at work by having a Skyline lunch. It is not the official chili but someone here apparently can come pretty close to the recipe.
Plus 6 weeks of winter will be a breeze to handle if my Eagles can change the normal fate of Philadelphia sports team and Win the SuperBowl!!! If they don't it will be a miserable 6 more weeks of winter. We shall see. *fingers crossed*
Plus 6 weeks of winter will be a breeze to handle if my Eagles can change the normal fate of Philadelphia sports team and Win the SuperBowl!!! If they don't it will be a miserable 6 more weeks of winter. We shall see. *fingers crossed*
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