Thursday, April 20, 2006

The kids

Hey here is a little picture of the girls at a recent easter egg hunt. They keep growing no matter what we feed them it's amazing!

I got nothing

I feel like I should write something just because I want to keep being somewhat consistent with updating this thing. But I'm not sure I have much to report. I just got back from Trail West which is YL's family camp up in Buena Vista, CO. I was up there for a training about the summer. The whole family is going to be spending the month of June at this camp. I'm going to be the summer staff coordinator for the month of June. Basically I'm in charge of shepharding and encouraging the college kids that come and volunteer a month of their summer to help us run some of the program at this camp. Two folks from McKinney are coming up, so that will be fun to have some familiar faces from the past along with us for the summer. But other than that news I don't have much. I run this half marathon in a little over a week and I'm totally not ready for it, so please pray for endurance and pain free running. Well gotta go!

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

My Butt hurts!

I thought I would stick with the same kid of theme! On Saturday I rode in my first bike race and rode 33 miles through the winding hills of Oklahoma in 40 degree cold windy weather. It was a lot of fun let me tell you! About mile 23 I kept asking myself what in the world I was doing out there. But thankfully I finished and will more than likely keep biking and do other races. Every time I have sat down since Saturday my butt keeps reminding me to never get on a bicycle seat again, but I kinda dumb. I have no idea how those Tour de France guys do it day in and day out! They are studs with a capital S.

On another note Kacey, Kally and I ran a 5k race that was associated with this bike race and had a lot of fun. Ab0ut at 1k Kacey is not doing to well and is having a little bit of a hard time, being the good father I am I try to encourage her. I say hey you can do this remember when you were 6 and we did the dino dash and it was a 5K! Well without missing a beat she looks up at me and say, "Yea dad but I'm not as young as I use to be". Mind you she is 8 now but I guess that is over the hill in her book. I just cracked up as well as all the other people around me, the good news is we finished the race and all that matters is that she got over the finish line before me. I guess she doesn't count the part of the race that I carried her on my shoulders. If I thought about it long enough I could probably come up with some sort of spiritual illustration to go with it, huh!!!!!