Good times today after staff meeting. Our staff enjoyed lunch together at Pizza Hut and then a quick trip to the local go-kart track where four of us enjoyed a 5-minute race against each other. I’m pretty sure I spun PJ around twice (see picture below), put Sharon into the wall once or twice, got slammed once or twice by PJ, and never even nudged my wife! (I know better)

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Thank you God, for digital cameras!


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Stout Moose-lodge soldiers at a funeral today

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Our amazing daughter and her cute little helmet!

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My girls

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Ella and Daddy!

It’s early

4.16.2007 — 1 Comment

Pastor J will be picking me up in the darkness in about 10-minutes. The orange rolls are nearly finished, and I just heard Jess stirring my coffee in my xtra-tall mug!

I have a wonderful wife!

It’s almost 6AM and today will be jam-packed for sure.

Pre-surgery hospital visit this morning, funeral around Noon, and then down to Riley to visit my buddy Andrew.

Conversation will be good along those couple-hundred miles today! I’m thankful for a great friend in my Senior Pastor!

One of this past week’s “Slick Deals” was an amazing deal on some dresses and other apparel at “The Children’s Store”. I was able to get 3 dresses, and a winter jacket for Ella for too-good-of-a-deal-to-pass-up.

The clothing items arrived yesterday and it didn’t take much talking into for Jess to put one of the dresses on Ella for church today:

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Yesterday I rode my bike through the Byer Farm trails/walkway that runs from Pike Lake to the local hospital and thought to myself, I wish I could share this experience with my family.

Last night I couldn’t stop thinking about getting Ella a bike trailer that we could hook up to one of our bike’s and safely tow her behind us on a bike ride through the neighborhood and even the local trails.

This afternoon I nearly sang the Hallelujah chorus when I found a bike trailer for under 80-bucks at Walmart.com! I quickly called our local store and had them put their last one on hold for me up at customer service.

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As soon as we got home from Wal-Mart, I just HAD to put the thing together, get my daughter inside and snap a couple dozen photos. Here’s Ella inside her early birthday present.
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Now, if these snow-flurries would end and the temperature would rise, we could go on a family-bike-riding excursion!