1. My husband has red hair
2. He Plays the violin
3. He has been playing violin since he was four
4. Hubby loves to be in school
5. He has three degrees but has worked on 5 total
6. He will someday finish his PhD is Linguistics
7. He took Creek and Hebrew together in college and did very well!
8. Our senior year of college in the first semester he took 30 credits. 24 at our college and 6 through correspondence through Moody!
9. He got a 4.0 that semester! And the one after that!
10. Hubby also plays the trumpet
11. He is an excellent artist.
12. He makes beautiful furniture
13. He has a degree in Wood Products engineering
14. He has been called a true craftsman
15. we planned our honeymoon as a surprise for me!
16. He has helped build a church
17. he almost fell head first off the roof of that church. Like head dangling off the edge when he finally stopped sliding
18. He loves the West…as in west of the Mississippi
19. He can drive standard…
20. and learned AFTER we bought a brand new standard car!
21. He is a born tigger
22. He isa an early bird
23. I have learned more from his teaching and preaching that I have learned fom any other college prof or pastor!
24. He has taken Aramaic
25. he finished a four year bible degree in 2and a half years!
26. He played Soccer in High school
27. He has one brother
28. He has always wanted a sister!
29. I am convinced he can fix anything..and he has some proof!
30. He is a great writer
31. he is a great dad.
32. He makes great forts out of all and I do mean all the mattresses in our house!
33. he has arthritis
34. he loves lemon meringue Pie
35. He thinks I am a great cook
36. He has remodeled almost out whole house and has not hired a single person. His dad did help paint though
37. He installs showers and kitchen counter tops into multi million dollar homes!
38. He has been through most of the lower 48 states
39. He is a pastor
40. he has been ordained
41. he lost about 40 lbs the year after we were married (work related…he now looks normal again!
42. He sang in choir in college
43. He played inermurral Volleyball and Soccer in College
44. We have ministered on a drama team together
45. That drama team performed in NYC together
46. He was on a World Champion Odyssey of the Mind Team
47. He has driven from Southern Florida to Detroit MI without stopping…Yes that means NO SLEEP!
48. He was an RA in college
49. He worked as night security guard at our college
50. He has worked at UPS
51. he loves old TV shows…I think that my fault
52. Hubby has his own library which takes up a whole room in our basement and you can hardly walk in it!
53. He numbers his books just like the Dewey decimal system
54. He has taken huge pews and cut them down so they can fit in a normal sized church…And you could never tell that he had them all apart!
55. I was his first and last girlfriend!
56. He is a gentleman
57. He loves his kids
58. he is funny!
59. he loves classical music
60. He like Steven Curtis Chapman music
61. Plays Apples to Apples Very well
62. Almost got hit by lightning as a kid
63. Lived at a bible conference one summer
64. is very intelligent
65. was taking college classes while in high school
66. Has played with community orchestras and college orchestras since he was in high school
67. Enjoys camping
68. loves the Old testament
69. Deuteronomy is his favorite book of the Bible
70. favorite color is blue
71. once tried to load my foot into a UPS truck when he was sleeping!

Tonight was hair cutting night. Both of our little guys DESPRETLY needed haircuts! So when they had been cut and bathed this is what we had..A dark hair brother and a blond haired brother that look oh so similar and just as cute as cute can be!
Just a side note from tonight all of my posts from tonight through the weekend will be auto posts as we will be away though the weekend as Hubby is candidating at a church on Long Island!

Pray for us so we will know the Lord’s will in said matter and we will pray for all of you to have a great weekend and…
GOD BLESS!

Tonight at dinner we were all sitting around the dinner table. Tornado Myself and lady bug had all finished and we were waiting patiently on daddy and Vug when tornado goes. Oh No We gotta get the hiccups out. I asked him if he wanted a drink to which he replied…”Please take off my head and get the hiccups out?” To which I replied..Oh if it were only that easy!

I had so much fun yesterday. Yesterday was hubby’s and my 5 year class reunion from the school in which we graduated from together. College that is. We had a lot of fun…though there was only three of us. Hubby and I made two and a close friend who just happened to decide to also come that morning showed up. Another guy from our class who had decided to come was unable to attend the festivities . Just as hubby and I were getting ready to leave he showed up. Apparently one of his younger brothers had had a stroke that morning. He was Ok but that being said he belonged with him. The downer for the say was that the school has had a hard time attracting the likes of the younger alumni…well there is a huge reason for that…No day care…It tough when you travel lots of miles…there are no baby-sitters to be found (they pick an awful time for reunions…Friday afternoons….anyway so we ended up having a friend who is very pregnant watch our two youngest while we took Tornado with us. He did Ok but it is tough for a three year old who was in the car for 3 hours then to sit for a chapel service then through lunch and a reunion time…. But still we had fun!

THANKS RUTH FOR SHARING!!! However i must note that i am not one of those types of women. I can’t do it all..Hubby and I work regularly together as a team..Which has made us so close. I also think that Hubby could beat the pants off of most men. After all he has been known for his time management abilities, I guess that is why he could work 12 to 4 am…go to college full time at one school with24 credit hours and take 6 credits in correspondence courses and still get a 4.0. All the while being an RA in the guys dorm, being engaged and oh so much more!!! I am so proud of him and I know he would succeed! THIS IS A RIOT! THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes. They will also attend cubs, brownies, sea cadets or similar. There is no fast food. Each man must: take care of his 3 children, keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, also, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of ‘pretend’ bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time–no emailing. Each man must also take each child to a doctor’s appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment. He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to A & E He must also make gingerbread men or choc chip cakes for a social function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times. The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn themselves with jewelery, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed. During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal pain, persistent lower back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings, but never once complain or slow down from other duties. They must attend weekly school meetings, concerts & plays, church, and find time at least once a week, to spend the afternoon in the park or a similar setting. They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am. A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child’s birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size, teachers name, best friends name and doctor’s name. Also the child’s weight at birth, time of birth, and length of labor, each child’s favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up. The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if… he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment’s notice. If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years eventually earning the right To be called Mother!

This really caught my attention this morning!

“The definition of maturity is the ability to delay pleasure.”

This becomes more apparent when you have a toddler and that toddler does something he is not supposed to do. Then when asked why he did it he says “because i wanted to”!!!

What a perfect picture of the quote above!

Mostly out of sheer forgetfulness I have failed to mention we have hit a major milestone with our oldest tornado…He is Potty-trained! And he’s been so for a while now!

We are so proud of you little one!

Friday, September 12, 2008
Vacation Is Over!

So Here it is Ladies and Gentleman.
I took this break for a few reasons. I had somethings I really needed to do..home wise. Our basement project which I was really hoping to be done say Sunday will not be done until next week Probably Wednesday-ish photos will be posted!)

Then there were the kids..We started homeschooling Tornado and he has completed his second full week of Pre-K…we do three times a week . I have had to rework my schedule around this new item of joy. Tornado loves it and actually has been sleeping a lot better since we have been giving his brain a work out.

And then finally I have had some problems with wording some post idease i have had for some time..i guess writer’s block you could say….so what better to help with writer;s block is to get away from the problem. I was perhaps to hasty when i said no email or computer for a week. I forgot when i write that that hubby really counts on me to let him know when there is an amil he needs to respond to. So on Wednesday I started using the computer again!. I have been secretly reading all your blogs and catching up!!!

But no writing for me! That meant comments to other blogs or replies to email.. I really needed the clean slate to work with!

So the first post will be..NOT JUST A MOM BLOGGER

Then an excerpt from this will be used to replace my

about me

Section on my sidebar. Mentally i am still working on it so it could be later today or later tomorrow!

Anyway i just wanted to say i missed all of you very much and I hope you can understand my absence if not oh well.

Today is a rare day. my hubby has off from work. No he didn’t take off he was given it off. The father of his boss (once hubby’s boss) passed away this last week. Hubby didn’t know him very well. Anyway the shop was closed down for the day and he must go to the funeral this afternoon but other than that he is working in our basement trying to tie up some loose ends!!

Also please pray for the family. He was not a believer and neither is the rest of the family. Not to mention family strains are so hard on the whole family.