Trilling Thursday

Great day at work, well, pretty great anyway. Landed a bit of work that we had been shut out of 1 year ago. The customer ran into problems, they asked us to help, we did and now we're back in. I love it when a plan comes together! (It wasn't my plan, just a hope.)

I have an awesome story from Jim and Nancy; This is a story about Dawn's boy Levi. Levi is a twin to Luke. They are 4 1/2. The Sunday school teacher is explaining the Crucifixion to the class. She said if Jesus hadn't Died on the cross we would all go to Hell for our sins. It was quiet and Levi said "Holy Crap!" That is a little boy that gets the consequences.

Tonight was Spence's spring concert. He and the rest of the 6th graders did great. Below is my usual "Where's Spence?" photo. Since Cindy always checks really early in the morning, I am going to say that the first one after Cindy to correctly ID Spence wins a pizza made by yours truly. Lawyer talk: must accept prize at my location, only one winner allowed. Cindy gets a pizza when ever she wants. Judges decisions are final. Good Luck!

I have tried to upload video on this but it just doesn't work so well. So I have uploaded to YouTube, just click here and maybe you'll be able to see Spence.

Have an awesome day!

Pat

Wonderful Wednesday

I have discovered that my work stress has abated enough for me to get my mojo back. Today was a day that I was blessed all day long. It started with an email that was uplifting through proving our point to a customer and winning the work through a nice quiet dinner with Holly to picking up the boys from youth group and discovering that it was bird night and I could hold them. Very cool.

Is that was the "Blue Bird of Happiness" looks like?

Anyone remember "Beretta"?

I held the one shown below, and she was heavy, but you can't say that!

Aside to Larry. Yeah, it's tough when they head south for a break and we're stuck. But soon enough we'll be riding and they'll be on 4 wheels. I have a tire getting replaced and couldn't ride today. Rats! Patience, that what I need.

Aside to Cindy, awesome that the whole family still does the big Easter thing. I guess we'll keep it going for awhile longer.

Have a great day!

Pat

I am struggling with this blog lately since I'm not in my happy place with work. Don't get me wrong, I love work, the job is crazy busy. But how often do you guys need to hear that? I thought so, not very often. With that out, what's left is me striving for a humorous this or that.

That's part of why I've become so erratic with my posting.

As I consider my lassitude, I realize that I have just missed Larry and Terri's 21'st anniversary. Wow, that's a long time. You are still cute couple though. Happy Belated Anniversary!

Finally, here's a self photo of Spencer and I. We are a cute couple.

Have a great day!

Pat

Happy Easter

Great day here today!

Church was fun. It was Easter Sunday so lots of people were dressed to the nines. Then it was also a Baptism Sunday, so that's always cool. There 10 or so scheduled baptisms and 37 unscheduled, where people came out of the congregation and were baptised. Pretty awesome.

The boys demanded a Easter Egg Hunt. Holly and I thought that we were beyond that, but I can see that they are hoping to continue the tradition well into the future. Here's the boys with their goods.

Have a great day!

Pat

Happy Easter

Today we went to a friend's church to see their Easter Production. Wow. It was amazing. There had to have been over 200 people in the production. And that's just the actors. Cecile B. DeMille would have been proud. It was a contemporary story about a group of college kids with flashbacks to the Gospels. I laughed, I cried, it moved me.

Our hope and prayer from the West Michigan side of the clan is that everyone have a blessed Easter. And remember, the reason for the joy was that the tomb was empty, He has risen indeed!

Have a great Easter!

Pat

I struggled with getting a photo

Good

NCAA Final 4, GO Michigan State!

Brr. It's April, the end of March Madness and we're supposed to get snow. Actually, the "major" winter storm just went north of us. I so want to go for a nice motorcycle ride. Oh, sure, I've put over a hundred miles on so far, but with the cool temps, it's not as much fun as I had hoped.

I'd predict the winner of the Michigan State vs. North Carolina final game, but I haven't watched both teams enough. The local favorite is MSU and so that's good enough in our house. One thing that I am sure of; Detroit will not let us down. Someone has already mugged the mayor of Cleveland and stolen his cell phone. Go Detroit!

Holly and the boys went out today and went to the Library. Wow, you can see below that Ian's really bored, he checked out the new Tom Clancy book and is quickly devouring it. No screens, but the internal ones activated by imagination and a good book, still available.

Here's Spencer, not such a heavy reader this Spring Break. He's checked out 3 different "Sherman's Lagoon" comic collections. I'm more in line with that!

Have a great day!

Pat