Grateful Beyond Words

Yesterday was my wife's and my 23rd wedding anniversary.
I cannot even begin to express the gratefulness in my heart for the blessing of having such a wonderful helpmeet - one whom God has made to be one with me - and my very best friend.

My wife and I went out for a nice dinner Saturday evening to celebrate and I was able to provide a surprise gift for her. That was fun!

All in all, yesterday was not a really eventful day, my wife spent the morning home from church resting, trying to fight a sinus infection which she is going to the doctor about today.
In the afternoon we had some time with my parents and sisters (the youngest of which is up from Phoenix with her kids for a few days), and it was good overall. Yet, it is always harder when my wife is not feeling well. She left early to head home and rest some more because the "gunk" has wiped her out. I struggle when she gets sick, because it seems there is so little I can do to help her, except try to be understanding.

I had a wonderful talk with my son last evening. He hasn't been home since last Christmas and we are all looking forward to being together again. An additionally exciting part is that he is bringing an amazing (his favorite adjective for her) young lady along for us to meet and begin to get to know. We are all looking forward to this event and are praying that she is able to be at peace and comfortable in our home. We know it can be a stressful event to meet your boyfriend/girlfriend's parents and family, but we know God is bigger. ;)

That's all for now.

Father's Day

Thank you Lord God Almighty for being a good and perfect Father!
Thank you Lord Jesus for revealing the Father to us through the Holy Spirit and Your word.

When I consider myself as a father, I see my imperfection. I know the many times I've fallen short of being the father I've wanted to be able to be.

I'm grateful for my wife who has helped and continues to help me be as good of a father as I can be.
I'm thankful for my children (now mostly grown) who have helped teach me how to be a father.

-- Blessings!

Quick Note

I've added a link for a new blog I've created called Gearing Up. It may not be too interesting to some, but I wanted a place to capture some thoughts about my training for biking events this summer and I figured I might as well link to it. ;)

Cheers!

A Quick Trip

*** I hadn't realized how long it's been since my last post. ***

This past weekend my wife, my two daughters, and a third "daughter" took a quick trip up to Rapid City, South Dakota for the high school graduation of a wonderful young lady. We have been family friends with her family for many years now and we have spent many an hour in prayer for them as the United States Air Force has taken them from Colorado Springs to Oklahoma to Alaska and now to South Dakota; and in the midst of that has deployed the father to Afghanistan and now to Iraq.
We went up to S.D. to celebrate a wonderful accomplishment, but we also were able to make it a mini-vacation. We visited Mount Rushmore and even Sylvan lake, which were both shown in the movie National Treasure II (with a little bit of digital magic thrown in).


We had a blast and daughter number 3 kept us all laughing for the better part of the trip.
We also visited a cool little tourist trap called Bear Country which has an assortment of wildlife from the western U.S., but especially a lot of... you guessed it... bears. Everywhere it seemed, were bears. There were bears sleeping, walking, bathing, and even um, procreating, which was an interesting experience for all.


There were even baby bears.


So I hope you enjoy my short update about our recent adventures. Maybe in a day or two I can add a little more.

God Bless!