In Concert the BREACH BOYS, Featuring our son CADEN!

If you are frequenting our family Blog, Abtstra Abtstra, as well as Toebees Fumes you have read this post most likely. Just letting you know.

Wanted to update you on some news concerning our first kiddo. This past week we had a sono and found out that our little guy, Caden, is breach at this time. For those like me who do not know what that means it is when the kiddo in the womb is not in the right position for his arrival to the world. His little head is up by Alycia's ribs right now and his bottom is down near her bladder. We believe he has been in this position for a while know so he must be very comfy.

So with that being said we have scheduled a c-section two weeks from today on Monday September 10th. We are praying that he does decide to flip one last time before then but if he is far to comfortable how he is right now then he will arrive and meet the world on the 29th.

We have another sono scheduled for Wednesday so I will update you all after that time and let you know how he is situated. Also we are hoping to make sure that he is a little guy rather than a little girl.

Alycia is doing great, a bit tired but doing great. She has one week back to work under her belt. Today is when all of the kiddos return back to class so please pray that for her with that. Dealing with all of the kids in the school can be rather challenging so please pray that she will make it for the next two weeks before the birth of #1 for us.

We appreciate your prayers for both of them.

In Him who created us and our little boy,

Check out my latest poll

Hey there all you fumers out there! This is your King Fume a talkin. I know most of you have been seeking something I have not done in a while on my site. No I have not forgotten how to be funny smarty pants! Even though that is true to some degree I am having a kid real soon so not the time to be all funny and everything.

Well as usual ya got me on a rabbit trail with this blog. A POLL!! What! your blog had a poll? You are asking yourself, sadly yes I DID and not to be confused with that I DO have a poll on my blog. I am already married so I did not just marry anyone else when I just said I DO. OK yet another rabbit trail ya got me chasin down. You are all too good at takin my mind off the end game.

I have a few ideas for a poll in mind now I just have to execute them. No, not that type of execute silly people, where are your minds? Not with mine I guess. Both of them have photos that have yet to be taken. I have waited the last two weeks on the photos to be taken by themselves but they have proven the age ol' saying of "their not going to take themselves". You guys are rough I know that is not how it goes officially but it works doesn't it?

Well anyways check back next week and check out my first one.

2 tings for ya!

2 quick hit topics that I have thought of recently.

1. Mean People Suck. There is a lady at my office that wears a sweatshirt around the office due to it being too cold inside I guess. Well on the front it states “mean people suck”.
My question is “Is she not a mean person for saying that someone else sucks?”

2. Playing a game you love for millions or dogfights? Hmmmmm. That is a tough choice. I know we all have choices and we all have made the wrong ones from time to time but really dogfights?

Lost Cravings

First, the Lost part. My iPod!! Ok not the whole unit but everything in it was washed clean somehow. Tuesday night I was at the PC and decided to try and download a few pod casts and transfer them to my iPod. Wednesday morning I was driving to work and nothing was playing when I hit “play”. I soon realized that there was nothing in my iPod for it to play. WHAT? Everything gone. Over 1800 songs, Movies and TV Shows all gone. WHY ME? WHO DID THIS TO ME? Conspiracy theories abound.

Well took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store last night and they said that the unit is still good, something just happened. What happened? If anything popped up on my computer screen asking “Are you sure you want to delete everything in your iPod dummy” I did not see it or agree to it.

Luckily I have most of my music backed up on an external hard drive when I put in a new hard drive earlier this year. So now I have to go and put all my songs back in the system to enjoy my music. I was lost without it. So right now I am at 383 songs. Happy Together once again!

What Cravings Toby? As you know my wife is preggo right now and she has come and gone with cravings. First it was Mashed Potatoes and Gravy; forget the 2nd one but she is now doing the Ice Cream thing. No pickles, where did that ever come from as a craving? I have yet to hear anyone have that as a craving.

That is not my point on the cravings. Hamburger and Fries. No it is not hers. It is mine! Is it due to her pregnancy that I am craving a Hamburger and Fries all of the time?

As you can see I did not lose my cravings, I just lost somethings and my craving for H&F have grown!

Open for interpretation

Ya gotta love small towns and the back roads sometimes, especially the signage ya see.

In a past Blog I made mention of this signage and this past weekend had an opportunity to actually take a pic of it. It is near the Texas/ Okla Border by Moss Lake in Texas. When I first saw it it made me laugh and just looking at it now still does make me laugh.

Your initial thoughts and how do you interprit it?

“prepared meals”

This past weekend my wife and I attended a Spiritual Retreat with our mission Candidate Team from our Church. We utilized my wife’s relative’s home on Moss Lake near the Oklahoma Border here in Texas.

It was a very awesome time spent with God for most of the Day Saturday. I will not go into details at this time since it was a time for each one of us to connect with Christ and to listen for his directives. With my time alone with Him he took me “back to the basics”. I realized this weekend that from time to time we need to get back to the basics in our relationship with him. With all of the things going on in each of our lives we let it get so complex that we lose focus on what our relationship with him looks like.

An analogy that I came up with is “prepared meals”. In America today you can go to almost any store and purchase any meal already prepared. Sometimes we take these meals home, cook and eat, while sometimes we may add a bit more spices or another ingredient to make it just perfect for our tastes. This is the same in our walk with Him. If we have had a relationship with Christ for a while we tend to deal with Christ in this fashion. We go to Church, listen to sermons on the radio, and listen to Christian music, read books (other than the Bible), Sunday School Classes and other similar ways to be fed.

This all equals how “prepared” our relationship with Christ really is to most of us today. What happened to actually preparing a meal from scratch? Convenience and Time have consumed us. Do I really know the intricacy or intimacy of Christ if my spiritual diet is already prepared for me? What I found this weekend for my answer is NO! How can I know and truly appreciate a meal if I have no idea of how it is made and how to prepare it if I have never done so or have not done so for so long?

Same with being fed spiritually. He has the true ingredients for us to maintain a healthy life in Him if we just take time to walk thru His store (the Bible) and find the ingredients He has for us to be fed.

He has a great Store that I visited this past weekend and was fed from. My challenge is to realize which Store are we shopping at? Are we shopping for convenience or for the ingredients to make the best meal to be truly fed?

Back to the Basics meant Jeremiah 17:7-8 for me this weekend. Maybe later this week I will share what these basic truths fed me this past weekend.

1 month from today!

Are you ready for some football? Yep folks it is that time again. 1 month from today starts the Foot ball season, College Football to be exact. First game is on September 1st at 2:30 pm against Washington State University.

Just thought I would let y’all know so you can get ready.

Oh yea my kiddo is due around then as well. That’s big news as well, right? Well at least my wife will not complain that I am watching too much football if I have the little guy decked out in his Badger stuff watching the games with me. Then Pro Football begins a week later on September 9th against the Eagles.

Caden my son, welcome to the world…
of FOOTBALL!

Oh yea, hopefully the Brewers will be in the Playoffs about that time as well.

SWEET! Can you feel it?