Who got da Smarts?

Smarts #1 UAW – I understand we all have wants and “needs” in our daily grind at the office or wherever we work. But really going on strike for job security? What happened to the days of actually working hard and making the best product out there to retain job security? I know the strike is over, so this means that GM buckled.


Smarts #2 Mr. Vick I know it is a stressful time an all with the doggies and your lack of future in football. But drugs? Really Mike you can think of better things to do than to smoke some marijuana. Ya do know that you are still in trouble dontcha? Are not drug tests part of your life right now? Do I remember right that he had found God in all of this so far? Must have been the drugs talkin.

Smarts #3 Mr. Smoker - A week or so ago I pulled up to a red light and looked over to the fella in the car to my right. He just took his last puff of smoke and decided to throw the cigerette butt out the window. My world is his ashtray I guess. Well the window was not exactly open all too much. So as he proceeded to let go of the cigerette out the window it fell back into his car. The frenzied panic was something to behold as he tried to first find said cigerette and then properly dispose of it out onto the street.

One great thing that my wife and I did recently was to sign up for unlimited texting on our phones. This way she always has a camera close by and can immediately send a pic of the boy. The reason it is great is that I get to see the boy during the day and see how he is doing.

Two photos that have come thru this week are below:






Man to be a father is so very cool to me. Well at least at this time in his very young life, I know there will be times where that thought will be tested greatly.









My wife just sent me this quick pic of the boy. He is starting to show a bit more of his personality in his smiles and movements. Which again is the coolest thing ever to watch this little guy start smiling and such.

His Grace, how amazing!

The Almost -

Amazing, Because It Is

I was so scared of everything you put in front of me

I've been arching every part of me

Just to see See

Why you need me to be

The boy you need me to be

Amazing grace

How sweet the sound

That saves a wretch like me

I once was lost

And now I'm found

Was blind but now I see

I just wanna see

I'm the type of person who lets fear drive

I'm the type of guy who lets it drive

Cause I'm addicted, I'm needy,

I'm lost without you

I need you

I need you

Amazing grace

How sweet the sound

That saves a wretch like me

I once was lost

But now I'm found

Was blind but now I see

Amazing grace (amazing grace)

How sweet the sound (how sweet)

That saved a wretch like me (that saved a wretch like me)

I once was lost

But now I'm found (you know I'm found)

Was blind but now I see

Amazing grace (you're amazing)

How sweet the sound (you're amazing)

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost (it feels so bad when you're lost and alone)

But now I'm found

Was blind but now I see

This song has hit me hard recently due to some things that I am just now starting to deal with properly in my life. Stuff that has been part of the fabric of who I have been and unfortunately has also defined me way to much. I need to dispose of these things once and for all, the "band aids" that I have been using to cover them for short periods of time have fallen and left me feeling miserable way to many times.

Ya know the greatest aspect of this song is that Christ has never had to find me. He knows me and has always known me. I never knew me! Especially the way that he wants me to know myself thus translating into knowing Him ultimately. For me to be found is within myself, I am in the process of being found, again not by Him since he has always known me but to find myself within him.

Looking into my boys innocent little face right now is just way to awesome. To know that this life is now my responsibility to reflect the love of Christ into his young little life. He deserves his fathers love, he also deserves his father to love himself. I have come a long way from where I have been but have a long way to go to truly feel true love for myself.

This truth is truly hard for me to throw out there for all to read but there it is. I have avoided it (put my little band aids on it) for far to long.

It is time for me to truly be healed through his

AMAZING GRACE!

How sweet is that sound?

Click here to go to purevolume.com and listen to a few of their songs including

"Amazing, Because It Is."

What a weekend

It was a great weekend on many levels for me.


1. It was my wifes Pop pops (Grandpa) 90th Birthday Saturday.

2. The Wisconsin Badgers won, Michigan can't say that once yet this year.

3. The Green Bay Packers won as well, OK both games were ugly but a win is a win, right?

4. Figured out that it was not my iPod messing up but my PC at home. Fixed it and now my iPod works again.

5. Got to spend some time with the kiddo while watching my kids fav teams. If it wasn't for that I would not have watched any football all weekend. NOT! I would have watched anyways.



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My Boy and my fav pics

Hey there y'all. I know some of you know and some do not know that my wife gave birth to our little boy. It all happened on Thursday night at 5:50 via c-section. Alycia's blood pressure was just to high so the docter decided to deliver the little guy that night.

I have included a couple of my fav pics of the little guy and his parents.

Caden meets his mommy within minutes of being taken from his safe yet dark home within his mommy.

This is my personal fav. They do this hearing test on the little feller before he is discharged from the Hospital. It is somewhat hard to see but they put these little like headphones on his little ears and play sounds. There then is a sensor on his forehead that counts brain activity due to the sounds. He passed the test by the way without studying, just like his mommy.

Well this pic is me holding my little bub. Ain't he a little itty bitty thing compared to his Pops. It was game day so daddy wore Caden's favorite teams shirt just for him. GO BUCKY! By the way they won just for him.

He is near and dear to daddies heart.

We each had to wear a hospital bracelet so I thought this picture would be neat. I was right.

Check out Abtstra to see a few other different pictures.