Am I?

Have ya ever had a song lyric hit ya well after ya started listening to it. Well today a song came across that I have heard many times. It was "Circles" by Switchfoot off the Oh! Gravity album.

One line hit me and struck me.

I will not expand on them due to the strength of the line.

"Am I alive in my purpose?"

HUH?

This afternoon my wife and kiddo came and took me to lunch. They decided to take me to a Chinese Buffet, the only way to go for Chinese food in my book.

Well we ate and our waitress brought us our bill with three fortune cookies, one for the kiddo and one for each of us.

I opened it up and do not understand. I will list both sides for you since one side has the saying and the opposite side has your “lucky” numbers in case you are a betting person.

Fortune: “Your lucky number for the week is seven.”
Lucky Numbers on opposite side: 11 13 21 32 40 46

Do you see what I see? Help me to understand this, please.

In town

I know yesterday was Halloween and I did my best to dress up for the day. My costume consisted of wearing shorts, a shirt and my walking shoes. The reason for the shorts in my costume is that it is the one day all year that I could wear shorts to work, so I did. The "costume" was a year in the making since last year I thought about it but did not do it and I remembered it to wear the shorts this year.

Well last night we went tricker treating at the Dallas/ Fort Worth Airport and came away with a pair of grandparents for our boy. OK not exactly the trick or treating that most people are accustomed too. It was actually to pick up my parents since they arrived from Orlando last night to meet my little boy Caden for the first time. This week has been a great week for the little guy since he had some arm time with both sets of grandparents and has four more days with my parents. Pretty cool.

Grandma at one point took the boy over to the flight attendants and stated joyfully “This is why we came to Dallas”.

Here are two picks of them for ya,

This is their first arm full of Caden, we know there will be many more of those arms fulls for the grandparents to come.

Grandma holding onto the sweet little boy.

Have I accepted His gift?

Have I accepted it today?

I was thinking and praying last week on my drive into the office and came up with something. Most likely it means nothing new to anyone else but to me it makes sense and is something that I need to keep in mind. We can hear something hundreds of times and it have no effect on our lives until we figure it out and personalize it.

Well I realized something during my time with Him on my drive in.

Ya know how people always say that you need to accept the Gift of the Spirit into our lives to make our lives complete? That when there is an alter call it is usually someone accepting the Gift of Christ into their lives. This is the one gift of eternal life that is usually given.

Why is it just once that we need to accept a gift from Him? Ya know what else the Lord has for me? He has love for me, strength, wisdom and heaps of blessings for each one of us each day. Why then do I not accept the gift of his love, strength and wisdom each and everyday?

He is there everyday holding out his hands for us to take a hold and guide us thru our day. Each and everyday he is there whether I care or not he is there. He is there to heap blessings upon me. Holding it out there for me to grab and be blessed by his love, strength and wisdom each and every day.

I have started to accept his gifts each and every morning on my way to work before I begin the day. Then at night I can then go thru the things from the day and thank him for his gift he offered and I accepted.

Man what an easy concept, so why has it taken me so long to realize it. This will look different for everyone but give it some thought and look to Him who has blessed us with so much.

Check it out

I have just edited a video my my little bub and have posted it on our family blog. It is not the best quality due to having to save it in a smaller version (lower quality) to fit it on the blog.

I tried to capture the sights and sounds of his first month of life.

Please do jump over and enjoy.

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Thanks,

PS This editing thing is still very new to me so please know that as well.

Howdy y’all!

How are y’all doin? Well I am doing great these days. I am feeling much better since the kiddo has cut his hungry time to just one time during the night which my wife usually feeds the little guy herself. We have used a different nipple for his bottles that have bigger opening so it does not take him as long to feed so she is not up for over an hour anymore as he is fed.

If he wakes after 5am until about 7 then my turn happens before I depart for work. It works out great I must have to add.

Man I have to say that the weather the last week or so has been just perfect! 6o’s at night and 80’s and no humidity during the day. If I could have that year round that would be most ideal for me. This whole summer was actually really nice for Dallas as well. Typically it has about 2 months or more of temps over 100 degrees and zero rain. It rarely got over 100 and it rained a ton for Texas which kept the temps mucho better.

The fall has hit and ya know what that means don’tcha? Christmas. Well at least this year since I have already seen a few different store with a few Christmas things up already. One being Wally World (Wal~Mart by the way) and JC Penney’s this weekend had some stuff up.

That is almost 3 months of Christmas stuff. What does every American want for Christmas? A year and a half of Political positioning to be the next President of the U.S. of A. What happened to just the half year of political wrangling that typically went one. Just think that means the mud will fly more often and harder by the time we come around to actually voting for one of the clowns out there at this time. Ya thought it was bad before, well we have not seen anything like we will see most likely this coming year.

We have already had 17 debates for both sides put together. OK that is an exaggeration, yet only a slight one at that.

Wow this post goes from joy all the way down to the depths of disgust thinking about all that we have to put up with for the next YEAR.

Sorry about that.

Does me saying “have an awesome day” help bring ya back to good things and thoughts?

Why oh why could I not be so genius?

Do you know what is going on in this world today? Let me recap a few things for you. There are people killing other people cuz their god told them to, there are wars happening, people are dying due to addiction to drugs, abortions, abuse, racism, depression, suicide, students killing other students, gang violence and the list goes on.

Did you know that Al Gore won a Peace prize due to his global warming stand? Has that not divided people in certain instances? But I digress cuz I believe I have found the one invention that will bring peace once and for all to the world that we are a part of.

It is an invention that most of us will hit ourselves for not thinking of it ourselves earlier.

Introducing Toilet Golf!



Online description: This is the potty putter. It's a miniature green and rug for in front of the toilet. What amazes me is that the guy in this picture needs to play golf and read a magazine. $18

Maybe you can get a nice package deal with the Fish Bowl Toilet (That I featured in a past fume) and the Toilet Golf mat! Sweet!


Does anyone wonder why the rest of the world looks at American as having to much?

Hard to believe that someone had first of all thought of this product and then produced it for sale.

I can see now the PTGA (Professional Toilet Golf Association) league now taking applications.

Maybe I could be so bright and genius eh?