Life in General

Life has been really interesting!!!! My wife started her Masters program last week and is on Stress overload right now. She is also working a job in which there is big stinch of incompentance roaming around. She is way over qualified while her higher ups are way underqualified. December will be a good month to put this period of time WAY WAY behind us and she can move on to her internship.

Malachi will be 3 on Friday. I am happy yet saddened. My little boy is growing up so fast. Of course there are certain aspects of growing up I wish he'd hurry up, one major being is pooping in the potty. I am currently making a minature cornhole set for him. It is really cute and should be completed sometime by the end of the week. All that is left is painting.

I am working still I did leave Panera, at least for a little while. I am ready for a career but trying to stay patient for Elizabeth. Things are picking up for me in Frankfort to really allow my skills to be used a little more. There are days I miss college, mostly for the unresponsibility related to it. The "real world" has hit hard the past 4 years.

Young Adult Camp

Sometime in February I was asked to be the director of our state Young Adult Camp. After a week of thinking about it I came back to say I would like to have a go at it. Of course my predicessor was an awesome director (and good friend) so I know I am already inadequate for the job. The camp is this weekend and I am excited about what is going to happen. I got an excellent speaker and dynamic worship leader (of course they are both related to me so I think they are awesome). The location is not my favorite but I hope to show a great time and to see this thing grow for next year.

I dont know what is in store this weekend. I know I had trouble with both the speaker and worship leader only because they are related so I tried for others first but at the end I decided to go with my heart. I know God will bless this thing, he always has.

Anyone can come that is out of high school and I encourage you to go. It is a lot of fun and great place to meet people or reconnect with old friends. I hope to see you there and I will give a post whenever its done.

Back from PA

Yesterday we got back from the big town of Ellwood. Our job there was to clean out Elizabeth's old room and take it back to Kentucky. She had a ton of stuff and so we boxed it and her brother brought back for us. Our next home will be filled with junk.

Anyway I had to get a storage unit to put all this stuff in.

Our second duty was to help her mother with a yard sale. Her mother put up almost everything for sale. It was huge, of course we got to search through and take what we wanted. I got two canopies, a tent and several other camping equipment. My wife got several things as well.

Our last duty was to load up on the food we liked. I got a ton of New Castle chili, cleaned out Giant Eagle (a grocery store in the north for those who don't know), my wife got her Augustine's Pizza and we got some loafs and puffs from Johnny's. It was great.

It was a nice visit and weird knowing we would not set foot in the house again and possibly not go to PA much after this point. I know it had to be weird for my wife to leave a place she has always known.

Going to PA

Today we (my wife, son and myself) are leaving for PA to see my Mother-in-law. Even though the town of Ellwood City is small and growing smaller instead of getting larger it is still a fun place to visit. I will get to eat at a little place called Johnnys and Red Hots. I will also come home with a TON of New Castle Chili which to date is by far my favorite. We will also come packed with Augustines Pizza.

While there, the Simpsons movie will be released. OF COURSE I want to go so bad I just pee'd myself. It should be good and the from what I hear I will not be disappointed. So I am hoping we can scrape the money to watch it of course I am sacrificing Harry Potter for a couple of more weeks but I will eventually get to that one as well.

Me

Just a pic of me for my blog...sorry nothing interesting here!!!

Cedar Point

I love Cedar Point. I went for the first time ever last weekend. IT WAS AWESOME. They had some great roller coasters but I only road 4 of them. I went with the church I am attending and volunteering at. Built some good relationships and had a ball.

Surprisingly, I liked the water park almost as much as the park itself. They had this huge raft thing and some of the guys decided to meet the weight capacity as best we could. So me and 3 others got in weighing in at over 720 lbs, 80 lbs less than the weight capacity. Lets just say it was a very interesting wet my pants ride. Then we did this slide that looked really slow but after getting on it it was super fast and pretty scary. FUN!!

Malachi's first day at Ginza II

A new japanese steak house opened in Frankfort called Ginza II and my parents took us there to eat. It was really fun to see some of Malachi's expressions of the big fire and learning how to use chops sticks. Great fun!!!

Our new pond (updated)

We completed the pond several weeks ago but I believe it turned out well...

of course now it has lily pads, fountain, and fish + a neighboring frog. Looks good

Where have I been

Its been a while since I've posted but that is the story of my life. I am at work today enjoying an empty office. WHOO HOO!!! and getting ready to go to Cedar Point. I have never been before and just printed off the map and ready to explore it. When I get back I will update my month of absence including an update on the pond, my son at Ginza II and a fire that started on the back porch on 4th of July. Should be fun!!!

Counting Bolt Holes

On the right is a detail drawing (off the internet) of a beam with a plate on it. The holes in that beam are there to put bolts (field bolts) into them. On a job, that HGS has, I was asked to go through some drawings a count how many holes are in the beams, plates, and angle. This didn't seem to be to bad except there were like 200 pages of beams and when all was said and done about 15,000 holes for field bolts. My eyes went completely crossed.

ON ANOTHER NOTE:

Today is kind of a lazy day. I am currently trying to draw up plans to build a rock wall (w/ a small pond in the center) for my Dad's house. Then this weekend I will take my time building said wall & pond. I am excited because it gives me something to do but nervous because this is a new venture. I went to my brother in laws last weekend and saw his pond (below). He has done a great job putting his together, so I asked him a TON of questions about it. He lent me a couple of books to help me out. Hopefully I can build a good wall and an ok pond. Should be interesting!!!

My last day and New Job

May 25, 2007 will be a day I will never forget. It was the last day I will set in AMS as a teacher. God bless teachers, they are amazing people but as for me I could not be one. Definitely not my calling!!! I tried it, suffered through it a year and now moving on WHOO HOO!!!

Today I started my new job at HGS. It's a steel company in Lexington. I believe more possibilities will open up and make way for a more finacially stable position, or at least until a church calls me up.

I am enjoying my nights off again and trying this whole blog thing again.

School Days

Its been a while since I have been on my blog and as usual whenever you are gone for quite sometime on a blog lots of new things are happening. Of course I am going to wait on that post for now. Today is about days off school. I can't believe I have been out for almost a week. This is what it has looked like:
Thursday - School Closed
Friday - School Closed
Monday - School Closed
Tuesday - School...well school let out early because of a "snow Storm"
Wednesday - Got up at 5:00 went to www.lex18.com to see if school was closed and it was not :( but then got up to get ready thought I should check one more time and quess what.......school closed :).
Unless there is another snow storm creaping in we should have school Thursday and Friday although I wouldn't mind if there wasn't.

Another note: It is cold I mean COLD VERY VERY COLD. One morning it was like -20 wind chill thank goodness school was out. Shoo!!!