Canaan

Our friends Ryan and Kimber are now the proud parents of a baby boy, Canaan Scott.

Without going into too much detail, they have been patient in prayer for this for a long time. Struggling through the adoption process and other trials. A few days ago they finally received the call from Florida to come meet their son.

Though I have three children of my own, I can't imagine what it must be like to receive that call, "You child is ready, come and get him." With each of our children we had months to prepare, and since all three were induced deliveries we went to bed one night knowing that the next day Leslie would deliver our baby.

I rejoice when I think of how Canaan, his children, and his children's children will be blessed by Ryan and Kimber. It makes me think of Abram and Sarai, childless, when the Lord called Abram to pack up and go to a place he had never been to start a new life, and that generations would be blessed by them.

Below is the video/song "Canaan Bound" as written and performed by Andrew Peterson. Please watch, listen, and rejoice with Ryan, Kimber, and Canaan.

As requested by RVS, 10 Things

Last month Ryan Scott sent an email to some of us with a list of 25 things about himself with the request that the recipients of that email come up with 25 things about themselves. I tried, but never could come up with 25. To stay with a nice round number I came up with 10:

1. I love talk radio. Rush is right and is my favorite, but I also listen to the local guy and the late night weirdos talking about UFOs and stuff.
2. I’m still paying for an education that I’m not using. I look at it as paying for the friends I found and the good times I had. Makes it worth every penny.
3. I like my job. It suits me. I don’t think I could handle an 8 to 5 with a tie and an office.
4. I don’t like February. Lots of things seem to go wrong for me during that month. They haven’t all been bad, but most of them. Disclaimer: I shook Willie’s hand in February 2003 and Annie was born in February 2008. Both very good events.
5. I’m allergic to stupidity. I can handle ignorance, retards, foreigners, rich folks, poor folks, etc… but there are some people who are just stupid and they make me really really angry.
6. I don’t like cold. I’d rather it be 100 degrees than close to freezing.
7. I like most foods, but I cannot stand avocados or curry. Both make me want to puke.
8. I like spending time with my wife. She’s nice to me. It’s why I married her.
9. I don’t watch sports anymore. Not whole games anyway. Mostly because I don’t have cable, but it just doesn’t interest me as much as it used to.
10. Most of my best friends are very different from each other, but when I think about it I realize that they have a few key things in common. They read books, they have passion for music, they love their wives, honor their parents, and can make me laugh.

I'm Mad

Yes, I know I fish a lot when the girls are here, but.....
I'm mad at the wind. Today makes two days since they have been gone that I've been stuck at the house on a day off instead of at the lake because of 25+ mph winds. I love to fish, but I'm not stupid so I stay off the lake when it's prudent to do so.
I'm mad at B.A.S.S. Since ESPN, aka Disney aka New York and LA waterheads, has taken it over it has gone down the tubes. I read the first 10 pages of the latest Bassmaster magazine while I ate supper and it made my blood pressure soar. They don't seem to understand that unlike PBR, NASCAR, and NFL fans, fans of fishing would rather be participants than spectators. I understand that magazines make money through advertising, but I'm tired of the articles being all about the celebrity of the anglers and product promos rather than instruction and interesting stories.
I'm mad at our government and the O'Bama worship that our media is still engaging in. However, it seems that the leaders of Europe are going to give him a dose of reality this week. When the French president is making more sense than ours, our country is in pretty bad shape.

I'm glad that I live close enough to several lakes that I can go fishing when the weather allows, I'm glad that I have family and friends that I can talk with about fishing without being sold something. I'm glad that I live in Texas.

Leaving Amarillo

The girls and I are leaving Amarillo this morning and heading to Aztec, NM with my dad and Frances. Here are pictures of Colby, Kyleen and baby Conner. And the girls playing in the snow. The weather yesterday was sunny and warmer. Most of the snow has melted. We are in for another beautiful sunny day for our drive to NM. Bye Gran-nola and Papa.

Survey

My girls are gone and the house is quiet and quite boring, so I've been spending a lot of time online.
My "surfing" is usually spent watching to see when I'm going to work, looking at the weather as it might relate to my work or fishing plans, our bank acounts, the Texas Fishing Forum, craig's list, and blogs. Jones and I like watching U tube videos together. I pay bills online twice a month, but that is because I have to, not for fun.

Survey questions:
Where do you spend your time on the internet?

Blizzard

On Thursday, the girls and I drove from Temple to Amarillo and my dad and Frances drove from Aztec to Amarillo. We were meeting up to celebrate and meet Conner Lee Hilton. The weather for the drive was about 78 degrees. When I got to Amarillo about 7pm the temperature was 71. This Friday morning, the temp was 21 and a wind chill of -7. It has snowed all day and we have not left my mom's house. My dad and Frances are staying at a hotel and they did make it to Colby's for the day and back to the hotel safely. They had a good day with baby Conner! Steve placed two pin wheels in the yard and we watched as they slowly disappeared under the snow(You can see them in one of the pictures , a red and a blue). And the rest of our day consisted of story times, kitchen play, blocks, coloring, playing ball, dress up, naps, eating, and bundling up to go out side for approx. 2 minutes. Jones and Georgia stayed on the front porch and that was just enough to satisfy their urge to play in the snow. At 7:30 pm, it is still snowing and mom's yard measures about 8-10inches of snow. There are snow drifts that are much taller. Hopefully, the sun will shine tomorrow and the girls and I can meet our new nephew and cousin and see dad and Frances! But, until then we are having fun with mom and Steve!

Bluebonnets

On Wednesday, Kirsten, Madalyn and the Brown girls went to a patch of bluebonnets for some photos. Poor Madalyn got ant bites. But, she is a tough little girl and hardly cried!

The girls liked running through the flowers! Jones was sentimental and picked flowers for me. When I could get Georgia over for pics she was making silly faces or jumping! And Annie wasn't quite sure what we were doing, but then she started smelling and touching the flowers. Maybe in a couple of weeks the bluebonnets will be taller and fuller!