days have been rather boring

The winter months bring such cold, blustery, blah days to MO. You can't really do much outside due to the temperatures, but we don't get the pretty snows to make it fun. Once again we had icy weather for a Tuesday commute to work. We don't get enough to keep you home, just enough to make it miserable.

The 22nd was Craig's birthday so we celebrated a little with my parents, but will celebrate again on the 27th with my family. On the 27th we will celebrate dads (which is actually that date), Craig's and my cousin, Steven. Maybe I will get some fun pictures to share.

Since I don't have anything exciting to share, I guess I will stop typing and get back to work. I think that is what the company pays me to do, work not blog.

lucky parents

Craig and I are so blessed that Jared is great kid and is really into learning things about God. He may not get the stories right all the time, but he is grasping them slowly but surely.

Craig found some cars that his mom had given him (when he was way too old to be playing with hot wheels) and gave them to Jared. The cars had scripture verses on them as well as a key word. As we talked about each of them he would tell us which Bible story went with each word. (A Big thank you to the producers of VeggieTales for reinforcing lessons learned in church). He was so excited to be able to talk about them with his friends and cousins.

Also, on Saturday he bypassed a trip to Kansas City with my parents to visit Kolton to go see the Pirates Who Don't do Anything. He has read the book he got for Christmas so many times that he knew what was coming next. He had a great time going to the theater with Addie (his cousin) and Craig and I.

Well I could tell you many more reasons why we are blessed, but I don't want to bore you with all my Jared stories.

stormy weather

It is quite unusual to have severe thunderstorms in SW MO in Jan. But Monday night we paid the price of having 70 degree weather over the weekend. By the time I left work the weather was too bad to get home. So I travelled to my aunt and uncle's in Battlefield (I don't think I will ever learn that Battlefield is in the path of the storm). We spent from 5:45 to about 8:30 in the tornado shelter at Battlefield First Baptist Church. If you ever need a shelter they have a good one and are well prepared. While I was in Battlefield Craig and Jared were at home in our basement and storm shelter. It is bad to be in the storms but it is worse to have your family separated from you. I think we kept the cell lines busy. Finally about 10 there was a break in the tornadic activity and I was able to get home. We had just dozed off, when our weather radio went off again and we had to go back to the basement. I am not sure anyone in SW MO had more than a couple of hours of sleep.

If you ask Jared what happened he will tell you to watch out for the tomatos. He thought Tomatos were attacking. I think we have watched too many Veggie Tales.

The weather has calmed down but now it is cold like January is supposed to be.

Last Road Trip of the Year, became the First of 2008

Christmas came and went and the year was wrapping up. As the year wrapped up, we were packing up for our final road trip of 2007 and yes the first road trip of 2008. Jared just loves the car (just kidding).

We took off for Dallas, TX on Sunday the 30th. Us and 15,998 other dedicated Mizzou fans drove through the wonderful state of OK to go to the Cotton Bowl to watch Mizzou play AR.

We had a wonderful time in Dallas. We got to enjoy the pool at the hotel, Craig and Jared went ice skating (check out the picture of Jared scared to death and then we couldn't get him off the ice), the Cotton Bowl parade and of course the big game. Mizzou capped the trip off by beating the Razorbacks.

We began the trip home as soon as the game was over and not 15 minutes into the trip, Jared was asking where his home was at. How much longer, daddy?