Daddy got a brand new toy

So we took the in-laws to the big city of Raleigh yesterday to go shopping at a real mall. Well when in Raleigh you have to stop by the big music stores cause they have all kinds of cool stuff with buttons and strings and all. AND before I go on, I cannot play anything and have NO musical talent to speak of. But in Sam ASh I saw a usb keyboard marked down from $199 to $59! So I had to have it!!! I would rather have an 88 key but hey, I don't know how to play but one key at a time anyway. So this is a 66 key.
Apple has some cool apps so I can start to learn or I can use this to keep dust off of my desk. Either way, it's cool and was cheap.

So here is me and my new toy:


Sheila does know how to play a little so maybe we can start a band~

OK, who said we have to have a lot in common?

I absolutely adore my wife. Sheila hooks me up. She takes great care of me and I don't know what I would do without her. I am more content just being in the house with her than out doing some hobby. But... We really don't have much in common at all and it works for us just fine. I like rap, she like country. I am not so much into sports and she is. I could live in a messy house, she cannot (and will not). The few things we do have in common are from us being together for so long.

So this post is for Sheila: Thank you for being YOU, I like YOU and want YOU so don't ever change. You are now and will always be "my girl" and you are a good wife.

drifting Believers

I think too may so called believers in Christ are simply drifting along. Going with the flow, I don't know how often the "flow" actually heads toward God but I don't think it is often. We head out about OUR lives and IF some opportunity to show God's love or the chance to tell someone the Gospel HAPPENS to come up, some of us take it. I think drifting is a dangerous thing more often than not takes us away from God.

So what do we do to stop drifting? Start paddling towards God. Intentionally head in HIS direction. Pick up His word, Talk to Him. Effort is the key. When was the last time you got up and went out JUST to find a needing person or a lost soul? Yeah me to! We are told to GO OUT not to sit by and wait for the lost and hurting to drift by us.

The world need hope, we supposedly have hope, lets make an effort to show and share that hope. and wouldn't you know it...Hope Floats!

beat her to it!!!

Sheila has been to quick on the blogs lately and she is using all the best pictures. But I got sneaky and got the camera from her before she posted our latest addition to the family:


yeah, she is a little crooked but she is ours!!!

and yes she was sportin oaklys for the phto


Sorry Sheila, I had to post these 1st!

ok, I am changing my career!!!

I have to learn this skill!

Joey, can you teach me this at small group?

BTW, this is all real!!!


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