Wednesday, January 31, 2007

It's a girl!



Click Picture for more Ultrasound images.

We are going to have a girl! Watching the ultrasound was a mazing! We got to see her heart beat and her ears, and teeth, arms and legs. You can click on the picture to see additional pictures. She seamed to like being on camera. She is healthy and very active. I decided to save my daughter some embarrassment in the future, so I did not include the picture the revealed her gender :-)

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Amazing Grace Movie

Be sure to view the Amazing Grace movie trailer, hosted by Asbury College.

Book Review: End of the Spear by Steve Saint

This was one of the best books I have read in a long time. I highly recommend reading this book. Steve Saint tell the miraculously story his relationships with the Waodani people in the rain forest of Ecuador.

Book Description (from Book Cover)
Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back to the jungle. There, Steve learns long-buried secrets about his father's murder, confronts difficult choices, and finds himself caught between two worlds. Soon to be a major motion picture (January 2006), End of the Spear brilliantly chronicles the continuing story that first captured the world's attention in the bestselling book, Through Gates of Splendor.

Kentucky Snowday


This Wednesday the whole bluegrass area schools had a snowday. According to the *natives*. The roads were really bad at 6AM. I took these pictures just before 8AM and this was as *bad* as it got. incidental, all the snow was melted by 9AM.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Headlines

CNN headlines today. This is a direct copy and past, the headlines were displayed right next to each other.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

QuizzingGame

I received a very nice email complement today for an Awana QuizzingGame user.

"we love your cd -rom
our boys took first place in T&T quizzing last year largely thanks to their loving parent coaches and your cd-rom.
God Bless"

The QuizzingGame was a game I wrote in VB6 while I was in high school during study hall. The game is a study aid for Awana kids to help them study for Awana Bible Quizzing. I started selling the game with my friend Brian in college.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Awana Updates

Our Awana Missionary Tim Welcher visited our Awana Club. We kept him very busy with Council time for Sparks, T&T, Cubbies and Treck. He used rope tricks to present the gospel in a way that captivated the attention of most of the kids. We also took him out to dinner at Panera Bread. We had excellent conversations about motivation kids to memorizing verses. One of the thrills of eating out with Tim is not wondering if he will share the gospel but when. Thank you Tim for your inspiration to all of us at Cornerstone. We pray that God will continue to bless your ministries.

Danielle was promoted to Sparks Director this week. I know that she will do a wonderful job.

I have a dream.

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day. Asbury College is generous enough to give faculty and staff the day off as a paid holiday. I find it fitting to take a few moments and blog about ethnic harmony in the United States. King spoke these works during his famous *I have a dream speech* "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." I personally have a modern version this dream also. The people would not be judged on their national origin but by the content of their character. That we would not need triple fenced barbed wire borders, that we would could live in harmony with all our neighbors not looking down on them. That Christians would minister to all people of all nationalities.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

at least Notre Dame makes me feel better

I watched Michigan collapse during the Rose Bowl. How could this be the same team that one lost one very close game to Ohio st? The same team that dismantled Notre Dame? I guess Michigan has a curse when it comes to bowl games. I really do think it is too long between the last regular season game and the bowl game. At least Notre Dame lost 41-14 in their bowl game and has worse luck in bowl games. That helps me feel just a little bit better, but not really all that much.

Paying Taxes on Paying Taxes

One of my tasks at my job is the maintain the payroll computer code. One of my recent assignment was to modify to code to handle taxes on life insurance. One of the benefits from my employer is paid life insurance premiums. Of course this happens to be a taxable benefit. My beloved government in all it's wisdom, dose not tax this benefit on what it costs my employee but on what the IRS thinks the benefit is worth which my based on age and amount of coverage. It turn out that for me the tax on life insurance is 78 cents per month. (If you older the tax increases to tens of dollars per month) My employer being the generous employer they are, was nice enough to go ahead a pay the 78 cents per month for me. Thank you, Thank you. However, I am still responsible to pay income tax on that extra 78 cents per month. So since my employer pays the tax, I'm taxed for having my tax paid. But on the plus side that extra 78 cents is matched 6% for retirement so I get about .4 cents a month extra in my retirement account. Flat sales tax anyone?

Think Christian

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Funny video

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Chrismas 2006

Wow it has been awhile since I have had a new post. Mostly, I think because their has been much to write about. Danielle and I had a wonderful Christmas break We were able to see most of our families. I was able to go geocaching with my dad and some with my father-in-law, play disc golf with my brother, Bryan, Evan and Alica. We ended our trip up North with by going bowling with Dean & Ruth and Jim & Marisa, and Alica. I had an excellent first game bowling a 125. Danielle did well also and bowled a 114 It was not a white Christmas up in Michigan, which was my first green Christmas in years. If this winter continues this way, I might go a whole winter without seeing any significant snow, which would be a first for me in my life. Danielle and I can home with a bunch of DVD's, several books and calenders, a few new games and air compressor and an iPod shuffle. Danielle continues to be very well with her pregnancy. We are eager to find out the gender of our little one at the very end of January. We praise God for sending His Son to earth to pay for our sins.