Friday night PARTY!

Tonight I left work a little early, headed across town to a new hotel that opened near Shube's house for a Friday night PARTY! The hotel has an indoor water park and we spent some time after a pizza dinner there. Amanda, Molly, Shube, Sarah and James all left around 6:30. Then we played a few video games, had some brownies, pop corn and watched some Sponge Bob. Now we are watching the Wild hockey game and we'll be heading to bed soon. A great Friday night with just the guys.

Where am I living?, Part 2

This is what we woke up to this morning. Uggh!

What Oprah believes

I have written about my beef with Oprah before. Another one of my beefs with her is the way that she talks about "spirituality". The times that I have watched her talk about her faith, I have always been a bit suspicious. It is always a very, "I'm okay. You're okay." My mom sent me this YouTube video the other day. If you get past the crazy evangelicalism you can get to what she says about Christianity. It is especially sad at about three minutes into the video when Kelly asks Oprah a question about how she has reconciled these "spiritual teachings" with her "Christian beliefs". Oprah, in all of her pomposity, answers, "I reconciled it because I was able to open my mind . . ."

If only we could all be as enlightened as Oprah. Once you watch this video, let me know what you think. If you won't stop watching Oprah because of WHO she is, at least stop watching her because of WHAT she says.

Fighter verses

Each week our church memorizes a passage of the Bible. Our church calls them "Fighter Verses." We work on this as a family. We usually work on it at our Sunday family meeting and then after dinner. Some weeks we nail it and some weeks we don't get it at all. This week we did Matthew 22:37b-39. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. The second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself." Check out Ben saying this week's verse.

Where am I living?

This is what we woke up to this morning.

Twinkle, twinkle little star

Brad and Sarah got the boys guitars for Christmas two years ago. Ben is really getting into "practicing" his. Here is his first song that he can play. I wonder if Springsteen is looking for someone to sit in on his next album.

Crazy Caleb

We're all sitting at the dinner table last night when Caleb starts crossing his eyes. Amanda starts laughing hysterically. I run for the camera and this is what I got.
This afternoon at lunch I asked him to do it again so I could video him. He wasn't as excited about this. Caleb is so much fun. He has inherited some of his father's mania. He is either way up or way down. This makes for a lot of excitement. We love you Caley.