Karen Teaches 2nd Graders on Wednesday Evening

If you've never done it, its hard for a person that has to describe to you the challenge of teaching 8 - 10 2nd graders Bible lessons on a Wednesday night after they've been in real school all day. But, bless her heart, Karen does try and they do seem to get most of the information she is teaching them. Tonight we spent the first 35 minutes covering the lesson about the annointing of David and the last part playing over at ACU. I had the kids of the class stop running long enough to get this picture on the steps of the Administration Building at the university.

Joshua Just Can't Wake Up in the Morning

The truth is I wish I could sleep as well as Joshua does. The fact that I'm up at 10:40PM writing a blog entry says it all. Joshua does sleep well. The problem seems to be getting him up in the morning for school. On this particular morning he looked particularly sweet with the sheet wrapped around his head. So, I couldn't refuse a quick picture with the cell phone. What a cutey!

Jason - Service Patrol

The 5th grade class at Taylor Elementary has responsibility throughout the year for "patrolling" the campus each morning. Duties include monitoring the walk-ways for proper behavior, meaning no running or excessively loud noises, opening doors and helping wherever its needed. Jason is the co-captain of the squad this month. I dropped him off at school this morning at 7:25 for his first day of duty. He looked like such a trooper in his red vest that I had to grab a picture. Thought I'd share it with you.

Just a Beautiful Sunset

We were at church Wednesday evening having dinner, going to class and talking with friends. Karen taught her 2nd grade class. The boys went to their respective class. I was on guard duty. I put on one of the church walkie-talkies and monitor the grounds, parking lots and buildings. There were storms all around us but no rain on my head. This cloud formation due south of the church was just worth capturing and sharing. A cell phone camera can only do so much but I hope you get the idea.

A Football Day

Saturday was a perfect day. Not too hot or too cold. At the sake of sounding to "Three Bearish" it was just right. The boys were actually grounded from playing on the computer all weekend so they had to find other things to occupy themselves. As the day progressed, football became the activity of choice.

All the boys really like playing football but Joshua is especially fond of the sport. So, the boys put on their uniforms and played a full four quarters of football in the backyard. In fact, they had started their "football camp," as they called it, the night before. But Saturday morning, the real game began and went on for a few hours. There was even a break around noon for halftime and a round of Sunny-D. I can't really tell you who won the game but they had a really good time and worked up quite a sweat in the process.

We spent that evening at the ACU football game at Shotwell Stadium, across the street from the house. It was a perfect night. It was cool, a slight breeze. ACU won the game handedly against Eastern New Mexico University with a final score of 45-20. But, the real win may have been when Joshua came within a few feet of the ACU football team. You can't see Joshua's eyes in this picture because I missed the moment but they were as round as saucer plates. And the smile on his face was ear to ear. So I snapped this final picture of him looking at the team as they came out of the locker room for the second half.

We finished the day around 10:30 that night. The moral of the story: I guess we should ground the boys from the computer more often. They seem to find really good and interesting things to occupy themselves.