Lucy's First Day

Well I just came home from Nashville, TN and found my family with a new member of the family. Her name is Lucy and is currently a 9 week old red Lab. She loves to sit on your lap and snuggle up. I think laying in the sun will be her favorite sport although I think the boys will run her ragged as well. The trip to Nashville with the band went extremely well and it felt like only a weekend. 7 days never went by so fast.
She has one of those faces that you just want to love on. Lucy was born on May 3rd 2008.

Band Camp Instructors 2008

This was my group of great instructors that really made the camp experience a success. I truely couldn't have done it this year with out them. From left to right: Me, Dr. John Ross, Kelsey Eisenmann, Taylor Berry, Natalie Barnes, and Dan Felt. What a team.

Bee Keeping!

Zach loves science so I thought that I would hook him up with a Bee Keeper from town to learn about them. It turns out we both had a great day learning about bees and how to keep them. It was really amazing. We both got to go out and handle the bees.

While I was out there with Paul the bee keeper, I noticed a loud noise that wasn't there before. I looked up and saw a huge group of bees in a swarm. We quickly moved out and watched them. The bees flew round and round for about ten minutes like a giant bee tornado. The bees landed on this small pine tree. The brown spots on the tree and all over the picture are bees flying around. This picture was taken after shaking the larger group of bees into the bee hive. It turns out that this swarm was a wild bee swarm that just happened to be there when we were and gathered them into the bee hive. AMAZING!

Zach's Grad Day.

This was a great day for Zach
He didn't stop smiling all Day Long.
Ms. Boetcher will be missed.

Friends!

This is Melissa - She finds strength by sitting behind a bouquet of flowers. She is an awesome example of a fruit cake. I don't understand how anyone could sit behind the same flower arrangement everyday. In fact, her main job is to simply take care of watering the silk arrangements in the church. Talk about a Church in need of Prayer. Where do all of our taxes and tithes go.... I can only guess it is the exorbitant water bill the church must have entailed. Call her if you are also enraged by the misuse of clean water.... her number is 320-HOT-BABE.













JUST KIDDING! Her number is really 235-2326

Just an average day!

Do you see anything odd about this picture. Well, if you were a "normal" person you would notice that my son only has one sock on. However; that is just the thing. "Normal" has taken the shape of this little boy wearing only one sock. I love this crazy guy. I'm not exaggerating....EVERY day I come home from work and Max is sitting in the chair with one sock on and one sock on the floor. He can't tell me why...He just likes it that way.
By the way, once again, it's May 2nd and the forecast is Thunderstorms, Rain and light Snow. I guess I could be wrong about this whole Warming Cycle. Have a great day.

What Little Boys bring Home.

What does this look like to you? .... Me Too - A nasty pile of sticks and garbage. But try to tell Max that. He is convinced that this pile of stuff that he found in the yard today is a gold mine of treasure that can not, no.. Should not be touch by any other human hands. It is only by the grace of God that his nanny came over today to take he and Zach to dinner. It was my golden time to dispose of the pile. I did think it was too cute just to though away so this pile of junk will live forever.