back to normal...kind of

monday morning, 5 AM, work out...not much of one though, it kicked my butt!  at least i am on the path back to working out and starting my day off right!

wow! we had a good weekend!  friday afternoon i picked the kids up, actually about noon, we surprised mommy at work with some flowers.  then the kids and i went to the discovery center...always a blast!  we met kim downtown at nona's for an early dinner...just a great day/night. saturday, kim got up early (thats a big deal!) and got me some starbucks coffee and breakfast in bed!  thanks mommy!  eric had a ball game later that day, my friend Hayward got to go to that with us...always a plus to hang out with Hayward!  then we came home to prepare our fancy night at home, valentines dinner!  we had steak and lobster tail!  all of us got dressed up in our fancy clothes and ate in the formal dining room.  it was a lot of fun! i hope to have some pics sometime in the future, i'll post them here when i get them.

then sunday...early service at JRA, and i knew from the moment we walked in that it was going to be impacting.  i saw missions banners up along the stair well in the foyer, and just had a feeling that it was good to be going to church with my family!  it has been several weeks since we have been together.  we come in and they are doing this drum beat tribal thing with dancers and fire and video...it was pretty awesome.  then John shared a little about cuba and they showed a video about cuba...very cool what God is doing in cuba.  then, dan betzer, from first assembly fort meyers, fl spoke on missions and faith giving.  let me interject here...i am not a big, capital fund-raising giving guy.  i have never been a part of any pledge deal or anything like that.  it all sounds too churchy to me and i'm out on it.  but this day was different, kim and i are trusting in God to provide an amount of money that we can not.  and when He does, we are giving it to missions around the world!  we will get to partner in making a difference all around the world.  simply, b/c we are trusting in God to do what we can not.  

i am not doing the service justice with my brief babbling about it...but it was awesome!  

in short, too late for that, we had a great weekend and it is really good to be home!  hope your weekend was good too!  later