Water Proof Phone?!

TIP: Never tell your brother your phone is water proof! Because when I was out to lunch with my sisters this week, that’s exactly what my older sister did… so of course I answered, “Really? Can I see it?” And dropped it into my water at Red Robin. Here is my sister’s phone half submerged! Now completely submerged! View from the top! Comes out dripping, but working! Even works open and with an incoming call! A toast to a water-proof phone! OK, for those of you who have to know more, check it out: GzOne Phoneand, no, I am not buying one. The next phone I buy will be an iPhone!

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Luke’s First Light Saber

Luke got to hold his first light saber this week. It wasn’t his, it belongs to his kissing friend, but she let him hold it. It was a light up one from a circus… Without any instruction or prompting, he knew exactly what to do with it: Strong in the Force Luke is Attacking his father! Good thing it was only a toy! Being a dad is so much fun! Uh oh, gotta change a diaper now. Light sabers are fun, but there is the practical side to fathering too… peew, gotta go!

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Luke Takes to Water like a Fish

I always heard dads talking about how being a father gave them new insights into being a child of God, and the same is happening to me; a lot. Be glad I don’t blog all of them. :) But I’ll save my latest lesson as a new dad for the end of this post. One of Luke’s very favorite things has been bathtime – he would sit in a tub and splash until he became a prune if we let him. He never tires of water. So as we headed off to vacation two weeks ago I was sooooo looking forward to the pool in Palm Springs where we would be for the second week of our trip. Luke’s first time in a swimming pool. As soon as we checked in, we went for an evening swim. I wasn’t sure if the vast size of a giant pool would intimidate him, but far from it… he took to it like a fish! Splash! Splash! Splash! Well, a fish being held by his father that is. The pool was giant and included a baby section with water only a foot and a half deep and a water slide where you could…

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Boy Meets Girl

Luke has taken his first step into a larger world… no, not of the Force… of Girls. :) Recently we had a family over from our church whose daughter is one of Luke’s favorite friends. Though we may have to keep a closer eye on them now…. BOY MEETS GIRL Sitting together on the couch. How cute. Luke’s got an idea… She is so lovely, and she adores the attention!Whoa! He wasn’t expecting THAT! But he doesn’t seem to mind either! Ooooo, what was that? a kiss? And no, these pictures were not posed, we were just taking pictures and letting them play, though someone may have said “give a kiss.” I cant’ wait to show these at Luke’s wedding someday! I think Luke is already fulfilling Romans 16:16, I Cor. 16:20, II Cor. 13:12, I Thess. 5:26, and I Peter 5:14!JUST FULFILLING SCRIPTURE Reminds me of the young Bible College boy who was taking a girl he fancied on her first date, and the girl’s father, who happened to be a preacher, asked him as they were about to go out the door, “What are your intentions with my daughter, young man?” To which the boy replied, “Just to…

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If April Showers, Bring May Flowers

If April Showers, Bring May Flowers What does April Snow Bring? the view out my window! the Easter Bunny is confused! THIS is Spring? Mysterious Patterns Appear in the Drive Way So much for Global Warming! (or a relaxing swing in the back yard) WARNING: POLITICAL SOAP BOX By the way, if you don’t know what Global Warming is, it is simply a paranoid scare tactic to raise money and increase political power by those who will do anything to get power. You probably don’t know why they only use climate data from 1975 to present? Because from 1940 to 1974 the world was cooling and the political kooks at that time where using a Global Cooling scare (“The Next Ice Age is Here!) to raise money and try to gain political power. Bet you didn’t know that Congress was having special sessions on Global Cooling in the 70’s. Nope. Because that would be an Inconvenient Truth! :) (Want the truth, watch this documentary from the UK that debunks this American obsession) An even more “Inconvenient Truth”, (or stinky truth) reported by our own government agriculture agency, is that US cattle flatulence (big word so kids don’t know) accounts for…

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