Little Vacation?

We just returned from General Council Sunday night and I guess we had a mini-vacation on the way home. We stopped in Kansas City to take the kids to Science City down at Union Station. I have to admit I wasn't too excited about this little detour. I was ready to be home. But after stopping there and spending time with the kids, we had a lot of fun. Here are some pics from the stop.

This is Alexis working some serious magic....what happened to her legs?


Here is Crystal and the kids walking across a cool bridge.


A picture of Science City.


A Picture of the entrance...check out the cool maze on the floor and the helicopter to the right.


Here is Caden coming down out of the tree house.


I think we'll plan another trip up there. It was a lot of fun.

Again, it sure was good to see everyone last week. Although it was weird to say goodbye all over again.

Back from Council

Well we made it through our General Council. It all ended pretty good. We elected a new general superintendent and assistant superintendent. Check out all the results here. The business sessions were really worth all the money.

Sometimes I wonder what guys are thinking when they get up there to speak.

Anyway, we're back in St. Louis on our way to Wichita. Here's a highlight from today:



I love this stuff.

Council

We've been here in Indianapolis all week for General Council. It's been a big week for a lot of reasons.

First we are able to see our good friends from Greensboro. It's been really cool to see all the youth and hang out with the Blackwoods again.

Also, today in the business sessions we started the elections for a new General Superintendent of the A/G. The turnout in the session was pretty big. They even ran out of voting devices. We didn't get very far and didn't elect a new GS but we start again bright and early tomorrow.

So we'll see what happens tomorrow! I'm getting ready for bed.

I do miss my kids. I'll see them again Saturday. Can't wait.

St. Louis

We have made it to our first stop on the road to General Council. We are spending the night here so we can break up the trip just a little bit.

It's nice living so close to family. We've been able to see Crystal's family a lot more since we've moved back.

This week the kids are staying with Grandma and Papa while we head up to Council.

Oh, one more piece of good news. Today I was able to eat at one of my favorite places....



Life is good.

Coming to the end

Well we are coming to the end of this Sunday. It's been a pretty busy day.

First we wrapped up our parenting class this morning. I think overall the class was a success. We're seeing people who aren't connecting with each other coming to the class. The cool thing is we're seeing new groups form. I really can't wait for the next class to start at the end of the month. It's going to be on marriage....yep, I need to be there!

Then I preached in the morning service. I think things went well. I talked about being "Set For Life." And no I wasn't able to drop money from the ceiling this time. (But I handed out free money to people on the front row!)

I'm heading to Council tomorrow. Should be fun this week. I'll get to see a lot of students from North Carolina.

Big day....big week coming. Wow.

Logging In

I've heard from several of you that it is hard to log in to leave comments. I can't really say why that is. When I log in I have to use my email address as my login and then my password.

I really like the comments so I hope you can figure this whole thing out.

Anyway, I had a great week celebrating my 10 year wedding anniversary. Marriage is great and it is getting better each day.

Right now Crystal is in the other room playing tennis on the Wii trying to get her score up for her Mii character. Our daughter is at the pro level on everything and we're getting beat way too much.

Ok, enough rambling for tonight. Tomorrow I'm heading to the Y then mowing the lawn and then working for a while.

Can't wait to travel to Indy next week.

Been a while

Sorry I haven't posted. We had friends in last weekend from Dallas so things were a bit crazy around the house. Instead of two kids running around we had six.

And I did my very first baby dedication last Sunday morning. Pretty cool.

Well, back to work for me.