We have had a ton of rain this last week – so much, that the lake is way above all normal boundaries. Below is a picture of the dock…or everything on top of the dock.
Here’s a picture I took just last week – the water as it is now, would be up to the girl’s knees!
Lori, shows the entrance to the dock.
Of course, we had to take advantage of the unusual situation and had a blast swimming on the dock.
17-Jun-2007
13-Jun-2007
My life is very busy as of late, STEP is still in full swing and my sisters are visiting for a week. Between filming, leading P.T., showing them around and taking care of Brian, my days are full! But it’s all fun and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else.
Last night I gave a talk on our courtship and encouraged the girls how they could take action now in the areas of purity, preparation, and building relationship with their parents – specifically the dad. Brian attended the session to hear me speak and all the girls said “awwww” when we walked in holding hands.
Here’s a little photo update of what has been going on:
Auto Maintenance Water Safety
Drywall repair Search and Rescue
Trust Fall Confidence leap
So far, so good. The girls are having a blast and so am I!
11-Jun-2007
Take me out to the ball game.
Saturday we went to Arlington to celebrate Bekah’s birthday! She’s a big Ranger fan so a whole group of us went to watch a game – Rangers vs. Brewers.
Lori and Stacie were there too – their first baseball game!
Katie sat with the expert, Rachel, who could explain the game and teach her the chants.
The whole game went on with very little action, only one run scored by the opposing team about the 5th inning. Then, on the 9th everything picked up. The Brewers scored two more runs and it looked like everything was over. Then it became one of those games you only read about: It was the bottom of the ninth, the home team is trailing by three, the bases are loaded, there are two outs and two strikes – can the batter do it? Yes! Three times as a matter of fact, each batter got one man in and we had a tie game. Then the last man up to bat hits another drive into the right field, the Brewers scramble for the ball but too late! The Rangers put one more across the plate as the stands erupt – what an exciting end!
Bekah and Sam celebrate in the background.
7-Jun-2007
Hey, double guess what?!
They found our bikes! Mandregor kept on the case, put several links together and got some questioning of suspects rolling. Soon the guilty blamed each other and in an effort to incriminate their pals they blabbed about the bikes and the sunglasses – all of which were recovered!
Brian, Kevin and I went with Mandregor and a sheriff to the scene of the crime, identified our bikes and brought them home. They are now under lock and key.
Praise God for His mercy in returning them all to us!
6-Jun-2007
Guess What?!
We went out yesterday with some friends like I mentioned in my last post and we tried some unusual food. For appetizer we had alligator tail which tasted like chicken (of course) but had a slight fishy flavor as well. Brian ordered catfish and shrimp while I tried….Frog Legs!!! (how about that, Timothy?) They looked like little drumsticks – again, mostly like chicken but with a strange after taste. They were fried which was nice, I was afraid they would come with the skin on and be a lot harder to eat 
We also played Putt-Putt golf and I won! Brian and Andy were one point behind me and poor Meg came in last 
We had a really good talk on the way home afterwards. We like them and have purposed to get together with them more often.
In other news…
Kevin’s bike was stolen last night. We wondered if there’s someone with a personal grudge against the Cahill’s but it seems to be unfortunate links in a chain of events. One of the guy’s sunglasses were stolen the same night as our bikes which coincidentally was the same night a couple boys went missing from a boy’s home near here. Capt. Mandregor is hot on top of everything as well as the police – should be interesting.
