Life Update
Good morning, at least to those of you that are up at 2 am CST... I should be doing Greek homework, but I thought I would update the status of our life. Our girl scout cookies are almost gone. I know, I know you wonder how we make them last so long. It is called discipline-or maybe its because Mickie hides them... You decide.
Speaking of food, awhile ago I found a really cool website that gives you all the top secret recipes of your favorite restaurant food. My favorite is the Starbucks Frappuccino.
I put up a new page for the baby tonight. You can see some photos of the nursery. The photos are the same as on this page but I will update soon. We have a little over a month to go although we wouldn't mind a bit if the baby came a little early. We are both really excited. I'm not nervous yet so somebody needs to let me know when I should be. We still need to buy a stroller and car seat. We are waiting on a friend of Mickie's who said she would give us one, but we haven't seen her for a while.
I was trying to get a new driver this weekend on Ebay but was unsuccessful. I bid on a 320ti Taylor Made driver in two separate auctions and both times lost by one dollar. I am also bidding on a new bag for my golf clubs. I want to get one that has the back-pack straps. They are a lot easier to carry and more comfortable. I decided that I am only going to buy one new golf item per year-I just haven't decided if it will be a driver or bag. (I am also looking at a new putter...)
We went to Mickie's parents for the weekend. It was very relaxing and a lot of fun. Friday night we went to an silent auction/pig roast for Kelsie's (Mick's little sister) school. They had a lot of stuff but most of it was crafty and and not that great. They did have a really cool americana quilt I tried to get for Mick but alas much like ebay I lost. We did bid on a shelf and won. That was part of the live auction. I have never been to one of those before but it sound like the auctioneer is just making truck sounds with his mouth-I can do that... They also tried to auction off some donated 4 wheel ATV's and a motorcycle but nobody bid. I felt kind of bad but there weren't a lot of people in the room with that kind of money.
Saturday I tried to help Denny build a chest of drawers. I got to run the hand held circular saw and he even let me cut some stuff on the table saw. I would like to do some word working but I have neither the time nor the tools. The dresser should turn out really nice though. He is doing a really good job.
We have missions conference at school this week. I am looking forward to it-not because of the great messages and missionaries we get to hear from, but because it will give me a chance to catch up...
I have to praise the Lord for his providence and safety. [mom you can skip to the next paragraph if you want] I took my motorcycle out for the first time trying to get it warmed up after sitting through the winter. I was taking it slowly on the road in back of our house when the front brake locked. I wasn't going fast so I didn't fly off, but it wouldn't move and I was stuck in the middle of the road just around a curve. Right then 2 other guys on bikes road up and helped me get the bike off to the side of the road. It sat for about 10 min and was fine. I will try to get it in to be looked at soon.
We have some new neighbors. Pray that we will get a chance to witness to them. I am going to invite them to our easter cantata so pray that they will be able to go.
Well, my NCAA tournament brackets are surviving...barely. I still have chance in a couple of the challenges that I am in. I entered about 4. In the espn challenge I was in the 99th percentile after the first weekend but now I am in the 80th. Still pretty good but nowhere near the top. I should have entered Mick because she absolutely obliterated my bracket. She got 3 out of the final four. I am not sure how she picked her bracket but needless to say she is filling out mine next year... She picked the East Rutherford region perfect except for one game.
Newsletter Update
Well, here it is the middle of Spring Break and I haven't really done anything productive except go to work today. I was lucky enough to catch the avalanche game last night on the internet and hear the shellacking (is that even a word?) they put on the Canucks. Too bad that goons like Bertuzzi exist. I hope that he is suspended for a long long time.
On a related note, girl scout cookies came today. 5 boxes of pure enjoyment.
Not like I need them. I wonder if the girl scouts make an Atkins friendly cookie? Everything else in the world is Atkins friendly-even this website is Atkins friendly-no carbs here...
I bought a range extender the other day for our home network. This will allow us to take the laptop anywhere in the house and be able to connect to the internet. We will even be able to be in the backyard and surf. No more gettin up and walkin to the computer...
I still haven't seen The Passion yet. We are probably going to go on Friday. I can't say that I am really excited but I am anticipating it in a weird way.
I landed a new contract with a church in Battle Creek MI to build their website and the GARBC is thinking about placing my link on their resources section. That would certainly help business. My desire would be to do this full time in the fall. Pray that the Lord might work in that direction.
If you ever get a chance log on to helives.com, do it. This is an incredible site that is having an incredible ministry. I spend most of my time on the teen forum answering questions. They can always use help, so feel free to log on and minister to hundreds of teens around the world!
I am tired so I think that I will go to bed now.
Out.
The Byers Family Launches a New Website!
Well, I guess because you are reading this you have discovered our new website. I plan to try and update the content as much as possible, but with life as nutty as it is an email is all you might get. But I will try!
I would like to include a family section, but I need some help. I would like to have a family picture of all the relatives in our families. I think it would be a good place to see what everyone looks like and to keep up. I would also like to be able to put contact information for everyone as well. That way keeping up could be as simple as a click.
If you could please send me a recent family photo with names (I am sure I wouldn't recognize everyone!)