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What a perfect smile :-) 

Pictures at Exploration Place

This one in the dark is in the CyberDome where we watched a film on constellations. The rest of the pictures are from the playground.

 

Got a new car today.

Well it is a new car to me.  A 2000 Ford Focus SE, red 4 door.  It has hail damage and I have to bring it back on Tuesday for a few repairs but the price was right and any car that gets 35 MPG on the highway and 25-30 MPG in town is worth its weight in gold.  That is 2x's the mileage that our Explorer gets.  Anyway it will just be used as a back up and to get me to work and back so Jenny can still have a car. No picitures of it yet b/c we just got it over lunch and b/c it still needs to be cleaned up.

A Fascinatingly Sad Story

A story about a 210-pound 6-year old - Includes a picture
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 'I like to be big'

"We should mention at this point that Dzhambik, who most of the time
looks at the floor, is really very fat indeed. His eyelashes are forced
upwards by the rolls of fat that are his eyelids. His thigh fat hangs
over his knees. His wrists look as if they have been swollen by bee
stings. When he walks down the stone staircase inside the school, it
thuds."

Moved Out But Not In.

Well it is 3:30 in the morning and I am laying in bed typeing this in our new house.  This has been the longest weekend of my life and it is only half way over.  We have moved out of the apartment but not exactly moved into the house.  Lots of stuff still packed into the Explorer and stuff sitting in the Garage.  In the morning we drive to GC to get the rest of our things from our old house so the renters can move in on Sunday and of course pick up the boys from Grandma's house.  I don't know if I have ever been this tired before in my life.  I don't know why I am typing this and not going to sleep.  I have a lot of funny stories about this whole adventure but I am too tired to tell any of them so maybe on Sunday night.  Goodnight...

BTW: I blew out my knee with all of this moving and so anyone that wants to help move some boxes out of our basement is welcome :-)

Conversation with a Spammer and other Ramblings

Conversation with a Spammer- A Securtiy company calls it quits basically b/c the Russian Mob threatens to spam them into oblivian.

It is interesting that people are still having this much of a problem with spam.  I have been using Gmail for about the last 8 months and it ROCKS.  It filters out 99% of my spam, so it goes straight to my spam folder and I never see it.  Even before that I was using SpamAssassin on my server and it did a pretty good job.  All of the spam that comes to my Gmail is from other accounts that I filter through it so I have one centralized place for my email. 

If you don't want spam DON'T PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE INTERNET!!  And of course don't hand it out to people either, only give it to companies that you trust.  I don't get any email to my actual Gmail account.

Anyway i am just rambling about stuff.  Really I am too distracted to focus waiting for Jenny to pick me up so we can go work on the new house... She is taking forever!

We got it!

Signed on the house this afternoon.  Tonight we paint.  :-D

Two Boys Pretending

	Here is Ethan a few weeks ago pretending to be Bob the Builder.
	Here is Jacob with his engineer hat reading a Thomas the Tank Engine book

 

The Crazy House Buying Roller Coaster

The last 6 weeks have been a virtual roller coaster.  We have been trying to buy a house here in Wichita.  We thought we had to sell our house in GC first so it was a mad rush to get that done (even though we have been trying for the last 8 months).  When things fell through time and time again with that we finally gave up hope.  That was a good thing because then we were ok no matter what happened. 

Next, we discovered that we could rent the house in GC and that would enable us to get the house here.  On late Monday afternoon our friend Kent put up a "For Rent" sign for us, and we got 4 calls by the end of the day.  The next morning we got a few more and then the ad hit the newspaper and for the next week the phone was ringing off of the hook.  I know we got more than 60 calls and showed the house to dozens of people before we finally got a contract from someone with a deposit the next Monday.  That afternoon we went to the bank and finalized the paper work for the load and viola, we close next Wednesday, May 17th!

We are very excited to get into this amazing house and for the boys to have a backyard to play in whenever they want.  The backyard looks like a forest with all of the trees in it.  I love trees.

Thank you God for answering our prayers and making our dreams come true.  I feel completely unworthy for such a blessing!  From the beginning of the whole process He told us to trust him.  It was very very hard, because everything seemed to fall apart, over and over again.  It certainly wasn't Jenny or I that made this happen and God made sure that we knew it.  It is the perfect house for us in an amazing neighborhood at just the right time and I am thankful that we didn't sell our house in GC before because we would have settled for less.  Every other house we had picked out was in a much worse neighborhood and just going to be transitional.  This house is in a 0 crime, young family neighborhood with lots of kids and plenty of room to grow.

Heath

-- I am testing out this new blogger "Performancing" plug-in for FireFox (the best browser in the world by the way - get it and use it if you don't already have it!!) so we will see how well it works to post from it.