Case in point, after my last blog I said I had to pick Canyon up from work. Well he had to work until midnight (because McDonalds is open that late) so I got done blogging a little after 11 and went down to watch TV and wait for his call. When I woke up at 12:30 to my phone vibrating, it was Canyon and he wasn't real happy to hear my voice. He said, and I quote "I called you twenty times!". On my way to pick him up I checked, and he really did call twenty times. I don't think he understands that blogging is extremely exhausting work.
You can see in this pic that he is still not happy with me. I only asked if I could see the remote.
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| Got that crazy look in his eyes |
We will have to work on those trust issues.
Saturday morning Robyn and I went to the church at 10:00 to prepare to serve at our friends memorial service. We set out some coffee and a few treats for the guests.
Over 250 people showed up. She was extremely well liked and loved by many. The pastor from her home town church delivered a fantastic message. He said we could all take comfort in knowing that she was with Jesus. Then he said if you wondered how we could KNOW where she was you only had to read John 3:16. Even people who don't follow Jesus or even read the bible know this verse.
"For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
The pastor dismantled this verse and explained every bit so the saved and unsaved could all understand it and then reassembled it. I wish it had been recorded because it truely was powerful.
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| Praying for leftovers |
The service ended and clean up was finally over around 3:30. Our group decided to stop at a local resturant/pub for lunch. Robyn and I split a club sandwich because we were going out for steak that night at my company Christmas party.
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| The servers waiting to be served |
After finishing our late lunch I mustered the courage to ask the waitress if she could rush our check as we had to go to dinner.
We hurried home and changed clothes, dropped Canyon off at work (we told him to walk home after work) and headed to Rube's Steakhouse. We found an open tab at the bar and asked for a couple glasses of wine. As more people began to show up we joined the crowd at our tables. There were more than 50 people there in all. Here's a few pics..
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| One of the countertop guys and his wife. Chris and Lindy |
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| The best looking one at the party... and me |
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| Our host and hostess, Matt and Kim |
After a couple glasses of wine it was time for dinner. It's a grill your own steak place so we all selected our steaks and met up at the big grill.
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| Too many chefs? |
It's hard to drink, talk and grill all at the same time as is evidenced in this next pic.
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| The right way and the wrong way to toast bread. |
Feeling rather bloated after treats all morning, a late lunch followed quickly with an awesome steak dinner, Robyn and I decided to call it a night.
Sunday morning came all to early. We pulled our selves out of bed, got showered and drove to church. I opted out of having a donut.
The message was about finances. That theme is common thru February. Here is a clip. it's hard to see but the message is very clear.
After church I ran over and finished a small side job, ran our tax stuff to the tax guy and picked up a movie from red box. The movie (Inception, with Leo Dicaprio) was pretty hard to follow. You tell me whats going on here...
??? I told you. It was very exciting though. We had a fire for the movie and I decided to video tape a little for you to enjoy. Make it full screen and listen to the crackling embers. You can almost smell the wood burning. I would have taped longer but it was very difficult keeping Canyon quite as long as I did, and dang near impossible to keep Robyn from cleaning something for any amount of time. So relax, watch this small clip and I'll chat more later.
Peace
Dan
5 comments:
I have some pretty strong feelings about what your pastor was saying, but will voice them to you in person. Love the crackling fire and I heard you have to see that movie a couple times. Poor Canyon, bad dad!
Canyon, we are all so proud of you....its great ,,,isn`t it when you are earning your own money....keep up the good work...
You are a bad griller! Poor toast.
Why would you think that was my toast? It was actually the toast of the host. But it wasn't the host's toast, the host toast was was more of a roast. Wow! I sound like Dr Suess, but I shouldn't boast.
That last comment was from me
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