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Today I found out my grandpa had a mild stroke last night and is currently in the hospital while the doctors try to get his heart rate and blood pressure under control, other then that there is little else the doctors can do right now, he is in God's hands now, God's will be done.

Sunday we did an amazing race for Amber's birthday that Bethany and Sara B put together and it was a lot of fun looking for the clues and then having to figure out where to go for next from the clue. Monday, Bethany and I went walking before riding in the van to Sara B's softball game in Nashville, AR. It was a long drive of about three hours but it was the state tournament. They ended up losing in the semi-finals, so that was a bummer. Today I had my first final out of three and it went pretty well. I also raked rocks out of the volleyball area for almost two hours, it really reminded me of our yard back home before the grass grew. Bethany and I also went walking again today and I just finished a studying session for my database final tomorrow at 1:30 its my hardest final and I will be glad to done with that class.

That's it for now. Please keep my family and especially my grandpa in your prayers. Semper Fe

Nice day it was

Today was quite nice indeed. Went to school and walked Sarah to class after chapel while chatting, then I went and worked on my stupid database project that is almost done, finally bleh. Went to class and then had a meeting with a db team to work on it some more and then finally came home and got to work outside for a bit. I got the horse shoes set up and worked on the stone walkway some more. Later Bethany and I went on a nice walk and we talked about a lot of stuff, it was just a nice time. Vesnea made some dinner so I ate with her and Courtni before vegging out before going to bed, so here I am writing about my day and now I am done. Good night. ~Semper Fi

Weekend Fun

Saturday it literally rained and stormed all day long except for a pause around 7 and that's when Dan and I went out on the pond in the canoe while it was really windy and paddled around for a bit which was quite difficult with wind blowing. I also played a lot of cards and some other games and watched some tv.

Sunday went to church and then around 3 Bethany and I plus Cole with Sara B meeting us there, went to see Harding's last game baseball of the season. It turned out to be a good game with Harding winning in the bottom of the last inning. That's pretty much what I did this weekend. ~Semper Fi

Dads for the win

Today while I was putting the tools away after putting two poles in for a volleyball net it occurred to me how much I have learned from my dad and since Cole has been around lately, reminded me how important a father is in a kids life, since he doesn't get to spend much time with his father. Anyway today I have used my cement making skills and how to support the poles and make sure the stay level from my dad and I started working on the rock pathway again which I also learned how to do from watching him. There is so many useful skills that I have learned from him and also the lessons I have been taught from his on actions in integrity and honor, on how important it is to keep them even if it cost your job or some other less important thing. I have learned much from him and am very thankful for him.

Everything is going really well at the moment. The school year is almost over which is good, but also saddening at the same time because some of my closest friends will be graduating and moving away but I will be sure to keep in touch with them on a weekly basis. My spiritual life was in a valley for a bit because my priorities were not correct and when I realized that I fixed them and now everything is back to were it should be.

I would ask that all who read this keep my family and grandparents in your prayers because they are in the midst of a war with Satan going on at church back home. Also pray for the rest of the body there so their eyes will be opened to what is going on there and put a stop to Satan.

May God's will be done always. Semper Fi

Happy Birthday Bethany

Today was Bethany's birthday so we had a really nice dinner party for her with a bunch of friends. I got her some potted white tulips and made a little story/card for her and she really liked them. She also got some other funny gifts and some neat ones like a bread maker. The dinner was really good, Amber made the meatballs Bethany always has for her birthday and there were some really good green beans and ravioli. We had a lot of good conversation during and after dinner and it was just really enjoyable.

Last night we had an amazing thunder and lightning storm, I so wanted to get up and watch it but it started after 12:30am and I was really tired. I get another three day weekend since I don't have to get up tomorrow and only have my 11am class to go to. I really need the extra sleep I almost fell asleep in math class today ugh.

Stupid Mariners lost tonight by walking the wining run in, what a way to lose. bah

Anyway it was a really good day aside from being tired, but it's time for bed. God Bless. ~Semper Fi

Amazing weekend for the win!

This was probably the best weekend I have had this year. Friday started it off, I got to have breakfast with Bethany and Sara, because Luke skipped his 8am class and we skipped chapel, so I didn't have to go to school till 11am and then only for an hour. Came back and watched a moving with both of them and then went and cleaned my bathroom and fixed a thing on Bethany's car before we went to see a baseball game. It turned out the game was not at home and Sara need to find some more sources for her paper so we hung out in the what I guess is the social work and related fields resource room looking for books and I even found one that was useful. A lot of the books had funny/strange titles and what not. Then we took care of some other errands that needed to be done on campus. After that Harding Academy had a baseball game so we went and watched that for an hour or so before we headed home. Later that day several of Bethany's friends came over and had a fishing party, man was that a lot of fun. I caught the first catfish and had a dorky picture taken which I will post as soon as I get them from Bethany, we did that till it was dark and even some in the dark. I had forgot how much I like fishing.

Saturday got up and went to breakfast as usual and then after breakfast went fishing again. Bethany, Sara and I were out fishing for 4-5 hours and man did we get some sun. I have an awesome farmers tan now, it looks like I dipped my arms in read paint. After fishing I helped Ray planet some trees before getting ready to go to Spring Sing with Branson, Bethany and Sara, it was pretty good and had some funny parts but I still don't like it all that much. Sometime after that Amber and Jess came over and I went on a walk with them and Branson and we actually saw a live armadillo, it was pretty cool.

Sunday I got up at 6:30am to go to a sunrise service with Sarah, Mandy and my sister Erin, it was alright. Came back to the house ate breakfast and took a short half nap till it was time to go to church for the second time. It was a really good service and the sermon was interesting for the parts I was awake for, crummy previous nights sleep for the lose. After church we had a really nice lunch and chatted with friends and then I went to the den to watch some tv and ended up taking a much needed nap, it was nice. After that Branson, Ryan and I moved some rocks for the pathway I have been working on and then went to a picnic with a bunch of friends. We played with a frisbee for a while and then ate. After eating and chatting and laughing, we got a soft baseball out and played catch for quite awhile and some of them went played with a volleyball, so we got out the gloves and played with a real baseball and that was nice. We headed home and Branson and I got out in the canoe and chased a goose around on the pond till it finally flew off, that was fun. Then we and Amber, Bethany and Sara sat out in the gazebo for all most 2hrs talking and just chilling, that was really nice.

I really enjoyed hanging out with Bethany and Sara this weekend and all the fun stuff we did with friends just made this an amazing weekend. Thank you God for allowing us to enjoy your wonderful creation. ~Semper Fi

Finished with seminar

Well I did my seminar today and it went pretty well. Boy am I glad that is done and over with, no more 7:05 am seminars on Friday. woohoo! I feel much better and am just really happy to be done with that class. Life is good. ~Semper Fi

Today was sweet

Got up and went to Sarah's church, with Sarah and Courtni, since Luke was gone and I really liked it all the people were really friendly and saw some other people I knew there also. After church we went out for mexican food with a group of collage kids that were at church and had quite a few laughs. When I got back to the house Cole wanted to play with his army men, so he went and got them and we played outside with them for away, made some stick forts for them and then Cole would stomp on them. After that we started throwing rocks into the pond, I was skipping some and Cole liked that. Then we got some large rocks and threw them in making some big splashes. Later tonight we got a sweet thunder and lightning show and while Sara B and Bethany were sitting out in the screened in patio, Cole came up with his super soaker so I put just a enough water in it to make it mist and pumped it up and told Cole to go shoot one of them and he got Sara right in the face, made me bust up and got a good laugh from Bethany too. Sara B was more surprised then anything. Mischief for the win! After that I watched a movie with Branson, Courtni and Veasna before calling it a night. I also did work on my presentation and got about 60% done. All in all it was a great day. ~Semper Fi

Nice day it was

Today I spent the whole day watching softball in Batesville because Sara B. had tournament. It was a beautiful day for it, the sun was blazing, a little to much, there was a nice breeze once in a while and it was with friends. I played catch with Zac quite a bit and talked with Bethany and Ryan. Man it doesn't get much better then watching softball, it could if it was baseball, on a beautiful day with friends.

In other news the cure for information overload has been found, check it out.

Continue prayers of wisdom, fearlessness and strength for me. God Bless. ~Semper Fi

20oz steak for the win!

Yesterday, I had a testing database and I did quite well on it. There were only a few questions that I wasn't sure about so hopefully I will get a good grade on it. The best part about yesterday though was I got to go out to Outback for Jonathan's birthday and his parents were paying for it all, so of course I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that and got my self the 20 oz Porterhouse, mmm tasty. Yesterday was a great day, I was in such a great mood even before the streak, hoorah. I have may presentation coming up next Thursday so I will be working on that quite a bit, so pray that it goes well and continue praying for wisdom, strength and fearlessness. ~Semper Fi

I had a productive day

Today I had a really productive day for a Sunday. I got the oil changed in Bethany's car, got Courtni's computer virus free and updated and watched the movie Stealth, it was quite good. I also got my pictures from spring break uploaded so go check them out. Bible class was good this morning and worship was nice too, even though I was almost asleep though most of the sermon so I don't remember any of it. Last week I got my stupid research paper done for one of my capstone courses and all I have left for that class now is to give my seminar, which hopefully I will get done this week. It sure has been nice being back and hanging out with my friends down here again. Oh yeah I also have some movies from when the family played Dance Dance Revolution to upload, once I get them up I will put the link here. Continue praying for strength wisdom and fearlessness for me. God Bless. ~Semper Fi

Heading Back to School

Well I am on my way back to school. This break was much to short. :( Anyway yesterday my friend David and his wife Kira came down for dinner and games and they brought Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero with them. We got the whole family to try DDR at least once, even my Grandma gave it a shot. I took pictures and some video, but again I can't post the pics or video till I get back to school. So they may be posted today, but most likely tomorrow. Only three of us played Guitar Hero, David, Nick and myself. It was a lot of fun and I was much better at Guitar Hero then DDR. Anyway pray for a safe and speedy return. ~Semper Fi

Shooting stuff for the win!

Yesterday, my Dad, brother and I finally got to shoot up some stuff we ment to over Christmas break. Before we started shooting, we took the old microwave and put a bunch of foil and bottle rockets in it and started it. It didn't take long for the arcs to light some of the fuses and boom we had explosions in the microwave :) After a few more of those the microwave quit working, so we got and old tv and plugged it in and started shooting it. We put about 30 rounds in to before it quit making noise :) Then we got a styrofoam head and put two blood packets on its forehead and started shooting it up, got a nice blood running done the face effect. Finally we got out a old ceramic owl bank and shot that up, it only survived three rounds before it was totally annihilated. Then we shoot up the microwave to finish it off completely. I have lots of pictures but I can't upload them till I get back to school so I will let you know when I get them up.

After dinner the whole family plus Alycia and my Grandparents played Loaded Questions for almost three hours! Because the game took that long, it was still lots of fun and we all died laughing at some put, I pretty was laugh the whole time and was one of the best times I have had playing that game. Some of the answers that came of my grandpa cracked me up it was great. I almost killed my grandma with laughter when she read one of my answers. The question was: What is a hidden talent you have the most people don't know about? I put throw a ball with my foot and for some reason she that was hilarious and then we all started laughing because she was laughing so hard. Man was that a fun night. That's it for this post. ~Semper Fi

Spring Break

Yesterday, Alycia, Erin and I made it to Washington safe and sound. We spent the afternoon in Seattle and went to Pike Place Market and visited the Space Needle and took a few pictures. Which will be showing up on my photo site once I have a broadband connection again. Today we went hiking upto Goose Rock, then down to the bridge and finally to the beach. I took some pictures along the way and they will posted aswell. Man am I going to be stiff and sore tomorrow, I haven't gone hiking like that in awhile, but it felt good and was a beautiful day. ~Semper Fi

The tomorrow post

Last Friday, Sara had game number two in a tournament to see who would win regionals. The game was tense for a while because they were playing a team they totally dominated in all previous meetings, but they were losing for part of the game, it didn't help that the refs were favoring the other highly, 8-1 in fouls until the very end when it didn't matter anymore. They won in the end even though they were playing against a team, the refs and at the start themselves. After the game we came home and I met Bethany's sister Rachel and her two friends Chelsea and Christy. We chatted a bit while we waited to go out to dinner because those that went to the game hadn't eaten yet. We went out to a Chinese buffet place and I eat three plates of food since I was really hungry, mmm tasty. After that went back and Caleb, Lindsay and Alycia were over because Alycia was taking Caleb and Lindsay, who was leaving her truck at the house, to the train station in Little Rock around 10:30. We didn't do much else that night, but around 11:30 I get a call from Caleb saying the directions he got were no good and he needed some help. I was looking it up on Google Local, when he told me they were stopping at McDonalds to get directions, since they were really close. The directions they got there worked and they made it to the train station. Then I went to bed.

Saturday, had breakfast as usual and then we all kinda just bummed around the house till about seven when it was time for Sara's final game of the tournament against their rivals, who they have lost to in their three previous games. It was an intense game and one of the best of the season. The teams were only a few points apart the entire game, but Sara's team won in the end and were regional champs. After the game we headed home and played some games and then went to bed.

Sunday went to church and had a huge lunch with a bunch of friends at home. Then I bummed around the house until later that night when we played Loaded Questions and I wrote about that below, but another funny one that came up was, what is your worst physical feature? The answers were all related to hands or feet, but Rachel's was the funniest with corpse feet. After that we actually played hide'n'go seek in the house that was a lot of fun and I was the last one found the two rounds we played, leet hiding skillz for the win! ~Semper Fi

Quick update more to come later

Just a quick post to let you know I am still alive and kicking. I have a lot to write about for this weekend, but you will have to wait till tomorrow for that post. I learned about two more neat things I have in common with a certain somebody :) The first one is we both have to sleep in a colder room and the second one I learned while playing Loaded Questions with Amber, Bethany, Christy, Chelsea, Rachel and Branson. Off topic real quick Rachel is Bethany's sister and Christy and Chelsea are two of Rachel's friends, who came down for the weekend, they will be in my post tomorrow. So back on topic now. A question came up asking: What is it you don't like to share? I put down toothpaste tube, because I can't stand it when people leave the lid off or squeeze the tube from the middle it just really urks me. Anyway after they all got read both her and Branson said they can't stand that either and we got a good laugh out of it. Anyway I thought I would share that. Time for bed. ~Semper Fi

Happy Valentines

Man did today, Monday, start off crazy. On our way to school we, Luke and I, saw our roommate, Nate, get rearended by some lady, he was fine, and then after we get around the corner we see flashing lights down by the next stop light, so we decided to go around by Searcy High School. We are waiting for the cop, who is directing traffic for the school, to give us the green light and right after he does we almost get creamed by some HS girl on her cell not paying attention. We are almost to school and another lady starts to pull out in front of us and so we almost creamed her. It was not a good day for woman drivers :P

Today in my chapel seat was a stuffed valentine gorilla with kisses all over him, it was nice surprise. That's him on the right.

Then later today I got to go to a free concert for Shawn McDonald in Conway, with Alycia, Amber, Bethany, Erin, Jess, Laura and Sara, it was a lot of fun and I like his songs, plus he is a fellow pacific northwestern. I also made some funny valentine cards for friends and still need to make two more tomorrow morning before I go to school hopefully. Well its late and I need to get to bed soon. Good day it has been. ~Semper Fi

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It has been awhile since the last post but then again that's been the norm. Saturday I had a bunch of gamer buddies over to watch Doom and we all had a good time watching it and making funny comments during it. Doom was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. The first person section was the best by far. Bethany was also having people over to play games and then there was a surprise party for Alycia. I had some good conversation and then before I went to bed I played a round of Oh Well, its a simple version of Spades, with Amber, Bethany, Nate, Sara and Tracy it was fun.

Sunday I went to morning church and then came back and had a nice lunch and then watched/slept through Miracle. I didn't do much else today and was just lazy this weekend. Anyway a group of us(5 girls and me :) ) went to downtown tonight and as I was sitting there thinking during the devo, it really hit me how much singing focuses my thoughts on God and how easy it is to fully worship Him while singing versus just sitting and listen to someone talk. Cause while I'm singing I am not thinking about anything else to the words to the song and what they mean, its just refreshing to be able to focus that much. I'll probably write some more tomorrow, but its late and I gotta get up in the morning. Continue prayers for wisdom, strength and fearlessness for me. ~Semper Fi

Guys Night Out

Tonight, Friday, we had a guys night out. Allan, Caleb, Kevin, Kyle, Jonathan, Luke and I went down to Little Rock to get measured for our tuxes, just Allan, Caleb, Kevin and I were the ones getting measured. After getting measured we went out to Chili's for dinner and had a lot of funny conversations about all sorts of things, it was most enjoyable. Then we headed for the bowling alley, but about half way there Caleb called informing me Jonathan had about six minutes of gas left, so we pulled off at the next exit which of course had no gas stations, so turned around and headed back towards the previous exit. Some how in the process Jonathan didn't see us take the first exit and kept going. A few minutes later Caleb called asking where we are and I told him we took the first exit and some how the missed it. So we decided to go on to the bowling alley and give them directions after they had gotten gas. Well after about 15mins of waiting they finally showed up, so we gave them a bad time. Well at the bowling alley we found out it was an hour to an hour and half wait for a game, so we said forget that and went to see a movie. When we were almost there Jonathan made another wrong turn thanks to bad directions from Kyle, so we made fun of them some more. Once at the theater we decided to see Good Night and Good Luck, it was a good movie and I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't so tired. We had a lot of fun and it was nice to hang out with just guys for once. Well I'm really tired and need some sleep. As always please keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Big Update

Not much happened during the week, except for skipping chapel on Tuesday to work outside with Abraham before going to school and Thursday, I found out the results of what I did previous Thursday and they were good. Other then that I don't think anything else happened of note.

Friday, Sara had an away game so the usual people went(Ray, Rebecca, Bethany & I) plus Zak. It was a good game which they won. Then we went out to dinner before coming home since we hadn't eating dinner yet. When we got back Bethany, Sara and I finally finished this 2000 piece puzzle we had been working on over the last couple of weeks and just as we were putting in the last couple of pieces we came up short and had little nooooo and booing, but luckily after looking around for a bit I got down to look under the table legs and say the last piece reflect light so it stuck really well against the patterned carpet. After it was placed and the puzzle finished there was much rejoicing and a few pictures taken.

Saturday, there was no breakfast because Rebecca was having a ballet troupe over for lunch, so a bunch of girls were cooking and getting everything ready for them. Then they came over and ate and chatted for a bit before heading out to the school to setup. Several of us guys went to help them setup, because they needed some muscle to do some heavy lifting. I got a good work out from moving some of that stuff. The light bases, sandbags to hold them down and their rolls of floor mat were pretty hefty. The heaviest thing I was enlisted to move was their light controller box or power supply thing, whatever it was, it was heavy. I enlisted Allan to come help get it up the stairs and he must have been surprised and made some comment about me working out, but I told him, you would be surprised how much strength you build cutting wood and doing other heavy grunt work. Before moving that big box, Lydia, who is from Washington insta connection, was telling me about the rivalry that they have going for the Super Bowl and on our way over to the box she point out two Steelers fans, so I booed them and that got a laugh out of them hehe.Well after getting all setup we guys headed back home for some relaxing before the ballet.

The ballet was really neat and I enjoyed it. It was the story of Ruth put into a 1900s setting. They had some neat costumes and dance routines, quite enjoyable. After that was over we started tearing everything down and packing up. By then it was 11pm and we still had to go over to the high schools caf and eat some dinner, man was I hungry by then. Just after praying for dinner, Sarah and Mandy went to move some stuff to Veasna's truck and they found a cd stuck to the front of her truck and it was from a guy in her apartment complex, so we started giving her a bad time about it. At some point we started making a song/rap about the situation and Mandy said something like, "I'll make you back bend" and I followed a few secs later with "I'll bust a cap in your rear end", which killed the entire table and made my stomach hurt from all the laughing, lol it still makes me laugh. After helping clean up, we headed home to bed.

Sunday, other than doing homework and going to church, nothing else happened of any note that I can remember.

Monday night I spent about an hour watching/playing with Cole, having a good time and it was a little taste of being a dad and it was nice and is something I am looking forward to. After push him on his trike, at hi-speed of course, I was pooped out, but it was all good.

Oh yeah here are some pics of all the wood I chopped last semester, the platform, the wood is on, is 8x8x4ft to give you a reference.
And here is a picture of my current project of putting down a stone walk way. I will post an updated picture next time.

Well how was that for an update. Before I forget if you read this leave a comment even if its just hello, I would appreciate it much. And as always continue prayers of wisdom, strength and fearlessness for me. May God bless you as much as He has me. ~Semper Fi