Friday all ready

Yesterday my day off, wow two weeks in a row with a day off! We went to sandusky and ate at Burger king and let the kids play on the indoor playground while it pored outside. We got home and the kids watched the wizard of Oz. They loved it! Two nights ago Adriana woke up screaming and Kristi got up with her at 2am and 3am, then she screamed again and i said i would just lay in the bed next to her. Well i fell asleep and woke up in the morning in her room. The next night i went to tuck her in and she said, "daddy you slept next to me last night and you didn't have a shirt on." I said yeah i know then she said, "I was scared and i hugged you while you slept because i love you." That makes a dad's heart just melt. also another thing that was exciting the other day i killed a snake and the kids thought that was just so cool. I was maybe 18 inches long and Isaiah said "was that a baby snake?" i said no it was bigger than a baby but it wasn't a real big one, then he said "it was probably a teenager snake." Julean has now gone 3 days without any accidents in his potty training. He still will not tell us when he has to go we just sit him on the toiled every hour.

Today i ran 13miles, it was my long run. i was supposed to go 18 but i wimped out at 13. i was supposed to run at 8:37 pace. but i ended with about 9 flat. i am also running a 5k tomorrow in Lexington.

The ministry is going well, I worked on finances for about 2 hours this morning, and then collected candy bars. I also registered Chamber ministries to receive an intern from Liberty. We are looking for an intern to help run a weekly program. Hopefully it will be a spring board to advance our ministry options here in Deckerville. We are also thinking about taking a group of kids to Word of Life Snow camp. I contacted our area missionary and we are tyring to get a bus from the state to go.

We are going to a wedding tonight and mom is watching 3 of the kids. we are taking Matthias.

- gotta go - Reception tonight my stomach is growling

-rick