Interesting story

A 59 year-old man has made his college football team. Apparently, he was kicked off the team some 30-plus years ago. He will be the oldest college football player in NCAA history.....

here is the story

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2986313

Trying to be normal

Wow...... it has been a long time since we have written- a lot has happened obviously and we are trying to get back to normal. So it is good to be writing this. Most of you know our house was broken into in a bad way with katie, Isabella and our friend at home. We have moved and will be selling our house. Pray for us - selling a house is very difficult right now in harlingen. We look forward to writing more in the next week.....

Spider Man

Taking advantage of a visiting friend, katie and I were able to get away to the dollar theater - we saw Spider Man 3. In my opinion, the Spider Man movies have been the best comic book action-hero movies, and here is a short treatise on why.....

1. Spider Man is a lot more like you than any other superhero
2. The costumes, womenly screams in distress, and action antics are just corny enough that you are reminded, that indeed these movies, are based on comic books
3. Based in NYC, not Gothem City or Metropolis
4. Relationships in the story - Peter and MJ, Peter and his Aunt, Peter and his best friend Harry (see number 5)
5. The first bad guy to appear - this is harry, peter's best friend who is avenging his Dad's death. Harry's silly costume involves this flying hoverboeard/snowboard that is just awesome
6. The first bad guy to appear (Harry) actually ends up helping Peter (Spiderman) against the next bad guy (the sand man, played by Thomas Hayden Church - see number 7)
7. Thomas Hayden Church - he has come a long way from playing Lowell Mather, on Wings

So, in the end the movie comes to a culmination when Peter forgives the man who killed his uncle - this was pretty important, but then the movie ends with the humanistic hurray that emphasis that you have to be a good person. This seems good, but only seems to be half true.......

Just cute

Here are some recently taken pictures of Isabella. The first one is of her and daddy playing with her favorite toy "Mr. Froggie". And the next one is of her getting ready to get in the bath; she loves her bath time.

First Beach Trip

We went to the island last night with with Isabella for the first time. It was a lot of fun to just walk up and down the beach with her. The SMI team was there for their debrief time and we wanted to join their night time talk because one of our friends from Philadelphia was in town to do this talk. It was a treat to see him for a little while. Here are two pictures of Matt and Isabella (we ran out of memory on our card). This one is the good one of the water --too bad matt's eyes are closed.

Eating with a spoon

Isabella has eaten with a spoon for the first time. She did really well with it--i was very pleasantly surprised by this. She didn't seem to like it all a lot, but she tolerated it. Here are some pictures from the fun experience. Things are gunna be changing here very quickly.

Planet Earth

There is a series out by the BBC called "Planet Earth" and it is awesome. They have some very

awe inspiring footage of nature and landscapes. I would highly, highly recommend that anyone watch it - we got it from Netflix, but you could also rent it part by part at any video store.

Swimming monkeys, 6 foot salamanders, grizzly bears, leopards (claimed to be the first video shoot of snow leopards from the himalayas), great white sharks ravenously eating unsuspecting seals, it is all there...... in all seriousness, this is the most compelling nature footage in one series that I have ever seen. Apparently it took multiple years and over 25 million dollars to shoot.

It definitely makes me worship God as creator of all living things