I had a nice surprise when I showed up at the office this morning.
I have the best secretary/customer service rep/babysitter. But dont get any ideas, Amy and I have “first right of refusal” over any other babysitting jobs. Thanks Jillian! And dont worry, I’ll save you some donuts.
Believe it or not, this the first time Dylan has held Delaney. He loves his baby sister so much.
After hearing that the forest home website was “down” while the Sandals kids were at camp, I decided to take a look for myself. When I went to their site I saw a message on their site stating “our server is down.” Now, I know better than that - because if their server was down, then I wouldn’t be seeing anything. I could tell right away that their website had actually been hacked, so I took it upon myself to “unhack” it for them. Unfortunately, it keeps getting “rehacked” every couple minutes, so my fixes do not last long. However, for your convenience, I have copied the links to view photos and placed them below:
| Select a Camp | |||
| Indian Village - 3rd to 5th Grade |
Adventure Mountain - 5th to 6th Grade |
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| Creekside - Junr High |
Forest Center - Family Camp |
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| Lakeview - High School |
Ojai Valley - Jr. High - High School |
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Ok, so I know it’s been a while. But now that I can post from my phone I have no more excuses.
Delaney is 3 months old and starting to crack a smile.
Some days I feel like I might just lose it like this guy did. Be patient, it takes about 20 seconds to get exciting.
What were you doing this day (May 15th) in the year 2000?
I was living in a townhouse in a community called “Loving Homes Greens” (yeah, I know it sounds like a retirement community, but it’s not).
I was also attending Sandals Church back when they met at the VCC building, back when VCC was Victoria Community Church before it moved and changed names to The Grove.
This isn’t actually from that day, but around that time, I was working on my golf game.
And here is what I was working on back then.
Oh, and I probably weighed about 50lbs less than I do now.
So, what were you doing on 5/15/2000?
So Amy and I are here in the delivery room. She is having some minor contractions already, but they will probably start her on some meds soon
I will be sending photos to flickr so keep checking back for updates.
Update: the delivery was very quick and Delaney arrived at 2:17am. Weighing 7lbs 10oz and 19 3/4″ long. We should be back home with baby on Sunday morning.
Thank you all for your prayers. I just posted some pics on flickr so check the link above.
Most of you have probably heard by now that Amy is being induced Friday April 25th. “But I don’t think you will make it until then” says her doctor. I too am guessing that Delaney will decide to get things rolling a little early - probably around 11 PM on Tuesday evening. We will find out very soon.
So me and all the guys from my small group are driving out to Angels stadium the other night. Traffic is clear, and I’m doing 75-80 in the carpool lane when our Expedition starts jumping up and down wildly - kind of like when the freeway is bumpy but this was really bad. I start to slow down and BAM, thud, thud, thud. My right rear tire blows. Now I’m just trying to keep the car under control as its starting to weave back and forth. I have never experienced a blowout before, but luckily I was able to stay calm.
I don’t normally drive this car - Amy usually does. My first thought was thank God I was driving when this happened. I honestly felt like the car could have lost control and spun out - however large SUVs don’t spin out, they roll over - and it is often deadly.
I’m guessing all the cars behind us saw the whole thing happen, because they were all slowed down enough to let me get over to the slow lane and pull off on the next exit. Lucky for us there was a tire place right off the freeway, so I pulled right in.
It wasn’t until we got out of the car that we realized what had actually happened… Apparently the tread had completely separated from the tire. The sidewall was still intact and it still held air. This is exactly what happened to a lot of people that had bad Firestone tires on their Explorers a few years back. And I didn’t realize until I started researching tread separations, just how many SUVs do rollover from this, and how many people have died. I did not even realize at the time just how close we really came to meeting God.
Here a some pictures of the aftermath - as you can see a large chunk of rubber can do a lot of damage at high speed. The rear bumper is dented and scuffed up. The mud flap is wrecked, the tail pipe is loose. and the side of the car is scratched up. The running board is bent down and the door is scratched up.
