Ada Soldier Killed by Roadside Bomb in Iraq

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It's not that because the closer something happens to you that the more real it is...but sometimes it just can't help but feel that way. I was sitting outside with the paper in hand thinking about something, when I glanced at the front page. The title was "Ada Soldier Killed..." I knew it wasn't anyone I knew cause I don't know anyone over there right now, but Ada, I've always thought of as this small, 'hometown.' Then it said he lived in the new development right across the street from us. The part explaining where his wife was, and how she found out...all that was less than a half mile from my house, a house me and McKenne take walks by all the time. Man, that just really hit me. Being able to picture that, and his family. Wars are sad, especially when there is so much controversy here over should we have troups there still? Or should we bring them all home and let that country fix itself. Ya know? I guess maybe if I were a soldier or a member of my family was, hopefully I'd see more clearly the impact we are having upon that country. Death...that's just something that you can't really get used to.

Alias

Just thought I'd get you all phsyced (can't figure out how to spell that one) about season 5! Click on the pix to read what to expect the end of September!

Social Butterfly:)

I know there's always a ton of things I need to do better at in my life. Lately the big ones have been learning to eat/like new, healthier foods and to be more sociable:) Actually now that I think about it, I've ALWAYS been bad at those. I moved to a different Sunday School class in church partly to be around more adults and hopefully branch out and talk to them. Obviously I wasn't going at the root of the problem because now I just go in there and sit by my friends who I already know well. The food thing...well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens with that one;)

A while ago I saw a sign in front of a local church building that advertised KinderMusik. That's just these classes (seperated by age group) meant for kids under school age, to come and be taught by a trained teacher. It's meant for kids and their parents/caregivers to go and work together on developing age appropriate skills. I printed off more info. on it and talked to her mom about it. In the meantime a couple opportunities came up at our church for us to be involved with playing with other kids her age like one day a week. Her mom said we could chose which one we wanted to do. My main reason for wanting to do the ones at church would be that I would know people and be in a comfortable setting, as opposed to going to some unfamiliar church and being around a bunch of parents I don't know...quite the dillema, I know;) So anyways, I told her mom we'd do the KinderMusik. I'm branching out! haha. I just always feel so intimidated when I'm around a bunch of mom's with kids. Hoping McKenna isn't a brat in the class!!

On-line Christian University

"The Lord has created these tools (internet, video, audio capabilities, multiconferencing, and multicasting) to be used for the advancement of His kingdom, and MCU is in the vanguard of this move of God."

I was looking through some search results on Google this morning and found a school called Miami Christian University. Out of curiosity I clicked on it, and (along with it's teribbly tacky webpage) found out it was a completely on-line Christian University. That quote is from their page explaining the school...ya. Didn't really know what to think of that one. They even have a "virtual campus" with rooms and buildings for students and profs to interact!

shoot 'dem guns

Hi. It's me again. Tonight was fun, doing something a little out of the ordinary. My dad took my brother and me to a gun club to shoot some "trap." We were just going to check it out see if we wanted to be members but they were so stinkin nice there and they let us shoot. We had us three and then two other guys in our line. It's set up in stations where you move around a little and just shoot from different angles, taking turns of course. We each shot a total of 25 shots. I ended up hitting 13/25, my dad was like 15/25 and my brother was 16/25. I was surprised at how I well I was doing! I don't think I've shot since last fall. It kinda boosted my pride a little, cause the other kid who was with us was about my age and he kinda looked the part...like he totally knew what he was doing but he only ended up being 9/25! It's kinda nerve racking because you don't want to do anything wrong with the gun or anything cause you'll get yelled at, but they were really nice there with giving me pointers and stuff and we weren't even members or anything. So I enjoyed it! Anyone want to come shooting with us next week!!??;) Next week we advance to shooting "skeet":)