Slay the Dragons

Game day. Today is a really full day for me, as I have no conference periods today and we have a varsity game tonight. Instead of coming back to school afterwards to do video scouting for hours, I'm gonna try to take the equipement home and do it there tonight. I can finish up tomorrow and then I shouldn't have to come up to school on Saturday. Yay!

We play the Round Rock Dragons tonight. Because of Hurricane Ike, our last game, against Bryan, was cancelled. Since we had an off week last week, we haven't played in almost 3 weeks! I'm hoping we don't come out too rusty. It feels like another "first game of the season" tonight. It is the first game of district play, so we can't make a bunch of mistakes, or Round Rock will eat us up.

Before I forget, I thought I'd relay something Andrew said. The"Tumblebus" came to his school a couple of days ago and he was really excited about it. It is a bus that has all kinds of gym equipment on it. When he came to tell me about it, I asked him what he liked best. He answered, "We did backflips! And there were these little monkey bars. And I cwimbed and cwimbed and cwimbed!" It was really funny.

Speaking of the kids, we unofficially adopted a new kitten yesterday. It was a stray in the neighborhood and some of the neighborhood kids had been taking care of it. But, when their parents said that it needed to go, they couldn't find anyone to take it. So, we took it in. I think it is a male and we don't have a name for him yet. But, he is brown with dark black stripes and his coat reminds me of a cat I had when I was a kid, named Fred. He is the most loving cat I've ever seen. Coming into a new house and place, I thought he'd be pretty skittish. But, he took to it like he had lived there forever. He always has to be rubbing someone and he purrs like crazy. He'll follow you around the house and rub up against your legs when you stop. He really likes the kids, too, and will go to them and rub his head on their faces.

This is good, because, we just lost our 2 dogs. Ever since we moved into our new house, they have been trying to escape. They've broken at least 4 different areas on the fence and gotten out. So far, we've found them each time. This last time, though, we have not been able to find them. It has now been 3 days, so I am pretty sure they are gone. We may get a new dog sometime, but it will have to wait until after I can afford to fix the fence right.

We're still loving our new house, however. We finally got the pool key activated (the community pool is right down the street from our house). But, we still haven't used it. And this weekend is the last weekend it will be open. So, maybe we can utilize it this weekend. The kids would love that.

Speaking of this weekend, Jonah is going to be baptized this Sunday at the Journey. We're really excited for him and I am proud to be the one baptizing him. I'm excited that he will be beginning a lifetime journey of walking in the love of the Father and learning to be loved and love others. I pray that he can begin to understand just how much God loves him.

Health updates. My dad saw the doctor today and his heartbeat was only 48 bpm. So, he is scheduled to see a cardiologist tomorrow. More to come. My friend, Robert Reagan, is having more tests done in Singapore right now and we are waiting to find out if the mass on his pancreas is cancerous or not.