Tonight after walking into the kitchen, looking around and coming to terms with the fact that I had not planned ahead and thawed out anything, I checked my computer. "Uncle Daniel's at Chick-fil-a tonight! Saddle up." And off we went to see our favorite magician. Ran into Heather P. and the boys. So we spent the evening with some chicken, waffle fries, and a table-side trick from Uncle Daniel. If anyone needs a magician in the Indy area - www.daniellusk.com :)

More Colts

A montage of the evening in jerky vertigo inducing video clips. :)

Birthday Trippin'

Sarah, Heather, and I always go out for each other's birthdays. Tonight for my birthday it was a trip to the Colts game. A pre-season game, but special in that it was the first game in the new Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts are not really know for their wonderful preseaon play. And when Jim Sorgi, the back-up quarterback didn't even start, you know you may be in for a long evening!

Heather and Sarah are just thrilled to make it up the escalator! See that mass of people in the lower left corner. Thousands of people entering the north gate - 2 escalators!

Hey! It's Peyton (blue shirt) So what if he's fuzzy, barely recognizable from our seats and isn't wearing his jersey. That's our quarterback!

Before the game they made a big hoopla and opened up the roof and the north wall of windows. It really was neat especially while the sun was setting. Frankly with how the Colts played, the open north windows were one of the most spectacular things that happened.

Heather demonstrating how tiny the players looked with her fingers.

Final score: Bills 20, Colts 7. The real winner with 2 great friends and 1 memorable evening: ME! I will try to post some video later. You won't want to miss Heather's dance moves!

Important Service Announcement

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I need a vacation....oops....I just got back from one. Maybe that's the problem!

Congratulations Dusty!

Dusty took his last of 3 exams for a Microsoft Professional Developer Certification. He passed it! Yea!! After seemingless non-stop studying for the last 14 months he can finally take a break!

Out with the gals & Matt Redman

I ventured out to Conseco Fieldhouse this evening with 5 ladies from church to go see Matt Redman. OK...really it was a Joyce Meyer conference, but Matt Redman was the worship leader. I really have never listened to Joyce Meyer and I guess people I know have varying opinions of her, but I really went to hear Matt Redman. Have I stated enough times that I went to see Matt Redman. :) But really, the evening was very enjoyable. I had to chuckle to myself about on of the ladies sitting behind me. She would burst out every so often with a "Teach it Joyce!", "Yes, Joyce!", or "Tell 'em Joyce!" I wanted to snap a couple of photos for you, so after it had been announced several times that flash photography was not permitted, I turned off the flash and snapped a few. That wasn't working so I changed a couple of settings, hit the shutter, and of course the flash fired.

Not what I was wanting. After looking around to see if someone was coming to reprimand me, I turned the flash off again and tried once more. There was a wall of moving lights behind the band that confused the daylights out of my camera. It didn't know what to focus on. So I got this gem!

After that I gave up, but I did snap this of me and my friend Janelle before everything got started. I told her that I could post it and tell everyone we were at a Guns 'n Roses concert or something like that. She said that the lady behind us shoots that out of the water! :)

Yeah, OK, grandma probably isn't down with Axl Rose. So here we are at the Joyce...I mean..Matt Redman concert. HA!

Also, pray for Dusty tomorrow. He will be taking the last of his exams for the Microsoft Professional Developer certification around 1 PM. YEA!!!!!

1st day of the 5th grade

Aaron was back to school this morning. Our subdivision was redistricted to a different elementary school this year, so Aaron was also off to a new school. He was a little nervous about not knowing anyone, but when he came home today he said that he had a great day. He will have a substitute for the first 6 weeks because his teacher is on maternity leave. Another first was that he rode his bike to school. We are in the walking zone for our new school, so there is no bus service. Aaron rode with one of his friends in the neighborhood. He is currently lobbying for a new bike. :)