Something to be Thankful for...

I know I'm a few days late, but I'm not really fast with this posting thing yet and to at this point there are a total of about three people reading this blog, so it's not the end of the world.

Two weeks ago Jen and I saw our new baby for the first time. You can see a rough cut in the picture. I have to say that the grainy image is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Pregnancy is such a mystery. You know something is growing inside your wife, but what does he/she look like? Is the baby healthy? Properly formed? Growing according to schedule? A boy or girl? There were so many of these questions in my mind as we walked into the radiologist and the in the space of a few minutes they were all answered. This Thanksgiving I can thank God for a wonderful wife, amazing son and a perfectly formed, healthy, normal new baby boy! Now all we need to work on is a name. Sam's suggestion: Gokki Butter. I'll need to find out what it means before we make it a definite :)

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Windy City

I'm sitting in my friend Josh's comfortable office chair working on the update to AU Chi Alpha's web site. Actually Josh is working, I'm just giving "constructive criticism. We're listening to some good music by Andrew Peterson turned up loud. No I'm not trying to return to the days of my youth (if it's too loud you're too old) and Josh isn't trying to drown out my creative comments; we're just competing with the wind noise. Oh, I forgot to mention that Josh's desk chair is located in Chicago and boy is it the "Windy City." We went out to church and I was almost blown off my feet walking through the parking lot to the front doors. I guess I can now tell everyone that I've experienced the essence of Chicagoland--a bad hair day.

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