Call me Narrow-minded...

but I just do not get the whole soccer thing. I know The Godfather and Steve were very excited for it, but I have never had one smidget of interest in the sport. I guess part of it comes from the fact that it was not a sport people in Ross County grew up playing. Only two schools in the conference had varsity teams, and there was not the youth explosion of today. I will admit that soccer may be a better sport for young kids than baseball or tee-ball. At least in soccer you are running, albeit for no reason in some cases as the game ends in a tie, but I digress.

I am a firm believer against organized sports for kids at a young age, especially multiple sports. Get out and play with your friends, play games in the sandlot! I did not play organized sports until I was 10 years old and I think that worked out perfect, so thanks Mom. You see so many kids get burned out b/c they start playing soccer/tee-ball at 4 years old!

OK, enough on that tirade. We started our 3rd MBA class tonight and it was solid. I am going to enjoy learning from this instructor for 11 weeks.

I just printed out our directions to NC tomorrow night, we are extremely excited. I may blog some little snip-its while I am there, in between thunderous volleyball spikes off of Jase's melon.

Peace out...

The Rhino

I have come to realize that many people in my life have nicknames. Case in point, we spent the last couple of days with my cuz, Rhino. He was in town for a couple of interviews as he tries to decide where he will start practicing as a chiropractor.

We enjoyed some LaRosa's and Guinness before game 6 of the NBA Finals last night, it was great to see him. Mad props to D-Wade and the Heat, is it a coincidence that a team called the Heat won the title the same year Reese was born...

Bon and Reese are doing phenomenal, today was solid at work. I go back to class tomorrow night, which is exciting. I was able to maintain my 4.0 through the second class, so far so good.

We watched "Just Like Heaven" the other night, starring, Reese Witherspoon, and I would recommend it. I am usually not one for corny romantic comedies, but it was solid. Tonight we are watching "Red Eye". Evaluation on that one will be coming shortly.

Keep it real...

Unbelievable Story

OK, here's the story. It is amazing how God shows up. After my huge mistake on Friday I had come to the conclusion that we would have to cancel our trip to Daddy B's this weekend. This was devastating as I knew it was my fault and all of the responsibility fell on me.

As I was getting ready to make the call Bon said, "Let's give God Monday, if it is his will that we make the trip you will make the sale you need to earn your commission and bonus for June."

You see things were looking bleak for June, our fiscal month ends on Sunday and with newspaper deadlines I needed to get the order secured today. The morning was a flop and I had a "routine" meeting scheduled for 2PM. This was our first meeting, and I had no hope of this being the deal we needed.

But God took over, she bought not one full page ad, but 2! One on Thursday and one on Friday! Not only did this allow me to hit the bonus level, it pushed me over to receive additional compensation. Without hitting this we would have been hard-pressed to even meet our monthly bills.

Bon called out the faith doctrine again and nailed it! All the glory goes to God as we can now recover from my mistake and proceed down the road to NC...

The Face of Happiness

Happy Father's Day to all my peeps out there. The ones I know who may be checking the blog include: SBraine, The Godfather, Jase, Steve, Guido and of course, Daddy B.

God has a funny way of humbling people. Just when I think I have everything rolling and on top of stuff I get smacked in the face with a screw-up. I made a money mistake and was hit with significant penalties that have made a serious dent in the portfolio to say the least. We are now leaving it up to God to make some things happen tomorrow if it is his plan for us to still make the trip next weekend. Otherwise, we are in serious Barney. (Barney Rubble, trouble)

The Floor Jungle

That darn monkey! Straight Grabill attitude folks...

Just chillin at 3:30AM, feel like I should go grap a couple of sliders at White Castle. Reese is and will stay asleep, she is not the cause. We were so run down last night we went to bed at about 8:45 and all of a sudden about 2:45 this morning I was wide awake.

God is funny though, b/c I had missed Jum on-line for about a week, and guess who showed up on-line as I fired up the cpu.

Had an awesome meeting yesterday with a local computer store owner, his business is called Skunk-a-rific, www.skunkarific.com. He was as cool and unique as the name of the shop, I really enjoyed meeting him and learned alot while I was there. He was showing me how on Internet Explorer and Outlook there is basically programming code writen into each page. This bogs down your system and makes you an extremely easy target for hackers. The solution, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. I have now installed both on our laptop and will no longer be running the other two. It was very simple to do and they even have some cooler features than the Microsoft products. I love learning cool stuff, although the Godfater, (aka Brian Furnish), has been singing the praises of Mozilla for a long time. Let me just say, I would hate to be on the bad side of The Godfather, this guy knows his stuff and I'm convinced could take you out (whack you) if need be...

If you are going to drink...

Drink from a Bear's cup!

This just in, Reese is AWESOME!

Have not received word yet on my final grade for the last class. We actually get this week off, which will be nice, before we head into Managerial Accounting for 11 weeks.

Reese and I had some good bonding time tonight as Bon was doing some water aerobics at the Y.

Got a call from Rhino today, (my cousin Ryan), who is a chiropractor (spelling?) and is looking at a couple of opportunities in the 'Nati. How awesome would that be to have him here?

Not much else new, gearing up for Father's Day...

Update

(Jum is on the far left)

Let's see what has happened since the last update...

Reese had a routine Dr. visit where she had to get 4 shots! She is doing great on all of her development benchmarks and weighed in at 14 pounds, 25 inches long.

Tonight is my last class in my second course of the MBA program, we turn in our finals.

Everything else is still running like a dream, looking forward to our trip in a couple of weeks to N.C...

Oh yeah, and today from NetFlix we get "Two for the Money" with Bon and I's favorite actor, Matthew McConaghey.

There were 3 in the bed and the little one said...

Roll Over, Roll Over!

What a few days in mi casa. The Reese decided it was time to roll over, and tonight she performed the "barrell roll". (Roll over, back onto back same direction, over again same direction, she actually covered some ground with that manuever)

Everything else is awesome, Bon actually said it best yesterday, "Does it get any better than this?" We could not ask for anything more than what God has blessed us with. We have some crazy relatives, but who doesn't? When we look at our collective life together, the 3 of us, it doesn't get any better than this.

Big shout-out to John and Sally for hosting the cookout yesterday, we had a great time. Even though the Furnish family cheated to upset Bon and I in cornhole, it was fun.

This is the last week for my second MBA course. We have a take home final that I worked on for most of the day, but finally stopped when I got a brain cramp.

We are also finalizing plans to visit Daddy B and Aunt Krys in a few weeks w/Jase's posse, ROAD TRIP!

Peace out, keep livin' the dream...