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The Legend

My wife told me something that made me chuckle today, but to get the full story I need to go back about 2 years ago..... One day, when I was taking my kids to AWANA my son, age 4, fell asleep in the car. When we got to the parking garage he woke up confused, asking,  "How did we get here?"  Due to the obviousness of the situation, I did whatever any good parent would, I made up a story. "Robots of course."  "How daddy," he replied.  "They picked us up, in an aircraft and dropped us off here." I made an elegant story as his curiosity grew and left it at that. A few days later he started asking about the robots again and my wife made me recant. However a child's desire to believe the impossible is greater than what their parents are telling them. Flash forward 2 years or last week. "Mom, I told my friends about the robots that moved our car." "Atticus, you know the robots were not real, righ

We're Still Here

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Just an update, hopefully we can start writing more frequently and get more posts by the better blogger. I am still going to DTS and working for a small package delivery company. My son is in the first grade and gets up at around 5am everyday.  My wife now works at our church for the mothers day out program. My daughter also goes to that mothers day out program. The Cowboys beat the Seahawks. I'm probably more of a Cowboys fan than a Seahawks fan now. On a possibly annoying side note, I love the marketing of sports. The Seahawks are "the champions of the world" and the Cowboys are "America's Team."  It was America verses the World. Whose side are you on? Well, at least the championship game is called the "Super Bowl" and not something like the "World Championship Game," ........ "world series"  "The world series" Where national teams from around the world compete to decide a champion, wait, that's th

Ryan's soccer thoughts

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My wife has not posted in a while so I will give this a shot. As most of you know the largest sporting tournament in the world is taking place currently. Though most of us either don't care or can't stand to watch a game that has low scores there is a growing fan base.                                                                I first got into watching the global sport in 2000 when I was spending 3 weeks in France with a host family during the Eurocup. This tournament is played by European nations between World Cups. During this time I naively got the experience of the excitement and wonder of national team soccer. I have never seen so many people get so enthusiastically behind one team as a nation. Everyone was glued to the TV. When goals were almost scored the whole family was on the edge of their seat. When France won the cup you could hear the neighbors in the suburbs rush outside and start yelling in celebration. Many went to the city and filled the streets in cel