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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Korbin's Birthday Cake

After church tonight, we came home and celebrated Korbin's 3rd Birthday again, since today was his actual birthday!! I made a chocolate cake earlier today and we were waiting for Daddy to get home from work.



Korbin is 3 today

Happy Birthday to our little boy Korbin, who turned 3 yrs old today! We had a b-day party this past Saturday for him. He was sooooo excited and had been talking about it for weeks!
Happy Birthday sweet little boy ...
Love Mommy & Daddy



Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Happy Birthday to...

Happy Birthday to my sister Isabel who celebrated a birthday yesterday, Sept 8th! We love you sister and hope you had a great day!

And, Happy Birthday to or brother Jeff who's birthday was also on the same day! Hope you enjoyed the chocolate cake :-) Love ya!



Also, Happy Birthday to our nephew Jonathan, who turned 16 a few weeks ago! He celebrated his b-day with all the youth, at our church gym, this past Sunday.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

A Visit with Baby Nolan

Nolan Buster Rowell


Uncle Jason holds baby Nolan for the 1st time


Meagan & baby Nolan

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Who Packed Your Parachute...by Tom Mathews

This was forwarded to me and I wanted to share with everyone that stops and enjoys my blog.

Here is an excerpt from Aim for the Heart ...

I recently read a great story about Captain Charles Plumb, a graduate from the Naval Academy, whose plane, after 74 successful combat missions over North Vietnam, was shot down. He parachuted to safety, but was captured, tortured and spent 2,103 days in a small box-like cell.

After surviving the ordeal, Captain Plumb received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit and two Purple Hearts, and returned to America and spoke to many groups about his experience and how it compared to the challenges of every day life.

Shortly after coming home, Charlie and his wife were sitting in a restaurant. A man rose from a nearby table, walked over and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"

Surprised that he was recognized, Charlie responded, "How in the world did you know that?" The man replied, "I packed your parachute." Charlie looked up with surprise. The man pumped his hand, gave a thumbs-up, and said, "I guess it worked!" Charlie stood to shake the man's hand, and assured him, "It most certainly did work. If it had not worked, I would not be here today."

Charlie could not sleep that night, thinking about the man. He wondered if he might have seen him and not even said, "Good morning, how are you?" He thought of the many hours the sailor had spent bending over a long wooden table in the bottom of the ship, carefully folding the silks and weaving the shrouds of each chute, each time holding in his hands the fate of someone he didn't know.

Plumb then began to realize that along with the physical parachute, he needed mental, emotional and spiritual parachutes. He had called on all these supports during his long and painful ordeal.'

As a leader, how many times a day, a week, a month, do we pass up the opportunity to thank those people in our organization who are "packing our parachutes?"

It's A Boy

Congratulations to our brother, Jeff & sister-in-law, Kristy, who gave birth to Nolan Buster yesterday, August 31st. He was 6lbs 8 oz, 19.5 in long. More pictures to come :-)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my sister Patty, who's bday was yesterday, Aug 31st.
Love you sister!!!!

Here are a few recent pictures of baby Ethan, who was born July 30th & his big brother Omar.

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