Thoughts from Piper's book... Demand #1

Demand 1: YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN

Jesus answered . . . “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’” – John 3:5, 7

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3

Jesus tells Nicodemus (a prominent Pharisee) that one must be born of water and spirit. Yet he does not understand. One clue is found in Ezekiel 36:25-27:

“I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.”

Piper says, “Jesus sees all of humanity divided into two parts: those who are merely born once – ‘born of the flesh,’ ‘the (spiritually) dead’ – and those who are ‘born again’ by the Spirit of God – those who are alive to God and see his kingdom as true and supremely desirable.” (p. 39)

Piper tells us that we do not need a moral improvement from the old. New life is what the WHOLE world needs. The dead cannot help themselves. WE cannot help ourselves. And until we remove the log of pride from our unbelieving eyes this truth will never penetrate our hearts. The gospel will never penetrate our hearts. And it is when we let this truth overcome us that our hearts will turn from ourselves to God and to others.

We are living in a cemetery. And there is new life in Christ. We are His tools. God uses us to raise the dead!

"What Jesus Demands from the World," by John Piper

Los Angeles Townhouse?!

No, I don't have a townhose in L.A. :-D

But I did move into my townhouse in Louisville last weekend! I finally have a place I can call my own (along w/ 3 other guys) about 10 minutes from school. Over the weekend we got all four (yes, four) of our couches moved in, and I found a bed for myself from the school thrift store. Although not much is very organized or unpacked, we've been quick to watch lots of movies and play crazy games with the friends still around the area for winter. It's been such a blessing!

In other news - Katie and I arrived safely home in Los Angeles yesterday around 11am local time. Though California is a little bit colder than I would like, it is so good to be home! Mom was in the ER for a few days due to 2 liters (yes, 2) surrounding her lungs that they were finally able to drain right as we were flying in. She's home now and actually out shopping w/ dad at the moment. After cleaning the house, us kiddos are taking it easy by watching heroes and cleaning the entire house haha.

Last Christmas I was given a book by my worship pastor... "What Jesus
Demands from the World," by John Piper. The chapters are reltively short and I hope to summarize my thoughts chapter by chapter in a journal, and on here for encouragement. After reading the introduction of this book it is hard to explain my excitement for the pages to come. I pray to be challenged far more than I have been in a long time. And I pray for a ready heart, to hear what I have needed to hear for even longer.

I pray for you all as school is winding down and family is coming soon, you'll enjoy the blessings God has given us in one another, and from Himself. I pray you will not so easily lose focus of the spiritual blessings and eternal joys as we are bombarded with secularism, physical gifts, great meals to prepare, people to make happy, and the stress of waiting for the world to kick back to normal come January. As Jesus blessed us by giving himself, likewise bless others by giving them yourself.

Christmas - U2

Take this video for what it is... a music video. I hope you simply enjoy it. I did. (make sure you click it...it's a link)


U2

Falling in Prayer

"We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in the proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition."
- Charles H. Spurgeon

Once again, I have a few fairly important things to figure out fairly quickly. One being the apartment situation. Unfortunately two of my (hopefully) future roomies make too much money for the complex we were aiming for right next to school so that is now out of the question (after about 2 weeks of inquiry). So... we look for a new complex asap! The first will be tomorrow afternoon.

The apartment and other issues can only be resolved by God so I am seeking Him in earnest prayer. It seems I may have been caught off guard and welcomed back to the real world this time. Perhaps it was foolish of me to think things were going alright. Yet here I am, living proof of the steps I've taken to get here by God's grace. And still He will lead, through sun or storm.

One specific blessing in my life is the opportunity to sing w/ some of the music students here at Boyce for some pastors of the KBC next week. We will be doing some Christmas carols as well as some worship pieces!

Christ has held everything together...nothing is lost

Finals have ended, and the grace of Christ has never been more evident in my life! It is amazing to say, and even more amazing to truly believe it. All of my finals were last Thursday and I am pleased to say most of them were smashing. The only one I am worried about, of course, is Hebrew. At this point all I am worried about is passing so I can move on to Hebrew 2. Although I think I've forgotten a lot of it in this short week already... Since school has been out I've started a new job at Ruby Tuesday as a server. I've had about 5 days of computer training and some shadowing and Saturday I will have my first tables. Hopefully I don't spill too much... If this job works out well I will be staying in Louisville through most of break (except for Christmas) and getting an apartment with some friends here. We are hoping to have the paperwork for the apartment finalized next week because we have been running around trying to tie up odds and ends this week of different things they forgot to tell us that we needed for the application to go through and now they are closed for Thanksgiving...so we wait.

Please pray for strength and wisdom on my behalf. I dearly need it. I feel inadequate in so many ways and feel I should be so much farther in life spiritually and mentally. Maybe I dropped the ball at some point...

I am also praying through how I would serve next summer. Be it at a summer camp in the states, as a ministry intern, or even overseas once again - which would be such a blessing!

I'll end with a quote I found on Justin Taylor's blog...

No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow.
It is only when they are behind us and done,
that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards,
and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant.

Accomplished, they are full of blessing,
and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us.
Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility,
and hindering our communion with God.

If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink,
go straight up to it, and do it at once.
The only way to get rid of it is to do it.

-Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910), Scottish preacher

Finals are here...and I rock. ;)

It is 3:20am Eastern Standard Time and I am cranking away! While most students finished their last finals today, all of mine are due Thursday. Besides a few tests and a TON of Hebrew I need to study, I also had 5 papers to do. Two of which I finished yesterday, and one I JUST now finished. Praise the Lord!

Next on the list is God & Government. Chuck Colson is brilliant. And the great thing this book is so easy to read. I've loved the stories he's shared from the politics of the world. His points are simple and he doesn't waste time. Definitely my kind of writer.



Finally is the Closing of the American Mind. At first I loved this book...about halfway however I began to lose interest. Much of the writing becomes cluttered and difficult to understand if you do not follow the author very closely. I thought overall it was good though in pointing out cultural fallacies we have let slip by as a nation and now we are reaping the consequences.



Thursday night, sometimes around 4:30 pm I should be free at last! :)

I start my new job at Ruby Tuesday's Friday and will be serving on my own by Tuesday night. The Lord has been so gracious in providing all of my needs as of late. Even as the semester winds down. It looks I will be getting an apartment w/ some good friends here in the next month and trying to get as many hours as possible in at work. Hopefully I will head home for a little over a week at Christmas.

For now its back to my 2 remaining book reviews!
God bless you all...

Concert and finals!

Aletheia played w/ Chorale and the instrumental ensamble Thursday night and it was fantastic! God really blessed the night. Not to mention Bw3's after. :)

Now...finals! Oh man. Can't believe they're here! One week of the semester and I'm done for 2 WHOLE months!

McCain on SNL

I was pretty impressed to see Senator McCain on SNL the other night. I thought the skit was brilliant.

Chicago!

Greetings. :)

Last weekend Aletheia traveled to Chicago and my hometown (kinda), Naperville, IL. We had a blast! We were blessed to lead through worship just north of downtown Chicago Friday afternoon then we got to do some touristy things on Saturday.

Sunday morning we played for a church in Orland Park and that evening we returned to my home church for a full blown concert. It was great! Everything went so well and it was a blast to finally travel together as a group.

In other news I have recently been job searching and it appears I will be serving at Ruby Tuesday's pretty soon here. Which will mean I'll be living in Louisville for most of the winter break. Not quite sure how I feel about that yet, but God has worked things out more than once before so I'm not too worried...

School work is crazy. Pray that I would be diligent in Hebrew because it is only getting more difficult!

Enjoy the pics!

Impressive

A couple weeks ago some friends and I played at a local coffee shop here in Louisville. It was a great night and I was able to get almost all of it recorded. Unfortunately it wasn't the best quality, but we tried nonetheless. I was finally able to seperate all of the tracks over the weekend which was a blessing. And now its back to school...

Check out this video. One of my profs shared it with my class last week and I was impressed. Humorously, one student responded by saying this video made him want to be Catholic. I'm not sure about that, but it is defintely worth watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61wj4tJICcc

Curly hair

Years later... I am still here.

School has been going so well. I've been surviving (barely) Hebrew and the rest of my classes are fine.

This last Tuesday I got to go to Nashville with some friends from school for a country music talent show. It doesn't sound like our group won, but we got to tour downtown and go to the Grand Old Opry! And even though I am far from a country music fan, it was still flippin' awesome.

Last week was fall break...I spent some time in Shepherdsville, Elizabethtown, and I got to play drums for a middle school DNow which was great.

Now I'm looking ahead to my last few weeks of classes before the end of the semester and trying to figure out what I will be doing over my extremely long winter break (a month and a half, about).

Aletheia will be playing at my home church in Chicago in 2 weeks and I cannot wait! We finally get some travel time, and its enough for us to just hang out which is great because one of my good friends who is in it will be leaving the group after getting married in December.

I know thats a lot of scrambled info, but its better than nothing. So enjoy the pictures and hopefully I'll get some more on here pretty soon. Next week should be pretty exciting!

Time has left

1 Corinthians 16:13
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like MEN, be strong.

When I think of this verse I have a picture of Mark Driscoll trashing sissy ministers. But that's another post in itself. This has just been a verse of reflection for me this week. How often are we watchful? Notice how the verse flows. If we are watchful, we will stand firm because we know the Devil is always scheming. If we act like men, we will be strong. We can't take these challenges out of order.

Unfortunately I find myself too busy to ever watch, so I am always looking BACK ON the times I should have been strong, instead of ahead to the times where I would be.

School is 3 weeks in and I went from 19 credit hours to 13 - praise the Lord! I have 3 official classes (including Hebrew) with a bunch of music stuff. I'm also working about 30 hours a week(ish) at Pools Plus.

Things are going well though. I will be leading worship with Aletheia tomorrow night at a local church.

For now, the rest of life is flowing well. Pray for continued diligence in homework (its harder than ever) and that I might live 1 Corinthians 16:13.

Hosea

Last weekend a good friend of mine (Eric) came down to Louisville to do some recording. We had a great weekend hanging out and putting some of our different musical backgrounds together in a big mixing pot and seeing what came out!

One song he wrote reflected on Hosea's marriage to a harlot and how Christ has likewise done the same to us. A people of sin, running dead away from the cross and brought us to Himself. EVEN THOUGH we are still blemished in our physical state here on earth and still stumble by turning from Him time and time again. Way to go Eric on putting that to lovely music.

My car is finally fixed! All the lights work which is fantastic. Hopefully I will be able to get some new speakers and a head unit installed so everything will be back to normal again. But only God knows right now.

I'll be moving back into the dorms on August 3rd! Oh man! I can't believe how busy I'll be...

Car

The car situation was kind of fixed, but has only gotten worse. I thought it was fixed again, now lights aren't working, etc.

Please pray for patience, wisdom, and temperance. I've been doing pretty good until lately so now I am just a little frustrated.

I've been reflecting on Job recently...it's incredible how God allowed Satan to test him by removing EVERYTHING from him almost leaving him utterly alone and yet still Job never sins against God in his attitude. It's amazing how the smallest things can waver our faith and cause us to stumble. How pitiful our faith can be... oh for a stronger faith like that of Job!

Stress!

Pray for me...

The other day I was driving out to Elizabethtown w/ my buddy Matt and my car broke down on the highway. Thankfully we were able to get it towed out to Shepherdsville where I could borrow my Pastors car. So, I took his car. When we got up the next morning to come back, my pastors car wouldn't start! So we got this car towed also back to Shepherdsville and Jac let me borrow her car.

You'd think having 2 cars towed in less than 24 hours would be bad enough. But no...it got worse.

Upon arriving back in Shepherdsville I discovered someone had broken into my car and stole the sound system and torn the whole console unit out. Not so cool.

Needless to say. My car is still broken and I am unsure what the road looks like to repair and am a bit under the weather. I know God will provide, but I still worry.

In the meantime... happy independence day! time to go celebrate with good friends and watch some things blow up!

The car!

The rumors are true...

I got a car! ...even though I got it about a month ago it's still pretty cool. :) A '93 Toyota Tercel. And I NEVER thought I would EVER own a Toyota. Nothing against them...I just have a rivalry going with a friend and it seems she has finally gotten the best of me in my purchasing this car.

But on the good side it has been running very well. I got it at an amazing price from a family in my church. Plus its a stick shift which up until a few months ago I could not drive for the life of me. I think now I can say I'm getting the hang of it. :)

Work has been good. I'm enjoying the time to read and arrange the little things in my life when the store isn't busy.

Last weekend I went up to the Michigan dunes w/ my buds Luke and Andrew who I haven't seen in almost a year! We had a great time just hanging out and catching up on our future college plans and old memories from Chicago. And, speaking of Chicago...I was able to stop back to the Chicago area Sunday night for a while and hang out with some old friends which was great! It was definitely one of the best weekends of my summer and very needed. It was so awesome to be home!


Anyway...now its back to life here in the Ville. It's almost July and I can't believe it! I'm hoping to have my class schedule figured out soon - I'm just waiting on my re-admittance into the school since I took a semester off.

Last night I had the amazing blessing of not only being able to lead worship for my youth group, but I was also asked to teach through Acts 4. Praise God it went much smoother than I had expected! Please be in prayer for our youth group here as many of the kids are unsaved and come from very lost and broken homes.

Pray also for continual humility in my life as I try to lead by an example mirroring Christ's image.

God bless...

Kentucky Livin'

Despite my lack of any posting, I did indeed make it to Kentucky!

It's been a fast month and I can't believe it's already June! I was able to visit Florida w/ Jackie and her family for a week before I started my new job at Pools Plus. The job has been great. 40 hours a week of customer service...haha. All the work is in the knowing. What chemicals do what, what parts go where, etc. I'll never understand everything it seems and at times I'm helpless but I'm slowly learning. One really cool thing about my working there is they wanted to hire Jackie for their e-town store so she started working there yesterday and we'll actually be able to work Sundays together every few weeks so that will be fun.

Other than that life has been calm. I'm in the midst of Fall planning for classes and my work schedule so please be in prayer for that. This fall will most definitely be my busiest semester by far!

Until next time...

P.S. If you get a chance check out my good friends new photography website. Its awesome!
jasoncoobs.com

God's Great Faithfulness!

I've been meaning just to give a brief testimony of God's faithfulness to me in this moving situation for some time now...and though I should be sleeping, I can't really rest until I say something!

From when I got back home in December I began praying about a summer move depending on moms health condition and financial situations. I knew it could be a long shot, but my prayer was that God would make something happen if it was possible.

In March I secured a landscaping job with an elder at my church in Chicago and as far as I knew, this was where God was leading me. I had prayed also that Louisville could be possible, but I had abandoned the idea simply because I had no possible jobs or affordable housing. At this point I pursued a place to stay and a means of simply getting to work. I could get around other places I had to, but getting to work needed to happen. Over the next month or two my housing options were slowly eliminated due to the work site being different than what I had expected. For a few weeks I stopped looking and left it to God.

Then in April, Jackie and my best friend Matt came out for their spring break. I was sharing my situation with Jac and she recommended I email my worship pastor again about any possible jobs or housing, so I did. To my great surprise, he responded a few days later saying his family had prayed and they wanted to house me for the summer free of charge! They also had an extra car for me to drive and all I needed to pay was the gas! WOW!!! I couldn't believe it. So, I quickly looked for jobs within the Louisville area and I had a few possibilities but nothing secure. And I couldn't purchase a plane ticket with no job and time was running out since I was needing to be on my way by mid-May if not sooner for a wedding in KY.

In late April I visited school for a banquet to see friends and say goodbye to some Seniors who were moving home for good. I spent two days there at school and they were so refreshing! One of my friends picked me up w/ Jackie and he mentioned a job opening he heard about. So when I got home I called the number and to make a long story short...the job fit me perfectly! Good pay, full time and could continue into the semester part time... Hallelujah! Unfortunately the job is by campus and I will be living 30ish miles away so I will have to commute.

This meant restrictions on the car I could borrow from my pastor. And shortly after securing a job, I heard about a car within my church body there in great shape that I could purchase (for me only) at $1000!!! I don't have it yet, but it looks like I will be buying it soon and using it to commute and get around into school this fall.

All this to say, God has been nothing but faithful to me in these situations and not a day has gone by for the last 3 weeks that I have not been reminded of that.

The ironic twist is, God has decided to throw me a curve ball. In quitting my jobs, I forgot to allow some time off for packing and over these next 3 days before I move I will be working 45+ hours! And I leave bright and early Thursday morning at 12:30am sooo I will be very crunched for time and being packed! So please pray I somehow find time to sleep AND pack up everything I need to.

More to come when I make it to the other side of the country...

Blessings!

Spring Banquet

I was able to fly out to Louisville to visit friends for Boyce's Spring Banquet. One awesome surprise was I found out I was going to be in town for our Chorale concert after I bought my tickets!

So, I had a great 2 days back at school seeing friends and saying goodbye to some who will be graduating and moving on with life. Thankfully there are only a few, and most will be around this fall!

I'm still planning on living in Kentucky in a few weeks...I just need to solidify a job before I buy my plane ticket. I'm calling on one tonight so pray!

If that works I'll be living out there for the summer and I cannot wait...

I'll say more when I figure something out haha.

ITS APRIL!!!!!!!!! YES!

Hello everyone, sorry its been so long. There are some things to report!

Lately life has been going well... mom has been recovering from the broken femur very well and is on crutches now and driving which has been a blessing for everyone.
Work has also been going well. I'm getting around 40 hours a week combined from both places which is alright though I wish I was getting more.

Last week Jackie and Matt Riddle flew out to spend their spring break with me here. It was awesome! Such a good time to relax and hang out with a new and old friend. We went to six flags, santa monica, in 'n out... and many other places. I took Jackie to see Wicked which was sweet! She had never seen anything like that and I've been wanting to for ages. It was hilarious so if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it.

I'm still praying through my summer. I have a job in Chicago, but no place to live or transportation. I just recently found out I have a place to stay and transportation outside of Louisville but no job so I am looking into more details this week hopefully. If you have a moment please pray for me as I seek God's direction in this process!

Bye for now...

Highlights...

Here are just a few highlights of my life recently so reassure you I am still alive.

+ I found out instead of minimum wage, I'm making 8.50 an hour at Panera and they didn't even tell me! SWEEEEETNESS! :)
+ I survived 70 hrs of work between my two jobs in one week and would like to never do it again thank you.
+ Moms leg is doing much better and she should be off the walker in another week or two...maybe sooner.
+ The screen on my phone broke...which is sad because I've been very much enjoying "saving" money lately. But something always breaks on me...

That's all for now. Nothing else exciting to report. Summer plans in the making... :)

The car...

I'm not even going to say who did this... (though it should be obvious) all I can say is it wasn't me, haha.

Thankfully our other car still looks pretty. Other than that, God has been gracious especially in bringing mom back from the hospital today after more than a couple weeks at UCLA medical center. I'm getting really tired though, and I unfortunately don't feel a descriptive blogging urge so...catch ya later!

Valentines Day chaos.

In training for Ralph's last week, I was reminded that the company would "like" you to pack far away from the store for 2 fairly obvious reasons. 1, it gives the customers the best spots. 2, your car doesn't get scratched by carts. I think they should be switched around, if I need groceries I'm not going to leave the store parking lot if i can't get a super close spot. Anyway...this has been incredibly ironic for 2 reasons. The first being as I was told this, I was laughing inside because our Saturn may have been in the single closest spot to the car. And second, every day after that I parked my car in the back of the lot and EVERYTIME I've come out for a lunch break or to go home there has been a cart either left right next to my car, or today someone finally let a cart roll up against my car. I don't get frustrated easily, but I felt like throwing the cart up in the middle of the lot and wondering whose sports car it might crush. Actually that was a lie, but really I wasn't thrilled. Therefore, I am putting a foam coating all around my car to avoid scratches and feel good when I touch it. :) Actually, that was a lie too. It would be fun though it would look ridiculous. Californians are used to statements like that though so I should fit right in.

Today I'm going into Panera to fill out some paperwork. Please Lord let me start training on Monday! I can't take how slow they've been its driving me insane.

Also, C.S. Lewis is a genius. I've taken a break from Salvation of Souls and am trying to finish Mere Christianity. I wish I had a way with words like he did, if only I could remember half of the examples he uses for referral but even that seems beyond my intellectual abilities most of the time.

Unfortunately my valentine is 3000 miles away, but almost everyone I ran into at work asked about her soooooo I want her to know I miss her! :)

Busy again...finally!

Today I started my job at Ralph's (Krogers chain on the west coast) as a courtesy clerk. I'll be working the opening shift (round 6-1) and getting about 30 hrs this week since I'm pretty free. Then, after filling some paperwork out at Panera later this week I should be starting training there next Monday or so. Lord willing, soon enough I'll be getting about 50-60 hours a week from both jobs and basically saving my rear end off!

But...last week mom broke her femur and has been in the hospital for about a week now. She had surgery Friday, and it went okay for the most part. There were a few complications w/ her liver meds but they were able to sort it out over the weekend and Lord willing she'll be home within a few days.

Besides prayer for those two semi-major issues in my life pray for the things God's been revealing to me. There's way too much pride and almost every day God shows me a little bit more and other ways I fall short of holiness.

Today it was 80 degrees...and I got cart duty. :D Can you say, I'm lovin' it? Well obviously, I'd rather not be working at all on a day like that, haha. Oh well.... I got paid.

Peace in the middle east.

Got it, time to go...

After a week of crazy hardcore job searching, I have one. Unfortunately absolutely NO ONE is hiring around here, but I was able to get a service deli job at a local Ralph's. At least 30 hrs a week, maybe up to 50 if I'm willing to travel to other stores to help out. Part of me is skeptical for two (pretty good reasons), haha. One... its a grocery store, come on. Two... I was told its no walk in the park. People want their food fresh, made to order like they get at the McDonald's around the corner. Beautiful. And it only helps that I happen to be just north of Los Angeles, California, right?

Regardless, I need to stick it out and start saving for the future. I won't be there forever, but at least for now.

Remember that book I mentioned I would start reading? Yeah, thats been pretty much non-existent in my life since the first chapter. I might actually go read some after I finish this post.

I'm here. This is Cali, not Chicago...not Louisville. So, I think its time for me to be all here. Here we go...

P.S. go GIANTS!!!!!!!

Road trip!

Last weekend Katie and I flew back to Louisville to pick up the vue. It was a great time to be back with friends again. Below are some pictures from the weekend and our 3-day drive back to California again.

In other news, I've decided to get reading finally while I'm here. First on the list is a collection of Jonathan Edwards sermons in a book entitled, The Salvation of Souls. The first sermon was on how the removal of Godly men from committed bodies signifies God's pending wrath and/or judgment. It was really good, though I'm still not totally sure how I felt about it. There was an encouraging quote towards the end that I wanted to share however...

"You that are young, be careful that you not be the reproach of your generations. Others are going off, and you, those of you that are to live (for it is not profitable that all of you are to live till you are past your youth), I say you that are to live are coming on endeavors to make good the ground of those that have gone before, that you may not have a hand in ruining the town. There are some men [who], instead of being public blessings, are public nuisances. Ecclesiastes 9:18, 'One sinner destroyeth much [good].' They cumber the ground. Instead of being useful members in society, they are like cancer in the body. Take heed that it be not so with you."
-Jonathan Edwards, while preaching "The Death of Faithful Ministers a Sign of God's Displeasure"

Luke came, and went!

So, Luke came! He was here for 6 days or so and we went all over SoCal. Hollywood and Ventura beach were the hottest spots we checked out, and even though the water was at its coldest temperature of the year we jumped to get thrashed by some of the biggest waves I've ever seen.

Another consistent thing was did was go roller blading every night. I live on the edge of a valley here and there are huge hills EVERYWHERE. So, we went all up and down those...usually around 1am, haha! But yea, on the first night we were cutting down a random street and he was about 15ft. in front of me and 2 huge dogs randomly jumped out from a house just ahead of us on the street. Luke was like, "DOGS, RUN!!!" So I did, and so did he. Problem was he was closer to them and as he turned around they got to be about 5ft. from his rear but he made it and they chased us both for about 2 blocks before giving up.

But really, we did have a sweet time playing lots of wii golf (it was addicting). We had the best weather here we've had since I've been back while I was here, so he was lucky. Here are a few more pics from our time at the beach... peace!