Family

I'm packing my lunch for my first day at shopbluehaven.com ... any suggestions?

The family and I are taking a road trip tomorrow to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. We're going with another family and spending the night. I had the opportunity a few months ago to go with a friend and it was a great experience. The view alone is worth the price of admission.Hannah was reading about Reagan this morning and said, "Hey Dad, Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois, just like you were. And he moved to California, just like you did. But then he became President." My response -- give me about 30 more years and I'll be ready.This may be our last road trip for a while. On Monday, I start my new position with Blue Haven Pools as the web designer for their ecommerce division (www.shopbluehaven.com). The parent company is a big $_ _ _ million company that has been around for decades; the…

Our daughter, Hope, is enrolled this week at a Vacation Bible School at a church that will remain anonymous. All I can say is that it is here in San Diego, it's big, and it's Baptist. And it may not take a college degree to figure out which one.Well, we decided to purchase a t-shirt that relates to VBS. My wife happened to notice a rather unfortunate typo -- one a spell checker wouldn't catch but maybe a theological checker might have.Here is the shirt ...Click any of the images to view a larger image.

Last night I took Hannah over to Cosmos Cafe for a little music. It turned out to be a folk singer by the name of Jim Hinton. He was an interesting cat and we both enjoyed his music, though I probably did more than Hannah. Part of what made it interesting is that I have a pastor friend by the name of Jim Hinton ... who also works in La Mesa. Hannah asked me," Is that Pastor Jim Hinton from the La Mesa church?"So this has led me on a Google search to show you contrasting photos. Please excuse the delay in typing this because I'm on the hunt ...Here are the findings. See if you can figure out who is who.

For the first time, Hannah and Hope are teammates on the same softball team. They played their first game together at the Twin Hills league. Hannah played second and batted second; Hope played various outfield spots. It was special seeing them play on the same team. Both of them are very athletic and seem to enjoy softball. I'll post a few pictures in the near future.