Happy Birthday Lincoln

Lincoln's 25th birthday. Hard to beleive he survived to see that age.

Our Lives are Full of Blessings and Sadness

This evening Susan I went to a viewing of the mother of a dear friend from church. Though you show alot of courage in the face of our friend and very brave front you could also see in her eyes the sadness of losing her mother. All around her were family and friends many speaking of stories of Jesse and how she had interacted with them through her life. We never had the chance to meet her but from the few stories we heard she was a woman full of life. Though her health had taken a turn for the worse for the last few years she was someone that wanted to be the center of attention.
After we had a given our respects to our friends and listen to some lively stories, we made our way over to Trident Hospital to visit some other friends daughter. Angie gave birth to Joshua David last night (10:15pm 19 Aug 2008) Joshua came into this world real slow, so slow that the doctors finally had to help him and Angie along by doing a C-section. Baby and Mom along with dad Stephen are doing well, though you could tell Angie was still very tired. Still for all the sadness (though some laughs from some of the stories shared) we had just experienced at the viewing. Now the joy of a new life coming into the world always brings laughs and shared experiences from the older people (Grandparents and friends of grandparents). Though Angie was excited to have Joshua with her and out to share the world with her and Stephen, you could also see the fear of the unknown in her eyes.
Life will always be a mystery. One life leaves and next comes into the world, one leaves the suffering of a tired body while another comes in, full of health and his entire life ahead.

Been Awhile

How is everyone doing? I asked that, knowing that I shouldn't worry about a response. What have Susan I been up to since we got back from New York? Alot of choirs needed to be caught up with. Mowing the lawn, cleaning house, hmmm going boating. Oh we did have a solid week of umpiring for me and score keeping for Susan as Cal Ripkin Southeast Regional Tournament was held here in town. Teams from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virgina as well as couple teams from South Carolina. very good baseball was played. Part of being a umpire for some of these tournaments is that the directors will come around and ask us umpires who we would vote for, for the Sportsmanship Award. We all gave them our vote, I can't even tell you who won. I can tell you who didn't win and who didn't get a single vote. That is the host team West Ashely team. The kids were great, the parents for the most part were good, but the Manager of the team was to put it simply was awful. He is the only one that I heard of to get a warning from any of the umpires. After his team was eliminated from the Tournament he came back out the next night and stood to one side of the field by the backstop and started to bad mouth the umpires. What in the world was he doing there giving the umpires a hard time. Anyway I just thought it really looked bad for the host team to act that way.

Susan and I are headed back out to water this coming weekend. Anyone want to go and get wet?