North Carolina - Hiking

Today, we took the kids on a hike in Dupont State Park. I grew up hiking a lot as a child with my family so it was great to be able to continue the tradition.

As Andrew and I were saying prayers tonight he told me it was his favorite part of the day. That's pretty good considering he go a new Bionicle, ice cream and go to buy some souvenirs today.

The kids did great on the hike. No complaining or anything. It was about 2 1/2 miles round trip and straight up at points. The view of the three waterfalls was worth the work.

North Carolina - Biltmore House

Yesterday my parents took us to the Biltmore House. Marsha and I have been a couple of times. The kids really loved it. It's close to where I grew up and is the largest house in the country. It's an amazing place.

My great-grandfather worked on the estate in the dairy. My grandmother, as a child, attended Christmas parties and birthday parties at the house.

An American Home: Fostering Lopez Lomong

An Amazing Story

If you've followed any of the Olympic news the last couple of days you have heard the name Lopez Lomong. His story is amazing. You can read about it here.

"When we were in Africa, we didn't know what was there for us as kids--we just ran. God was planning all of this stuff for me, and I didn't know. Now I'm using running to get the word out about how horrible things were back in Sudan during the war. Sometimes these things are not on CNN, so if I put out the word, I hope people can get the information. Right now, similar terrible things are going on in Darfur; people are running out of Darfur, and I put myself in their shoes." - Lopez Lomong

Fuge

Just able to get on the campus network today.

Fuge is going great. Our students were awesome today. Most of our group signed up to do a mission track in the afternoons. The leader nicknamed our group the "mission group" because they are so willing to serve. Today was their first day on site. It was pretty grungy work but when the participants were asked to volunteer our students were the first to jump in.

They were a great testimony and represented our church well.

Narnia

Saw Narnia today with Andrew. It was more intense than the first one, but Andrew loved it. We spent the whole day together after dropping Abbey off at daycare. The ride home from the movies was a great debrief from the life principles from the movie.

Narnia

Watching Narnia with Andrew. We needed to brush up before we see part 2 next week.