Golfing with old friends

I am going golfing this afternoon with two old friends. Dan and Bruce.
I was thinking about them this week. I have known them for close to 16-17 years.
They were two fellas I met when I first started attending Forest City Bible Church in my second year of college.
I was able to be involved in both of their weddings.
With the exception of childhood friends I did not really comprehend that I had friends of that length….

Then I thought

C’mon Don, you are approaching 40 y’know…

Yup. gettin’ old my friends.
Anyhow, should be a good day. The guys are getting together to golf at 1 this afternoon and our wives and kids are meeting at the Mischenko’s place (Dan’s).
Once we are done golfing, we will head back there and have a barbecue. It has been a while since all 6 of the adults have been together.

Should be a fun day.

Finally.

The email seems to be working now. Finally.
Man, even when I asked these guys what the issue was, it was like pulling teeth to get answer. It was like they did not want me to know the secret to taking over the world.

It’s just a mail server guys, relax….

Anyhow, all that is behind me hopefully and I can move ahead and enjoy the day!
It is supposed to be a beautiful day today with sun, sun and more sun!

Yeah!
Toniight is the annual meeting at the church. I have been nominated to be an elder in the church. Not sure how that is going to go over with the members. We shall see.

I hope that the meeting wraps up by 9:30 tonight. If not, we may have to duck out a little early. We were able to secure tickets to see Spiderman 3 for the 10:00 show with the Koehlers and are very much looking forward to it.

Have a great day everyone.

Name that tiki…

Nan has been teasing me mercilessly for the last couple of weeks because she got me something and was not willing to ruin the surprise.

I am very glad she didn’t. After teaching her lessons tonight, she and Will went to pick up my surprise!
Here is my reaction.

Here is the surprise she got for me!!

I have a friend that I do a lot of work with and his wife is an amazing artist. Check out her site. She is awesome. She carves tikis and masks so Nan thought it would be a good idea to get me one. I LOVE it.

So, here is the contest… Name that tiki!!
Any suggestions?
Tom Tiki?
Terence Tiki?
Smiley?
Goofey?
Dopey?
What do you think?
Let me know.

By the way… Rich, if you knew about this and kept it to yourself, you’re a dog!

Best buds

William, Justin and Jackson.
The three amigos.
Almost as funny as Chevy Chase, Martin Shortt and Steve Martin as well.

Great dinner out.

Nan and I had the opportunity to go out for dinner tonight with friends. What a great time we had. John and Christine come to our church and Will and Justin (their boy) are best buds.

We really enjoy spending time with this couple. They are really down to earth and fun to be with.
We went to Moxies Bar and Grill.

I highly recommend it. Fabulous food and good portions too. We have gone there once before but Nan was not feeling well that night and we ended our evening early then. Tonight, it was relatively quiet, the atmosphere nice, the company great, the food delicious….

Good times.

Playdate!

This is Jackson and Rhys.
They have been friends since JK. Rhys does not attend Emily Carr. He is attending the French Immersion School.
Jackson missed having his buddy to play with.
So, they are having a playdate this morning. Good kids.

Thank goodness for graceful friends.

My friend Topher got me onto a new webhosting scenario last week. I went for it and am trying to get used to the system. All I can say is Topher is a really good friend to put up with all the questions that I keep firing at him…

The guy is awesome. Thanks man.
I wish that we lived closer to Topher. He is just a cool guy and I would love to hang with him.

Good times and BBQ!

Man, it was so gorgeous (sp?) out yesterday! It was awesome. We were down to the Aunt And Uncle’s for dinner and we had barbecue… Mmmmmmm, barbecue. I sure hope spring hurries up and gets here.

Last night was just a little taste of the good times to come. I can hardly wait.

Comin’ over??

25 Years and counting

Last night we had the opportunity to go to a 25th wedding anniversary celebration. It was for a former boss of mine. What a great time we had.

It was so nice to catch up with some people I have not seen a quite some time. Something that blew me away was some of the connections that were there that I did not realize existed. For instance, Nan teaches piano to a young girl and lo and behold, her parents were there last night because this couple had been the youth leaders for the children of the couple celebrating their anniversary. Small world.

But, it was a great time. We saw lots of people, got out together for a few hours and celebrated God’s importance in a marriage. Awesome.