Last Tuesday (May 22), LaRissa and I celebrated our fourteenth wedding anninversary. We went to Frisco and had some incredible Italian food and heard some cool jazz music at Terilli's. We then went over to the World Market and checked out some cool stuff for the kitchen.

In fourteen years, I have grown to love my wife more and more. Here's a list of just a few of the things I love so much about her. She's smokin' hot. How did a guy like me get so lucky? She thinks I'm smokin' hot. (How crazy is that?) She loves music, writes music, plays music, and really connects with God through music. She is an awesome mom (count them, four times giving birth). She likes hangin' out with me in the kitchen. She likes hiking and the outdoors. She challenges me to try new stuff like learning to dance. She's totally out of it by 10 o'clock at night. She's really smart and is an awesome 1st grade teacher. I love that she didn't know how to grate cheese, boil water, or knead dough when we first got married. I love that she hates football but watches it anyway and continues to try to understand it because I love it so much. I love that she tries to get home early every day to spend more time with our family. I love that she has this awesomely beautiful auburn hair that is so hard to define and that changes depending on the light and that every other woman wants. I love that she likes guy movies and thinks The Notebook is a stupid movie because it is such a poor imitation of what real love is. I love it that she loves me more than any human being ever has, through thick and thin, good and bad, in my worst times and in my best times. I love her because she knows me through and through, is my best friend in the world, and is the person I would most like to be with all the time. And, I love her because she fiercely loves Jesus Christ and challenges me daily to love him as well.

Great Blog by Bob Roberts

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I've been pretty busy coming to the end of the school year. Hopefully I'll be able to start getting more stuff up now that things have settled into a more normal routine.

Bob Roberts has a great blog at Glocal Trekker about how our eschatology affects the way we live and carry out our mission in the world. You should really check it out.

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Could somebody let a squirrel loose in more churches?

Friday Hike

Friday afternoon I logged five miles on the Cross Timbers Trail (2.5 miles from Juniper Point to Cedar Bayou and back) with Abby, my one year old, on my back. Cross Timbers is supposed to be one of the ten best trails in the state of Texas, which, quite honestly, doesn't say much about the trails in Texas. The trail is nice, but I have certainly hiked much more beautiful trails in my life.

The section of the trail I hiked goes over and around cliffs on the shores of Lake Texoma, looking over the lake from Texas into Oklahoma. There are some pretty views of the lake from here. The trail is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property and is maintained by the Boy Scouts of America. I have the utmost respect for both organizations, and give special kudos to the Boy Scouts. The trail is in excellent shape, is well marked, and is definitely one of the cleanest trails I have ever been on. On the section I hiked, there was almost no evidence of the human stain anywhere.

The trail does offer some decent climbs going over the cliffs along the lakeshore. It also goes through the "cross timbers," a mixed forest of large oaks and scrub cedar, juniper, and an abundance of poison oak. There were also some wild grapes along the trail. I didn't really see any wildlife on the trail, other than some turtles in the water.

Abby slept most of the time, which meant she was leaned to one side in my pack most of the time. My shoulder was really killing me at the end of the hike. But we had a great time together. I'll try to get some pictures posted later of the hike.