Jeff's Birthday

Wow this kid loves anything! Today is Jeff's birthday and Sara had his gifts laying out on the table so when he got up there they were. You would have thought we had given him the whole world when he saw the gifts. We got him several books about cars, two posters, a door hanger that holds his Hot Wheels, Nike shoes and Nike sox's (he really loves Nike), some walkie talkies and a little MP3 player (have not figured out why he wanted that).

The Walkie Talkie's and MP3 player are sitting on the table but the cars books are the big hit. for the last hour and a half he has been sitting on the couch looking at this car's books.

He has told us thank you about a dozen times. What is sad is that this is probably the most stuff he has ever gotten for a birthday. In fact, Anne and he visited their mom yesterday and when they came home I expected to see him with some type of toy or toys. He walked in with a card and a little stuffed animal. The card came from his mom but the little stuffed toy came form the center where they visit. So all he got was a card. It really broke my heart because I wondered if he had ever gotten anything else from them other than a card.

Anyway, I know he had a great birthday and several adults from church have been amazing about wanting to get him stuff for his birthday. One of our elders and his wife got him a Gift Pack of Hot Wheels (10 cars). He was bouncing around the building with the wraped present in his hand and then we finally told him he could open it and his face lit up like a beacon. I think he thanked them over and over and even that night at church he yelled back to them how much he loved his present and thanked them again. You just got to love this boy.

Back Home!

Well I have been home from ICYC for several days now and I'm still tired. It was a great week and I always enjoy catching up with old friends. Of course Lori Beth and I had the greatest sports team there with a strong record of 0 and 8. I am not a very competative person and could care less about winning (Sorry Lori) but instead I would rather see the kids have a great time and just enjoy theirself. I believe our kids had the most fun. Unlike some of the kids that I saw playing who were being yelled at by their team captians. I mean come on, some of the guys at camp take sports way to serious and get carried away with it a little to much. There were a couple of times that I thought kids were about to get killed by the way they were yelling. I honestly believe some of them need to take a chill pill, relax and realize it is just a game and have fun and do not be so concerned with winning.

In fact, our team was down to our last game (vollyball) and both teams had won one game each and we were about to play the tie breaking game (a game to 5 points). I gathered my team and ask them if they really wanted to win and have a record of 1 and 7 or go for the perfect record of 0 and 8. Believe it or not they were all excited to just go ahead and throw the game and keep the perfect record. Now there are some kids who were just there having fun and I so glad chose to do that.

The other great thing was getting to catch up with some old friends. Some of the kids their I remember from when they where just babies so that made me feel old. I got to see Chad and Teale (and Mojo - lol). Of course I cannot forget about Crystal and Nathan too. It is always great to have time to catch up with those you love.

Now let me tell you how happy I am to be home with my family. I missed my wife so very much and hate being away from her. I really missed the kids too. They are so a joy to my life and love to be around them. My wife is so amazing. She took care of these kids, kept the house clean (mainly cause i was not here to mess it up) and worked several days (with the kids at work with her). She is Superwoman! I am really lucky to have so a wonderful woman.

The Journey

OK it is 1:30 AM! Ever since I have gotten back from Portland, Oregon I just have not been tired until about 2 AM. I was reading every one's latest blogs and they all just made me really think about a great deal of things. Plus I tend to get more philosophical and think about things more this late at night.

I have been thinking a lot here recently about this journey of life. Seriously, what are we all doing here? I have to admit I love this world and probably love the things about it to much at times. Am I really doing the will of God in my life? The teachings of the New Testament are very clear about our relationship with the world (Romans 12:1-2; James 4:4; I John 2:15-17 - just a few). I know we cannot just crawl in a hole and leave the world completely, there is a medium where we can live in this world but give our entire life to God. The problem I see and struggle with myself is the world is like a black hole, it just keeps sucking you in until something happens and you realize your mistake and struggle to crawl out. I know God does not give us any temptation that we can not handle and even provides a way of escape. I believe that escape to be Christ. But have you ever gotten to that point where you just wonder why? Yet, you push forward only to find a glimmer of light ahead.

OK so I'm just rambling but sometimes I get so crazy thinking about all those people who are lost and what have I done to try to save them. Some might say, "God does not expect us to talk to every single person we meet." However, is not this what the disciples and apostles did in the first century. Do we really even care about the people we see everyday who are going to hell?? Why does it not hit us in the gut and cause of to groan and put forth a stronger effort? Hey I'll be the first to admit that I do not like going up to strangers and talking about God. Why? Very simply put - FEAR and yet a part of me is torn between caring and not caring.

Then there are our personnel demons we all struggle with everyday. As my wife's blog is titled, "Mad World." It comes from the song off Donnie Darko (never heard of the movie), just like the song. We do live in a mad world and man can it reek havoc on our spiritual lives. In the five years I have been at Munford, I have seen more families leave the church than I can count on my hands and feet (that would include all the area Church's not just Munford). We question why they would do such a thing, especially if they know the truth. Yet, until we walk in their shows can we really understand their thinking. I know, I have wanted to throw my hands in the air and say I'm done. How much can you take of fake Christians? I mean when people walk around calling themselves Christians and yet they cannot even make it to all the services (understanding there are situations that may keep us every now and then). Even those who come all the time and fill the pew yet, try to get them to do something and it is like you just ask them to jump off a cliff! I am sorry but I sometimes question why do we continue to do it? Oh, I know the answer and it is the reason I am still here.

I started this talking about a journey-the journey of life. Everyday for a Christian is a journey because we never really know what the day holds for our spiritual life. If you are a Christian where has your journey taken you? Have you grown from your journeys or are you still the same as the day you were baptized? Unfortunately, I should be more spiritually mature than what I am, because I know I do not put the effort into my spiritual life that I should. I am not exactly sure why I wrote this blog other than I guess to vent, confess or simple just because...! I would be interested in knowing what some of you think. While I have given a negative impression, do not be mistaken, I firmly believe that we must remain faithful to the Lord and serve him all the days of our life. It is just the living part that can be hard.

Surgery is over! Yeah

Ok so Anne and Jeff have both come out of surgery and are doing great. I am so glad this is finally done and over. Mom is still here and Sara and I are about ready to throw her out the window! NO REALLY! These little guys are tough. Anne had one pulled, six teeth capped and three fillings. Jeff had eight teeth pulled, three capped and six fillings. No I do not know many adults who would enjoy having this done.

I have been around a lot of children when they come out of surgery and boy sometimes it can be a big ordeal because they are so shocked and afraid. Anne was a trouper even when they took the iv out. I on the hand did not take it very well. In fact, I got a little sick to my stomach just knowing they were doing it. Hey when it comes to needles and that stuff I'm a wimp to the core. Blood makes me pass out. Better yet just the thought of blood makes me get weak in the knees.

I am so proud of them and am excited when they get home and are able to experience what a normal mouth feels like.

Please keep them in your prayers.

The Game

Ok this one is for Justin Key! Thanks I just lost the game!

Many of you who read this know Justin Key and last summer at camp i had the honor of staying in the same cabin as him. He told me about this game that he or someone had came up with and honestly has to be the dumbest game I have ever heard of and here is how it goes.

The object of the entire game is to not think of the game. If you think of the game you lose and have 30 minutes before you can start to play again. When you lose you must let someone else know that you lost the game. They cannot lose when you tell them because they will immediatly think about the game and they are given a 15 minute grace period.

While setting in the hospital room I thought of the game and lost. I have to say that every now and then I lose the game because I think about camp and it reminds me of this really silly game. You are more than welcome to join the game but before warned you will lose!

Just a few more days

Ok can I just tell you how excited I am because in just a few more days we will be leaving for Portland, OR. While it may be a couple thousand miles away I really miss living there. I know that lifestyles can be very different there and life in general is really different there is just something about it that i love.

I want to eventually move back there, do not know when but at some point. I doubt when I do it will be to preach full time. I will probably work with my father-in-law at the congregation for which he preaches.

Not sure if Sara has already blogged about this but we are going to host a VBS for Sara's dad's congregation. I am looking forward to it and am praying for it to be a success. Please pray for us in our tavels and for the success of the VBS.

Loving Others - tougher than it seems!

Jesus was very clear that we are to love God first and second to love our neighbors (Matthew 22:37-39). In addition, Jesus also told us that we are to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44). I have always been able to teach that this is the attitude we are to take toward our neighbors and enemies. However, living it has been much harder for me especially today. As Sara has already blogged about, we are in a hospital room waiting on Anne and Jeff to go into surgery. It would be all fine but their mother is here. Ok let me paint the picture for you. (I think Sara has already talked about some of this) She is only in her mid to late 40's but she looks like she is in her late 60's early 70's. She could be a poster child with the caption "This is what drugs can do to you." She treats this children like they are helpless and babies them as if they are infants.

It is hard for me to find it within me to love this woman. When I stop to think of what she has done to these children it lights a fire within my soul that I want to hate her so bad. I believe in forgiveness when it is asked for (go to http://oabs.org/Archives/Lectures/msop2008.htm and listen to the lesson by Dan Winkler on "The Heart that Shows Mercy"). She thinks she has done nothing wrong but DCS and the state have been on her case since 2004 and yet there is no fault on her side (in her eyes). I believe there will be a special place in hell for those who abuse their children (no matter what type of neglect). I know she will have her day when she stands before God.

I experienced the same feeling when we had Alyssa (4yrs old) and her parents had sexually abuse her (do not get me started on what should happen to those people). There is a part of me that wish bad things on her and then I have to remind myself that she has a soul that is precious to God. I have discovered that preaching is easy but the living part is so much harder. There is a part of me that does wish she would change, clean up her life and get right with God but reality tells me that there is a 99% chance she will never do it. I guess because I see her making no change that it makes me want to hate her.

If I have learned any greater lesson from being a foster parent is that it is easy to say we should love our enemies but it is something completely different to actually live in a world and love your enemies. May God help us all to live what we teach and preach.

Elementary Youth Day

Well Sara has already mentioned this and posted pictures on her blog about our Elementary Youth day for the 1st through 6th graders. This is the 4 or 5th one we have done and each time i really enjoy it. While our turnouts are never really large (40 to 60) it has always been about those that do show up. It is unfortunate that more congregations do not do more with this age group since they are the future of the church. It is a blessing to be able to work with them because they can be so much more fun than teenagers. These little guys soak up everything you can throw at them whereas teenagers seem to already know it all. I honestly believe that if we focused more on the younger we could strengthen the church for the future. If you have younger children make a stronger effort to get them more involved or start something where they can be more involved with other children at church. For pictures of our Elementary Youth day view Sara's blog (didn't think it was necessary to post them twice).

Summer is HERE (HELP!)

Ok as a youth minister summer is the craziest time of the year. So even though summer has not offical started it has for me. By the time I finish the summer I will have taught VBS (Walking In Son Light) four times at four different locations. We are taking a few youth down to Indian Creek Youth Camp (hope to see some of you guys there). One VBS we are doing is in Portland, Oregon for Sara's dad and the church for which he preaches. We will also travel to Milledgeville, TN and host a VBS for them. In between all these big activities we have a Timothy Class for th 6th grade and under ever Tuesday (that we are here). Summer is so busy that I usually have take off a week in August to recover. Of course summer is really about the only time I do any actual work. I have to say that I really do love it, I am just not sure how long my body will let me do this. The older I get the hard it is to keep up with the young people. Either I am getting slower or they are getting faster. In all honesty I could not do a great deal of it if it were not for Sara she is such a big help.

By the way, keeping looking back because I will eventually put another blog on here.

Thank You Baby!

Ok as you can see my wife takes really great care of me (even in the blog world). I just wanted to let her know how much I appreciate her updating my blog so people know I'm still alive.

Glasses

Again, this is Sara. I am copying my posts and putting them on Jason's blog site so you will know what is going on. Since he has not blogged, literally, since he first opened the account, I cannot guarantee when he will blog again. If you want to know what is going on in our lives and with the kids you can check my blog at http://mullenixfamily.blogspot.com/

Well, Anne will be getting glasses. She is SO excited. Jason and I were talking, when we were growing up the kids with glasses were made fun of, now kids WANT them. Well, she picked out really cute ones. I convinced her not to get the big chunky plastic ones (like the ones I had when I was a kid) but instead to get, what they call, wire rimmed. She wanted pink. She she found some that are pink-ish. She really likes them and looks good in them.From what the optometrist said, she actually has normal eyesight but she has an astigmatism which is causing her not to be able to see properly, so we were given eye "exercises" to do that "could" help the astigmatism to correct itself as she gets older. I can already fore see the fights. The optometrist said if she does the exercises she may not have to wear glasses as she gets older. Well, that would mean she might have to give up her precious glasses. When I say excited I mean EXCITED. She found the glasses she wanted and was ready to just walk out the door with the display set on her head. She did not care they had words printed on the glass, she had her glasses. When she heard a week, you would have thought her whole world was coming to an end. "A WEEK!" Well, she will survive and lets look at the positive, at least until the new wears off, I will not have to fight her to wear them! Everything else is going well on the home front! Everyone doing well. Kids are GREAT! Jeffrey is learning how to do things on his own. We are not trying to be mean but he expects people to automatically help him because of his disability. So we are trying to teach him to tackle things on his own. Even if he fails, at least he tried and that is what is important. Anne has become VERY attached to us. She has been calling me Moma. I have told her Moma Sara is okay. She wants to call me Moma SO badly. We were in the car the other day and she asked if she never goes back to her Mom will she be adopted. I told her when did not know what was going to happen and we will not know until it happens. But then I thought I better ask her how she feels about things. So I asked her, How do you feel about staying with us, going back to mom or being adopted? She IMMEDIATELY said she wanted to be adopted so she could call us Mom and Dad. It breaks my heart. She wants REAL parents who love her and care for her and take care of her. She knows that we do all that, but are not her REAL parents. She said the cutest thing the other day. She said that she knows that her Moma loves her but does not know what is best for her and cannot give her the things she needs to be healthy. She said, she is older and you are younger and wiser. It was the first time I had heard "younger and wiser" in the same sentence. I laughed. She is so cute and SO very observant to things. I have heard a "rumor" that the day Mom's lawyer goes to court to be released from representing her, is the day that the state will start closing the case. Which will make things permanent. So please keep us in your prayers. Fingers Crossed. Love to you all.

The Lawyer

Okay, as if things couldn't get any stranger..........Let me back track. Anne and Jeffrey's (the children in our custody) mother had this lawyer. She was aweful, for us - great for their mother. I personally do not know how people become defense lawyers to begin with. I do understand some are innocent but for the most part you cannot pick and choose and most are guilty. Well, this lawyer comes into court guns ablazing. Going to sue this person and that person to get these kids back. Dragging us through the mud, "The Mullenix's are trying to steal these kids, what kind of person would take strange kids into their house anyway". (Maybe I have blogged about this, I don't remember). But anyway, to make a long story short, this lawyer said everyone else is to blame, mom isn't doing what she needs to do to get her kids back BUT that is really not her fault. Like I said, bad for us GREAT for mom.Well, we get this letter from Memphis Area Lawyers (last time we got one of these it was a letter from mom sent through the lawyer). Well, this letter is THICK. We just look at it. What NOW!!! Hesitantly, we open it. It is another court petition. Hearing date June 18th. Well, now we are confused, we do not go back to court until August. But then we read it. A petition that mom's lawyer to RELEASED from having to represent her. WHAT!!!!! Upon reading it, the petition states that Clara (the mother) refuses to do anything "council advices and renders council usless". So mom has this GREAT lawyer, one that is willing to sue everyone for her client but STILL cannot do what is requested of her. So we make the call to our social worker, what does this mean? What happens now? The social worker calls the lawyer. The lawyer tells her to have mom take a mental evaluation because she thinks she will be deemed mentally unable to care for children. How amazing is this!!! The very lawyer who is threatening to sue, saying we are stealing children, is now HELPING us! If that is not the providence of God then I do not know what is.Then we have a surprise visit from the DCS social worker, gotta love those!! Fortuantly we were all clothed and the house was clean. This social worker, who is not the one we usually deal with basically tells me that she does not know how much longer mom is going to be in the picture. No explaination, just that statement. SO, read into it what you want. We really will not know until we go back to court. So please keep praying. Prayers are working. I recieved the initial paper work, the report of where the children were and how they we reacting we they were taking into protective custody, I cannot put that information on the web BUT let me say it brought tears to my eyes. It was worse than I thought. The social worker asked Anne where she wanted to live today. Anne said with us. With her new mom. My heart goes out to them!!! AND, to make things EVEN better, for those of you who do not know autistic children do not eat well. They select down their foods. So Jason and I have be FIGHTING (literally) Jeffrey to start eating foods (remember mom had him on a bottle). Well he likes cereal, so I had been packing him cereal for lunch and giving him milk money every day. We decided this summer we are going to work on him eating sandwiches so I can pack him a normal lunch next year. Well, we tried one today. I made sure it was chicken (he loves chicken). He looked at it and looked at me and said "a sandwich". I thought, "oh no, let the fight begin." I told him it was chicken and he likes chicken. He said. "okay" and scarfed it down. I sat there with my mouth gapping open. He said he liked it. I told him he is getting another one for lunch tomorrow. He said okay. HURRAY!!! I am so proud of him. He is such a trooper. Being autistic with all these changes and learning new foods. He is doing well. And little Annie is such a doll and wants to be such a good girl wants to call me mom and asks me to call her, her daughter. She is so sweet. They both are. Thanks again for all your prayers!!

Oral Surgery

Okay, hello all, this is Sara.......since Jason has not been updating his blog I thought I would put a couple things on here that will update you with what is going on with our children.......

After three months of mess, we have received our custody papers in the mail. Jeffrey and Anne are in our custody now. We received the papers Wednesday and made Oral Surgery Appointments on Thursday. FINALLY!! I cannot even express what a blessing this is. These poor kids are suffering every day because of their teeth. Their mother literally let their teeth rot. Jeffrey has 8 teeth (and spacers put in) that will be pulled due to the amount of rot, these teeth cannot be saved. Luckily they are baby teeth. He will also have 5 teeth capped. 8 fillings put in and three root canals done. Anne will have two teeth pulled (and spacers put in) and 8 teeth capped. You can physically see how much some foods hurt their teeth. We have been told they will be feeling great the next day and their teeth will feel like normal teeth. We have pre-op appointments on the 3rd and surgery on the 17th. They will go to the hospital and be put under anesthesia. I also found out that their mother knew that Anne has poor vision, she made her an eye appointment but never brought her. So Anne has an eye appointment on the 5th. Looking like she will need glasses. She will look so cute!!!Also Jeffrey has to have all his blood work and EEGs redone since their mother let his autism treatment lapse for 3 years. SO, FINALLY these kids will have everything medically taken care of them. I cannot wait. They deserve the very best and cannot wait until they do not have worry about eyes and teeth and can just be KIDS!!

10 years? Has it really been that long

Ok it does not seem like I have been married for 10 years. The time has just flown by and now I am just looking forward to the 50+ more years to come. I honestly have to be the happiest man in the world because I married the greatest woman there has ever been. I love Sara so very much and she is my all in all. I joke with her about being the first one to flirt when she came over to my dorm to watch a movie with some friends. I have to be honest and say that after all these years it was me who was doing the flirting. Even today I still flirt with my wife.

She has taught me that there is more to the world than my little bubble. She has taught me patience, understanding but most of all how to love unconditionally. My wife has always stood by my side through thick and thin. Sara has put up with a lot of stuff and still puts up with some of it (like my addiction to World of Warcraft). I enjoy nothing better than hanging out with my wife and spend time with her. Today is a special day because I am the luckest man in the world to have so a wonderful, caring, loving, and amazing wife like Sara. Happy Anniversary baby.

My Wife is Jealous

Ok Sara read my last post and she wanted me to clarify that Chad is my dearest male friend. Sara is really the greatest ever and today is our 10th Anniversary. Unforunatly we will not be celebrating until next weekend. The older sister of the foster children we have is coming over tonight so that is how we will be spending our evening. My wife is truely my greatest friend because she is always there for me (doesn't have a choice since she is married to me) but most importantly I know that I can go to her with anything and she is always willing to listen. To my greatest friend Sara, my wife I really do love you the most.

My Buddy

One of the main reason's I wanted to start my blog was so I could brag about my lovely wife and keep up with my friends from Adamsville (and any others that might happen to blog on here). Also, because my buddy was on here and since he was I figured it would be a good way to keep in touch with him since I haven't been able too in the last several years.

I was listening to a CD the other day by the group Live and could not help but think of my buddy (no not that stupid doll from the late 80's early 90's). When I was in high school and later on college I would go over to my buddies house and we would go down in his room and play pool till late into the evening. The only reason we would usually stop is because his parents were in bed. I was probably the worst pool player ever and still am, but my buddy always played with me even when I would hit the balls off the pool table. While we played pool, we would listen to groups like Live (I think is was the main one for a while). The neat thing was sometimes it would take us and hour to play one round of pool because we would sit around and talk about everything, from girls, to girls we were dating, dating in general, school, the youth group, other people (mostly nice stuff). You name it and we probably talked about it in the basement bedroom of my buddy. Sorry girls if you ever dated me or my buddy then you probably got talked about. I want to thank my buddy for all those wonderful memories and how much those times meant to me.

My buddy and me started off at Sandusky Church of Christ and did a lot together with the Lads to Leaders program. In high school both our families moved over to Adamsville Church of Christ where our group grew larger. Over those years there, my buddy and I grew closer and my buddy became one of my dearest friends and for me still is. We both went to Faulkner and I was glad I got to spend some time there with him. There were many late nights in his dorm room playing Mario Kart 64. We burned up the road with those carts. And then there were those nights where we would stay up all night playing Rook. I know this probably seem childish talking about my buddy in the third person but I have missed my buddy for many years now. I guess because he will always be a dear friend and my buddy.

I have been close to many people over the years and have very close friends now, but I do not think I shall ever find a dearer friend than my buddy. Chad I cannot ever express how much those years and friendship meant to me and I will cherish them always. You will always be considered my dearest friend in life. We have know each other for what seems like ages and I have to say I would not have it any other way. I do not believe in living in the past but I wanted to share these memories with you and others because I guess I never expressed to anyone how dear I have always held our friendship. When I heard Live on that CD the other day it reminded me of my buddy, Chad Yeilding. I know some will read this and think I'm weird or sappy for pouring out my feelings publicly but hey didn't i say I was a nerd and the is "The Big Nerd Theory" (plus i'm new to this blogging stuff so i'm allowed to put what i want).

The Catch Up Game.

For all those out there who will ever read this, I just wanted to give everyone an update on our family.

My wife Sara and I have now been married for 10 years (actually tomorrow). Several years ago we decided to do foster care. Shortly after we were approved and finished our classes we had a little girl, Alyssa (she's in the pictures), placed with us. She lived with us for about a year and then was placed with her grandparents and lives with them to this day. We have seen her a few times when her grandmother has brought her to our church. You can probably read more about her time with us on Sara's blog (mullenixfamily.blogspot.com). We were child free for about 9 months and about three months ago we had two children placed with us, Jeff and Anne (their in the pictures too). Jeff is 8 and Anne is 6 and they are a mess. Jeff has High Functioning Autism so it has been difficult at times adjusting to the difference in behavior. They are great children and very well behaved. The said thing is being a part of these children's lives and seeing them visit with their parents and the confusion it creates for them.

There have been some things that we have had to get used to. Probably the two biggest are:
1. The schedule of these kids is crazy. They visit their parents ever other week for two hours and on different days in the week because their mom and dad are not together, so mom in on Tuesdays and Dad is on Thursdays. On the off week they have therapy with is usually about 1 to 2 hours. Right now all of it has been taking place after school so when summer hits it will not be that bad. This is in addition to all the doctor's visits (primarily Jeff) and the dentist visits. The dentist has been the most because their mother let their teeth rot and not they have to be put to sleep to have oral surgery it is so bad.
2. Second thing has been the fact that in foster care we can not use corporal punishment (no kind, shape or form of spanking). At first we had to invent new ways to punish children. It is amazing how affective other forms of punishment can be. I am not against spanking but if I had my own child I would save the spankings for things where I need to really get their attention otherwise there are betters ways for most things.

Well as for Sara and I we are doing great and I have to say she is just the most awesome woman in the world. She puts up with a lot of stuff (including me). She is so supportive of my work with the church and trust me it can drive you crazy. I keep everyone posted on the kids as time goes on.

Some pictures for everyone.

Reason for the title

First off I am glad that I am a nerd (at least all the teenagers i work with tell me I am). Nerds are great (especially the kind you can eat). While I may not have all the nerd qualities, I like to think of myself as a nerd because I simple to not want to be like everyone else. We are such a society of comformist and I want to be different because that make me unique. "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:2). In working with teenagers I see their desire to dress, act and be like their peers. I try to tell them that they just need to be theirself, to be an individual and not like every other person in the world.

Anyway back to the reason for the title...for anyone who watches Monday night TV you might have seen the show The Big Bang Theory. Got to say this is the greatest show on TV right now. If you haven't seen it then do a search for it and try to see some of the old shows. Leaves me with my side hurting every time I watch it (probably cause I see myself fitting in with their nerdiness). I asked Sara to help me with a name for my blog and this was one of the many neard titles i got to chose from and so here it is "The Big Nerd Theory." I hope you guys enjoy.

Oh by the way Teale or Chad when you (if you read this) read this, I need to get me one of those gra-FIX things at some point. Come on can't you hook a brother up.

I made it!

Well it has been a while but I finally decided to enter the blog world. I figured this blog world could use a nerd like me. My wife Sara has had one for a while and I've just been making her tell everything and then low and behold I saw (had to rub my eyes a couple of times because I could not believe it) Chad on here. I knew then that if Chad can do this, then surely I can. I mean he does not even have a myspace (at least haven't seen one for him) and I have one of those (even though once again my wife takes care of it). Well this is a start I am sure that there will be several blogs on here soon (if not by the end of the day) because I have a lot to share and talk about.