My Epic Journey

It has been a crazy few weeks and thought it would be therapeutic to just download for a second.

Here goes:

• Anna’s mom, Karen ‘Chucks’, passed away Friday, August 13th.  It is harder than we thought.
• The memorial service is Sunday, August 22nd in Columbiana, OH.  It is a private service.
• I have the privilege of overseeing the ceremony.  I am both honored and nervous.
• Very proud my younger brother is a doctor who walked us through a very difficult week.
• Very honored to have another brother and a sister who prayed us through the week.
• The kids start school next week–YAY!!!
• Praying Isaac’s year goes better than last year.
• Have to be out of house by August 31st.
• Currently have no clue as to where we may be moving.
• Excited that Grace Point has hired our first worship pastor, Aaron Zink.
• Feel incredibly blessed to serve on the staff I do and to serve the church family of GPCC.
• I miss all of my EPIC students and leaders, REALLY REALLY BAD!!!.
• EPIC, by far, has the best volunteer leadership team on the PLANET!!!!!!  NO JOKE!!!!!
• Currently reading the book, Radical by David Platt–Phenomenal!!!
• I hate seeing my wife cry!
• I hate seeing my kids cry!
• I am madly in love with my wife!!
• I am more madly in love with Jesus!!!

I feel like I need a personal download and here is why:

• Anna has been gone for 5 days and I am going CRAZY!!  Don’t know if I can make it another 9 days.  I have only heard from her twice and need to hear her voice again soon.
• Excited to get Isaac back from camp tomorrow.  Heard he had a great time but want to hear it from him.
• Noah and Emma have been awesome.  It has been great to have Eva Hyder’s help watching them.  She took them to the Clipper’s game on Tuesday and to the pool today.
• Have been patching and painting alot!!!!!!
• Hopefully getting cabinets in the kitchen on Saturday.
• Need to get tile down as soon as possible so we can get back to living normally.
• Would love to have everything done by next Friday so we can surprise Anna on Saturday.
• Got the air-conditioning fixed in her van.  She will be excited.
• Man, I miss her!!!!!!!!
• Have two and half weeks until we leave for our Mission Trip to Cleveland.
• Have way too much to do and not enough time to get it all done for the trip.  Just found out we are doing a week’s worth of VBS!
• I am excited about Father’s Day but bummed that Anna won’t be here!
• I love her and miss her A LOT!!!

Well that is all for now.  Thanks for letting me vent!