I have a confession to make.  I lost money.  Like $110….cash.  I’m not joking.  Missing since last Monday.  I’m such a loser.
Would you all join me in praying that I find it. I believe in prayer and I believe there is strength in numbers.

One thing I don’t wish on my worst enemy, a 7-month old kid with constipation.  There are some places I just really don’t want to root around in.  And his rear-end is one of them.  Poor kid.

An amazing thing happened last week.  Jennifer gave the green light on getting a Wii!  (not that I need permission from my wife or anything….oh never mind)

Ever heard of Nintendo thumb?  Yeah you 80’s folk know what I’m talking about.  Say hello to Wii-shoulder and Wii-elbow!

We have only 2 channels.
Every night – 7:00 Wheel of Fortune – 7:30 Jeopardy
It can’t be.
This is impossible
Final Jeopardy Category "C"Words
Question: "The two cities who’s names constitute a film title – each winning an Oscar for best picture."
What?
No body knows?
But I know!
This can’t be!
I know something that 3 contestants don’t know!
What is the world coming to?
Its Chicago and Casablanca you morons!
I’m speechless.
Actually I’m not – I keep typing.
Wow I’m smart.
You are in the presence of greatness my friends.

I can’t believe I forgot to write about this!

Dec 21, the Friday before Christmas Eve, Josh (Family Pastor), Josh (Connections Director), and myself had the opportunity to go to the FBI academy to shoot some machine guns!  We each shot a Thompson Machine Gun (which I loved being a WWII buff), an Oozie, and a MPK-5.  Man does a clip go fast!

Also included in our program was a cute video from Kidspoint on what Christmas meant to them. It was a great setup to Daniel’s message.

This past Monday my beautiful wife turned 27.  As my old youth pastor would say, "son, you out-punted your coverage." 

And I did!  But I have to give God all of the glory.  If it was left to me, I probably would have screwed the whole thing up. 

She is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and has given me our Wyatt.  I don’t know what I would do without her.

I love you Jennifer!

Life kinda sucks right now.  Yesterday I had a 103 temp – dizzy – felt like my eyeballs were going to explode.  Finally went to the Dr and got some antibiotics….big horse pills.  The sucky thing is I can’ go near my wife or my kid.  I haven’t held him in 2 days…now that stinks!

Good thing is today I’m starting to feel like a human again.  Fortunately I had already planned to have someone else lead worship today, so I’m not needed at practice tonight.  A day or two more and I should be safe.

I feel like a leper!

Only thing I hate about this season…besides the cold…is getting a cold.  Never fails.  I’d say my immune system was down with all of the traveling we did.  Then – Wamo!  My head feels awful.  My nose feels aweful.  I feel awful!

Pray for healing!

Very sorry to Gary and Fred for us pulling out the greatest 4th quarter comeback in Neyland Stadium history!!!  But I’m ahead of myself.

On Saturday we went to the Vanderbilt – Tennessee game.  Now on the calender, this isn’t expected to be that great of a game.  Probably why I was able to get tickets to begin with.  But hey…its UT…its Neyland Stadium…its the last home game of the year…its Senior day.  And any time I can get to a UT game its worth it.  I think it had been 10 years since my last one!

But regardless of who we played, it was one of the most exciting game I have ever been to!  Well…the first 3 quarters sucked.  We sucked!  Down 24-9 at the end of the 3rd quarter.  Then we finally scored.  Then we scored again:

To make a long story short we came from behind.  At one point, we ran back a punt 50 yards.  It was so loud my ears were ringing!  I was jumping up and down and nearly fell on the lady in front of me! We kicked a field goal to go ahead.  But then Vandy had their own big run back.  We stopped them – but thanks to a blind ref on a bad interference call, they got another 4 downs.  Again we stopped them, and it was left in the hands of their kicker.  I swear he missed it by 1 foot.  I actually thought it went in, but I could see our fans on the other side of the stadium going bananas.  It was PANDIMONIUM!

Of course the drunk guy at the end of our row was in a good mood the entire time.  We had to give him a high-five to get by him.  He was a hoot.

Here are some fun pics for you to enjoy.  If we get past KY next week, its off to Atlanta!  Anybody want to fly me down and get me tickets to the game??