Making Friends

Our concerns about the kids have all went away. Braylon is feeling a 100% better this morning after a pretty good nights sleep and Audrey is making friends like it is nobody's business. Yesterday we went to visit a house that CSI may be purchasing and on the way we saw some kids playing in the yard and immediately Audrey wanted to get out and play. I told her no and she cried! We went on up to the house and looked around and she kept saying I want to go play with those kids. I being the softy I am finally caved and we left everyone at the house and walked down to meet the kids. It took 30 seconds and my daughter was laughing and playing, and going down a steep hill on a little car!!! Needless to say my daughter has no fear of people and sees no barriers. The result is the picture above.

What a trip!!

After approximately 12 hours of travel we made it!! Let me say the kids were great!! I could not have asked for more. Here are some pictures from the flight. Melissa and I will be posting pictures throughout the trip.

OUT OF THE COUNTRY!!

Tomorrow morning the Black Family will be leaving the Indianapolis Int'l airport at 9:00 am bound for Montego Bay, Jamaica. Between my blog and Melissa's Blog you should be able to stay up to date on our trip. We will both try to make an effort to make a couple of posts between soaking up the rays :).

Perspective on Heaven and Hell

What are your thoughts on Heaven and Hell?

Amazing How God Keeps Us In Check!!

After having a great day with my family yesterday, I was brought to frustration last night as we tried to get some sleep. For the past week or week and a half we have all been fighting colds and you know what this does to your kids when they try to sleep. Between Coughing, Throwing Up, Crying, and then the guilt I have when I am laying in bed while my wonder wife sits up with Braylon I find a little shut eye.

Through all of this there has been a couple times that I have just wished they were old enough to sleep in their own beds and not in ours. Then I hear this song by Darius Rucker on the radio, and quickly I am reminded to be careful what I wish for. O how HE humble me when I need it most. Melissa, Braylon, And Audrey I love you guys!!!!!

8 Days until Departure

In just 8 days my family and I will be headed to Jamaica Man!! We are really excited to spend sometime together. I charish every moment I have with my family and I really cannot wait to see how they react to the Jamaican people. God is Good All The Time!!

Jamaica!!

In less than 2 weeks Melissa and I will be traveling to Jamiaca!!! We are traveling with Ron Oren and other staff members that run CSI. We will be going for some RNR and more importanlty on some fact finding. Melissa and I have always thought about being full time missions and this experience will give us an oppurtunity to see what that would look like. Not sure where or when we will go, but we believe God has missions planned for our future.

It also helps that it will be 85% everyday we are there :)

OJ Said What??

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top."-OJ Simpson

How ironic is this quote... As some of you may have noticed everyday I have a sports quote of the day and today was this one. I just thought it was interesting that OJ would have made such a statement. Does the quote "Practice What You Preach" ring a bell O.J.

I'M BACK

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I survived my very first basketball sectional at home. Let me tell you I have a good excuse for not posting in the past week in a half. :) Everything went great. I had a lot of wonderful people help me pull this tournament off and I am so thankful that I have people in my life that have my back and are there when I call.

Anyway I got to work outside tonight and go for a walk with my wonderful family and I am a rejuvinated happy man !

O YEAH WE ALSO WON THE TOURNAMENT AND WILL BE PLAYING THIS SATURDAY AT FRANKFORT. 10:00 am against conference foe Daleville. Tickets will be onsale tomorrow...