The Streetpoet

Anna invited the boys and I to go on a hike with her this afternoon, and as Peter had to study it was a good chance to give him a quiet house for a while. All three carseats barely fit into her backseat, but Peter got them in there!

Jerome said Sage Ranch was too long of a hike, and I agreed with him as they’d had a full day already getting to the Grand Prix “right after breakfast”! 🙂  It was a warm and glorious day, but we could see snow on the mountains in the distance!

Seth took quite a bit of coaxing to keep up with us as it was pretty much all uphill for the first half of the hike, but Auntie Anna had an I spy game for them to play, and then she played hide and go seek with them at the top, too! She’s such a fun person to be around, a light in our lives!

She treated all of us to some frozen yogurt before taking us home again, and we got a glimpse of the sunset as we turned into our drive. Thank you so much for the fun times, Anna!

This was Jerome’s first Grand Prix…boy, was he excited! Daddy helped him make his race car, ok, he made it for Jerome with some suggestions. The anticipation has been visibly mounting. The wheels got on just last night, they were oiled just this morning, but the “Speed Demon” (which it came to be called by the judges) was weighed in just in time for the races! His car was easily winning or coming in second on each run and he would have won except it jumped off the track on the last race! Sweet Jerome was thrilled to get a first place award for Design, although his Daddy and I think it was a consolation prize. 🙂 Peter used to make his own cars for the Grand Prix and Jerome enjoyed hearing about his Daddy’s race cars. This was a fun day for both of them!

“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith…”
(Hebrews 12:1,2)

“My Lord, I pray that through today
I may walk patiently,
Forgetting not that Thy dear hand
Is leading me.

I know not what Thy wisdom, Lord,
May choose for me today;
What the long hours may hold for me
I cannot say.

I only know that I may go
Unquestioningly with Thee,
Remembering that what Thou wilt
Is best for me.

For Thou, O Lord, canst see the end,
While I but see the way –
Help me to walk it patiently
Throughout today.”
~Grace Noll Crowell

The reason for their trip down from Washington was to visit a very sick Doug, but they cheered him up and he got better so fast that he’s already out of the hospital and back to work! Shawn and Katy spent the afternoon and evening with us at our house, and I have no words for how wonderful it was to have them here again! Katy is so good about calling me and IMing that it felt like we hadn’t missed a beat in each other’s lives. Shawn played with the boys all day while Katy and I visited and he said he made a friend for life with Seth. 🙂

Thank you so much for your time and friendship, and maybe one of these days I can make it up to Washington to see your beautiful new house!

As they were leaving I let Seth have the camera for the first time…

My man has worked so hard to build a webserver which runs my website and a fileserver on which I work, and he has enjoyed most of it, as a hobby, but I know some things have frustrated him and have been a real challenge. One of those things that challenged him was the installation of PHP. He figured it out and made notes as he went, then published his steps on his website www.peterguy.com. His notes have gained status as the best php installation guide on the internet and people all over the world e-mail him to say thank you and ask questions, which Peter graciously takes the time to answer!  One of these people told him that, “btw, I googled “php install iis 6″ and your site is the first hit!”

So this is a shout out to my smart man who has taken the time to share his knowledge and make the world a better place…or at least save us from some frustrated geeks. 😉

Love ya Babe!