Ever Lost Your Job Due to a Military Coup

I must admit my father the terrorism expert has some friends in high, wait a second, low places. If you haven't heard, my Dad's grad school buddy Thaksin (former Prime Minister of Thailand) was removed from his post by the military sometime last week. Luckily there was no violence as is seldom the case when the military are the ones doing the taking over. Apparently they were unhappy with the job he was doing, so they removed him from office. He will be spending some time out of the country and hopefully things will get patched over and he will be able to return in a few years. The only question I have is does that make this picture more or less interesting?

We have ourselves a little magic bean

So it's not really a good picture but he/she is the size of a lima bean so what do you expect. I must say that the ultrasound was really cool. The little shape in the black is our child. Upper left is its huge braniac head. I believe the lower right is the bottom (both directionally and anatomically) and legs and possibly still a tail? Hopefully that will go away or develop into a useful appendage for swinging and climbing trees. The screen came a alive right in the upper middle left where you would find the heart just pumping away like crazy, it even gave a little kick in response to all the prodding. This picture estimated the baking time at 8weeks 4 days on Sept 18 which means that approximate due date of roughly April 25th. Just so you know at the present time we have eclipsed the grape size and moved on to plum. For some reason the books all use fruit, I prefer animals but I understand why most people don't. So in my mind I think we are past tadpole and have reached baby chipmunk or possibly even squirrel. They way I see it, if I am going to be calling he/she an it, there is no harm in a animal comparison, plus I can envision a fetus much easier as a squirrel compared to a person being plum or apricot sized?!? We still need a name for "it". Be aware that I am not opening up naming rights to our first born, I am taking suggestions for its pre boy/girl name such as lima bean (already outdated but my favorite) pepito(a), LG (little guy) Eric's creation/already taken, etc.
Anyway, we are extremely excited, please help us pray for the "little guy/gal" as time goes on. Kelly could use your prayers as well, as she has been a little sick as of late. Thanks for checking on us and I will try to keep the site a little more up to date.

Perhaps you have heard?

Maybe you have heard maybe you haven't. If not you've probably figured even with the blurry picture that 2 lines mean a whole lot more than one line and basically our lives will never be the same. But who wants the same anyway, sounds boring to me. I say that like the thought of being totally responsible for another human being, my child, doesn't terrify me, trust me I am still a little bewildered by the whole thing. I am certain that no one could be more excited about the whole thing than Kelly and members of both of our families.
I feel like the somewhat blurry picture, captures the moment fairly well because even now that is about how I remember it. A moment of excitment tinged in doubt, hope, prayer, anticipation, and some trepidation. The line itself is a little miracle on its own becuase I believe that Kelly, through a numerous pregnancy testing procedures, pinpointed the first possible time that the test may actually come close to working. So much so that when a line actually appeared I was convinced the anomoly was in the test becuase there were so many other negative results. The nurses where a little surprised to find Kelly calling for a doctors appointment so early, wondering how she could know so soon.

Injuries

When I said I had avoided calamity I spoke mainly of the meets that I have been hosting (only 2 really). I have not avoided calamity on my own team however. Bo Price one of my top senior runners was hit by a car a few weeks ago. Miraculously he was treated and released from the hospital after a ride in an ambulance with minor abrasions, lots of stitches and a few staples. He is up and running but is still in some pain that keeps him from running to far. Pray for Bo to be able to have the season he would like to end on as he finishes his collegiate cross country career. While you are at it I would appreciate if you could cover the whole team as it seems that oft times we are bent on destruction. We had a victim of the spinach Ecoli problem that set Mitch back a week, and Cody is still coming back from a host of injuries with a 3 inch screw in his foot. We could have a lot of fun if I could get everyone healthy at the same time.

Cross Country

What have I been doing you may ask, well the cross country season is in full swing, and things are looking pretty good. This is especially true since I survived the hosting of the first few cross country meets without any major calamities, people falling in large holes, runners turning the wrong way on the course, etc.

Bear Relays went off without a hitch and very little trouble I may add, this is a low key meet that I can handle because everyone is pretty relaxed and well informed. Our girls ran great and our guys looked even better thanks to a great deal of hard work.

This continued to the next meet at UNT where the guys missed a perfect score of 15 by one place. The girls admittedly had a little more competition but we will take what we can get.

The last straw was the high school meet that we put on where I didn't even advertise well and garnered over 60 area high school teams complete with Boys, Girls, JV and Varsity. Some 1300 runners and their parents came to run at our course that was exceptionally dry due to the substantial margin of rainfall that we are behind our yearly average. I spent a great deal of time in the sun and maintained my sanity (who said that? ) I think.

Interspersed between, around, and even amongst some of these weekends I have been spending almost every available minute recruiting some of the finest runners in the country, who are if nothing else politely interested in coming to one of the finest universities in the country. If the type of people that have been visiting happen to come to Baylor our team will get better very quickly, which would be a lot of fun.

Where do I start?

Ok, by now you are probably wondering if I gave up on this whole blog thing. Well, I haven't but we have been pretty busy, which by its very nature should translate into a more interesting blog, except that unfortunately I am not paid to do this so blogging falls well behind things like sleeping, eating, working, and perhaps even watching TV. Regardless a lot has gone on since my last post so I might just make separate posts for each one, even though they may all be posted this evening. Thanks