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Four jobs I have had in my life
1. Grade 4 teacher
2. Cashier at Big D supermarket
3. Grounds Crew at Messiah College
4. Resident Assistant at Messiah College
Movies I would watch over and over.
1. A&E’s Pride and Prejudice
2. You’ve Got Mail (Don’t you think daisies are the friendliest flower?)
3. Emma
4. Sense and Sensibility…anyone see a theme here?
Four Places I have lived:
1. Sterling, MA
2. Grantham, PA
3. Camarillo, CA
4. Fremont, CA
Four TV shows I love to watch
1. Friends (Reruns)
2. I watched this past season of American Idol (it was my first time watching the whole thing)
3. Frontier House (reality TV for nerds)
4. Mad About You(Reruns)
Four websites I visit daily:
1. Hotmail
2. Charlottemommies.com
3. MSN homepage
4. my blog
Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Grand Cayman Island
2. Newport Beach, California
3. Bar Harbor, Maine
4. Washington DC
Four of my favorite foods:
1. General Tsao’s Chicken
2. Steamed Lobster with lots of butter
3. Avocado in any shape or form (except overripe)
4. Chocolate in any shape or form
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Fenway Park, Boston
2. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
3. SoHo, NYC
4. Anywhere in the British Isles
Here’s our little guy kicking up a storm in the pool today!
Our neighborhood pool opened up on Saturday, and we finally made it over there today. There is a toddler pool that is only a foot deep, and that’s where we stayed most of the time. Jonathan could even reach the bottom when he was in his baby float, and he had fun pushing himself around!
Here’s a fun one…
David is going to San Diego as we speak for a work-related conference. Whenever he is on the “road,”– that is, flying — I go to this online flight tracker. You can search by city or by flight number and find the flight you’d like to watch. Then it shows you where the plane is! It helps the boys understand where Daddy is going a little bit better, particularly why it takes so long to get somewhere!
Here are some more pics of our day on Saturday. I used this as an opportunity to capture some of “our” city, too. The four statues at Center City (Trade and Tryon) are shown below. They were dedicated in 1995.
Statue, Center City Charlotte “Future”
Statues, Center City Charlotte, “Industry” (background), “Commerce” (foreground)
Statue, Center City Charlotte, “Transportation”
Ben pretending to be a pit crew member
Cameron pretending to be a pit crew member
Building a Home Depot racecar
Jonathan is unmoved
More building
Ben enjoyed the day!
The whole gang
This past Saturday, we took the kids to “Speed Street,” which is a part of the racing festivities here in Charlotte. We had a great time! I took a lot of pictures, so hang on to your hats.
Charlotte skyline
Charlotte skyline
A reminder that we are indeed in the South (this is at Tryon and 4th, for you locals). 
The Bank of America tower
Ben driving
Cameron driving
OK, there are more pictures but I can’t get them to post. I’ll try again later.
Yesterday afternoon, David and I went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit here in Charlotte. It was AMAZING! I loved seeing the ten scrolls they had on exhibit. These predated any existing manuscripts at the time by over 1000 years. The Scrolls were so tiny, with such precise writing on them…it was incredible to see the care and precision with which the Qumran community treated God’s Word.
Also interesting to think about is the fact that John the Baptist is widely thought to have been an Assene, which is what the Qumran community was. Assenes were another religious sect, like the Pharisees. Both Qumran and John the Baptist associated themselves with the verse in Isaiah, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness….”
It was also so encouraging that even though these scrolls had been tucked away for 2000 years, they reflected almost exactly the contents of the existing Old Testament. Even though the scribes had copied the words for generations, the integrity of the Bible had been preserved, and was confirmed when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
Praise the Lord! It just made my heart rejoice to think of the grandeur of the Bible.
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For the record, this put me in the same quadrant as Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and Darth Vader. Yippee.
It was thought-provoking, though…there were a lot of questions that I answered in an economically “liberal” way, but at the end of the day I think the church should be light years ahead of the state in helping the poor, etc.
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