The Dark Knight
The Batman sequel, The Dark Knight, is looking to be just as awesome as the first one. I see they changed the batman outfit again, but it can’t be as bad as this one… Anyways, I found these images a couple weeks ago and didn’t think of posting up until today.
Can’t wait 
Miss South Carolina?
No words can describe what happens…
::Just throw out words::
Watch 1st
Watch 2nd
good stuff
A day in the life of one mom with six kids. She is hilarious and becoming pretty famous within the internet world. The first link is what started it all and the second one is her blog.
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Tattoo’s For Everyone
So this weekend was get your family tattooed. So this weekend Jen and I went and got tattoos. For about 3 months we have been very diligent to keep to a budget and because we have done so well we felt we would treat ourselves. I’ve been wanting to get my Hebrew name, but because of one of the many hurricanes we received back in Florida my mom thinks the certificate was destroyed when she lost her house in the hurricanes. I tried checking with the temple where I was named, but I have little faith in them having it. So I found the Alpha and Omega sign and found Adonai in Hebrew to put under it. I told the artist he could do whatever he wanted with the design of it. Jen got on her right wrist “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” in Hebrew.
This weekend I kind of bought a new mountain bike. I say kind of because I have to return it for another one or get my money back. Here’s what happen. Sunday morning Travis came up to me and said “Kendra told me not tell you and Jen this but I’m going to do it anyways.” Great way to start a conversation! When Travis was at Sun & Ski Outdoors he saw the mountain bike he bought for half price and he just had to tell me. Half price is an excellent deal for the bike he has, so of course he had to tell me. Jen who I love says “well go get it Bobby” ::cue singing angels:: So right after church we head over to Sun & Ski with Travis and his wife in tow to go and get the bike. I did a short test ride and it seemed to ride alright so I buy it. Travis and I throw the bikes in the back of his truck and head up to Lake Norman State Park to ride. Remember it’s supposed to be the same bike as Travis’ well as we look closer we start to notice a few things different on mine. We don’t think any more of it and start to ride and then I notice that the bike is kind of tight. Basically I was really close to the handlebars. We finish the course and Travis and I are looking over the bike and then ::goodbye singing angels:: we realize the bike’s frame is only a 14 incher instead of an adult 20 incher. I got a bike for probably a teenager instead of an adult. Never would we have thought to check the actual frame size. Update: I called Sun & Ski and they do not have any others in stock, but can order me one in my size and have it in 2 weeks 
. This is how much of a great deal this bike: It was mountain bike of the year for 2006 and listed originally for… I never thought I would’ve spent this much money on a bike…actually I even said I wouldn’t…but bike of the year! Honestly I don’t think I would’ve bought it if it wasn’t for such a supportive wife…Shout out to my loving wife.
I did not realize that Labor Day was right around the corner and this is important for me to know because we’re going to Tennessee for the long weekend. Every Labor Day Jen’s family, on her mother’s side, gets together and goes camping. You know what that means…I get to go mountain biking in Tennessee. Mountain biking has seriously become like a drug I’m always itching to go.
Last Wednesday night church service we had a very interesting conversation. It wasn’t a sermon or him preaching anything it was literally a conversation on something that churches do not ever tackle. He asked us how we are doing in studying our Bible. Usually all you hear is read your Bible and pray rinse and repeat. Well there are a lot of people who do not know how to read there Bibles. Heck I’m going to school for it and I still get confused while reading it. So we had a nice open discussion on why it’s hard for some and what are some methods to reading it and understanding it. Wednesday night made me wonder do other Pastor’s not do this. Why is it always just read your Bible and pray, why is it always a message on 7 steps to get out of debt or 7 steps to live close to God…why is it topical messages all the time? Whatever happened to just reading the Word of God and then tackling the issues as it comes up in scripture. The Bride of Christ is in such a sad state and Christians do not even realize it. We wonder why Christianity is attacked in the media well look at ourselves. As Matt Chandler, a pastor out of Texas states it “We as Christian are leaning up on the Cross all smug and pointing at people telling them they need to be kneeling at the cross and repenting. Instead we need to be kneeling at the cross and telling people to come there is room for all of us.”
Jen’s Birthday
Yesterday was Jen’s birthday and last night I made dinner reservations at The Melting Pot. I setup a corner booth to avoid traffic, I had roses placed at the table for when we got there, and got a picture of us taken together. The mood of the restaurant was perfect: a great waiter and waitress, dimmed lights, nice music, and a crying velociraptor. Apparently, someone had brought their child with them and at one point he or she sounded like a crying velociraptor. Other then that it was great.
So for those who have never heard of The Melting Pot it’s a fondue restaurant where all of your meals are served in a fondue type of fashion. You choose from a three or four course meal and the difference being the dessert. We had the four-course meal and it was awesome! First for our appetizer we got to pick how our cheese was made and that came with bottomless bread, vegetables, & apples. They then brought us our salads, then the main course. They seriously brought a platter of all sorts of meats: beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, some pasta & lobster tail and we got to cook it all ourselves in a sauce of our choice. In addition to the meats we had vegetables and dipping sauces. Then there was dessert and it was awesome! We picked our own chocolate and that came with bananas, marshmallows, strawberries, pound cake, cheesecake, and Jen’s birthday cheesecake. After all that I was stuffed and seriously could have slept for a couple days. If you’re looking for a place to go for a nice night out I highly recommend going. It’s a bit pricey, but it’s well worth it.
So last night during dinner Jen and I were talking about buying a tent for Labor Day because we are going camping for Labor Day and I realized something. I am deathly afraid of bears. Seriously, they’re just killing machines what purpose do they have? Anyways, I realized this because anytime the subject of camping comes up the first thing I think about is “what about the bears”? I never really had this fear concern when living in Florida, well, because there were no bears where we lived. But now that I live near the mountains and I plan on spending time outdoors I think this is something I need to concern myself with. The only place I think I could have picked this up at would be from watching The National Geographic and The Discovery Channels bear segments where they always show a camper being pulled from the tent. So from the bottom of my heart thank you National Geographic and Discovery Channel.
That’s how they get you by looking all cute and then when you least expect it….whaam!
Sweet is not just a rock band.
Since moving up to North Carolina I’m finding I’m we’re home a lot less. Not that it’s a bad thing I just wish it was like this back when we lived in Florida. Saturday we went back to Turtleback Falls with youth group. You can really tell we’re going through a drought right now. The water was not nearly as strong as before and water was lower. I could tell the water was lower mostly by the fact that you could touch some of the rocks coming off the falls. We’ll probably wait for a good rain before we go back again. It was a great time for us though because we were able to build our relationship with not only Quentin and Marie (youth pastor and his wife), but with the youth group also. Taylor, who is a riot by the way, reminds me and Jen of our friend Gab back home. There was one of the youth I really hit it off with, Ryan. I’m hoping we can get together a bit more. We talked a bit about going backpacking or doing some hiking together so we’ll see. Sunday we had home fellowship group and that was just a sweet time together. Let me explain something real quick up until now I never really use the word “sweet” unless I was referring to maybe a chocolate cake or a cheesecake, now I use way to much I think. Honestly though, that is the best word I could use to describe the time we had together.
On our way to the Falls Quentin and I got on the subject of missionaries somehow and I think I made a comment about Ryan and Lisa. He was telling me that when he and his wife lay there daughter down to bed Melanie will tell them “mommy you pray for the mommy, daddy you pray for the daddy, and I’ll pray for the kids.” Referring to Ryan and Lisa our missionary friends…see post below this one. I thought that was the coolest thing. She’s 3 and has no idea what missionaries do, but she knows that they are far away with things we don’t have doing things for Jesus.
Classes started today for me…yay. Honestly I’m pretty excited about it I just forgot how it felt not to be in school.
Tomorrow is Jen’s birthday and I have set something up for her, nothing like last year though…sorry Jen.
Missions & Our Desire
I think most of you know that Jen and I have a desire to do full time missionary work one day and these past couple days really affirmed it even more. Anytime we get around missionaries whether it’s talking with them for a few minutes/hours/days, listening to them, or spending a few days with them we get excited about it. There are just some things that we need to do before we can really get into it. Mostly I just need to finish school. Oh and we have this small house back in Florida…come on hurricane season!
So on with the story. Tuesday we had some friends from back home come up and visit. Caleb and Eliana, actually those are Ryan and Lisa’s kids who I absolutely adore (Jen will understand). Ryan and Lisa are full time missionaries that we met a few months before we moved up here and they are getting ready to go to Mexico. This is like their farewell tour going to see family and friends before they leave. It’s kind of the like Eagles farewell tour, but better. OK so I have never seen the Eagles let along their farewell tour.
Continuing, they are with New Tribes Mission which is a faith based organization (meaning all of their support comes from people and churches they partner with no big organization) that go into tribal areas and work with the people in not only bringing the gospel to them, but also helping to translate the Bible into there language. They will be heading to Chihuahua, Mexico in November to begin their final part of training before they head out to a tribe. Last night they were able to speak at our church about what they will be doing and where they’ve been to get there. It was just a sweet time of fellowship between brothers and sisters of Christ.
So Tuesday night and yesterday we spent together just kind of hanging out and catching up…oh and we played spades. (Finally Lisa you were able to call blind nil). Wednesday afternoon Travis and I took Ryan mountain biking (I’m sure no one saw that coming). It was a fun time…I think Ryan had fun. I know at one point Travis said to Ryan “I bet you can’t believe you paid for this”. They left this morning and we’re hoping we can meet up one last time before they leave for Mexico and we’ve even talked about going to visit them in Mexico.
On a side note Jen had a mole or some type of pre-cancerous thing removed from her chest. It was really small and we should have the results back next weeks sometime. Till next time kids.
As Promised
It may take a minute, but just watch.
Supersize Me!
This weekend was pretty laid back for the most part. Saturday morning I went mountain bike riding with Travis (what else is new?), and then we went and had a good ol’ fashion North Carolina breakfast…not sure what good ol fashion North Carolina breakfast is, but it just sounded good. Then Jen had lunch with some girlfriends of hers.
Sunday we had church and we’re starting the book of Jude. Ah yes, the small one chapter book right before Revelation. When was the last time you heard a message from Jude, if ever? Read through it and you may know why. I’ll post more on that once we get into it more. We watched a small 6 minute video that had the whole church in tears and once I find that I’ll post it up here. After service I needed to get out and ride. I went up to the White Water Center and did about 4 miles in 45 minutes, which is pretty good for me for that course. I was telling Jen I can actually tell a difference in my body from when I originally started to now. Before I thought I was going to lose a lung every time I rode, but now I can finish pretty strong.
Last night Jen and I watched Supersize Me. If you ever want to stop eating fast food this is the movie for you. It is a documentary on the McDonald’s/fast food industry and the sad state of obesity in America. Morgan Spurlock, the genius behind this movie, goes on month long diet of only McDonald’s…breakfast, lunch and dinner. The results are astonishing. You’re probably saying to yourself, “of course they’re astonishing Bobby he ate McDonald’s for a month long. Did you think he would get in great shape?” Well you’re right, but as he states in the movie, in the society we live in today there are people who eat like that. So yeah, I’m done with fast food….don’t think your salads from there are safe as they contain as many calories as a Big Mac….scary, I know. In the month period, his body weight went from 185.5 to 210. In addition he almost destroyed his liver. One doctor actually said his liver looked the same as someone who drank alcohol.
This problem roots itself all the way into children as far back to first grade. At one point of the movie, Morgan sat down with a group of 1st graders and flash card of some pretty famous people, at least I think so. George Washington….no idea and Jesus…..no idea, actually one child said “George Bush”. But when he got to the Ronald McDonald they knew right off the bat who he was.
Here is a link to a summary of the movie. I usually don’t recommend movies, but this movie is a really must see type thing, even for kids. Here are some facts from the movie.
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Not for the faint of heart
Yesterday I realized how much Jen’s engineering stuff has rubbed off on me. Doug, my boss, was telling me about our trip to AutoDESK University in November and that we were not far from the Hover Dam. Immediately I thought of when Jen told me how during the construction of the Hover Dam that because the concrete was so thick that they needed to run pipes so water could run through it and cool it. If not when the concrete cured, not dried, it would have cracked. Thank you Jen.
Last week we saw the last of the Bourne Trilogy, Bourne Ultimatum, and that was the best Trilogy I have seen in quite sometime. I would even venture to say the best one ever.
I came across this story today and if you’re like me you’ll be amazed what a little bit of snake venom can do to the body.
