Christmas Banquet

Here are Tim and Becca all dressed to match for the annual Christmas Banquet, which by all accounts was a lot of fun. The main event was a formal dinner @Lion Crest (on the Biltmore Estate)...


I don't have a picture yet of the banquet hall last night but here's a file foto of it ready to host a wedding... quite the place!

Saturday, December 5th

Tim Tebow is wearing John 16:33 at this evening's SEC Championship Game pitting his #1 ranked 12-0 Florida team against #2 Alabama, also 12-0. As I make this entry, the Crimson Tide leads 19-13 at half-time... was Timmy foreseeing "trouble" in this game?

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

Friday, December 4th

There's been a group of us getting together every Friday morning at 6:30 for a little excercise on the basketball court... Here's our Athletic Director, Joe Johnson, putting on a little shooting clinic to wrap things up in today's final game! I was odd-man-out this round, which is just as well, because these guys are way out of my league!

Thursday, December 3rd

Success!

Not so much fun when things break down, but having a home repair project actually work does bring a measure of satisfaction... Tim really enjoys fixing things, so I usually let him be the brains of the operation...

Today he replaced the ballast on the flourescent light in our kitchen!
Today is also Tim's good friend Becca Clark's 18th birthday.
The picture was taken at last year's "Junior-Senior"... Tim & Becca will be going to the Christmas Banquet together this Saturday.
We don't have a prom at ACA, so the CB & Jr/Sr are the big social events of the year for our students... pictures will follow!

Wednesday, December 2nd

Yesterday's anniversary girl (my sister Susie) snapped this picture Thanksgiving day at her house in Dr. Phillips, Florida (near Disney World)... it was fun watching my family finally get to know Grace in person... she has now met all my immediate relatives with the exception of Steve, Betsy and their families (in Montana and California)... we'll have to see when we can make that happen!

Tuesday, December 1st

Two occasions for celebration:
1. My nephew Jason (a.k.a. G-5, a reference to his birth order among the grand, or "G"-babies)'s 23rd birthday... he graduated in May with a Bachelors in Economics, and starts work on his MBA @UCF next term. He was born 16 days after his cousin Kara (G-4)...
Happy Birthday, Jason!2. My sister Susie and her husband Jay are celebrating the 26th anniversary of the day they pledged to love each other through thick and thin... and they seem to have done an exemplary job of that, raising a terrific couple of Gator alums in the process!

Monday, November 30th

It's probably high time I made a public confession of my affection for the little red-headed Math teacher I've been courting down in Florida, and if spending five days with me and my family hasn't chased her off, there might just be a future in "us"... I love you, Grace!