First post in 2 years

I sit hear feeling alot like I did back in November '07.

The news is the same. My job seems to be hanging by a thread. My health stinks, and my outlook a little less positive that a week ago. I fully believe that God will see us through, no matter what.

Apparently it has taken about 2 and 1/2 weeks to get to the point of revisiting anxiety. It may or may not that. I guess only time will tell.

Until next time,

Roger

Praise Be To God!!!!!!!

My son Joseph asked the Lord into his heart last night. I couldn't be more proud of him.

God has blessed us with truly amazing children. Praise be to the Lord!

A Valentine's Birthday

Happy Birthday Nehemiah. Our second son is 3 today.
I hope that you are having a happy birthday Nehemiah. I love you.

Happy Valentines Day Valerie.

Will be my Valentine?

I have many other things to say, but they will have to wait for another time.

Christmas '07

Well, Christmas has come and gone. This Christmas was a great, we had all kinds of fun, and everyone got a lot of cool things. It was neat to see how excited the kids were about everything. It's been awhile since I've seen that kind of excitement and it was great. I don't often get that excited over much, but this year I woke everyone up at 6:30 to open presents. I liked being able to see the excitement and joy that they showed. I'm glad that I got presents, but seeing them so happy would have been enough for me. This time I actually have vacation instead of being sick and off of work. I feeling good and not working, awesome. I'm truly enjoying my vacation.

My Lego collection has had a few additions. Some might say GIANT additions, I'm just saying additions and we'll leave it at that. The additions that I got are a fire station and a house that can be built 3 different ways. (Yes, my wife is awesome!) Joseph, my oldest, got a police station, it makes my look little but that's okay. I'm glad that he has his own collection that he can be proud of and have with. Nehemiah, our second, even got a Mack truck and Lightning McQueen Mega Blocks set, he loves it. Hannah, our youngest, and Valerie didn't get any legos, but they did get other cool things, I'll let her tell you about that.

Hopefully, really soon I'll have some pictures of my models on my site. You can check it out here.

In progress

As you can see I have done some work on the website. Most notably, I have added a page titled Lego. This page will highlight my lego hobby and showcase my own creations(MOCs). I am currently working on two semi trucks, one with a box trailer and one with an open trailer. I will post pictures here or on the lego page when I am satisfied with them.

I have also been checking out sites like brickshelf.com and lugnet.com. Brickshelf is a photo hosting site for Lego pictures, and lugnet is a Lego users group site.

I have been fascinated with the pictures for lego train shows on brickshelf. Some are just phinominal. The realism of the building and vehicles is amazing, but so are their collections.

Anyway, I'll keep posting new pictures as I have a chance to build new models. Right now, I guess I'm in start up and planning phase of my lego town. It takes a lot of time with 3 small children running around, but that's okay, they are great. The kids that is. :)

Till next time, PLAY WELL.

My Hobby

Today, I officially started a page on my website about my hobby, Legos. I will be updating the Lego link on my nav bar as often as I can. I want to put up pictures of thing that I have built and find neat creations that others have build and make comments on them.

The reason I'm using a hobby as a subject for a webpage is because I know a lot about them and I have plenty of content. With this hopefully we can get this internet thing off of the ground. The lego subject was Valerie's idea, and I'm glad that see had that idea.

Legos also help with the anxiety, they help calm me down, get my mind off of things. I'm looking forward to pursuing two things that I am passionate about, it'll be fun.

Lego Addict?

Valerie posted the other day about how I'm addicted to legos and have a huge collection. Well, my collection isn't small, it's not as large as some that I have seen on the web. As far as being addicted, there are worse things than building with legos. I like building legos because you can use your imagination and build all kinds of things, or you can build the sets that you bought. It's been really neat to be able to spend time building with Joseph (4yrs). He loves being able to build and see what he can make. He's always so proud of what he builds, it's neat to see that excitement. The thing that makes legos stand out to me, is that they don't have characters that you play, they are just people and you have to decide who they are. And yes, they do have character sets, they aren't all that they have and they only have a few.

Okay, so I didn't say yet that I am addicted, well I think that pretty much goes without saying. I'm 28 years old and I still check out the lego isle at the store, just to see what new sets might be out. I may not buy like I used to, I still like have that chance to build with my hands and use my imagination. So, with all that said, YES I am addicted. There I said it. :)

All this talk about legos makes me think I should get another set. We'll see, if I get one I'll post a picture. After all, it makes it more fun to share what you build with others. I been building legos since I was about 5, I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.