KSC’s Blog

My son (youngest) is 6 years old today. I got home late today and so I didn’t see him before he went to bed. So I went to his bed, woke him up, and took these pics. He’s back in bed now.

So, like father like son? Do we really look a like? Is he really my mini-me?
Happy Birthday, Nathan.

It’s been a long time since I changed my blog theme. It’s been just as long, it seems, that I’ve touched code. Well, I guess I still like the color blue, but the new theme does highlight my twitter a little more, since I twitter much more than I blog.
Maybe this redesign will inspire me to blog more.

Take a moment today and pray this prayer by John Piper:
Father in heaven, as we approach this election on Tuesday, I pray
1) that your people will vote,
2) and that they will vote with a sense of thankfulness for a democratic system that at least partially holds in check the folly and evil in all our hearts so that power which corrupts so readily is not given to one group or person too easily;
3) that we would know and live the meaning of
being in the world, but not of it,
doing politics …

A test of delayed gratification. If he waits to eat the marshmallow before dad comes back, he will get two instead of one. Will he delay his immediate gratification for something more???

Ok, I need your help. My wife and I have a little wager going on here. We decided to have a little friendly contest on who would make the better pumpkin. So, we both got a pumpkin and our carving tools to see who could do a better job. The pictures are below and I won’t tell you who made which one until the voting is closed. They are shown in alphabetical order.

Please vote to settle this!
Which pumpkin do you like better? …

Emily is now 49″ tall and therefore can ride almost every adult roller coaster at Six Flags. In fact, to our surprise, when we stood in line for Titan (the largest ride every built by Six Flags), even Nathan (youngest child) qualified in height. So, we wait in a very short line only to find out that we would wait for another 15 mins for them to clean up some throw-up from the previous run. Nasty! And it happened to be the row that we were …