Life Lesson

I was listening to the radio today and I heard this story, which has a great moral to it.

There was a man who worked as a janitor at a school for disabled children. He was walking the grounds and noticed a baby bird had been pushed out of it's nest by a crow. The bird wasn't going to make it so he took his shovel and took it's head off. The next day a little girl stopped him and asked, "why did you kill that bird yesterday, I saw you from the window." And the janitor replied, with out thinking I might add, "because the bird was handicapped."

I heard this on a radio program where they do a bit called, "who is going to hell?", the purpose is to come up with the worst story of somebody doing something so wrong that it qualifies them for hell.

The moral of the story? When you kill a bird, make sure no one can see you, no one.

Gentlemen...Start your engines

Well this past weekend we had the pleasure of celebrating Kyles birthday. He had the wonderful idea of going to the local Gokart racetrack for some good ol fashioned horsepower & testosterone driven racing. The place that we went to is awesome. As you can see it has it all, and then some. The group consisted of Kyle, Aaron C., Aaron D, Josh, Tim, and myself. We got our racers license, watched a short but informative video on the ins and outs of race course flags and etiquette. And the we suited up in these sweet race suits, all of us looking like a bunch of top gun pilots. Aaron Daileys suit was particularly funny because of the fact, as Kyle put it, "it looks like you are smuggling grapes". Or to say it was a bit tight in the crotch section. You can get the race results online here and if you need the login it is mdrohl@gmail.com and password is biggame. The racer names are as follows.
Sparky McNasty- Mark Rohl...Shifty McNeely-Kyle Campos...Shakey-Josh Dailey...Big A-Aaron Dailey...Smoke Ax-Tim Axline...Baxter-Aaron Campos. The other names on the list were just other racers that were there at the time. It was a blast, good on ya Kyle for the birthday. After the race we hit the video games and wasted the majority of our money trying to win Kyle a birthday present from one of the machines, but to no avail. Then back to Kyles for some grub, smack talk, and some poker, which I think Kyle came away with, or at least when I left, he, Mel and Heather were at the table and he was up with the option to cash out at any time. Again Kyle Happy Birthday (for those of you who haven't wished it yet you have till Wednesday the 12th which is his actual birthday) and thanks for the good fun. I leave you with this quote.

"Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel it". Thanks for being the pee in my pants Kyle.

Verrado Home

objects in these pictures are darker than real life, with the exception of my dad, he really is that color

Lately

It has come to my attention that I have been removed from my brothers list of links on his blog site. This comes at a huge surprise to me only because of the fact that I am his brother, not something like it. Familia me hermano, familia. But that's okay I have been rather delinquent in my postings and of that I am not proud. But alas a new day has come.
So here is what has been going on in the land of the rising bird and temp. Kendra and myself have purchased a new home that is being built in Verrado. A great opportunity for us to invest in a bigger house and also into an awesome community. This is a big stretch for us in the financial department but we feel that it is where God is leading us and we are going ahead full steam. The house will be about 2200 square feet (2x what we are in now) and twice the purchase price too. I only have a drawing of the house because it doesn't have a model built as of yet, but from the drawing it reminded us of homes that you would see in Santa Barbara. We like the look of the house, we have picket out our colors on the exterior, and we have chosen the kitchen cabinets, tile and countertops as well. It is exciting to purchase a home, but even more to design one from scratch, this has been quite a process and I am so happy that my wife and I have very similar taste when it comes to interior decorating. We heard some stories about husbands and wives fighting in the design center over things like carpet texture, or cabinet finish, and were reminded of how fortunate we were to be like minded for one, but also, some times I really could care less about tile size. Apart from the investment, and location (nearer the Campos and Cline clans) aspects, we also want to "enlarge our tent" ( 2 "Enlarge the site of your tent,and let your tent curtains be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your ropes, and drive your pegs deep. 3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left,and your descendants will disposes nations and inhabit the desolate cities.ISA 54:2-3)or in other words Kendra and I are trying to have a baby and we wanted to make room for the baby before He/She was even here. As my brother put it, we "pulled the goalie" and we are letting nature take it's course.
Work is going great, I just recently got a raise and a new phone (thank you Kendra) and we are swamped. Kendras job is going great, she is given opportunities to show how diverse she is and she is taking them every chance she gets. We just recently finished our first volleyball season here in the valley and the two Equity Electric teams finished second and third respectively. I am going to place that trophy in my trophy case (as soon as I get one) with honor. I don't remember all that well but I think that is my first trophy ever. I had a great team in: Aaron & Estrella Campos, Brian & Tracy Hart, and Kendra & myself. We had a good showing during the season but failed to pull together in the tournament and finished last. With lessons learned and some sweet and blood we will go into next season and take both overall and the tourney trophies and add them to our expanding case.
Thanks for checking in on our blog and I will make every effort to post more regularly, we love you all very much.