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Congrats to Olivia on her senior recital! You did great on both your the violin and piano. Good job to the quartet as well!

Below are a couple of photos from tonight.

Congrats and great job!

So today Mazie and I went to a grad party and a senior recital for two youth group members. Congratulations to both for your accomplishment in graduating high school!

Congrats again to both Jen and Jess!

Mazie and I were honored to be able to go to Spencer’s high school graduation yesterday. The graduation was somewhat different since his school didn’t do the typical cap and gown. Instead, all the guys were wearing white tuxes, which I actually kind of like better than the traditional cap/gown routine. During the ceremony, Spencer was presented with an award for perfect attendance. I believe the award might have been for perfect attendance during all 4 years of high school but either way is still an impressive accomplishment. Even more impressive because he was the only one out of his entire class to have perfect attendance! Below are a couple of photos from the ceremony.

Getting his perfect attendance award

Proud mother and son

So congratulations again on graduating high school! I know that God has great things in store for you in your future!

So as I was getting ready for work today, an idea popped into my head as to a post topic I could write on. This post idea comes at a relatively good time seeing how my birthday was a couple of weeks ago. With gaining another year, I felt like writing a post on signs that you’re getting older. Most of these are from personal experience, so hopefully you’ll find some humor in what I’m writing.

1. You spend more time and money taking care of your home than you do yourself. Since owning a home, I now find myself spending more time and money for my home than I do for myself. When you’re young, you want to spend money on primarily yourself. You don’t have to worry about maintence for your home since your parents always took care of that. However, when you get older and get your own place, you begin to have to spend both time and money to keep things in order. Getting your yard to look nice becomes weekly event that constantly needs attention. You don’t want to be the only neighbor to have brown grass and weeds as high as your knees.

2. A Night out on the town ends at 9 instead of starting at 9. When you’re in college, nothing really starts until after 9PM at night. However, the older you get, the more you find yourself ending your night early so that you can get yourself to sleep. I’ve also found that I also can no longer sleep in, and that I naturally wake up earlier and earlier. On the rare occasion that I do end up staying up past midnight, I find myself really tired and just waiting to go back home to go to sleep.

3. Loud music and noises begin to annoy you. This one I find myself more and more being annoyed with. It begins to really bother me when there’s a loud noise/music going on in the same room that I’m in. When I was younger, this wasn’t such a big deal, however nowadays I just enjoy my peace and quiet.

4. You begin to realize that you’re now older than the sports stars you cheer for. When you’re young, you look up to sports stars because they’re a star! However, when you get older, you begin to realize that “Hey, I’m older than Lebron James and can’t play basketball for the life of me” This is when you get sad and realize that you’re old. Instead of thinking “I’ll be a football star when I’m older” you start thinking, “If my back and knees were better I could do what they do” This can also apply to movie or music stars, take your pick.

5. You realize you have no idea who’s “popular” on the music scene. I was never really big on music. Never having really bought any CDs. Even so, I was still at least current on who was considered “Big” at the time when I was growing up. Nowadays, I’ll turn on the radio and have no idea who’s even singing the song. This one time, while I was watching American Idol, they had Flo Rider on as a singer. Not knowing who he was, I thought his name was pronounced “Florida” only to find out that it was “Flow Rider”… oops

6. It takes longer for your body to recover. When I was younger, I used to play soccer and have no problems playing 3 or 4 games during a weekend. I could run around and not get sore, and not have to worry about any health issues. Now as I’m older, I get sore just trying to pull weeds out of the ground. I also have to watch out how I lift things so as to not hurt my back. Maybe I should try to get back into shape…

7. You keep saying “When I was younger…” In working with a youth group of kids ranging from 12-18, I find myself constantly saying phrases that reference how old I am now. I’ll tell them about how things used to be when I was younger, or how I used to do things when I was younger. The phrase just comes out more and more, and I’m only 27! You definitely know you’re old when you start telling others about what you were doing when you were younger.

Well, here are 7 signs that you’re getting old! I find myself going through all of these. While I know I’m not that old yet, I’ve already passed the quarter century mark. I’ll definitely know I’m old when I find myself having spent more years out of school than in school. I still have a few more years before that becomes true.

I don’t know if anyone’s ever seen the show Wipeout, but it’s a show on ABC where contestants basically run through an obstacle course. This is one show that no matter how many times I’ve seen it, I die of laughter watching people basically wiping out on this course. The best part is when they’re trying to cross this giant bouncy balls, and one after another they jump onto the first ball and end up missing the second one, wiping out and usually doing some sort of face plant before they fall into the water. I end up laughing to tears everytime I see it.

I think it would be great fun if I ever had the chance to run through the course they have on the show. I’d probably humiliate myself, but it’d still be great fun. I wonder if anyone’s actually gotten seriously hurt attempting the obstacle course on the show though… So, has anyone else ever seen this show?

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything, but this past weekend was the annual memorial day weekend retreat at Watson Homestead. It was good to get away, hear the word of God, and to be able to fellowship with others. I posted an album with some of the photos that were taken during the weekend. Below are just two that I picked out. I hope you enjoy the photos!

More Photos!