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Sep

My wife’s blog…

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Well, I have been hit or miss blogging; but I am so excited that my wife Jennifer is hitting the ground running in the blogger world. She just launched a site recently. Many, including myself, had been encouraging her to take the plunge. She is so creative, and beautiful, and smart, and fun. You would think I was in love with the gal. Right you are!

I am looking forward to seeing what she posts about her life, special projects, family, and the general journey. Take a moment to drop by Jennifer’s Blog at the link below. Perhaps it will motivate me to be more consistent in posting!

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Jun

Celebrating 17th Anniversary

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Jennifer and I took a quick trip up I-35 to Kansas City, MO to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary. It was a great, relaxing trip filled with some pretty cool shopping and sight-seeing with my bride. Here are some highlights:

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Jul

Family Vacation

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Last week our family returned from a fun, quick trip to Ouray, Colorado. The “million dollar highway” was a thrill to drive, and the views were postcard spectacular. It is a cool little town with a neat hot-spring pool, plus a hiking trail on the perimeter of town that is stunning. We broke up our trip on the way with a stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where you can’t beat a night at El Pinto, and Old Town Albuquerque.

The trip was refreshing for me, and I am reminded of the simplicity of Jesus’ action to often go away to the hillside to pray. Time with family, priceless. I thank God for our fun, laughs, swimming, hiking, pit-stops, movies; it was a ball. The re-charge is invaluable.

I am still having a blast learning how to use our camera, a Sony a300, so after taking a ton of pictures and weeding through the keepers, I discovered a problem. No big deal, just the images still needed some tweaks with exposure, clarity, crop, etc. I discovered an open source photo editor, Picnik, and it rocks! It is as fast as lightning both in uploads, downloads, and in editing itself. Check out these pics and also Picnik.

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Jun

Sweet 16 with Jennifer

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I am blessed. Period.

God granted me His incredible favor 16 years ago today with Jennifer, my wife, companion, helpmate, and soul-mate. Life for me is so full and rich sharing it with her. It is hard to imagine the capacity to love more, but somehow, through the years love becomes deeper, richer, and more fantastically complex. So now I am learning that 16 years from now, we will experience love in even greater ways!

My take-away from 16 years: be a servant. Marriage is not about what’s in it for you. Marriage is about giving, serving, sharing, encouraging, sacrificing.

Jennifer, I love you with all of my heart. I am so thankful for what we have shared, and what we will share in the future. You love the Lord. You are so beautiful. You are an incredible mom. You make my life so full.

Thank you Lord.

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May

Upward Soccer 2010

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Another sports season has come and gone in the Griffin home. Way to go Emily on a great great season of hard work. Our team, the Cheetahs (not cheaters!) had a ball together and everyone worked so hard to have a fun time at games and practices.

Kudos to all the leaders who make Upward at our church a success! Check out the sports ministry at 146recreation.com. And if you’d like a confirmation on the power, fun, and encouragement that Upward Sports is to a family, take it from me as a parent and as a coach, it’s a blast.

As a minister this gives a great opportunity to connect with families in the community, and to be able to share clearly about our hope in Jesus Christ. As leader development, an experience like coaching 8 energetic 1st graders can also help refine clarity in communication, teamwork, patience, getting back up after bumps and bruises, and the like!

Thanks Emily and Cheetahs for an awesome season!