Happy Birthday Carla!

Happy Birthday Carla! Wishing you a wonderful day. We love you and look forward to celebrating you!

Harding University

Colton is going to be a transfer student to Harding University in the fall. His plans are to be an elementary teacher. J.D.'s family and Nancy went 3/18-20 for Colton to meet with his advisor and finalize things. Nancy graduated in May 1982 and hadn't been back since 1988. We had a wonderful time. Chapel was especially poignant as it was a memorial to Jim Bill McInteer. Dr. Burks and Dr. Ganus both spoke.

Given the sports crazies in our family we had to check out Rhodes Field House where the Bison Basketball team plays. Colton plans on being a Rhodes Rowdy next year!

What a blessing to have a group of kids from Maryland Heights at Harding this year. Colton will be rooming with tim Landuyt (black shirt). Tim was a transfer student this semester.

I lived in Cathcart 231 my freshman year. Carla and I made a trip inside to find my "old" room! Funny when I was a 17 year old freshman that dorm looked a whole lot bigger!

Posing in a Harding swing!

Colton, we are proud of the decision you have made to attend Harding!

On the way home we got on Business 67 and went through Walnut Ridge. We were looking for the bbq place that Dad and Uncle Mike loved! Lori and Nancy used to bring home bbq from their for them. It is still there and looks about the same inside and out. Nancy brought home bbq for Dad!

While much has changed on campus much remains the same as I remembered. So excited for Colton to have the Harding experience.

Working at Camp

Colton and Kyle went to Camp Ne-O-Tez today with Grandpa. They worked on doing some cleaning out in the kitchen and started working on caretaker home. They uncovered windows (plastic off) and removed lots of staples.

Kyle with the new stove!

Steve Jones and Daryl Simmons worked so hard on the road. For more pics check out the Camp Ne-O-Tez blog.

Thanks to all of you for a day of hard work!

ARCH Madness

We headed to the Missouri Valley Conference Basketball tourney the last couple of days. Friday night JD, Kyle, Eric and Nancy were at two games. Saturday we swapped JD for Colton and saw a couple more games. We are always there early!

Matthew is a huge Bradley fan - they lost today :( If Bradley had won Matt and Rod were going to come for the championship game on Sunday.

They had a great package where you got 4 tickets, soda and popcorn - thanks for being fan and family friendly. This was the 20th year for Arch Madness.

The fans at a college game are amazing. This guy kept us all entertained - his team lost but he had a good time.

My Mom made me . . .

Lori was going to download some pics from her camera Sunday afternoon and she told Matthew let's take a few pictures of you . . .here are a few on their back deck. Lori, Matthew and Barney
Rod and Matthew

Lori and Matthew