Jordan started out stronger than usual, which was good. His first mile was in six minutes, his second in 6:20 and then he hit the wall a little in the heat. He ended up finishing in 24th place in a time of 19 minutes 52 seconds.
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at someone in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.”
“Worry is a special form of fear. The traditional distinction is that fear is caused by an external source while worry or anxiety is produced from the inside. Yet they produce the same physical responses. Worry is fear that has unpacked its bags and signed a long-term lease. Worry never moves out of its own accord—it has to be evicted.” - John Ortberg
If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat
p. 123
You can't really tell from these pictures, because the front door is open, but the door is painted white with windows on each side trimmed in cream or tan . . .
You can't really tell from the photos above but Jeannette also changed a lot of the landscaping around the house. She put in some rose bushes, tore out a lot of plants and replanted others.
He ordered crab legs and salmon . . .
Someone was quite excited about her brother's birthday . . .
Last night I gave Jordan a note that I wrote, which said in part:
Then I thought about Jordan and Phillip and realized that there are many things they do better than I and many subjects about which they know more than I do. And, no, we're not just talking about games at the arcade or on the Wii.
flipped the switch. Time for a trip to the mechanic (i.e., time to actually find a mechanic here in Fort Wayne). No. Jordan wanted to see if he could fix it for us. He took the door apart. He fiddled with the switches and wires. He went and bought a voltometer to test the wiring. He bought a motor at Napa Auto Parts and tried to install it. Now this story doesn't end in triumph . . . when all was said and done, he couldn't fix it and we still have to find a mechanic (and try to get our money back on that motor!) but the point is that he actually had a clue about how to work on the car, 
something I couldn't have done at 18 or 48. Heck, I tried to take Melody's temperature with that voltometer!
how to play the radio. Well, actually, I can play the radio but I don't think I can play an iPod.
Phillip's the one we ask when there are computer problems to be addressed. When I got my new cell phone a few weeks ago, he told me how to set up the quick dial settings. When our DVD burner came in the mail, he figured out how it worked. Whenever our wireless network goes down, he's the one we yell for . . . or at.
Jordan helped install our new wood floor in the kitchen. He got our friend Eric's chainsaw working and chopped up the branches from our trees into little pieces of firewood. And there's no doubt that Jordan climbs trees better than I do.
Found this in the camera tonight . . . apparently Melody fell asleep in her closet a few days ago and one of the boys snapped a photo.
We drove into town on August 1st and the boys spent the night on the floor in our new house. On August 2nd, the moving truck showed up and unloaded all of our stuff. It's been a good year, though not without some setbacks now and then. To celebrate the milestone, we all went out to Zesto's for ice cream this evening . . . and then Jordan spent the rest of the evening taking apart the driver's door on our Durango to see if he could make it so that the window will roll up. He assures me he can put it back together again.
