Category: Dan Gould

Well I thought Missouri weather was crazy! In the last five days Texas weather has been in the high 70 low 80, to Snow last night, to mid 50’s today. Here is a picture of the snow that was here for most of the morning!

Our Friends gave us a set of Bunk Beds tonight!! They even gave us a night stand also!!! Josiah is so excited and Stephanie and I are so grateful and appreciative. They look brand new even though they say they are 10 years old. Right now I am laying on the bottom so Josiah (3) will be brave enough to sleep on the top bunk. He is so excited and scared at the same time. We’ll see how he does! Pray that he makes it through the night . . . it means we will somewhat have our room back! SWEET!

Last night was our 1st Guys Night. Josiah (3) and I blew up an air mattress, watched a movie, ate puppy chow, and slept in the office/gameroom. Heres a pic from this morning!

It was exciting for me just to share in his excitement. It doesn’t matter what we do it just the simple fact that we do it together. This will be something he remembers for ever. Creating Memories together is so important and something we need to be mindful of. Can’t wait till Jackson can join us!!!

Air mattress – Donated by Pa Pa
Movie Rental – $3.50
Memories – Priceless

We spent the first part of our week at Grandma’s house. While there, my sister and her 5 kids, and my Aunt joined us for a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. Here are some pics after the meal!!Jackson, Tanner, and Gavin! They are only 5 days apart!
This is what 7 grandkids will do to ya!

We spent the day with some very good friends and great youth workers from Warrensburg. Jim and Belinda thanks for hanging out with us, we had so much fun and enjoyed the conversation. We spent the day at a train/Indian exhibit, fun but we expected artifacts not art. Joe still had fun he loves trains and doesn’t see many in Texas. From there we went to Bass Pro. We looked at turtles, fish, and then more turtles. Here are some pics from the day!

Jim and Bebe, thanks so much for your friendship! We have fond memories of serving with great people like you! God’s not done yet!!

The family and I arrived in Missouri for a week with family and Friends. Here are some pics from the trip up here.

Josiah only slept 1 hour out of the 10 hour trip!
Jackson travels very well.

We got a great package yesterday from Nana and Papa. Inside was these two hit sticks, great fun for the two of us.

Have you ever tried to do something and then your wife calls to tell you all the things you forgot? Yeah, that was our morning. As I am driving my son to school this morning I thought we had everything covered and didn’t even have to worry about waking up mom. Was I ever wrong! Half way to school she calls to let me know I forgot a snack, he was supposed to wear his school shirt, and he didn’t have a drink for lunch. Sooo, needless to say we had to turn around and go back home. As I took him in to school 15 minutes late, I heard him tell his teacher, “My dad was running late!” He is three, we didn’t rehearse excuses on the way to school, he came up with this on his own. What do you say to that?

Last weekend we went to a FREE Pumpkin Patch. It was huge!!! Face painting, bounce houses, hay rides and a so called train ride! Our family had fun together and enjoyed spending the time with our friends!

My son and I played baseball this morning. We were practicing his swing. Keep in mind he is only 3 so he is doing really well. But after about 10 minutes, he was asking for the bubbles. That either says something about my coaching skilz or his attention span.

Mom’s bring a football home for later. We will see how that goes!