Things that Make Me Mad

Hehe, ask me sometime about a funny story that starts with that line. :)
But in the meantime, an unfunny story:
There's been lots of drama at our church and consequently my job lately. Our executive council finally asked the pastor to resign and he did, but not happily. For "us" on the inside, we've seen it coming for a long time but apparently a large number of the congregation did not (need to get more involved in your church people!). So I've been getting phone messages that say how certain people are "shocked and grieved." Whatever.Delete. Answering machines are great in my line of work. They feel that the pastor must have been wronged and therefore they have been also because they haven't had a good explanation. They're right about that last part, there has not been a good explanation that has gone out, but it's largely because the explanation really doesn't look good on the pastor...I'm still not sure what the council is going to do about that, but back to the part that makes me mad. Two days ago one of those who feel "shocked and grieved" got a hold of the mass e-mail list that we use to send out prayer requests to the entire church (reason #1 to use blind copy) and proceeded to send out an "URGENT MESSAGE" to the church (yes she used caps lock several times) to say how this was all so wrong and "we" need to get the pastor back and all the stuff he's done for "our church," etc. Ok, so she has an opinion, that's fine. But she does not have all the facts. And she also does not have the right to use the Prayer Chain list for airing her personal opinion particularly because she does not even know how to change the subject line so this lovely epistle went out bearing the subject "Re: Praise Chain for LeRoy C." Poor LeRoy, he did not want his name attached to that. And finally, all of this "our church" junk? The regular attenders do not even know who this lady is, nobody's ever seen her in "our church." I happen to know her name because she's scheduled to be married here in a few months, but I don't know her face. I really want to erase her wedding from the calendar out of spite. :P

New Pictures

For some reason I kept forgetting to get the pictures from this last month off my camera. So, here are some updates finally.

If you look closely you can see him saying "Mama, get me off!" But apparently he warmed up to it because he still talks about that train ride with great fondness.


Wiki stick glasses.



Some pictures from my mom's wedding for any interested parties:




Loving the splash park. Even if it did only last 10 minutes before his diaper literally fell off.


4th of July with his good buddy, Wesley.



This is Parker and his first official trip to the Iowa State Campus. He was a fan of the water fountain.