Very interesting

Hollybird came across this today and showed it to me. Really interesting...make sure and hit the "NOW" button. Some pretty sad numbers...

This is weird

Go here for some...ummmm...dog weirdness. Got this from Marko's blog.

Powerball players?

Okay, the other day I'm out with my buddy Jon hitting the links in 105 degree temperature. We got on the subject of the lottery and we asked each other...what would you do with the money? How would it change how you do life? Hmmmmm....

Before I tell you my thoughts...how about you? The powerball lottery is like 300 MILLION dollars. If you won the powerball...how would you spend it? Be honest! I'll tell you my thoughts in a few days. Let me hear from you!

Rainy Tuesday...

I love a good rainy day every now and then...I'm an outdoor kind of a guy, but I really love a day when all it does is rain. Not real sure why...just do! (However! I hope it will not rain on Friday...thinking about playing some golf that day!)

Random Thoughts from my brain...

I've figured it out...any time the title of my blog reads "random thoughts" that means that I've been lazy in the blogging world and it's just a cool way to to catch up! Just a thought.



Much has taken place in the Prosser household in the past week...
-Bryan started school on Wednesday. My boy is in the SEVENTH GRADE...dang, that ain't right. But I'm so proud of him. This year before school began he negotiated with us on a new bed time. We agreed only if he gets up each school morning without being a bear.

-Things at FBC have been a little crazy...good but crazy. Our pastor had more back surgery a few weeks ago, so I've been prechin' the past three weeks. I'll be wrapping up a series I've been doing this coming Sunday. On top of that we are still without a youth minister interim...so I'm playing that role as well as my new position. We've got a youth minister search team together and they have been meeting for several weeks now...we've received lots of résumés’ and we hope to have someone on board by the end of the year.

-Mom is selling her house! This past weekend Bryan and I drove up to the Ville to help spruce the home up a bit before her first open house yesterday. Mom and my sister (and her family) are building a house together...that will put mom a little closer to us and will allow her to downsize a little bit. It's a good move for her!

-FOOTBALL season is almost here! I'm not sure why, but it seems like the past several years I have thoroughly enjoyed the football season (especially college). I've always been a fan...but I'm really stoked about the season. I'm already going to the EKU / UK game and then to the UL / UK game. That means I'll be in Commonwealth stadium like twice in one month...yuck! But hey it's football.

-Today I’ve got a doctors appointment…seems the past month I’ve had a real bad stomach problem. Not real sure what’s up…guess I’ll find out today.

Love is in the air

Last Tuesday, August 7th marked are 14th year of marriage...what a great anniversary we had. It's hard to believe that it's been 14 years...the time has flown and all the while I've found myself more in love with Holly than day one. I love our marriage! I love Holly! It's an amazing thing to be in love...I mean she's my best friend and companion for life.

To celebrate (censored version)...last Thursday we went up to Florence to the Wildwood Inn for the night. Slept in on Friday, went to Starbucks for coffee...saw the Bourne Ultimatum (good movie)...and then for dinner we went to The Melting Pot in Cincy. Hmmmm good food!! Check out the web site here.

A great week of celebrating...here's to 14 more years Bird! Love ya!

sorry?

One of the "rules" in blogging that I've seen over and over is not to apologize for not blogging...well I'm breaking the rules.

It's been extremely busy since we've been home from vacation...

The BEST part of today is the fact that 14 years ago Holly and I said "I do" to one another. I am CRAZY in love with my wife...we are getting away Thursday night for a couple of days and I can't wait.

I'll blog more later...

A few pics from vacation

Dang, what a busy week...our children's ministry at our church had VBS this week and I was a recreation leader. It was like organized chaos! But a great week with a bunch of kids.

Two weeks ago we were in California for some vacation...what a week we had. Really loved being out in that neck of the woods, but would NOT want to live there...I guess I'm pretty much accustomed to the simpler life here in Richmond, KY.

You name it...we did it. Disneyland, Disney California, Hunnington Beach (surf city!), Venice Beach (WEIRD!), Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Sea World (San Diego), and Universal Studios in Hollywood. One night we went to the Medieval Times which was really a lot of fun. It was eating food with your hands while you cheered on different horses and their riders while they dueled, jousted, etc. Funny stuff!

We all had our favorite parts of the trip...it was so much different than going to the beach and being a lazy slug the whole week. I just really enjoyed being with my family. My favorite place we went to was Universal Studios in Hollywood. They just had a really cool set up throughout the whole park.

When we returned home Holly and I both went through the "home from vacation funk." The thought of getting back into "normal" life was tough to transition to. Glad to be home...

Coming Soon!

Got some great pics and stories about our Cali vacation...promise to get a few post out, but this week at our church we are involved in VBS (masses of kids!!!) So maybe over the weekend I'll work on this!

California Bound

Won't be blogging much until we return...we are up in da Ville tonight at my sister's house. Tomorrow we'll be California bound! See ya when we get back!

Officially on VACATION

Today marks the first day of a two week vacation...I've never taken this many days off at one time, but I am totally stoked and think I'll be able to manage it.

What's on the agenda today?
-Teeing off at 9:52am...got a new swing as of last Thursday, we'll see how it pans out
-Home Run Derby tonight at 8pm...got a buddy coming over to watch.
-Hanging out with my family, maybe some guitar hero with Bryan

Tomorrow?
-Getting packed up for California
-Driving up to da Ville to stay with my mom, who is going with us!

Wednesday?
-Fly out at 12:15pm-ish...I love hanging out in airports, always have, always will

The 4th of July

Having a "holiday" mid-week has really thrown my sense of time off just a bit. Wednesday felt like a Friday...then yesterday really felt like a Saturday and today (Saturday) feels like a...Saturday?? Anyhow...it's been nice to have some days off, even mid week.

Me and the fam went up to Cincy to watch the Red legs play the San Fran Giants...I was really hoping to get a chance to watch Barry Bonds yank one out of the park. He didn't even play that day...said he had sore legs.

It was a good game...we had decent seats as you can see. The new ballpark really doesn't have a bad seat in the place. It was a combo of sunny/overcast throughout the day. Hollybird got ROASTED by the sun...

About the 8th inning you could see some rain clouds rolling in...Then all of a sudden, WHOOSH!!! I hadn't seen it rain that hard in a long time and to come on so quickly. We stuck around during the rain delay, but ended up leaving before play started back...the Reds lost...again! According to the scoreboard the "highlight" of the game was the Reds grounds crew trying to get the rain tarp on the field before it got really flooded...it was a hoot to watch. Pretty sad for your team when that was the highlight of the game!

I've been a Reds fan all my life and will continue to be one...good times and the bad. He at least they've won a recent World Series (1990) unlike the Chicago Cubs (1908!) That's for you Geron!

I crumbled and gave in

A few post ago; I was telling you of a goal that I had set out for myself. For years now I've been a diet-coke-aholic...I can easily admit it. So my goal was to go three weeks with no pop...first week came and went (not without its challenges and serious cravings for pop, also some HUGE headaches as well!) The second week was good until Friday night.

We decided to go to The Pub in Lexington for some grub...they have a great fish & chips there. I succumbed to the temptation and had 2 glasses of Diet Coke with a lime...and dang, if it wasn't the best Diet Coke with lime that I'd ever had.

So the goal wasn't quite met...since Friday I've had a few other diet cokes (just during dinner)...I'm even drinking some Kool-aid right now. At least this time I went longer than four hours!

Walmart & Waffle House

Thursday night Bryan and I had an impromptu “Dad and Lad” night. Since Bryan’s surgery and recovery he has had LOTS of cards sent his way…in one of them he scored a Wal-Mart gift card that was already burning a hole in his pocket even before he put it there.

So we went to Wal-Mart Thursday night around 8pm…as always it seemed like EVERYBODY was at Wal-Mart that night…I bet we saw 15 people from the church, so we spent some time talking and chatting with folks.

Bryan shopped for a new CD and got an MXPX disc, which is really good! After that we went over to Hastings to browse around…I found a DVD that I’d been looking for. It’s U2’s Vertigo Tour live from Chicago…good stuff…I think they played like four really old songs from back in the day (for U2 fans I’m talking from Boy and October!).

We then started to head home when Bryan suggested some Waffle House. I’m thinking “Waffle House??? Hmmmmm…yea why not, lets make a waffle house memory.” So we pulled in, gobble up some breakfast grub, laughed and made some memories. Even took a few pics of the night.

I love spending time with Bryan…

Randomness

*Bryan is getting better each and every day. He's still pretty sore and needs a little assistance getting up and laying down. He's tough as can be! I'm so proud of my son...its been a pretty painful past few days for him when we have to change the "dressing" on his wound (two times a day!). He just sucks it up and goes with it. I can't wait until he's fully recovered from all of this.

*Went and saw Evan Almighty last night with the fam. Although critics really hammered it...I thought it was good. LOTS of great teachable clips that could be used!!

*On Monday I purchased a new game for the Xbox-360. Of course I got it for Bryan...hmmm, sure I did...anyhoo, we got Guitar Hero Two. Crazy game...all of us were playing it together last night trying to out do each other. Bryan seems to be a bit of a natural. The coolest song we have so far is "Sweet Child of Mine." I'll have to get some pics of us playing...Holly-bird can rock the house!

*Vacation is drawing near. I don't think I've ever looked forward to getting away on vacation as much as this one. It's been a really different/difficult year for us as a family...lots of challenges to say the least. I'll have to post about the past year sometime soon to give you some perspective. Soooo...we are taking off to sunny California here in a few weeks to go see the sights. Disneyland, Universal Studios, Hollywood, Sea World, maybe a baseball game...it's just going to be us three and my mom this year. I'm really enjoying looking forward to getting away...does that make sense?

Trying to kick a HUGE habit

For years I've been a diet-pop-oholic. I love the taste of an ice cold diet pop, I prefer diet Pepsi or diet Mt. Dew. But when I say I'm a diet-pop-oholic...I'm talking some days downing like TWO 2-liters a day.

So as of last Sunday I decided to try and kick the habit...at least try and really cut back. I tried this once with a former yute, Jessie Russell. I think she was a senior in high school and we had a bet to see who could go the longest with no soft drinks. Well, I lasted like four hours because my head was pounding from caffeine withdrawal. Oww! Jessie went like a year with no pop...my hero.

As of today, Monday, June 25th I have gone seven days with no diet-pop or for that matter any kind of carbonated drink. Yep, the caffeine headaches have tried to creep up on me, so I've been downing a cup of coffee to help ease the pain.

I'm not saying I'll never drink a diet pop again...my goal is to go at least two more weeks before we go on vacation. I've been drinking lots of water and lots of juices in the mean time...and they taste great.

Hold me accountable these next few weeks...even the thought of a nice icy cold diet Mt. Dew sounds refreshing.

God Tube

Came across this today while surfing around...it's the alternative to YouTube.com. It’s called GodTube. You can go here to check it out. Pretty interesting stuff…I watched a handful of videos. Check it out, let me know what you think.

we're home!

Thanks to those who prayed for our son Bryan...his surgery went very well. We ended up spending two nights at UK (dang they have a incredible staff of docs and nurses). We got home this morning and Bryan is resting comfortably as a type.

We pray this is the last of the surgeries...docs seem to think it will be. He'll be out of action for a little while. These next few weeks he'll spend recouping...just in time for some family vacating! Thanks again for your prayers...our God is an awesome God.

A prayer request

Tomorrow our son Bryan will be having surgery. Almost a year ago he had tube placed in his side to help out things involving the colon. If you have followed my blog you will know that over the past year, it's been a real adventure to say the least...he's had several surgeries all related to this tube.

But tomorrow the tube is coming out...along with his appendix. So we would really covet your prayers for our son tomorrow and the days to come. Bryan is an INCREDIBLE, TOUGH AS NAILS, RESILIENT boy. He’s gone through all of this with an extraordinary spirit…something that I would have really struggled with! BP rocks the house!

Ichthus Recap...

Great weekend at Ichthus. Nice and warm, but hey there was no rain or snow or hurricanes or tornados!

Heard some great bands throughout the weekend...Here are some of my favorites: Skillet, Chris Tomlin, Reliant K, Newsboys, Toby Mac, Phil Keaggy (yup, I said Phil Keaggy...one of the old school guys who can still out play any guitar player there!).

I even went over to the deep end stage...this is where they would have your harder sounding bands...I mean really hard. Now some of them I must say were EXTREMLEY talented with the instruments, but the singing part...I just didn't get. I can't even call it singing...it was the monstrous, barking like a dog / throaty, thrashing sound that just made me go hmmmmm... I don't get it. I know I sound old in saying that, but I just don't get it.

The surprise band for me and the one that I thought had the best stage presence was Hawk Nelson. These fellas were rocking the house...great punky sound, heavy guitars; fun lyrics...even went and bought their disc.

Another surprise for me was the fact that my lovely wife Holly went with us on Saturday. Just know this...Holly is NOT a big concert go-er, let alone a music festival go-er. But she came along and we had a blast together. We both enjoyed dancing around to Toby Mac and crew. So that was plus having my bride with me!

Another plus, was hanging out with my good old buddy Robert (Robo) Coffey and his daughter Taylor. Robo and I go waaayyyy back to the college days. Since then we've been in each others weddings, been there for one another when our children were born...just a great bud.

So another Ichthus down...would love to go back next year, maybe even take Holly for two days!