Daniel’s Pilgrimage

We are finishing up our Thanksgiving trip to Narrows this afternoon. We came down Thursday in time to have a 3pm meal with the family. We’ve spent some time with Alicia’s mom and grandmother and also time with Fawn, Roger and the kids at their new apartment. They moved in earlier this week and are getting settled in well. I love those kids, but it’s overwhelming when all three of them are around and awake at the same time. It gave me a new appreciation for all parents of young children. It’s also good birth control.

We will be heading out of here shortly and stopping by Roanoke to have dinner with our friends Alisha and Casey and Alisha’s dad Barry. Hopefully the traffic from the VT vs UVA(go VT! Yay!) game will be cleared out before we come through town Charlottesville.

I realize I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been kind of crazy busy with stuff. Hang in there faithful readers, I’ll get back on track.

Alicia and I went up to DC Friday night for a going away party for our friend Aoife. She will be heading back to Ireland a week from today. I’m glad we could be there for at least a little bit of the party. We’ll miss you Aoife!

After the party we headed up to spend the rest of the weekend with my family. It was a nice visit. We got to spend a decent amount of time with my parents and Mike and Sarah. Always a good time. I made a visit to Horizon Church of Owings Mills on Sunday morning. It was good to see some people I haven’t seen in a while. Now it’s back to work and a week with a lot of stuff planned.

We just got back to Richmond from a weekend with my family up in Maryland. We enjoyed time in the hot tub, by the pool and in the wonderful garden of a backyard that my parents have. We enjoyed the company, good food and some beers/wine/margaritas. I love my family and it is just very peaceful and relaxing up there so that makes for an enjoyable weekend away.

Mike’s girlfriend Sarah was around for most of the weekend, which was very cool. The 3 couples(my parents, Mike and Sarah and us) get along very well and we all had a good time. Looking forward to more family time like that in the future.

We also got to spend time with our good friend Scott on Saturday which is always a pleasure. I even made an appearance at Horizon Owings Mills on Sunday morning. That was a church I was a part of at it’s beginnings and which we went to when we first got married. It was good to see them doing well and to see some long lost friends.

Now we are back in Richmond gearing up for a shortened, but busy, week.

We are in Blacksburg for graduation. The university has their ceremony tonight and then the Engineering College has theirs tomorrow. This weekend was supposed to be a huge celebration. It’s amazing what a fews minutes on a Monday morning can change. Our time here is sure to have it’s ups and downs. We’ll be celebrating Jarrett’s academic accomplishments and mourning how much we miss him. Please keep us in your prayers this weekend.

I’ll be up in western Maryland for the next few days at a church/pastors conference type thing hosted by Brian McLaren and Chris Backert. I’ll write about the experience when I get back.