Monday, May 30, 2011

Weekly Email

Hi Mom (and Dad and everybody else),

Happy Memorial Day!

I ran the Bolder Boulder again this morning with 56,000 of my closest friends.  They slightly modified the course this year.  I think it was a little bit harder.  But I still managed to do it in 40min25sec.  I was shooting for under 40 minutes so I wasn't that far off.  Post-race I've been pretty mellow just lying around a bit and napping :-)

Theresa, on the other hand, has been a whirl wind of activity today.  Finishing up laundry, vacuuming, cleaning, taking out trash....  I'm worn out just watching her.

She talked to her dad today - fresh back from the 100th Indy 500.  He and his brother drove out for the weekend to watch the race.  I think Chris has been going for over 50 years.  Sounds like it was an exciting finish to the race. Rookie crashed on the last lap to lose it.

We've watched a couple of Netflix movies this week.  "Love and Other Drugs" with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal - it turned out interesting in the end.  She was suffereing from parkinson's disease and he fell in love with her.  The was "Conviction" with Hillary Swank.  That was pretty interesting too.  She became a lawyer to defend her brother who was convicted of a murder he didn't commit.  He spent 18 years in prison until DNA evidence could exonerate him.

Last day of school last week.  Plenty of sleep overs and parties to celebrate.  Megan went to see Bruno Mars last night at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield with Clara (more of a birthday party).

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Another weekend, another trip to Urgent Care.  Chloe's sleepover resulted in a crash and burn into the concrete.  She made it through the night.  But it was pretty bloody and oozing plus she couldn't bend it.  So, on Saturday Theresa ran her over to wait for 2hours.  Nothing broken - just badly bruised.  And dirty, so they gave it a good cleaning to prevent infection.

We helped our friends the Brittons clean up after their fund raising garage sale on Friday.  Aaron had surgery on his shoulder (torn labrum playing pickup b-ball) so he couldn't lift to put things away.  They are adopting their second child this time - an 8yr old girl from Uganda.  Their first adopted child, Malachi, is from Ethiopia.  This is to add to the 3 biological children they already have :-)  Afterwards they all came over to our house for chicken kabobs on the grill, playing in the hot tub, jumping on the trampoline and just hanging out.  It was fun.

I played yesterday at church.  I always enjoy that.  Tom is preaching a good series called Out of the Ashes.  It's been good.  They are closing on the land we bought in Erie on the 9th of June.

I took last Friday off and with today being a holiday it's been a nice long weekend.  Back to work tomorrow.  Good thing it will be a short week :-)



 
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Jeff Sherard
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Weekly Email

Not really an update :-(. It's too late and I'm too tired :-)
We had a good weekend.
Lots of graduation parties in the neighborhood yesterday - Emma Lietz,
Darin & David Brock, Hannah Vance. We made a meal of it - it was like
a progressive dinner.
We watched Country Strong last night. Whew wee. It was good. But I was
surprised by the ending.
I had to fill in last minute on the worship team this morning. Aaron
had surgery on his shoulder and can't play guitar. The other folks he
had lined up to play bailed on him.
Chloe is studying feverishly for finals starting tomorrow. She really
needs to do well on her math final. Lots of prayer would be good!
Megan is cramming to get a last book read and some projects done.
It'll all be over on Thursday - last day od school - yeah.
Well that's it for now. Good night!
Luv u,
Jeff

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Weekly Email

Hi Mom.

Early morning update!  Trying to get a few things done before church.

We've had a pretty wet week.  Rain all day on Wednesday/Thursday, then a beautiful day on Friday, and more rain this weekend.  Pretty much cozied in for it.  Chloe had a concert to go to at school and a sleepover on Friday night and Megan had a birthday party last night.  We had dinner out at Islands Burger with Megan on Friday night and then just watched a little TV.  While Megan was out last night we had fish and chips at home with Chloe and watched Unstoppable.  That was fun - crazy train movie with Denzel Washington.

My grass is growing like crazy with all the rain and I haven't had a chance to mow it this weekend.  That will be fun to hack through with the mower once it dries out.  Doing yard work isn't my favorite thing to do.

We had a quite a few doctors visits with Megan last week.  She thought she broke her fingers on the slip and slide last Saturday - bent them all the way back.  They were really hurting her on Sunday.  So, Theresa took her to the pediatrician on Monday, took x-rays and thought maybe she had a buckle fracture.  So they wanted her to see a orthopedist - got that scheduled on Wednesday.  Lots of to'ing and fro'ing and waiting - only to find.... no fracture, just a shadow on the x-ray.  But badly sprained and bruised.  They gave her a splint and sent her on her way.

I talked to Steve last week.  Sounds like he might have good lead on this payday loans job.  More interviews next week.  I really called to get the low down on Alex's sweet-16 party.  Good report.  They had maybe 70-100 kids out at 'the shack' at Angie's place.  Volleyball, DJ, dancing, chocolate fountain, cake.  Police came out at 11pm because it was pretty loud but they were almost ready to wrap up the party so they didn't give them too much grief.  The party went form 8-11:30pm.  I think Alex and her friend did most of the planning.  So all Steve had to do was show up and lurk around the edges :-)

The hard drive on my Mac Laptop crashed so I've made a couple of trips back and forth to the Apple store.  The first time they thought they fixed it.  But it froze up again.  So, the second time they said they could fix it for $170 or I could go buy my own disk and fix it myself.  $70 later at Best Buy and day to restore it all and I'm back in business.  Good thing for good backups.  Nothing lost.

I have the photo CD from your last letter.  Do you want me to put those pictures on your computer?  huh - i'll have to think about that one - trying to transfer them remotely from here to there.  Next time just put the CD in the computer and let it sit there.  Then I can log in and copy them locally. I did send a bunch of them to the Ceiva.

Interesting article about 911.  That's exactly the situation - old and antiquated system.  But Intrado is working hard to change that.  We have new systems that enable text, video, pictures, etc.  It just takes a time and money to make it happen.

I was sad to hear of Seve Ballesteros death last weekend.  He was fun to watch back in the day.  He could get it up and down from anywhere.

Can't believe the end of school is coming up - just over two weeks to go (5/26).  Pray for little Chloe and finals.  She's doing pretty good this semester.  Math is always a little hard for her.

Calvary just bought some land out in Erie to begin building a second campus (sermon about it).  We planted a church out there 5-years ago and they have been meeting in the High School out there.  This was a good opportunity to take the next step towards our own building.  It will probably be a little while before they start building.  Trying to be good financial stewards and make sure we don't take on too much debt (if any).

That's all I know for now! 

luv u,

Jeff

Weekly Email

Hi Mom.

Early morning update!  Trying to get a few things done before church.

We've had a pretty wet week.  Rain all day on Wednesday/Thursday, then a beautiful day on Friday, and more rain this weekend.  Pretty much cozied in for it.  Chloe had a concert to go to at school and a sleepover on Friday night and Megan had a birthday party last night.  We had dinner out at Islands Burger with Megan on Friday night and then just watched a little TV.  While Megan was out last night we had fish and chips at home with Chloe and watched Unstoppable.  That was fun - crazy train movie with Denzel Washington.

My grass is growing like crazy with all the rain and I haven't had a chance to mow it this weekend.  That will be fun to hack through with the mower once it dries out.  Doing yard work isn't my favorite thing to do.

We had a quite a few doctors visits with Megan last week.  She thought she broke her fingers on the slip and slide last Saturday - bent them all the way back.  They were really hurting her on Sunday.  So, Theresa took her to the pediatrician on Monday, took x-rays and thought maybe she had a buckle fracture.  So they wanted her to see a orthopedist - got that scheduled on Wednesday.  Lots of to'ing and fro'ing and waiting - only to find.... no fracture, just a shadow on the x-ray.  But badly sprained and bruised.  They gave her a splint and sent her on her way.

I talked to Steve last week.  Sounds like he might have good lead on this payday loans job.  More interviews next week.  I really called to get the low down on Alex's sweet-16 party.  Good report.  They had maybe 70-100 kids out at 'the shack' at Angie's place.  Volleyball, DJ, dancing, chocolate fountain, cake.  Police came out at 11pm because it was pretty loud but they were almost ready to wrap up the party so they didn't give them too much grief.  The party went form 8-11:30pm.  I think Alex and her friend did most of the planning.  So all Steve had to do was show up and lurk around the edges :-)

The hard drive on my Mac Laptop crashed so I've made a couple of trips back and forth to the Apple store.  The first time they thought they fixed it.  But it froze up again.  So, the second time they said they could fix it for $170 or I could go buy my own disk and fix it myself.  $70 later at Best Buy and day to restore it all and I'm back in business.  Good thing for good backups.  Nothing lost.



I have the photo CD from your last letter.  Do you want me to put those pictures on your computer?  huh - i'll have to think about that one - trying to transfer them remotely from here to there.  Next time just put the CD in the computer and let it sit there.  Then I can log in and copy them locally. I did send a bunch of them to the Ceiva.

Interesting article about 911.  That's exactly the situation - old and antiquated system.  But Intrado is working hard to change that.  We have new systems that enable text, video, pictures, etc.  It just takes a time and money to make it happen.

I was sad to hear of Seve Ballesteros death last weekend.  He was fun to watch back in the day.  He could get it up and down from anywhere.

Can't believe the end of school is coming up - just over two weeks to go (5/26).  Pray for little Chloe and finals.  She's doing pretty good this semester.  Math is always a little hard for her.

Calvary just bought some land out in Erie to begin building a second campus (sermon about it).  We planted a church out there 5-years ago and they have been meeting in the High School out there.  This was a good opportunity to take the next step towards our own building.  It will probably be a little while before they start building.  Trying to be good financial stewards and make sure we don't take on too much debt (if any).

That's all I know for now! 

luv u,

Jeff