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Aug 18 2004

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Well, in only 50 minutes I will be halfway to 50 :) That’s scary. Ok, so my 25th birthday is tomorrow, I’ll be ok, I mean I’ve been losing my hair for a while so it’s no shocker, and I have a beautiful young wife so that helps a lot. And I’m still 5’9″ 145 so I’d say I’m doing pretty good. I do have a few things I wish to accomplish of course. Children is a big one, I’m going to college so that one is in progress, My own house would be nice, and a real full time job, no offence to Steen Auto. I’m just glad I decided to do things Gods way while I’m young and not waste time trying to do it the worlds way. Tonight a guy by the name of John Nightingale came to our church and quoted James and 1 John from memory. Not only was it amazing, but if you’ve ever read either, you know they are convicting books of the Bible. I hope I hear from all my friends on my birthday!!!

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

Aug 18 2004

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Wow, so much is happening right now. Biggest thing, I sold my Avalanche. Now I just have to find another car to buy. Harder than I thought, and I’m even a dealer. I’m looking for an All Wheel Drive, 2001-02 Dodge Caravan. I have found a few but not many dealers are willing to deal. They must be doing as bad as we are. They all want full price for them. Prolly ’cause the snow is coming. Anyway, we got what we wanted for our truck and now we are looking for a van. College is over for the summer but fall starts real soon. Brooke got As in both her classes and I got an A and a B+. My birthday is tomorrow so don’t you all forget!! Bye

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Jul 22 2004

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Kewl! My wife is so smart. Thank you Brooke for writing for me. It shows you how busy I am lately. You can also probably tell by the website. I need to spend some “quality time” with it. Brooke is making french toast this morning and I’m getting ready for school. I think we are going to a graphic design “place” to day for my class. I can’t remember the name but the guy does some sweet work. Well I’m done eating my french toast and it was excellent as usual. I have to go now. I’m going to try to keep this updated again. I’m so busy and it never works :(

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

Jul 14 2004

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Hey look what I found out how to do!!! Hi everyone….I’m Brooke (Doug’s wife). I don’t think my husband has written in a while, he has been really busy with school, work and church stuff. So, I thought I would write for him! Well, we just got back from spending the week-end at my dad’s house in Minnesota. Brain, Andrea and Mattathias went with us. (that is Doug’s cousin, his wife and their one year old son) Anyway, we left on Friday around 2:00pm or so. On Saturday we went tubing and canoeing down the Cannon River. It was really fun we had a group of about 20 of us. I tubed, but Doug, Andria, Brian and Mattathias canoed. I must say the water was slightly chilly. But overall the day turned out to be perfect for going down the river. Another answered prayer!! Then later that night we went to Doug’s dad’s house and road four-wheelers. It was really fun, they had a great trail. I love sitting on the back of a four-wheeler and hanging on while my husband gets us up and down hills and through rivers. I just get to sit there and enjoy nature and all that God created…until it gets really scary (like through the river and then up a really steep, muddy hill) then I just hang on and pray. After that we went to fireworks in Mazeppa. They were awesome for such a small town, they were better than the ones we saw in Iowa! Well, we headed back to Iowa Sunday afternoon after going to church. The church we go to in Iowa has about 700 people, the church we went to in Minnesota had about 25 people. It was a lot different, but it was a great church. The pastor is the father of Doug’s friend from high school (Katie). Anyway, it was a good change from our big church and the pastor had a great message and preached the Truth. Praise the Lord for even His small churchs who are spreading the good news about salvation and who are learning about God and His Word in a Biblical and accurate way. Besides that it’s just another week of school and work for both of us. Though in five days (or six depending on how you count) we will have our one year anniversary…..how exciting!!! I love you hunny and I can’t believe it has been a year. I think that we will be going to the Omaha Zoo and then probably eating dinner, we have to eat the top of our cake!! Well, I’m sure Doug will write and let you know what we did!!

ps. Doug, thank you for being a wonderful husband so far and I know that you will continue to be the wonderful husband that God has made you. I pray that you will continue to be a Godly influence and leader in our household.

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

Jul 9 2004

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Man… My website is messed up again… My boycott france link is gone… wonder what I did with it. Well, we’re heading to Minnesota today. We’re planning on going tubing but it’s rained all night and this morning. My cousin Brian and his family are going with us. We’re going to leave around 5:00PM. I have so many things to do and no time to do them. I’m going crazy! And since I’m leaving this weekend I am missing a bunch of stuff at church. I’m kinda worried about the sound room too ’cause the guys that were supposed to do it forgot they were this weekend and were planning on going camping… so they kinda weren’t prepared. I tried to show them as much as I could wednesday night at practice. I can’t wait until someday I’m full time at a church somewhere and my job and school won’t get in the way. Ok, I need to get ready to go to work. I might write more later or during this weekend.

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

Jul 5 2004

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Ok, my blog has not been working for like 2 days.. First it posted like 20 of the same post and then it won’t let me in all the time… Weird. So… I just got out of the shower and it’s NOON!! It’s like my only day off ever! I need to work on my video editing… but we have Mattathias’s birthday today too. So Brooke is making us some freedom toast(HA), and then we’re going grocery shopping if anything is open. I’m going to go now so I can look up how to make french toast… BYE BYE

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

Jul 3 2004

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I can’t believe it, I missed a whole entire month of Blogging! I’m going crazy, actually I’m just so busy that I have no time, my laptop has fried, now I got it back.. I started school. And all kinds of other stuff… I’ll write more later, I’m headed to bed after a night of fireworks in Altoona. Goodnight!

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

May 22 2004

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Wow, 6 tornados last night, and more expected tonight. I’m going to bring my camera just in case. We are now driving the Avalanche again. I figured I’m loosing money on it anyways so driving it ang putting miles on it won’t hurt much. Besides, now it has full coverage and we are driving what we are paying for. I start school in one week. Not nervous yet… but I gotta get signed up for classes still. We’re looking for a new job for me so Gpa can sell the business and I can go to school. It’s a long story but I’ll let you know how it goes. We are headed to Brian and Andreas so I will write more there maybe. There’s lots more to update you on…

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

May 17 2004

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Well, you may be seeing more blogs and more of me writing on the forum in the next few days. I had to take my new laptop in to get repaired. Basically I think I shorted it out from static. Not sure though. I was hooking up a projector to my VGA port and my computer just shutdown. When you turn it on only the power and fans come on. No screen. No hard drive light. So, they hooked up my hard drive to their system and they can access it. So tomorrow I’m bringing in my one day old external hard drive to copy all the info on if they format my drive. They have to send it straight to Toshiba and it will take 7-14 days. I’m really bummed. I’m just going to have to video tape services with tapes… and have a lot of catching up to do once I get the laptop back. The biggest thing is the church directory is on my laptop. And… I have to figure out how to get it finished using my home PC… Good thing I have a EMachine!!! Ok, that’s enough for now. I’m going to bed… rough day.

By Douglas • Uncategorized • 0

May 17 2004

Day Four

Not much happened today. I waited all day to get my wheels and then they didn’t fit. They are for a front wheel drive and my car is rear wheel drive… WONT WORK! And now they are supposedly sending me Lincoln continental wheels, WHICH IS ALSO REAR WHEEL DRIVE. Who knows… I just want my old fury back :( It drove so nice. I hope I can get it back to the way it was. Well, now I wait for tires. I’ll update you tomorrow and see what I get!

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