January's flying by! That's a good thing, right? Geof and I took a completely last minute, spontaneous (yes!!) trip to Atlanta to see and hear Louis Zamperini speak. The book, "Unbroken" told his story (PLEASE READ if you have not, yet). Such an unbelievable yet inspiring story. It was a wonderful experience. He turned 96 the day before (Sat) and the whole crowd that had shown up to hear him speak (a very large church FULL), stood and sang to him. And we sat in the very front row. Our friend Taylor went, as well, and had told us about him (Louis) going to Atlanta and he had shown up two hours early to get good seats-lucky for us. Just so nice to have good friends in Richmond who agreed lasting minute to watch our kids, teach YWs for me, etc. Awesome, really. We both were so happy to have so much alone time in car and walking around Atlanta to just TALK! Geof sure can talk (it's all those podcasts he listens to, I tell you...he knows so much!). Oh, and the extra sleep was h e a v e n.

We just got back tonight from Cole's pinewood derby-and he won! Surprisingly. I mean, we really didn't do much and Geof and Cole showed little desire to even work on the car. So we had a "scouting" friend come over and help do our car plus two other boy's. Cole DID draw and cut out his design..but it took a lot of prodding from our friend to get the boys to finish. Of course, Cole was thrilled to get first place but he was so good about not rubbing it in other boys' faces-we've had, and Cole's seen too many tears in the past from those who don't do as well.

And we can't forget Dayners and June bug. They love tackling Dad during family prayer. Need I say more?

Dayne's been gifted two pair of earrings from an admirer at school (see pic). She gave me one pair because she's just that sweet. And June, upon seeing Dayne's fancy earrings, went and cut her own out, and then glued them to her ears. Funny girl. They lasted all day.