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Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:40:33 GMT

Ok so like I don't really know what to right about but "everyone" wants me to update so fine I will. I thought maybe for this post I would go with the retro green but that's as far as my brain could take me at this point. My brother James it sitting here next to me so I thought I would tell you a humorous story that happened yesterday involving him.

We had a good friend over yesterday along with her mother and son. Jacob (the son) is uhhhh idk like 1ish? maybe. Anyway he looked like he was getting bored on the couch playing with tractors and hiding from us with his mom so I decided I would take him outside for some real fun. Real fun I suppose would consist of riding bikes, playing in the sand and generally making a fool of ones self. This is something that I specialize in. So we headed for the great world outside of the couch and tractors, where you never really knew what would happen next. I had heard his mom comment on how they had a cozy coupe back home and so I thought perhaps we could get ours out and make the little guy feel at home. This I did and having cleaned it off quite a bit Jacob proceeded to climb in and enjoy the ride. This he did for quite a while but as I got out another bike he lost interest in the cozy coupe. I'm not really sure if it was the coolness of the bike that attracted him or the uncozyness of the coupe, either way I guess it doesn't matter really. So he got out of the coupe and started for the bike and began to ride with great umm pleasure.

No I haven't forgotten James. You see James is nine years old and is of a fairly good size. He has this great capacity to get himself into incredibly interesting situations with no way out possible. At first. The cozy coupe is empty and it looked like Jacob had fun so why can't James? He got in and I didn't really pay him any mind. That is until I heard him make a frustrated grunt. I turned to see James trying to get out of the cozy coupe. Oh it was funny, here's James, a nine year old with downsyndrome, dressed in a teeshirt, corduroy pants and muck boots stuck with no hope of getting out. I laughed then finally after a great many tries I got him out. Bless his heart. James has brought so much joy into our families lives that I don't' really know what we would do without him. Oh sure he has his moments just like anyone else but he's helped us realize that people with disabilities aren't as "dumb" as they look. Anyway I fun little story from the Bourne household.

Grandpa

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:35:35 GMT

Have you ever had someone so impacted your life that you wanted to live just like them? April 19th reminds me of one of those people that has impacted my life forever. My Harold Alexander Holt a.k.a my Grandpa. He was born in 1926 and saw alot happen in his lifetime. He worked on a farm as a young boy and joined the army when he was 18. He severed faithfully in WW2 in the Big Red1 and received many awards for bravery. He was wounded three times and spent his 19th birthday in hospital cause he had been shot. He didn't to anything heroic he would say "I just did my job." He never bragged about what he did in life he was always very humble and anything he did was because of God in his life. God gave me 22 wonderful years with this man here on earth but as I write this I realize that He will give me so many more with Grandpa after my life on earth is over. Times I have spent at my Grandparent's house have been so precious to me. You'd come down at breakfast and there they'd be and they baby you and do whatever you wanted but after breakfast was always devotion time. I didn't matter if all of us grandkids were there or if only the two of them they always had them. My Grandpa taught me so many lessons about life that I wouldn't even be able to share them all in this post. He made life so much fun while teaching us the importance of hard work and honesty. On December 7,2006 my Grandpa went home to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A race well run and fight well fought and he finished his course and left behind a life that legacy that can do nothing but point towards God. Today would have been his 82nd birthday but this year he gets to spend if with God. Isn't that awesome. Grandpa is someone in my life that has impacted me forever and I wish I had told him that more often. So I ask you again dear reader,who has effected your life forever? Why not let them know today.

Bible Clubs

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:08:24 GMT

I have to go to supper really soon but I had to post just to let you all know what's going on here in OK City.
We started Bible Clubs this week and I've had a blast doing them. The first week wasn't so fun with training but now that we've started clubs I think I'll enjoy it. Novo have a great way of training by the way and I would encourage you all to do it if you wanna work with kids. They make you think out your whole lesson plan instead of just reading it out of a book. It's really streched me alot and I'm so thankful for that.
    We have two Bible Clubs a day. They normally start around 3:00pm or so and they go for about an hour. So you do the math cause I can't. We have two different teams and so we actually do four clubs a day and a total of eighteen a week. The clubs I help with range from 6 to 16 or 17 kids. I'm a team leader for about 6 of the clubs and I get to be a helper for the other 4. There are alot of nice people here and I think we can get to be good friends.
    I've read some of your blogs and kind of knew the things that were going on at HQ and I'm gonna miss you all so much. Micah Lawerance and Jason Devine you have pretty much been some of my best friends there and I don't know what I'm gonna do without you guys around. You've both kept my on the straight and narrow several times and know how to council and encourage at the right time. May God bless both of you guys with His wisdom as you move on and may He just bless the socks right off of you guys.
    Well I think I need to go. I'll talk to you all sometime later. Don't be strangers and give me a call everyonce in a while.

Take care of your luck

Daniel

A day in the life of a Heidelberg Press

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:33:01 GMT

Oww, ahh, oh man somebody turned the lights on without my permission, that was rude. Okay so this is how almost all of my mornings start, talk about harsh. I bet most of you don't have that happen to you every day … be grateful. Things haven't been going to well with me lately as some of you may well know. My prefector has been doing some weird things, my ink zones are out of whack, my powder motor has issues and to top it all off my catwalks a mess! I mean have you looked at them recently?! Some people's kids … sure glad I'm not one of them.

So I've been having these issues as I just mentioned and they've been bugging me for a while, well ok only like 3 months but hey give me a break, I'm delicate. Today was almost an especially exciting day for me … almost. Matt, "my" pressman has been toying around with all of these problems and it's been nice to feel loved and needed for one in my life but it just hasn't been enough. So thankfully Matt decided to do what was best for me and call for some more official help. Yacob is one of the best if not the best in the land. I was delighted to see him when he came in around noon. When he came in he muttered something about the dumb guy on the press being gone but I didn't catch it all, it's probably better that way.

Yacob went right to work though. He knew right where the problems were and just how to fix them. He messed with my ink zones for few minutes and did something else but I don't really know what. He also worked on my powder motor/pressure. I was trying to tell him the problem but this tall, thin, dorky kid kept talking and Yacob couldn't hear me. Oh well. So Yacob found the problems but now I have to wait even longer as he had to order the parts. I guess the don't keep ink zone motors on hand, what kind of a print shop is this anyway? So hopfully friday is the day of my deliverance from weak powder motor pressure, bad ink zones and messy catwalks, I'll be free, free, free!!

So … now that I've calmed down a might I guess I'll go to sleep since the lights were just turned off. At least that kid isn't here to annoy me anymore. Thank the Lord. Good night all. zzzzzzzzz

This is not a post

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:49:44 GMT

Well I haven't posted in like forever and the only reason I'm doing it now is cause "everyone" is bugging me too. I don't really have enough time to write what I want to so for now I will just say "hi" :o)

Life in Pa Furnace

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:49:48 GMT

So today wasn't to adventurous but it was fun. Today is my parents 27th wedding anniversary, yeah Dad and Mom!! Anyway some of us older kids got up "early" and made them breakfast in bed. David and I were the chiefs while Abby was in charge of tea making and presentation. Mary made the bread and I think Emily just kind of sat there since it was pretty "early". Ok so it was only 7:30am but on a "vacation day" that's early. Mom and Dad said it was nice but that's what parents are supposed to say when their kids bring them breakfast in bed not because it's good.

We did some cleaning seeing as it is Friday and we normally clean on Fridays. Just as we finished cleaning, David with some friends left to go to a camp staff reunion as the rest of us prepared to enjoy life at home. Josh, Andrew, Stephen, James and I started off with playmobil's but that didn't go to far before Stephen got sucked in by uhh . . . I don't know what it was but it must have been good. James had his chimney sweep and he got a hold of a lot of the setups we had made so when Andrew, Mary and I left for our lunch out as a Phonics team the Ranch I had built and the wagons the others had made were in ruins.

Mary, Andrew and I went out for lunch because Andrew had finished the Christ Centered Cirriculum phonics books series and as Mary was his teacher and I was Mary's (when I was in school) we all had to go out for a pizza party. Pizza Hut buffet here we come. Well getting there was an adventure cause I thought I knew where it was well I did know where it was I just took a wrong turn. Anyway we got back just in time for Abby, Mary, Stephen and Emily to go ice skating with friends from church and that left Andrew, James, Josh and I to enjoy the quietness of the home.

We pretty much had a blast and maybe I'll write about it later but just so you all know those three are pretty cool in my book. The skaters got home and Mom and Dad left for a night out together so that means the kids get to be home alone!! This also means we get to have a "campout" in the living/dining room. What a treat! Well I better go and get my sleeping bag out.

Daszatra