.: July 2010

Sunday, July 11, 2010

So, after a long day of being outside and playing around Corbin said, "I want to stay home forever. Mom will you stay with us at home forever?" I said yes. Then Ashlyn picked up on it and said, "But mom when we are up there with all of those people how will I be able to find you?" I couldn't quite figure out what she was talking about (how she made the jump to Heaven is beyond me :)) so I asked her to explain and she said (through tears), "Up in Heaven. There will be so many people in Heaven I won't be able to find you." I said, of course you will be able to find me! And I assured her we would find each other. Then she said with a quivering lip, "Okaaaay...but will you raise your hand up high just in case?"

Corbin is cool...

Corbin's favorite description of himself is "cool". If you try to tell him he is funny he says, "No I am not! I am cool. Just call me cool." Here he is being the cool kid that he is...

NUMBER ONE SPEECH

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi

In the Faith of Christ

Monday, July 12, 2010

Trip to Lake Farm Park

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Kayaking and Canoe class

Heaven

Corbin is cool...