Monthly Archives: April 2009

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Seriously

April 29, 2009 – 7:23 am

And bravo to my husband for his first post!! How awesome are those photos!!!

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A beautiful day in the ballpark

April 24, 2009 – 9:13 pm

Howdy friends!  It’s time that the eric half of totallyjeneric writes his first post.  Yes, you are reading this correctly!  Jen gave me an excellent tutorial on how to create a post.  What a fabulous wife I have!


The sun was beaming brilliantly, the sausage and crab fries were a tasty ballpark treat, and during the entire game, the fans were struggling to catch the foul balls.  Sitting in the Diamond Club was a neat experience, despite watching our 2008 World Series Champions lose to the Brewers 6-1 on Thursday afternoon in Citizens Bank Park.  

Cole Hamels got pelted by a line drive in the fourth inning and left the game.  

The Phillies Phanatic was having a ball with all the fans.


And of course, I had to get a picture of the Flyin Hawaiian, Shane Victorino.  I should have brought some Spam musubi.


In addition to being in the middle of all the action, I had some great photo ops!


All in a day’s work, I suppose.  

Aloha,

Eric

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Revolutionary Run

April 22, 2009 – 9:12 pm

This past Sunday, we participated in a 5-mile race around Valley Forge Park.  It was fun!  The course was very hilly and challenging… apparently Olympic runners train there… but slow and steady, we made it!  Compared to the race last month, I was more mentally prepared and appropriately dressed this time around.  It was also great that the runners were lined up by pace at the start line, so we were surrounded by others of similar capability.  Though strangers, we were united by a common goal that morning and encouraged each other toward the finish line.  Pretty awesome.  There were also some funny moments, like one guy saying ”what was I thinking!?!” only half a mile into the race.  I don’t know why I look happy in some of the following pictures.  The truth is I was dead tired but kept telling myself DON’T STOP!

As we approached the finish line, Eric shouted at me “you wanna hold hands!?” I was so very exhausted at that point, that I had no energy to think and shouted back “NO!”  Haha, how terrible!!  Apparently I am very mean when I run.  Sorry, dear, I love you!

Our chip time was 1:03:16.  What a satisfying feeling to finish. :)

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Do Not Worry

April 20, 2009 – 10:28 pm

Words that calm me tonight.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

And why do you worry about clothes?  See how the lilies of the field grow.  They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:25-34 Look again.  Do you see it? It’s a double rainbow! Beauty just beyond the trees.

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Passionsaurus

April 18, 2009 – 5:47 pm

It’s been quite a week in the jen+eric household… details to come… but for now, check out this comic strip that Eric is really amused by!

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