It has been almost a month since I stopped shaving and got my mohawk. Here are two recent ones.

Hey Everyone…
I just wanted to introduce you to Cracker, our gnome. We picked him up on our way across country. So far he has been to Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia. Soon he will go with us to DC for his final stop. These are only a few pics of him. The rest can be found in the Photo section of this site. Click here to see more!

Ok, I’m not NORMALLY a fan of christian videos, but every time I see this I fight back the tears. It is a constant reminder of how much Jesus fights for me. I often forget about the battle going on behind the scenes, so I am thankful for things like this that help me remember. 

I hope you enjoy~!

Dustin

Jerry, my dad, took Whitney and I out to the desert to shoot some empty bottles with his survival 22’s. A “22″ is a gun or in this case a rifle. The neat thing about these was that they completely collapse into the stock of the rifle. The stock is the part the goes into your shoulder. 

Anyway, here are some pics of us shooting. All three of us, Jerry, Whitney and I, hit some of the bottles. 

Watch out Doc Holiday Whitney is on the loose!

ARGGGHHHH!!

Well El Paso was good, but it is time to go to our new home. Over the next 2-3 days we will be driving from El Paso to Colonial Heights, Virginia. It will be a long trip, but I believe it will be good. I’ll post when I can, but you might have to wait a couple days. Love you all!! 

This was where my splinter sat. 

Whitney and I helped build my mom a craft room. We converted my old bedroom into a large craft room with lots of shelves. As I was cutting the shelves I got a huge splinter that was the size of a log. Ok, so it was only 1/2 inch. Most of it was sticking out so I pulled it out, but the part that wasn’t remained in my hand for 3 days. As I spent today digging through my hand to pull the rest of it out I thought about our christian lives.

We often have things in our lives like this splinter. The size of our problem doesn’t have to be huge to really bother us. This splinter really bugged me even though it was so tiny. I couldn’t close my hand without it really irritating me, and sin, pride or arrogance can easily do the same thing. Many times in our lives we let a splinter cause us pain and suffering because we don’t allow true healing into our lives. We can’t get relieved of pain until we get help from God, or in my case a good set of tweezers. Even though it hurt when I dug into my skin to remove the remaining pieces of wood my hand doesn’t hurt when I close it. I can grab things and hammer nails or whatever with it because I removed the splinter.

When we allow God into the painful areas of our lives we can experience freedom like He originally intended. God’s heart for us is to be pain free because we know He can heal us. I have to learn that when I get another splinter to immediately pull out the tweezers and start digging. I believe that God is always willing to reach out and remove the painful things in our lives, BUT we must humble ourselves and let Him.

Till next time.

Dustin

While hanging out at the Grand Canyon Whitney and I went shopping. We went in to get something to drink and that was when we found a plethora of Grand Canyon merchandise. We found these especially cool racoon hats. Ok, so they aren’t that cool, but they were fun to put on. Enjoy!