Kolbies 8th birthday

Kolbie wanted to go to Kanpai Tokyo for his 8th birthday back in April. No party just family time. Gotta love that. He is mastering the chop sticks.

A LITTLE SAFER

If you follow the news in the US you will have noticed that our little town here in South Carolina had better week. The guy who has been committing the murders around here was found. Unfortunately he was killed. We would have liked to know why he picked out little town. Either way it is over but it does make everyone a little more aware of the craziness in the world. We just thought we were somehow immune to it around here. WE WERE WRONG.

ASKING FOR PRAYERS

We live in a small town. Nothing much really ever happens but this week there have been 4 murders and we are a little on edge. The have deteremined that it is a serial killer on the loose. The most recent murder was a local business owner. His 15 year old daughter was with him and was also shot but is in critical condition at a local hospital. The suspect is still on the loose. Please be praying for our community. We need this person found. Paranoia has set in. It is leading to sleepless nights and caution in a little town were we have felt safe.

So we finally did it!!!!

As some of you may know we took a little time off from racing to get our few remaining debts gone so all we would have would be the house. Well we are coming right along with that but we also had to get another vehicle. This was a part of the plan also. We finally did this week. We found a really good deal on a used Lexus IS300. Bruce has considered this his car and he will be driving it. I have finally gotten my Camry back after 5 years and really glad for that. The little car I was driving got me to where I needed to go but wasn't the best in the world. He had no radio and the air worked but would suck the life out the car when you used it. Needless to say after Bruce driving the Camry on the highway everyday for 5 years and us doing some traveling to races in it, it needs a little work done but it is finally back in my hands.

As for our debt payoff we are doing good with that and Bruce has been actually doing a couple of races/rides around here. We did however get hit with having to buy a bicycle because the team he was on decided they wanted theirs back now instead of at the end of the season. That is okay though. He will have his own now and not have to worry about it so much. It only set us back a month on what we had scheduled for the payoff plan so it wasn't too bad. We are now looking forward to the next thing to be paid off and our trip to Florida for Thanksgiving. No worrying about who is bringing what to Thanksgiving dinner. Sandy Beaches here we come.