As requested, here are a couple of recent pictures of Joshua Dalton Styes. He's now 4 months old, 16 pounds, 11 ounces and 26 inches long. And bald on top with hair in the back. And toothless. But he may be the cutest toothless, bald person I know. Yeah, he is!

In the bumbo seat, fat and happy:


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Here's the text of our summer recap that I sent to the Bishop and Cabinet. As I've mentioned, Bob and I met with Bishop Willimon about a month ago and came away feeling very good about the positive tone we've been nurturing between camp and the NAC. As well, the Bishop has further opened doors for our capital campaign. This particular cabinet is ( Read more... )

A camper from this summer wrote a letter to the editor of the Huntsville Times talking about the experience. Here's the link:

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1217236536140210.xml&coll=1

High speed internet connection in the Little Brown Office. If Bob Murray says it is gonna rain for 40 days and nights, then you better buy a boat.

Summer camping season is over. Usually there is some modicum of down time before things pick back up - but not this year. I attribute this to the injection of Bob's leadership. It has been a busy few weeks since our last campers left. Sumatanga is changing and ultimately I believe it will be for the better ( Read more... )

I try not to get overtly political in my livejournal. But I'm endorsing this guy:



He fights for Texas to have more power and I think he shot a guy once. Walker, Texas Ranger is a punk next to him. I wish Richard Shelby was this awesome.

Elementary One and Junior High One. Big pronouncement: quite possibly the best total team/counselor/director effort I've ever seen. That in no way means that it was perfect. But given the challenges faced and what was accomplished by the time the kids went home - I don't know if I've ever seen a better collaborative effort to outLOVE those ( Read more... )

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Daily routine:

Over the course of the night, Josh wakes us up 2-3 times. Shannon gets up and feeds or changes him.
At 5:30-6 am, he wakes up again. I get up and take him downstairs so Mom can sleep some more. JD and I have a bottle of milk and a cup of coffee, read the Huffington Post, go through a couple of diapers and walk around together singing ( Read more... )

Two keys will now open every lock in Pool Camp except for the Infirmary and the Girl's Staff Hut. Ah, sanity!

High speed internet may be on the way  to the little brown office. I'll charge usage fees similar to that of snow cone prices.

On a sad note:
Eva Walker died this week. I don't have many details but the visitation was in Trussville. I'm not ( Read more... )