This evening, in preparation for our trip to Cancun tomorrow we dropped
Abigail off in Sherman at Jessica’s cousin’s house.
We had dinner at Chili’s where Amanda (Jess’ cousin) took a cup of goldfish
crackers and gave some to Nolan, her son.
We had been sharing and so it didn’t bother us in the least for her to do
that.
On the other hand Abigail felt that those goldfish were hers and so she
grabbed the cup once Amanda had set it back down in front of her and gave
Amanda ‘The Look.’
Normally that sort of behavior would get a smack on the back of the hand and
a good verbal warning, but we were so surprised and humored by this first
‘Look’ that we just laughed.
Sometimes being a parent is hard 🙂

We’re leaving to go to Cancun tomorrow morning around 9:40 AM and we’re most
likely going to arrive at noon-thirty.
Odds are we’ll get to our hotel hungry and be ready to eat some of the food,
drink some of the drinks (which may have to be alcoholic simply to avoid
the water).
Then we’ll have some fun with our friends the Mason’s and probably crash
somewhat early just to get some rest and prepare for Saturday’s adventures.

Saturday will hold the dolphins.
Jessica and Louanne (Mason) will swim with the dolphins while Mike (Mason) and I
shoot them.
We’ll be shooting with cameras 🙂
I’m excited that Jessica will be able to do that, and I hope that she really
enjoys the opportunity.
Ever since she was a young girl Jessica has wanted to see a unicorn up close
and personal.
Since she can’t have that she’s settled for dolphins.
Dolphins are just like unicorns only instead of a large horn twisting up out
of their heads they’ve got an air hole.
And instead of four legs and a whinny they have flippers, fins and a squeak
similar to the voice of Mariah Carrey.

Sunday we’ll leave mid-afternoon and get home in the evening late enough to
drive back up to Sherman and then spend the night.
Jerry has graciously offered us a late arrival Monday morning at work so that
we could recuperate before jumping back into the code.
This is probably good since the code may suffer if we work on it while tired
(or in the case of some co-workers, hung over).

This trip is by far the most lavish Christmas party Alt-N has taken us on.
Each year they say, “Don’t expect this again next year.”
However, this is next year and we are going on a trip.
We don’t need these trips to think our jobs rock, but it is sure a nice
gesture and Arvel and Jerry have been fabulously generous.
Thanks guys!

Utterly Excited

Sunday night, about the same time we land back in Dallas our good friend
Jaime Utter is landing with some of the men from his congregation to go to
the Pre-Trib Study Group Conference.
We’re excited to see him since he and his wife and kids were our only friends
here when we moved to Texas.
We literally spent hours and hours over at their house and Jaime and Ruth
counseled Jessica and I through the tough months that it took for us to
get adjusted to life in Texas.
They then left to go help a church in California.
Then they left California to help a church in Michigan – where they’re
currently located.
We’ll miss Ruth and Jay and Lacy, but we’re glad for the chance to see Jaime.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Can-koo koo-n” Peterman