The view from Budapest

Snow . . . It’s beautiful and still has a magical quality to it, and nowthat I’m in my second year of living in a place where it is a regularoccurrence I’m figuring out the pattern. I love it for a while and thenthe bloom comes off the rose and it isn’t as beautiful.

The [...]

You have probably heard that tomorrow President George Bush is meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, Slovakia. It seems like an obscure, out of the way place for a summit, but the cool thing is that I’m going to be in Bratislava tomorrow as well. Slovakia is the country just to the [...]

For once in a long time, the Aggie’s have a decent basketball team. Up until this year, we hadn’t won a Big 12 game in a long time. This year, we almost beat Kansas, we beat Texas, and we are the only Big 12 team to have a single point deficit against Oklahoma [...]

It might be something like sleep walking. I’m up at 4:30 am with my youngest daughter who can’t/won’t sleep. Been up for an hour or two. Ah! the joys of parenting. Thankfully, it is snowing like crazy outside. Maybe we will have a snow day and I can’t get a [...]

I was checking out the cool online encyclopedia, Wikipedia today with my good friend Jerry on our trip to Bratislava today. I searched on the phrase, “Tom & Jerry” just to see what would happen. You’ll have to check the whole thing out by checking the link, but I did find out that [...]

On Saturday, the kids and I finally had the chance to go sledding. We had a pretty good snow on Saturday morning and so we headed out into the woods to give it a shot. After a few crashes into the trees, they had some pretty good runs.

Here’s a video of [...]

Here in Budapest, our family attends Danube International Church. We have really enjoyed it and have especially loved the teaching of our pastor Ronnie Stevens. He is one of the best pastors that Valerie & I have ever heard and it is amazing that we get to listen to him each week. [...]

I had to take the “Nerd Test” to see how I compared with my friends.

Jerry – Hasn’t take the test, but is definately higher than me Grant – 8Rob – 17

Evangelical Blog Award WinnersCheck out my brother-in-law, Grant! He won the award for the best Youth Pastor blog!! Way to go, bro!

FOXNews.com – U.S. & World – Hungarian PM Sorry for Saudi Terrorists Quip. I wish I knew how to say “put your foot in your mouth” in Hungarian. I’m sure they have a similar expression that doesn’t use “foot” or “mouth.”

The Hungarian Prime Minister called some Saudi soccer players “terrorists.” [...]