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I was out riding my bicycle with my 5 year old daughter Taryn yesterday.. Picture here..

I was super excited about this. She was very very proud of her new bike, it was also way safer than her $2 dollar garage sale bike.. So I took her to the Crestview BMX track in Topeka to go over some ramps because obviously the best thing you can do is go over ramps with a 5 year old.  Now when I was about ten years younger I used to be a BMX star (will update post soon with video...). Anyway after a few minutes I told Taryn, "hey, you know your Dad is good at this, watch me" I was started peddling around the jumps went around the berm to the large jump on the back straight away, everything is going great, and I am going fast, very fast and I hit the ramp and think, yes you can actually jump this, I get to the top of the ramp and realize I can not jump this.. and decide to manual through the jump... 

At my weight this change of direction doesn't happen as quickly as I plan and the bike takes off to the right my body still by inertia goes in its direction.. now remember this is a BMX track with like dozens of 15 year olds riding around.. I am 30... at this point the only out come is a crash.. I feel the bike going one way and me the other..  knowing I hurt my knee not too long ago bowling (complete other story).. god only knows what this is going to fell like... I lose it, and slam knee and chest first into the next jump, boom, dust goes everywhere, I stop instantly.. I feel a thought of the kids laughing at me, maybe even my wife, but the only thing I can do is, throw a fist up and say "yes", like I meant to do it..   

I honestly couldn't have felt anymore empowered, I quickly forgot about the kids, forgot about the blood on my pink shorts, the pain in my body and thought, I really went for it! 

We live a life as we get more "adult" and think chances are for crazy people and that falls hurt "really, really bad", we forget that a little falling and getting back up are what really define our personality and courage. A little adrenaline doesn't hurt either.. --Justin

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Hi, Welcome, to the first and initial blog post.  Been thinking about writing for awhile and thought it would be a fun relaxing activity.  We shall see, hopefully just friends and family will be able to catch up with me here without spamming Facebook, G+, Instagram and other items.
With all things, I like big goals, so hopefully at some point sooner than later my writings, at least some, will be featurable and ones I would be able to share farther away than just a little blog.  Anyway, Thanks for coming by, and for checking in on my first crazy short, the first of many.

--your friend Justin

"Happy Eight Year Anniversary"

"A note for my Wife"

May, 2013 at 11:29am

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“An Eight Year Anniversary”

Amazing, enlightening and calm, I believe that we can be called and given this poem by any who has spent diligent time with you and me,

Today’s your anniversary,

and we admire the good role model

your marriage provides for the rest of us:

Happiness, caring, unselfish accommodation

out of affection for one another.

You two illuminate any room

with the light of love you share.

Happy Anniversary, and many more!

Reading this I paused to think if we really hit a milestone, eight years, well its not a decade.. do I get you Bronze.... or Pottery...., do they still sell Bronze?

You know our lives together are larger than Bronze, its traditional yet empowering. As I reflect on us, my life has been forever changed by your Godly uncompromised love, you truly saw me for something I may have yet to become, but cherish me as if I have become that man.

I want to share something with you, two years from today is our Ten Year Anniversary, the day will show and shine how much we love each other even more, and not just to beat the statistics, we already did that; the average age for couples going through divorce is 30 years, the average length of marriage that ends in divorce is eight years... Crushed!, the date in 2015 is so important because I know over that last few years we have taken the time and started the process to know each other deeply, not just be busy, not just meet each others need, but the ability to look deep in each other and bring out the inspirational creative parts of ourselves.  We will fulfill the desires of our hearts, whether that be painting, dancing, writing, preaching, business, working out, even something so trivial as hugging more and relaxing more.

My life is your life, and your life is mine, eight years really put out there that in a marriage we can each drift and have our own thing; my business, my car, my prayer life, my hobbies,.. but as I thought about you and me, this marriage is shown bright by what we create together.  Have you seen our child, amazing, energetic, smart, engaging, a leader.  I see her and think, where did I lose that zeal, that power, that determination.  That little girl is a little me and sparks images of my Mother, 30 years of life’s carries can wear on a man, family death, pain, worry, unfulfilled promises, weight, lost dreams, but you don’t let me go, you hold on tight.  Our marriage is us; our prayer life, our hobbies, our business, our heart.. Together we will do amazing things, but with “mys” we will work hard in haste.

I want you to know and believe that we are a family, and we are friends, we can be together and comfort and care. I want you to feel like a Princess and then I want you to believe you are my Princess.  My heart may not be big enough to make that true everyday for you, though sometime soon I see me heart being that big and that being a real belief for you.

I love you very much, and appreciate you and thank you for being there for me; life’s a true gift, thanks for letting me in on realizing this again.   I do see, this year, what you saw in me 8 years ago and I see it for me.

“Happy Eight Year Anniversary”
( added from my Facebook account from earlier in the 2013)