My First Birthday.... Since 25

Well this last week was one for me to reflect on how old I have become. For some I am just a young buck but as I have heard over the years I am getting old. When I turned 20 I entered the old man club as my punk Jr. High kids said, then at 25, the song that people were singing was another one bites the dust. But now that it is my 1st birthday since 25 things seem to be going a little better.

It all started at 5:30 am with breakfast in bed, which is a Verhoeff tradition.


Throughout the day I had more little special memories like my 5 year old gymnastics class all singing me happy birthday infront of all the manly male gymnasts...ahhh. That evening Anya and I had dinner with my parents and I was given the most amazing Birthday cake in the world.

A Lord of the Rings cake with Ents (talking and walking trees), Frodo, Aragorn, Elves, Orcs, and many other things on it. Truly amazing and my favoritest (I am so happy I use made up words) in the entire Universe.

I don't know if things are better on birthdays because I am now 1 or because I am married or because of amazing cakes but my 1st birthday since I was 25 was a sweet dream of a birthday.

Thats all for now, can't wait till I'm 2....

Jeremia

Feature of the Week!

Well, I sometimes think that I have a lot of friends and one of them is in "New Media" here at the University of Lethbridge. This young and SINGLE man has some talents and our feature of the week goes out to him, Mr. Brendan Coffeey (don't make the mistake of spelling his name COFFEE).

He is very special to my heart because he is presently in my small group, I have seen him in action out at camp as a counselor in 2005, gone to concerts, YQ and am in a Math class with him. Lets all get to know this fantastic guy a little better.

Brendan likes to take nice strolls in the river bottom as you can see him here walking down the tressel train bridge. He likes to wear hats that are Red, colorful shoes and dark clothing, a little mysterious I would say. I think that Brendan has also had an injury like an attack by a heard of black bears as a child that disfigured his face, becasue he always has a smile, that can't be normal.***

Where you can find Brendan on any given night.

Well on Thursday nights he works the post-supper pre-night shift at VHQ on University drive, so if you want a great recomendation on a movie he's your man. On Wednesday evenings he is a sponsor for Jr. High youth group, it takes a special man to work with Jr. Highs, and on the other evenings....well as I said this is the get to know you edittion, and that is all I know.

If you would like to know more about this outstanding batchelor just follow the link to his growing webpage where there are movies he has created and pictures he has taken and made. Well for this weeks feature it has been a joy getting to know Brendan a little better, ta ta for now, te te for later

J rad

***All things said about Brendan Coffey are true except the black bear thing, as he has no concious memory that far back and no scars on his face to prove or disprove the non-maybe-a-little-fictious claim

House is done, framing Memories

Well our house is done and as I was looking back at some of the pictures I got a little teary eyed today, the house and me had alot of good memories, black fingers and bumped heads while in the rafters. I have added some photos taken from framing. The skeleton of our house, so fun.

HalloooOOOOooOOOOOoeeennn

This Halloween was a treat for your senses and your fight or flight response at the Rads. This scary looking scarecrow is me, Jeremia. I sat lifelessly on the straw bales by my front door and when the kids or party guests came over I jumped up at them...mwa ha ha ha.... A lot of fright that night!!!

Also Anya and myself had an enjoyable time carving pumpkins not only did we carve a mask that I put on my head but we downloaded some stencils from a very funny webpage called homestarrunner (link on the side) The four pumpkins together are the King of Town on the left then The Cheat then Strong Sad and finally the guy with the boxing gloves is Strong Bad.
The Cheat is my personal favorite, a little yellow sidekick to Strong Bad that looks like a yellow piece of cheese and mumbles in very high octaves.

Well to all you ghouls and ghosts have a great year till next HalloooooOOOeen