I see the trend. My wife and daughter leave for distant lands and I return as the prodigal son of Xanga. AND THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING IN XANGALAND, RIGHT?!?!?! Riiiiiiight. Well Dana's family booked a ticket for her to fly home for father's day. It's a good thing. So it leaves me with quite a bit of extra time on my hands. Extra time to work, but still plenty of time on my hands. So I'm dishing out a little bit of time to say howdy ho to all my people out there. So what is new with Nate? Still working as a financial advisor w/ Edwardo Jones. The market is down, but its all good. A test of my trust in God. I just wish I always trusted him that easy. He's working on me. My wife is a hottie. She kinda makes me sick. She's basically on a snickers diet right now. Doctor says she is losing too much weight. (Were it only that all America had this problem!) She can eat too. Most times she can keep up with me. She does keep it healthy, though, for the most part. Except she has a sweet tooth like me. She exercises a little bit, but mainly breastfeeding takes care of all her calorie burning needs. Speaking of exercising...I'm doing it! And consistently. We recently gave in and got a membership at the Racine Athletic Club. I've been hitting the weights and cardio pretty much 4 times a week. Mikey Reu comes up with me when he can, but he has crazy hours at the Bucks so its not always a go for him. I've actually gained a bit of weight since starting up there, but I think that is normal with muscle mass growing. At least I hope that's it. So I always said I wouldn't be one of those dads that would be wrapped around his daughters finger, but look at this face... 
I'm in trouble already. She's a stinker like her daddy, with her momma's good looks. What else is new? We started a plant out with about 100 other people here in Racine. It's called Living Light Christian Church of Racine. We all previously attended Living Light in Kenosha. The church's vision is to not let the church get so big that people can come in to meetings and not get connected with someone. So pretty much as soon as the church starts to get over 250 people there are plans to start looking at a new plant out. The Kenosha church just did another plant out to a city south of it in Pleasant Prairie, WI. It's exciting to see the growth in the church because of what God is doing. And every time a new plant out begins it causes people to step out of their comfort zones to areas of leadership. God doesn't want us to float through life and not use our giftings. I've started leading worship at our church. It had been close to 10 years since I had last lead worship. I was rusty, but God has this amazing thing called grace. Anyways the body is growing and learning. I hope you are all doing well. Send me a message and let me know what is new with you. | 
