DFW Trip - Part 3

As promised, here's the final piece about my trip to DFW - the Money Map Coaches' Meeting which was a real treat! I was able to be with just under 100 fellow coaches! I also had the privaledge of leading the Coaching Panel. Here's my panel praying before hand with Tim Ballog (Area Director for Fort Worth and a good friend). My panel was Julia Sizemore, Jim Johnson, and Reid.


Introducing my panel...


Here we are answering questions. We even had some fun with "What do you do with distractions during a coaching session such as a cell phone?" by having Julia answer her cell phone during that question. And, yes, we set her up. Tim, the Area Director, called her on that question!


Here I am with Doyle and Charlsey Greenlee who are in my department.


It was great to meet Bill Caldwell, one of our Online Coaches.


And Joan Neshem, also an Online Coach, and her husband Stan as well as a friend Dave.


After the meeting, we ate lunch at Hard Eight BBQ which is not only famous in the DFW area but DELICIOUS! I had BBQ Beef and loved it.


Brad Jack coordinated the meeting and treated us to lunch. It was great to get to spend some time with him once again.


The time in DFW was wonderful. :) Now, I'll have to tell about the Georgia Trip and my Birthday...then we'll be caught up on the highlights.

DFW Trip - Part 2

My trip to DFW was truly the trip of a lifetime. I made so many WONDERFUL memories there...I'll definitely be going back at some point. But I'm home to stay for a while...enough traveling for this travel bug...until my Israel trip in November. :)

Julia had the neatest aquarium...

On Friday, we went down to the Fort Worth Stockyards for lunch and some shopping. I was able to get a few souvenirs to take home and some great pictures. The old timey train was really neat.


There were real cowboys there too! This one stopped and smiled when he realized I was taking pictures.

Here's Lindsey, Kristen, and I by the train.


We had lunch at Riscky's BBQ. I had a BBQ Beef Sandwich with fries. Charlie got jalapeno poppers (deep fried with a cheese filling) and Julia and I both got into them! Yes, this is from the girl who does NOT eat hot stuff!


On our way to the airport, we drove by and stopped at the Mustangs of Las Colinas which was really neat. Due to the location of the fountains, it looks like they were running through the water and actually kicking it up.

One last picture with my "extended family"...I truly feel like Charlie and Julia are family now!


It was a super special trip to Texas. And yes, I got a lot of work done...I just told all about the fun on here! I'll do one more post about the Money Map Coach Meeting that was held while I was in DFW.

DFW Trip - Part 1

Just 10 Days after returning home from Oklahoma, I flew out to Dallas Fort Forth for a few days for Crown related travel. I had the privilege of staying with Charlie and Julia Sizemore, friends of mine and Crown volunteers. They truly treated me like a princess. By the end, they were adopted family!

Here's my room and welcome basket...


Julia and I stopped at the Gaylord Hotel which was huge! It's a large tourist attraction in the DFW area.

I met with Professor Presslor who has the largest Stewardship Museum (even larger than the Library of Congress's collection on stewardship). Here we are in the museum.


The middle bank (round looking can) was the oldest bank in the museum dating from the 1500s.

Here is Larry Burkett's Giving Bank and an old version from the 1800s.


While I was in DFW, I had the privilege of being interview by Chuck Bentley on MoneyLife and sharing about Money Map Coaching. That program can be heard at http://www.crown.org/media/relatedcontent/080310.aspx.

I was also interviewed by Michael Moore on 1220 Hot Pepper for the DFW area on his radio program, Pastor's Corner.


Here I am with Michael after the interview.


And there's even more to come. One more post about my trip to DFW and more pictures coming soon!

Halleh kicks up her heels...

Daddy's had some fun cow "adventures" this week. Halleh (Hebrew for Praise) is our miniature Jersey heifer (girl). She can be quite full of mischief and fun as you can see by the picture below of her in the washtab with Max watching. She's saying "Daddy, can I please have some more hay?" Plus she managed to escape this week... Daddy had been cleaning out the barn and left the lowest strand of the electric fence unhooked due to going in and out with the pickup truck. Well, as he was driving the truck back up to the barn, the calves decided to race the truck. He was going about 10mph and the cows were going 15mph, so they won! Plus Halleh decided not to stop at the fence and ducked under. Daddy had fun (not!) chasing her and getting her back in. Thankfully, they are both okay, and she is safe and sound.

Yesterday was a good day at work. I began the day with a call to Switzerland as our team is working with the Switzerland team to begin Online Coaching in Europe. What an exciting opportunity! :) Then in the late afternoon, a good friend, Julia, and I got a Photoshop lesson from her daughter! That was a great learning experience and Kristen was a very good teacher.

I made about a dozen goals for 2010 and have been faithfully working on them each week. One of them is to blog 3 times a week. Another key one is to have a quiet time each day with the Lord. I've been faithfully doing that for about the past 5 or 6 years, and I know that is a huge part of living a life pleasing to the Lord. How about you? Any goals for 2010? As Eddie so wisely put together, the statistics say "Only 3% of people are successful and only 3% of people make goals, so therefore the 3% of successful people are those who make goals."