From man to legend

This is a picture diary of the transformation from... beard to Burgandy....

From beard...

to Goatee...

to foo man...

to stash...

to freakin attractive...

i would write more on this but i think the picture explains it all... from normal ugly guy to a man who looks real good. 2 quick stories about this picture...

1. This picture is the first picture Evonne saw of me before i moved out to California... for some reason she still wanted to date me months later...

i was confused as well... i mean i didn't look this good when we finally met... i am surprised she fell for a man with out such a manly stash...


2. i lost a costume contest to some good friends at the Curragh... mine was complete with a jazz flute and a rock glass filled with Scotch... (watered down cola)... it was a fun night...

thats all....

Saturday Class??

Oh man... so apparently it is Saturday Night right now... i cannot really tell however because i got out of class about 10 hours ago! yeah here at Western Seminary we like to go to class on Friday Night and Saturday morning. So tomorrow i have to work at church and pretty much every other day is taken up... so no Sabbath for this guy. Now granted i don't want to complain cause in the grand scheme of things... life is pretty darn good!! I got a loving wife and a home to sleep... so yeah can't complain. i will share what this class consists of though...

Our class is Missional Church... which sounds awesome and quite frankly it probably could be a really cool class.... here are a couple of problems....

1. Well the obvious issue is that the class meets on the weekend... um yah don't need to go into that... who wants to go to class on Friday night 2-7:00 pm and Saturday 8-12:30 pm!!

2. This eight plus hours of class in two days consists mostly of lectures!!! Are you kidding me?!? i don't think Will Farrel could keep my attention for eight hours... and believe me i think the man is freakin hilarious!

3. We keep arguing about pointless details... (this however does keep it interesting which i am pretty sure why people bring it up...)

4. Today the last hour was a lecture on our prof's political foreign policy... i mean come on... i don't need to hear about my prof's political opinions when i am forced to be there... a little weird.

5. There is so much prep work for each class... discussion posts... then response posts to each member in our group... then a summary of what we learned... this all said amounts to about 1600 words... so what is that 7 pages or so?? oh and 1000 or so pages of reading???

6. What is there nothing practical/pragmatic?? Couldn't we go out and be missional or something... paint a house or something...

Well at least we got the following... some good things

1. We got pizza on Friday... that was great!!

2. Our prof is a pretty nice guy

3. There is internet access...

4. Jesus is Awesome!

i guess that is all for now!s

JB is fat

Have you ever looked at a picture of yourself and thought... Wow, ew, really??

Well as you can see from this picture, that is hopefully on the right, i took one heck of a crappy pic. As you can see a couple of things went wrong in this picture.

1. Well i have gained some weight since graduating high school as the scrawny little kid i was... 160 - 170 in college, 170-185 in Chino, and now i am tipping the scale a bit over 190!! this is the first thing that has gone wrong in this picture...

2. I got a classic slouch going on as i sit in this boat... and it looks as if my stomach is huge... which well it isn't small... and then it seems that miraculously my back is sticking outward as well... this is a weird unnatural occurrence... looks like super kidney is making himself known.

3. My heck is turned just right to make it look like my chin is connected to my chest via the shortest distance. translated a line which makes my neck look fat.... eek...

4. I got those sunglasses on, the thumbs up, and that weird dumb butt smirk on my face... what's that?! Barrett you should be giving a thumbs down with a big frown....


Anyways also in the picture is Heidi and Kyle who are pretty sweet!!! and we had a great weekend... so i can't complain ... life is good....

Ok this blogging is fun... :)

So i do body work now...

Haha... so today i decided to fix my rust spots on my 4 Runner... and boom it worked. i got some aluminum tape and covered my rust spots... then i found a glossy rust stopper called rustolium... and it worked... color was close and the hole are now covered... hey and it already survived a rain storm... ok that was not exciting... i will find something better later!!!

JB

I have begun a blog...

Not that anyone cares except for you... (at least you care a little) because you are reading this right now... but i made a blog... do i know what i will write about? NO. Do i have any great ideas for this page? Not really. Will i write on it? I suppose... Anyways greetings to you all!!

Hey here is my story at this time... in a short couple sentences...
1. Married to the most wonderful woman in the whole world (Evonne)... just over a year!!
2. Attending Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI (FACT)
3. Working this summer on their summer work crew!!
4. I have the greatest family in the world... I love my parents, my two brothers and extended family because they are awesome!! And i have the most bestest in laws as well!! They are sweet!!
5. I have made some life long friends who have also been so awesome... can't thank them enough... You guys know who you are... but that is my shout out to you all because you have influenced my life more than i tell you or have thanked you for... so Thanks for memories and helping me through life!!! That thanks goes out to my family and wonder wife as well!!!



Also i recognize that i used terms like the best in the whole wide world in my blog just there... please don't be a jerk and start talking about how that is not true or whatever cause... well this is my blog... and it is not meant to be a term used to say your significant people in your life are not awesome... it is just how i say i love the people in my life... most people get that and yet some don't... :) haha... anyways peace grace and love to you all!! more to come hopefully!