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About Me

I spent my high school years as one of those kids that was always in trouble, but my teachers loved my pretty smile and confident demeanor. After college, I met my wife on the Internet and then we spent 6 months hiking the Appalachian Trail for our honeymoon. Rachel and I have 3 awesome kids, and love being parents. When I'm not playing with my family, I swim, cycle, and run a lot. I also work @NewSpring Church helping equip staff to do their jobs.

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I haven't been posting content here in a long time. I moved my blog or notes there of over to Tumblr. 

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NewSpring Taker

So our Church did something different recently and I got to play a small role in telling people about it. Thanks to Adam Kring for inviting me to be a part of this video and thanks NewSpring for letting me work with such an amazing and talented group people! 

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How do you thank an amazing designer?

Joshua Blankenship is complicatedly talented. Thanks to him I have a designer pair of Toms. 

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Say hello to my new friends! #mellowmushroom #triathlon

Many thanks to Terry Phillis who is giving me a chance to ride for Mellow! I love all the sponsers including Ben and Jerry's, Lindsay, northeast Alabama Bicycle Club, Dole, & Nalinini!

If your interested in learning more about Mellow Mushroom Racing go to http://mellowracing.com and don't forget to stay mellow!

Now off to work :)

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Rachel's homemade Granola Recipe

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First if all, let me tell I love this stuff!! Here is Rachel's recipe, hope you enjoy.

1. Mix 1 large canister of Old Fashioned Oats, almounds, unsweetened coconut, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds. Depending on how much you want to spend and whether we want a real nutty batch we just throw tons of these things in the mixing pot.
Sometimes if Rachel is going to use bannana chips she will add walnuts durring this step.

2. So take all these things and take equal parts of Olive Oil, melted natural Peanut butter, maple syrup, and honey.

3. Mix the wet part with the dry part so that everything you have is naturally coated.

4. Pre heat the oven 325. Rachel takes a big roasting pan and fills the pan about a quarter inch deep with everything. You could use a baking dish but just make sure that you don't put to much granola in the pan.

So place your Pan filled with goodness in the oven for 20 minutes. Stir the mix every 5 minutes. Doing this will help your batch not get to sticky.

5. Once you think its toasty enough, take it out of the oven. This is when Rachel fills the pan with raisins, dats, dried berries, cranberrys, and bannana chips... but really any kind of dried fruit will do.

There... I hope this helps! You can't go wrong eating this. Its filled with good protien, carbs, and it's freakin delish!

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New Series on Esther

NewSpring is starting a new series this Sunday on Esther. I am so looking forward to what happens in the next three weeks. I have heard so much about this passage in the Bible from my wife Rachel. It is one of her favorites! 


It's going to be EPIC... and you should join us. You can check it out LIVE this Sunday at either 9:15am, 11:15am, 4:00pm, 6:00pm at http://www.newspring.cc/live/

Oh yea, Ken Wilson is pretty much the jam.... Check out the the promo he did for last Sunday! 

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