Update on Jeff

Hey there.  

Just wanted to give you an update about Jeff.  He and Edith returned from nearly a week in Boston.  The final test results are due back Wednesday of this week.  If the cancer has been contained in his right lung, the plan is to return to Boston within two weeks, remove the lung immediately and begin aggressive chemo treatment.

He is very upbeat and hopeful.  The doc seems to indicate that Jeff will have a "long" summer (of chemo treatments) but a full life ahead.

Please pray for Jeff and Edith.

Love to you all,

Dad

Leaving town for the summer.

So I just found out this morning that I'll be going down to Mandeville, LA for the summer to work for Harcon. Its about 45 minutes from downtown Norleans and I'll be leaving a few days after finals are over May 1st. When offered this opportunity, I was a little hesitant because I've never been down there, much less anywhere else besides atlanta to work or for an extended amount of time, but I figured it'd be a neat opportunity. This kinda puts an axe on my last post about doing a triathlon May 9th, but I'll still take my bike down there.

It also kind of worked out nice since our lease for our current rental house ends at the end of April, so I won't have to rent another pad in town. Harcon is paying for all my housing and gas expenses while I'm down there - which should be nice.

Update from Senior Prom!

Hello all.

     My Senior Prom was Friday night, and it was an experience to never forget. I asked one of my best friends, Amanda Main, and we were set on having a great night. Dad even let me drive the 1937 Ford Street Rod to the dance, which was at the Crown Plaza Ravinia off Ashford-Dunwoody. It started good enough, with me being a tad late for pictures at a friend's house over in Duluth. After pictures, I surprised her by pulling the Rod around, and we set off for the dance. After driving through 30 minutes of traffic, we saw our exit sign, and got into the far right lane. That's where things got weird. The Rod started making burping noises, as my date put it, and we freaked out. Then a green fluid started to spurt out out of the radiator just as the entire front side of the car was engulfed in white smoke. So we pulled over, on I-285 in Friday afternoon Rush Hour traffic, and apart from the waves and honks we received from onlookers creeping by on the Interstate, we had practically half of Providence's population smirking at us as they arrived on time for the Senior Walk. Luckily, Amanda's older brother was on the way to the Dance, so he picked us up and brought us, a few minutes late, to the  Senior Walk. The Dance was great, and I'm sad to have no more Providence dances to look forward to ever again!

Surprisingly, you know how Joe was supposed to be the first one to drive the Rod to the dance, well then when he graduated, and Liz wanted to drive it to Sadie Hawkins? Then it got sent back to Wyo-Tech, and Liz never got it for a dance...well I actually tried driving it to Homecoming earlier this year, but it broke down on the way to my date's house. Haha so this year it breaks yet again, and maybe Emma will be the lucky Crist to drive the "great" car to a dance and impress her friends.

Pics from the Final Four last weekend

Point of inquiry from Colorado: Did Elias just use the word 'altruistic'? I dont even know what that means...please explain.

I'm a Wramblin' Wreck from GT!

Hey family! Things are crazy here at the Crist House. We just got back from the best Spring Break ever in Rosemary Beach, Florida! I'm pretty sure I'll have a vacation house there when I grow up. My news is that I've decided on going to Georgia Tech in the fall! It was a hard decision (Tech vs. Erskine), but I'm confident I've made the right choice. I've found a roommate and we'll be rooming on East Campus, near Bobby Dodd and the good dining halls!

Around last year's election, I started getting very interested in politics and the future of America. Very altruistic of me, I know. haha. But seriously. I had grown up listening to Sean Hannity in the car with Dad, and that left a big impact on me. In Senior English, we read 1984, which warns of the inevitable disaster of giving the government too much power, and the monster that it can become. And what do you know? I'm hooked. I love reading books of conservative political thinkers like Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, Levin, and I want to fight for the conservative movement in America. I want to fight for the nuclear family. I want to fight for the unborn. I want to fight for Christianity. And I want to fight for Reagonomics.

That being said, I'll most likely go into International Affairs or Public Policy. (Tech's excuse for a political science major). This will be interesting, because Tech is the most liberal college in the Southeast.

Well that's it for me! I'll keep everyone updated on more Senior Year news as it happens!

Brace Face

Hey family! I put off posting for awhile now because i didn't want to go through all the trouble of making a google account. It really wasn't that time-consuming though..So here I am! Let's see..New things going on in my life:

1.) Elias and I had a bonfire/manhunt joint birthday party for our 16th and 18th birthday. It was a ton of fun. We had about 60 total people at our house.

2.) My birthday was tuesday the seventeenth and that saturday I went to get my driver's license! I have been informed that for every other child in the family, dad has taken them himself to the DMV. But since dad was out of town that weekend, mom had to take me. She vows never to go again. Long story short, it was a nightmare. First of all, they couldn't find our name on the appointment list. So after an hour of finding out that we did indeed have one, we stood in another line and was told we couldn't write the 40-hour driving log in pencil. A teary-eyed mother re-wrote the whole thing in red pen (the only pen in her purse). So we stood in line for another 45 minutes only to find out you can't write in red! So finally, after 3 hours, I was able to take my test. I passed with an 89 and was/am very excited! Though half the family has never experienced my driving, i seem to be notorious for being an awful driver and i am somewhat confused. Yes, i ran into the garage door in my FIRST SIX MONTHS of driving. So can we all just laugh and move on?? Even dad said I was a good driver recently and I think i deserve some respect....

3.) I got braces.......................For some reason, our entire family has to wait until we are at least almost out of high school before getting "banded". This I don't understand...My friends are encouraging to me, however, Elias has made some insensitive comments. At dinner one night, "Hey Emma! Why don't you take a big bite of that burger and then smile for us???"...I will have them for a year.

4.) I got asked to prom!! If Elias were to have his way, I wouldn't be going. But fortunately this guy he actually "approves" of.  His name is Mookie Demoss. Most of you have probably already heard of him..But I am very very very excited! Prom is the Friday we get back from spring break (that's the 17th). 

So, I hope this informed ya'll of a few things that are going on in my life. I'll be a Junior very soon! Can't wait! 

Love to everyone,

~Emma

  

Update on Joseph

Hey everyone... sorry I've been MIA in this blog, but the first time I got the email about the site I thought it was some spam mail. Anyways, life is going good downtown, I still have one more semester to finish before I graduate in december. Hopefully there will be more jobs available etc when I get out. That being said though, the company I am currently working for (Harcon Concrete) has told me that I will have a job when I graduate, so I'll just have to see if that is the best fit for me.

I am also training for a 1/2 ironman traithlon these days. It is kind of tough though because I don't have a whole lot of free time. I work about 4 hours everyday for Harcon, and then 3 nights a week I still do valet parking, plus my 18 hours of Gatech. I am pretty sure I'll be ready for the race though, which is May 9 up in North Ga. I'm not really planning on being super competitive in it, but just trying to finish it cause it wil prob be the hardest thing I've ever done physically. I got a new road bike earlier this year to help me be a little faster on that portion of the race. Don't worry though, i'm not going to shave my legs and arms or anything, haha. But if anyone is in town and wants to come watch, it might be pretty fun. Its a really nice scenic place too - just about 30 minutes past the waterfall where we went to during t-giving.