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Hey Dad,
We’ve got ourselves a winner for the ‘no-more-goofy-t-shirts-for dad” contest. Out of the 50 t-shirt ideas and designs, Brent Welborn’s design embodies the tough, don’t mess with my family attitude that I was looking for. A special mention (and a FREE shirt) goes to Jeremy Hamilton who proposed the initial idea.

Now, you get to benefit from Brent’s design talents and get your very own “Leader of the Pack” very cool dad T. We’re even offering this T in big sizes for Big Dads.

Q: Should I have a baby after 35?
A: No, 35 children is more than enough.

Q: I’m two months pregnant now. When will my baby move?
A: With any luck, right after he finishes college.

Where I live, we get to enjoy a lengthy holiday season, decorated houses and yards colorfully lit up at night, the sending and receiving of Christmas cards, fantastic Christ-focused music playing in the stores, delicious food with family and friends, and extended downtime from work to spend with our family.

Andy Williams’ song indeed says it best… “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”

But there’s something else I like that is unique to December…

Merry Christmas from the Wilson house!! Instead of the usual rundown on each child, I’ve decided to give you a little glimpse of our home right now. In fact, if you were a little mouse, this is what you would see:

This is the time of year when we think back to the very first Christmas, when the Three Wise Men went to see the baby Jesus and, according to the Book of Matthew, “presented unto Him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.”

These are simple words, but if we analyze them carefully, we discover an important, yet often overlooked, theological fact
there is no mention of wrapping paper.

Dads,

We all know how the economy is going nowadays, and probably most of us, if not all, are concerned about the near future, our jobs, and praying hard about it.

Yesterday at church I saw a good buddy of mine, and he was not looking good. So I took him aside and asked him what was going on ( we are accountability partners, and we often go straight to the point, no “how are you ?” between us )

He told me that at his workplace “pink slips” were flying all around him, personnel reduction was the “word of the month”, and he was very worried about his job. He works in IT and was studying madly to get a *very* hard IT certification to make his position harder to get rid of. I understood, since I share his same concern, and I am in the ‘same boat’ so to speak.

Last year's Familyman Big Buck Contest was so successful, we decided to host it again...and this time we have great prizes. That's right the winnner of the 2008 Big Buck Contest will recieve this very cool knife made possible by the generousity of Buck Knives.

As promised, these are a few pictures of a wreck I had in 1992...and "the Purple Ribbon."

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Ok, so here’s a (short) story.

Several years ago, when my older 2 kids were only 3 or 4 or so, they heard the tinkle of a truck playing music as it slowly drove by the park we lived next to. As most curious kids would, they asked what that music was.

My wife and I looked at each other and hesitated. Do we dare? Then she blurted out “Oh, that’s the music truck!”