Jump5fan's Blog

**jump5fan** · 07-11-2008, 08:41 AM

i went riding yesterday evening. i rode for a little more then a hour and a half and went around 17 miles. i have been riding the mountain bike a lot more then my road bike lately, partly because the mountain bike is more forgiving then the road bike. i finished stripping the paint off of my mountian bike frame and i sanded and primed it, now all i have to do is decide what color to paint it. i checked the fedex website and the radeator should be dilivered sometime today. monday is the start of VBS!!!! well got to go but i will post more pics of the honda.

**jump5fan** · 07-14-2008, 05:49 AM

i beat my record, rode 22 miles friday in a little more then two hours! VBS starts today and i am finly excited. i wasn't really all that excited up till now for some reason. i am still a little nervus because this is the first day and we have to get everything together and find out what we are doing. we drove the honda to church and stuff yesterday which was cool. one of the coolest things about this car is that the fuel gauge neadle hardly moves at all! i love this car. it is a lot of fun to drive. we are going to have to bleed the brakes sometime soon though. installed the new dadeator on saterday and we changed the transmission fiuld. it still seamto be shifting a little rough or something but other than that it is a nice car, it would also be nice if it had a little more power but it's ok. i will be helping with the outside games during VBS and my brother will be taking pictures. well got to go, later!

jthomas1600 · 07-16-2008, 07:43 PM

Hope VBS is going well. How many kids do you have coming? Our VBS was about a month ago-- I got home right as it was ending.

**jump5fan** · 07-17-2008, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jthomas1600

Hope VBS is going well. How many kids do you have coming? Our VBS was about a month ago-- I got home right as it was ending.

VBS is going great! i'm not sure how many kids we have coming but last year we had around 400 kids and we might have that many this year too.

**jump5fan** · 07-22-2008, 08:52 AM

boy it was hot the last couple of days. vbs was great! they had 461 or so kids and 200 something people who helped out. around 100 kids ether exspted Christ or redeticated their live which is so cool!1 i took around 1200 pictures. a lot more has been going on too but i am going to have to post more later. bye!

jthomas1600 · 07-23-2008, 10:36 AM

I'm glad to hear VBS was such a success. Does your church have a follow up plan where the parents of the kids that made decisions for Christ will be visited and invited to Church? VBS is always a good oppertunity to get new families to church.

**jump5fan** · 07-24-2008, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by jthomas1600

I'm glad to hear VBS was such a success. Does your church have a follow up plan where the parents of the kids that made decisions for Christ will be visited and invited to Church? VBS is always a good oppertunity to get new families to church.

you know what, i'm not sure, they might.

**jump5fan** · 07-24-2008, 08:22 AM

well yesterday was kind of slow. it rained off and on all day so we stayed inside. we got about a inch and a half in rain. i am learning to play the flute which is fun. i was having a lot of trouble just figuring out how to blow and stuff but then i got it a couple times and in the space of a hour i went from not even being able to blow into the flute right to being able to pick up the flute and blow and i get a sound. i can't play anything yet but i am going to work on it. well got to go, catch y'all later!

**jump5fan** · 07-30-2008, 06:30 AM

well yesterday was kind of slow. i worked on my road bike for a little while and then did stuff around the house. i mowed the yard the other day. i downloaded all of the pictures and videos from my camera the other day which took a while. my brother and i are going to be taking our drivers tests near the end of august so that is cool, well i guess the is all for now, bye!

**jump5fan** · 08-05-2008, 07:04 AM

yesterday was interesting. my brother and i practised parellel parking for a little bit and after it got dark i got to telescope out so i could try recording the ISS since it was going to be going overhead. i never ended up seeing the station which was a little disapointing but i am going to try again sometime soon. i got my mountian bike back to gether the other day. the chain is really short becasue it was from a different bike. right now it is a single-speed mountain bike that only has front brakesand no reflectors. i rebuilt the rear wheel and i switched the steel rim with a aluminum rim, the problem is that the rear wheel wobbles really bad so i need to fix that. it is a ten-speed bike but i am thinking about trying to add more gears (mainly lower gears). my brother and i watched the movie dragon wars on tv the other night but i only saw a little bit of it but it looked interesting. well got to go, see ya'll later!

**jump5fan** · 08-10-2008, 08:28 AM

for some reason it seams to be getting harder to update this this. we watched the opening ceramony for the olimpcs which was one of the coolest things i think i have ever seen. i am excited because this is the first year that they are doing BMX as a olympic sport. i am going to try BMX sometime. i first need to figer out what would be a good bike to buy. i worked on cleaning the conversion van engine yesterday which took longer then i thought it would. well i guess that is all for now.

jthomas1600 · 08-11-2008, 08:39 AM

If you haven't been into BMX before and don't know the riders check out Dave Mira--he's my favorite of all time. He's a great rider, but he is also a clean cut all - American - never in trouble - good role model kind of guy. He does some sick tricks to though. He doesn't appear to be on the team which doesn't surprise me as he has been around for a while--he's probably in his 30s. My oldest boy had a Haro when he was younger--they're a good bike, also Redline, GT,.. just check on line.

**jump5fan** · 08-11-2008, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by jthomas1600

If you haven't been into BMX before and don't know the riders check out Dave Mira--he's my favorite of all time. He's a great rider, but he is also a clean cut all - American - never in trouble - good role model kind of guy. He does some sick tricks to though. He doesn't appear to be on the team which doesn't surprise me as he has been around for a while--he's probably in his 30s. My oldest boy had a Haro when he was younger--they're a good bike, also Redline, GT,.. just check on line.

i'l check them out, thanks. one guy who i have started watching is bestwick,.

**jump5fan** · 08-27-2008, 05:51 AM

boy a lot has been happening lately. the biggest thing is that my brother and i got our drivers license yesterday! about a week ago we went on a tour of a jail in jim thorpe which was cool. a couple days ago the honda started making a lot of noise at lower speeds and we found that the timing belt wasn't tight but i was able to fix it. On monday we went to the west end fair and the demo derby which was fun. I recorded a lot of the demo derby with my camera and I am goi to try to upload them to myspace. they are having a monster truck show on friday but I don't think we will be able to go because our dad has to work that night. Well got to go, bye!

**jump5fan** · 09-05-2008, 10:24 PM

well i got my drivers license about a week ago! i have already done some driving by myself on some quite local roads which was fun. tropicle storm hanna is going to be coming by our area tomorrow and it looks like we are going to get between 3 and 7 inches of rain so i spent part ofn the day cleaning out the gutters. i am getting tired of my hair bying short so i am going tpo get it grow long again. i am building another computer and i'm almost done, i am just waiting for a video game card to come and i need to buy memory. i think i am getting sick too which isn't much fun. well i guess that's it for now, bye!