This week had a few disparate things. 

Beth and I were both invited to attend a leadership, uh, retreat? conference? seminar? Not sure what to call it, but a consulting group called Effective Elders (E2) was brought in to do some leading/teaching for the church to develop a 3-year plan for evangelism, discipleship, and leadership. I've been asked to attend elder training coming up soon, and am kinda being treated as an elder already....as evidenced by the fact that I was also asked to be on the leadership ministry committee for this. Not exactly sure what the duties will be, but we're going to start rolling things out over the coming months. Anyway, the seminar was over 2 days, Tuesday evening and Wednesday all day, so I took a personal day Wednesday to attend. It was also Tuesday evening, so I couldn't attend the softball game. We got crushed again, I heard.

Wednesday Alex dropped of Missy at work, and on the way back home he accidentally ran a red light. Basically he didn't notice that it had changed. And a police officer was right there and pulled him over and gave him a ticket. Looks like that's going to be something like a $160 fine. No accident, thank God, and hopefully this will get him to pay attention better. Also I'm glad this happened here and not in Washington.

Friday evening the family went out to see the new movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" which the kids both loved so so much, and Beth and I liked all right. It was long but crammed full, and frenetically paced. But the animation was incredible, as expected.

I rode with the 2MA group B on Saturday morning, part of the annual Storm the Fort fundraiser. I chose the 24-mile ride since the next shortest ride was 44 miles and I thought that was a bit much. The pack that was doing longer rides left us behind fairly quickly, and I hung back with a couple of older men. One of whom was Trey's dad. Not as fast as the pack, but a good ride nonetheless. The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet since the kids were both working at least one day.