Kyle’s Birthday

<p>Wednesday was Kyle’s “golden birthday”! I took the day off work and we spent the day together! We started out our day together with a run! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-G0tm6eaMojSn_2-CgO43jW-MJW6XcUWB90jxTlq1eoB3YDZPnV4Qiowej3umkAiav5_PomcZXTT2vp5a3ID2TsVwkQqoyIBDvWT3cqSycJAid3U3wByEB2CjD3pt81ATJmeUvzK4bve/s1600-h/DSC07396%5B4%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07396" border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P7FGKzyL1YxU3Z5xI6ijNNWeHvOjQJ01tTksoNPVXqokLbrVxJgE6i5HsJx0ljK-H89iiJz5QETBGLvV9EMc7nrYICyGlmn1SmWhVgbaZFzdBEB5w9oM5hrVj1Zdd09jFI5bOqmjzUSc/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07396" width="404" /></a></p> <p>We ran 2.6 miles for Kyle’ s 26th birthday! Kyle said it would have been much cooler if we could have ran 26 miles!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpTpWBCL_b0gfshjNXiY53rGtTp3gB3VyOXj69Ko5HjLjOnfij_DJBeQpbkUVY9s512rPvCNc3CdNVFb7YBiP7qx2kBtz1wWZN-dXGPJ5xJ_r4obrVaulT7M6t86F0S37VBfwQkut3Sl0/s1600-h/DSC07401%5B4%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07401" border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzPCgDtS4O-Pqg9v1PiZz1wDGF7s3egtOUFQUqmJ4fYd3MsVZ9anNNXylvbntj4zzcvkEKGbUShEy7VtTN3NlnzGo6p2A42DXiTsY-CAOqImGAg7nKFVqpcf8U_Bus4VpwmZOBmU98Gzu/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07401" width="404" /></a></p> <p>After our run I made breakfast for me and the birthday boy! He loves chocolate chip pancakes! Good stuff!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLq6Qrm_zuSPg9szBt7uiDxPEIGVkSHksf9NBZI8gcJK40UhHbZA5mCM-N2rID6txE7iOAqU_UlJen93qJx8tRJMsdkx94VDyvq2IcOh69HIxz8osaiif-rPMJQJz-I9CajKwc3TUi-8Pv/s1600-h/DSC07403%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07403" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86tBJLh8x8SAVfLLxinOWJ7dWgS8JakNGS3OyCPgIMO2pKaaQ1MglpTJQoBShWcrvE7BI1ixFiuiAnRDUhkYrmGwOIH_LfwUaMFvSm-cUqNMZsZwL-fPXj_llQZ4S3IFKDErkI242C1Bl/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07403" width="404" /></a></p> <p>We spent our day running a few errands. Kyle got a new cell phone and we had to get a few things ready on Kyle’s car. It was an overall easygoing, relaxing day!</p> <p>We couldn’t wait for our early supper. We had purchased some “Chicago style” pizza from <a href="http://www.giordanos.com/">Giordanos</a> and had them shipped here on dry ice. We tried this when we were in Chicago in February and Kyle LOVED them. It was perfect to have on his birthday!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvBaqFRfN1PfoIIRTKWmOu9wfFzURd2gwKia92VGLLPHHfR41CM7XirA0g_OO4dCUf3iJS6ONNUdq4f4TqnmHI9vmstPwYZo8DHES22EFW01cm22Xw4DgJTZQ_EzqCd5PBb2flzo740Xs/s1600-h/DSC07404%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07404" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7yTXt4D8ScUCn8HA8-Iu-tXqeLj6GXPDhfYiy9O4-UFScRqRg-mhFSiB_PCvQdFdjnkzrv8K3U9DxZqELs-xq_BCn6tRp9hk9NwXS4kWcvzDMcKEr0tXf9BRz5BHQap5zErKUPF_r_A1/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07404" width="404" /></a></p> <p>MMMMmmm good!! I had 1 piece and 2 bites of another one and was STUFFED!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8qN_GYZFUObaEIH3Ty7FO4L1VQKkcoSZrsW3RBi6tZA_nOXw32dWL7HFPaJyTZ8Z1IV6OnjnJsN3vJZwyqtkwiVH-zUvn1ptz5L6fkuY7sdQsKnCZx-8_R7NJ6h1P2aPxOUq2pm69qy7/s1600-h/DSC07405%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07405" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUzim4-dO_7Hs7CHcDggEZJegVt3Cwb7SOoXtyQB5TyDeaIQh1UCc2vDRmiU56_I-zFgfKhykOucquizZftkBnyHhP442Oh-t3C3fzMjOuBUOWNbIfnUDQw6TaV1LXOW1Shaq-nAzzYDD/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07405" width="404" /></a></p> <p>And Kyle’s birthday would not be complete without a trip to the Dariette!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkGWNEgK10lr8xBJtKf5hGohI-Nk9S-O2wb8T_cdOI9Aiky77uCjpAbjeRM29PA7yEEUNH5TQd19XnMLrXw2awmMAONmuXBPz2Dp2M4NtxJrrbrZGFXdxfg50paBdzo9gFIsDaEwtUUaMO/s1600-h/DSC07406%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07406" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGOOyYRIEM4Reu-hGhQSIFve76lSxVYIEWKTjnztSeS22er0Oigb1vp2rOmkJaCxJ-RAT6zt7PMMac8cn90SyhA3cY0MXIqx31MJflsdQnsB8nob8aUztTxmE45VoE2twtLAUdBC_Gy_-N/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07406" width="404" /></a></p> <p>We each got our classic favorites, Kyle got a peanut butter cup whip and I got a lemon ice cream cone!</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400" border="0"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><img alt="DSC07407" border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzT-nkdIdDYzHxeKE8TgMeaMrn-cP1Ei19adTEqt7uRKAcjlczsGBV-hhVdjSTTAeJtDeqpQNTAjPQNcbkkDevvmyrrNiadh3Dg593ofQ6J2JDgxl1o70leE0ScvKarS4XC5hV-feylWak/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07407" width="204" /></td> <td align="center" width="200"><img alt="DSC07409" border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYr85n_h_D1eKq-wMFXSAsV5tzZBgTe9t0jbh7Z-ayREipbVjzLJpyEyDTozGLkpyDp_QoYnqfMUAbMhc_Y3V1q_OjCc-FyJGCOOVeFm_0l1yutJjauv6BdeUYkriTaJc2LYkt8VFgT5P/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07409" width="204" /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>If you missed my post earlier today you should check our what I did for Kyle on Saturday! <a href="http://bangertfam.blogspot.com/2010/05/surprise.html">Click here</a>! I think Kyle had a great birthday, he very much deserved it! </p> <p>Lots going on for me right now!</p> <ul> <li>Tomorrow I work.</li> <li>I need to pack tomorrow night.</li> <li>Bright & early Saturday morning I am headed out on a work trip to Austin, TX for 5 days.</li> <li>I get home late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning.</li> <li>Friday night Kyle and I leave for our race! </li> </ul> <p>Hope everyone has had a great week and is looking forward to their long weekend! Tomorrow’s Friday!</p>

Kyle’s Birthday

Wednesday was Kyle’s “golden birthday”! I took the day off work and we spent the day together! We started out our day together with a run! ...

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Episcopal Leadership

News flash from College for Bishops: The good news is that my scores as a "transfomational leader" are much improved from the marks I got when I'd only been in Nevada for 6 weeks. (Grading was done each time by some of the staff and a few clergy). I'm glad it didn't go the other way.<br /><br />But the big footnote on that "improved" score is that I don't believe in the transformatoinal leadership model anyway. It's too individual, too heroic, too hiearchical, too top down. We have a program this afternoon on "complexity leadership" which strikes me as far more appropriate for the church, especially a church committed to Ministry of All Baptized. It's about groups working together as equals instead of working under the same boss. Leadership is not top down. It is leading out to each other as equals and, when the administrative structure is hiearrachical, it's leading up, speaking up, offering our insights. Complexity leadership is about the interactions among group members that affect the whole group for good or for ill. This is much more the kind of leadership I believe in -- and most of my worst mistakes have come from having gotten hoodwinked into trying to lead the old fashioned transformational way.<br /><br />My main job needs to be enabling groups of people to come together for creative, innovative interaction. The Ministry Development Commission has been especially creative and proactive recently. I feel good about my small part in midwifing the birth of that group -- but the creative leadership is being done by them.<br /><br />Often people think the bishop is a ruler, the one who calls the shots. But that's not what our vows say, and it is rarely what the canons allow. We are more often facilitators and spiritual guides. The whole point of the English Reformation was to shift authority away form purple shirted individuals barking orders into the hands of groups of Christians, working through issues in fellowship.<br /><br />The Church is a context for people to grow into the full stature of Christ. People don't grow through cow towing to domination. People grow thourgh convesation and fellowship, learning to speak thier own minds then work togther, especially when we don't all agree.<br /><br />Tyranny is far more efficient than democracy. But democracy is more human. The Church needs to be human, deeply human -- that is better than efficient.

Episcopal Leadership

News flash from College for Bishops: The good news is that my scores as a "transfomational leader" are much improved from the mark...

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Just so ya know!

Happy Thursday everyone!! I hope everyone is have a GREAT week!! I sure am! Yesterday Kyle [my husband] celebrated his 26th birthday! I took the day off and we had a nice time. I will be doing a lunch post on my day for Wednesday. <br /><br />But I didn't want you guys to think I "fell off the wagon" again and so I wanted to "check in"! <br /><br />Check out <a href="http://bangertfam.blogspot.com/2010/05/surprise.html">this link</a> to see a recap of Kyle's surprise party from Saturday!!

Just so ya know!

Happy Thursday everyone!! I hope everyone is have a GREAT week!! I sure am! Yesterday Kyle [my husband] celebrated his 26th birthday! I took...

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