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vacuum cleaner bren runs this circus i have to say that having 2 other drivers in the house simplifies the logistics but it still needs a coordinator it also requires a sense of humor she makes me laugh mainly with stories from her part time job she started working part time as a cpa for turbo tax i have learned that if you sell a business for 7 figures don t wait 2 days before they re due before you decided to start the tax return i have also learned that you can t claim your brother who is in jail as your dependent did you know you can claim self employment expenses when you work as a webcam model me neither bren s mantra this year has been god has given me so many days on this earth and i m not wasting them true words people we have been cautious but we haven t lived in fear in july we loaded up the suv and took a road trip to moab ut we went white water river rafting in durango co 4 wheel drived the desert of moab arches slid down the sand dunes of sand dunes national park in co and hiked to zapata falls it was an epic trip and we plan on going back to moab to do some canyoneering this great family vacation would not have happened without my adventurous hot wife she is our vacuum cleaner operation instructor down to me i still work for the same company i have for the past 19 years in august 2019 our ownership group 4 of us completed the buyout of the company we are now having the great pleasure of navigating uncharted waters of a global pandemic i still love reading i have gotten into leatherworking and i still love performing magic in 2019 i was awarded best close up magician by texas association of magicians i have also been reworking some of my one man show and look forward to performing for real people again when this all clears between work and chasing the kids around in their activities and hobbies my waking hours are filled i m still learning how to operate a vacuum cleaner 4 years ago my dad was diagnosed with melanoma in the sinus cavity he was given 6 months to live oh and this was the second time he was diagnosed with cancer the first time was colon cancer when i was a junior in high school over the past year his mind began to slip and dementia began to take over cancer also took his sight in both eyes he loved to read and write and this only became a part of his past despite all of this the part of the brain that keeps the sense of humor remained firing on all cylinders in february of this year in a rare moment of poignant clarity he said to my mom i can t see i can t remember it s time to go home mom asked where home was dad responded heaven they had celebrated almost 52 years of marriage this year on june 3 rd bren and i celebrated our 25th anniversary and dad went home i know that most of this letter is snarky and i also know that this year has provided a lifetime of challenges these are not the best of times for many but i know this there is hope that is the essence of human survival hope hope in something if anything this year has taught us hope in the temporal things are as king solomon said dust in the wind hope in money retirement portfolios and education fall woefully short hope in our job and a well planned future well we know that can be ripped away from our tightly closed fist all of life s problems will not be solved by the hope of having a vaccine but there still is hope this is the season of hope this year with my dad s death it becomes ever more evident that hope needs to be in something more everlasting in this season i am reminded that over 2000 years ago hope came to earth wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manager hope became humanity and then paid the ultimate sacrifice on a cross firmly planted on golgotha and hope can become a realization in all of our lives and may the joy of christmas become real in the hope we have in christ for one day it will be time to go home dave elliott and family p s may you also know how to use a vacuum cleaner posted by dave no comments friday august 15 2014 what is your story kid s with your dad it s all about the story my wife told our army of 4 as we were passing through lancaster pennsylvania better known as amish country we had just taking a horse and buggy ride to an amish farm and i had told my wife that i wanted our new kitchen table to be made by the amish only a week earlier we had moved to a new house and both bren and i had decided to get a new kitchen table and retiring the current oak table to the upstairs game room to serve as macy s arts and crafts table there were already remnants of different paint colors from the previous 11 years of macy s art career bren the work ethic of the amish their steadfastness to their beliefs i want the table we gather around at night to be made by amish hands the symbolism in that and the story it tells is what it is all about the story the adventures we go on getting out of the shallow end of the pool and moving to the deeper end where it s less safe but a whole lot more exciting why because of the story bren comes to me this may in the midst of getting ready to move and says i love pine cove but i can t go back there for the third year in a row the world is a big place and we need show the kids more than just east texas she continued then she said let s do something big like east coast big like maybe even new york big so she started planning and purchasing airline tickets all on top of moving to a new house when it was all said and done oh what and adventure did our family have all 6 of us even with kyle our 2 year old a lot of people and i mean a lot said we were crazy for taking 4 kids on such an outing but then again those people probably don t have much of a story to tell who wants to hear about living life safely in the kiddie pool we take off from dfw and land in phillie the plane ride alone was epic for kyle age 2 for 3 hours he sat wide eyed watching out the plane watching a movie we land get our luggage like a team everyone grabs an assigned bag bren knocks open the stroller kyle jumps in and literally 15 seconds after our bags hit we are on the curb and macy age11 has already hailed the courtesy van to pick up the rental car i had a stranger come up to me and say sir you have one incredible family and a well oiled machine i thanked him and we moved on i check out the rental family van gave the rally sign to bren and the kids waiting inside and within 2 minutes luke had the van loaded and ready to go while i was getting last minute details from the rental place the gentleman looked at me grinned and said wow you haven t said a word and your kids are loaded and ready to go for the next 8 days my kids experienced some incredible things fun things like hershey park different things like amish country historic things like independence hall the liberty bell and betsy ross house things just for the sake of telling the story of running up the steps of the philadelphia art museum like rock balboa did we ate in an irish pub after a day a jersey beach because we heard that it was a well kept secret of great food and service and it was we knocked out another 2 mlb ball parks the phillies and the mets nyny was all inspiring for macy and hope times square with all the lights and people and energy the first night i told bren i wanted to go back to the hotel so did luke and we needed to get kyle to bed after all it was a 14 hour day and his eyes had been as big as saucers the entire day bren said great we will have a girl s night out bren macy and hope age 8 they told me they went till midnight in the big apple the next morning macy tells me the story of going to juniors and ordering ny style pizza and leaving the restaurant with lots more than they could eat they asked to have it boxed up to take back to our hotel and while meandering around times square my girls decided to give what was left to a homeless man i bet that is a story they will tell for the rest of their lives because it was the first story macy told me the next morning let me tell what i would love 15 years from now team elliott is sitting around the table and someone pops up remember how we took the subway from ground zero to macy s and there were so many people packed on the train and luke was separated from all of us that dad yelled out in his texas accent luke elliott next stop and everyone got real quiet or remember the time kyle made friends with the nypd mounted police and they gave kyle one of his patches or what about the time where buddy the cake boss mom came out to meet us and we had our picture with her and she just loved kyle s cowboy boots there was so much we did so many things we saw and the stories oh the stories somewhere in the middle of all that bren looks at me and said i just learned robin williams has died i look dumbfounded i cannot believe it because i know he wasn t that old then the details came out suicide fighting depression i begin to tell my kids about my favorite movie that he starred in dead poets society how he turned the latin phrase carpe diem into a pop culture cliché but that is so much more to me seize the day i tell them of how he was brilliant funny fast hard to keep up with and downright hilarious robin williams had demons that we may never know but i know that his time was cut too short because i know he still had stories to tell many of them rofl funny and i also know that part of his life s story was all about that movie i saw in high school where he tells the new england prep school students to take hold of the day grab it and live because we are not promised tomorrow because we have a story to tell and have stories of our lives because it really it about our story after the death of robin it reminded me how precious life is and how uncertain things are i also was reminded that sometime the funniest people are fighting battles that we will never know i plead with you i beg you if you are struggling with depression or any other unmentionable demons please find help seek it out and if you know someone fighting such battles walk through hell to make sure they do not isolate themselves posted by dave no comments monday july 14 2014 the very essence i couldn t write it much better so just watch this and press on post by jöanie tabasso posted by dave no comments monday june 2 2014 19 things i learned in 19 years of marriage 1 his and her walk in closest are much cheaper than marriage counseling same goes for master bathroom vanities 2 going on an annual family vacation has made some of our best memories 3 although bren will never understand my endurance stuff she supports me in the most incredible way 4 how my wife can run 4 kid s crazy schedules and still get all the family stuff done would amaze the ceo of any fortune 500 company 5 me washing the dishes really is foreplay 6 if bren gets rattled things have really gone south in a hurry 7 having both bren and i being fighting texas aggies really has made a great foundation for our marriage 8 running an ultramarathon is a lot like being married there will be good times and bad but the good time are always better then the bad 9 traveling together with only bren and i and no kids are some of the most awesome times together 10 spending all day saturday on a sports field will one day be missed and looked back on with affection 11 watching my wife comfort one of our children allows me to catch a glimpse of what god is like 12 when negotiating a deal especially buying a car let bren do the talking she is a pit bull 13 listen to bren s intuition it is usually dead on 14 four kids are the perfect number of children for us so much laughter so much joy 15 bren has gotten better looking with each passing year and looks hottest in an outfit encompassing boots 16 there will be arguments and disagreements work through them never never never give up ps it usually takes bren longer to get over a fight just give her time go for a run or something 17 i read proverbs 31 over a 100 times before i met bren and have come to realize not only does she nearly have all those attributes she has characteristics i wasn t looking for but am now so glad she has 18 one of my greatest joys in life is to get bren laughing so hard she starts crying 19 the only thing prettier than texas is a smile on that blond hair blue eyed texas beauty posted by dave 1 comment thursday january 16 2014 bandera 100k 2014 the profile run it twice i haven t run an ultra in two years it had been all about the bike and after a sub 5 hour hotter n hell cycled 100 miles amber my cycling teammate turns to me and ask what s next i don t know i replied in truth i had toyed with the idea all summer long to go back to bandera for the 100k 62 miles a week later i had decided that bandera it was and started lacing up trail running shoes a month later i was up to over a 20 mile long trail run i still was in the weight room 5 days a week and one intense leg work out a week i had come to love the weight room what i had seemed to have forgotten was the time it takes to train for a long ultra nearly all of it alone training was going well till early november on a cold day where i was going to run 25 miles at northshore trail i pulled my hamstring and found myself struggling to determine what would happen with the race and not being able to run for over 3 weeks by mid december i was getting back on track but the weekly miles just were not there at least for my liking regardless i had signed up i had my crew together amber and don the sherpa and on friday january 10 we find ourselves headed to south central texas bandera early on saturday morning i felt fine i saw many old friends made some new ones i had told my crew i would dial it way back painfully slow the first loop i prayed with my crew and the race was started the first loop 31 miles went very well at mile 17 there were some old friends that had fallen into my pace monica orlando and sonia and for the next 5 miles i told stories and made everyone laugh all was going well at mile 26 i go up cairns climb and boyles bump and back into the lodge to complete the first 31 mile loop despite the warmer afternoon temperatures 73 f i felt fine well as fine as you can feel after 31 miles after the first 31 miles amber was going to pace me out the next 11 miles to chapa aid station i wanted some company and the sun would go down this stretch of the race when it was said and done amber had paced me 17 miles most in the dark over the most treacherous rocks and climbs and with the biggest smile and encouragement we make it to chapas i was shivering and pre hypothermia i was kinda in bad shape and the very thought of going another 20 miles was overwhelming i told amber i was done she looked at me and told m e that i wasn t done yet don the sherpa got some calories into me i changed clothes put on gloves and hat two minutes later we were in the dark with only a headlight on the trail again and hearing the coyotes howling mile 46 we come into the crossroads aid station...