Monday, March 31, 2008

Six weeks to go...

For Teri... the pregnancy picture
you have been asking for:


Now ... onto a more
photogenic member of the family:


Saturday, March 29, 2008

Latest Read

One of my goals for this year has been to read more... Mostly I've been a disappointment to myself on that one... BUT I did just finish reading "Get Out of That Pit" by Beth Moore. It took a little while to get used to her writing style, but it didn't take long for me to really appreciate what she had to say.

A Couple Quotes:

"Christ got down next to us in the grave, stayed the better part of three days, and then got up... so we'd have permission to get up too. And start living life."

"You and I certainly don't want to be afraid of intimacy or shrink back from bearing our true estate with people. If we do that, we'll become as cold and hard as plastic and shelve ourselves from every purpose of our existence. (For starters, inauthentic people are ineffective people. For finishers, liberty cannot exist apart from transparency.) Human clay finds its moisture in relationships and will evaporate into dust without them."



In other news:
We've been working on "Time Outs" with Sam...
Pray for us!! It's not easy to get our boy to stay on a chair for one minute!

FOR TERI:
I'll try and get some pics up this week... just for you!

Monday, March 24, 2008

March Blues....

It has been a hard March for keeping our spirits up we have found:
- we've all had the flu
- the weather has been cold and gloomy
- this baby is sure making me uncomfortable
- Sam has been a terrible sleeper
- can't seem to win roll up the rim no matter how many times we play!!

Guess it's time to start thinking of some positives:
- If this baby isn't here in five weeks we are all going out for Chinese!! (followed by a very long walk!!!)
- The daffodils are giving me hope that we will get spring for real
- Jeremy gets to play his new guitar in church soon
- Sammy has the most fantastic Grandparents who step in and help right when we are most desperate
- A friend of ours recently decided to become a God-follower and he is VERY excited about his new faith
- We just celebrated Easter with family
- I'm almost through a good book by Beth Moore "Get Out of That Pit" and also started the month by attending a Beth Moore conference... is already one of the highlights of 2008
- Cadbury mini eggs
- Roll up the Rim has given us a good excuse to do coffee with friends more often!!!

Ahhh.... feeling better already!!! What have been your highlights from the last month?