waiting...

Sorry about the long silence. We've just been waiting for baby to arrive... hopefully we'll get to meet him or her this week.

In the meantime I've been baking.

Chocolate chip cookies... What could be better when you are waiting for your sibling to arrive?!!

Clean Water for Haiti

Today in Church Jeremy had the opportunity to represent Clean Water for Haiti (CWH). He loves doing this kind of thing and his display and talk generated a lot of interest in the mission so all in all it was pretty encouraging. CWH makes biosand water filters and educates people about clean water and how to maintain the filters. Each filter costs $50 to make and they are sold for $5. Haiti is considered the most water impoverished country in the world so these filters are desperately needed.
For more info check out the web site: www.cleanwaterforhaiti.org
Here is a picture of our display... obviously Sam was more interested in running around the gym than posing for a picture!!! Typical!!

Another recommendation...

I just had a great reading weekend!!! It had been a while since I've read a novel so I thought it was time. If you read novels add this one to your list. It is the story of a teenager who runs away from his old order Amish roots and his life long struggle to come to grips with his past and his father's rejection. The characters are very real... it's refreshing to read a book where not everyone is perfect and not everything gets tied up with a pretty pink bow at the end. Anyway, read it for yourself and tell me what you think.

A recent card.

I haven't had a lot of time for stamping lately, but I did make this one recently. I wasn't sure about it at first, but I think it is growing on me.

Six weeks to go...

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

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

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!

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?