Monday, July 20, 2009

In Memory

After Victoria died, the ladies of the church collected money for us to buy a tree and plant in her memory. Last week we went and picked out a crepe myrtle tree (it will have pink flowers) to plant. Saturday Chris was able to plant it and today we put her original cemetery marker in front of the tree. I can't wait until it grows big and gets beautiful flowers on it!



Saturday, July 18, 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

New Glasses

I have had the same glasses for almost 8-9 years. They were free courtesy of an eye doctor client when I lived in Florida. They are now handsomely equipped with the wire from a twisty tie - a 2 am bathroom break fix with swollen fingers do not go well with a teeny tiny screw. It was time for some new ones. Here are the old glasses:


Yesterday the new ones came and I love them!! They are so much more hip (sad to say I'm not sure if this is the current word to say - it changes so much so fast . . . and I'm a youth pastor's wife). Here are the new ones:



I also know that I promised non-naked belly pictures. Our camera is not working and I think if I tried using the camera on the computer (pictures above are from the computer camera), I may end up looking like this:



On another side note: This week has been Week 1 (of 2 weeks) of Junior High (6th-8th grade) VBS. We have been averaging around 70 teens this week. Our theme this year is Operation Space 2009. It has gone well. Last night there were 9 professions of faith - Praise the Lord! There has also only been 1 incident with the go-karts (click HERE for past go-kart experiences). We have also had a special guest 2 of the nights - Mark Gastineau, formerly of the NY Jets (1978-1988), attends our church on Sunday evenings. He has graciously come to both the younger kids and our JrH group to sign autographs and meet the kids. I'm sure most, if not half, of the kids have no idea who he is - except that he used to play football and must be somehow famous so why not get his autograph.

Now we have just 6 more nights...

Saturday, July 4, 2009

July 4th

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July. Today we are off to 2 picnics ... well, one is actually a 4th of July picnic / graduation party. They should both be fun - no cooking once again as an added bonus! Also it is beautiful here - a sunny 77 degrees! Ahh! Enjoy your picnics today!