Fantasy Football
Nothing gets me in the mood for the NFL season like our annual Fantasy Football draft. I have some decent players on my team this year. Nothing amazing, but an okay mix. We'll see how it works out. My team includes...
A Happily Married Couple Experiencing the Joys of Everyday Life
If you get a chance, check out Dreaming Tree Designs by our friend Tracey B. She is so creative and puts together awesome stuff. She made a shadow box for us and a baby onesie - both of them are great! So check it out and consider buying something from her. The link is
I have had several conversations recently with people who are frustrated with certain situations or people in their churches and are thinking about leaving to go somewhere else. It has lead me to consider this dilemma that people face at times (myself included), and the unfortunate contribution that church marketing makes to this.
So I know our personal blog has probably been a bit boring lately since we haven't had any pictures. The problem is that we have only been taking pictures of Elias lately (probably thousands of them by now), so we don't have any of anything else. We encourage you to check out Elias' blog for pictures and updates more specific to him.
Since Natalie and I both have Mondays off now, we are beginning to refer to Mondays as our family "veg day." Its our day to veg out, do whatever we want - to relax and do something fun together as a family. As a pastor I obviously have to work on the weekends, so we are going to be very intentional about making Mondays our day just to ourselves.
We are finally home (hopefully for good) from our two week long $30,000.00 "vacation" at a wonderful Fort Wayne resort known as Dupont Hospital. We are now experts if any of you are planning to visit there anytime soon :-)
Please pray...
We updated Elias' blog and included some new pictures from his first week of life with us. I am sorry that we have not had a lot of updates for this blog. I will try to keep you posted as much as possible. For now...let it be sufficient for me to summarize by saying that we are basically working around Elias' schedule of sleeping, crying, smiling, eating, burping, pooping, peeing, and starting all over again. Natalie is recovering well. I just got back in the swing of things on Tuesday with work and school. It is as clear to me now as it ever has been - things will never be the same again...and we could not be happier. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we learn and adjust as we go. Look for Elias updates on his blog.