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December 16, 2007 in Church, Family, Fun, Youth Ministry with 1 Comment

All right, at first, I really didn’t want to see “Alvin and the Chipmunks.” Sure, I watched the cartoon when I was a kid and sure, I listen the CD every Christmas, but I was skeptical about the movie.

But Jonas wanted to take his Mamaw (Jason’s mother, Shelia) to the movie for her birthday and Jason wanted to go, too, so I relented. So we went yesterday morning (by the way: 4 tickets, $16–I thought the guy had made a mistake! If you go before 12 on Saturdays, it’s just $4 a ticket at Stadium 16).

It was actually pretty good. I mean, if you’re not much on “cute” definitely don’t see it. It was a really “cute” movie. But the story wasn’t bad and there were a lot of funny parts. Also, it was actually pretty clean–immaculate, really, compared to recent kid movie standards. Jonas and I gave it two thumbs up.

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This morning, I gave the message at church. I may post some of it tomorrow. My text was John 1:1-18. It was also the day that the confirmation class was confirmed–so a full morning all around!

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So tonight we had our “Youth Group Christmas Extravaganza!” It was super fun with Subway and a movie on the big screen. They are a fun group. Hopefully 2008 will be as exciting and wonderful as 2007 was.

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I cannot believe that this year is nearly over. I can’t believe that Christmas is just a little over a week away! I got a little more shopping done this weekend, but I still have some to do. Hopefully tomorrow night. I hate it that when I talk about Christmas, I usually talk about shopping too. And I’m a hypocrite, because I say that I hate the commercialism of Christmas, but I participate in it every single year.

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Every year, we have Jonas on December 24 and not on December 25 (well, we get him back around 2 or 3 every year, but we don’t have him in the morning). We’ve always done our Christmas Eve on December 23 and woke up on the 24th for presents at our house first and then at Jason’s mom’s house. We all go to church that night (for Christmas Eve Service at 5:00) and then Jonas goes with his mother.

I think over the years, the good thing about this is that by the time I get to the Christmas Eve service, I’m no longer worried about the gifts and the craziness. The craziness is over and it’s time to just reflect, pray, worship and think.

Anyway, it’s getting closer and closer. May God prepare our hearts to receive his promise!

Lake Pictures

August 27, 2007 in Family, Fun with 1 Comment

Well, we had th camera with us the whole time, but we only took pictures of the boys on the raft. I meant for us to take pictures of the whole day–and we did a lot on Saturday when we visited our friends at Lake Barkley. Oh well, here are some of the better raft pictures we took. We were in a speed boat and the kids (and Jason) were tubing.

Jonas and Chase hanging out on the raft.

Alex, Jonas and Chase get ready to ride.

And of course, Jason had to give it a try. Rob realized that he didn’t have to take it easy anymore. I think Jason was a little sore yesterday.

I’m Supposed To Be Sleeping…

July 12, 2007 in Fun with 1 Comment

But that’s not really working out for me.

Today I take trip #2 to Venture River this week (Tues was High School; Today is Middle School). Fortunately, Jason is going with us and he is going to drive the van. He’s sleeping soundly, for the record.

Last night, we had dinner at church and our mission trip presentations. It was a lot of fun. As a bonus, Jenny and Sean both were there for dinner. Then we all came back to our house and talked about our nerd scores, global warming, and a few other random things. Then Sean left, but Jenny stayed because she now lives with us (Jason gave her a key and told her she didn’t have to be homeless anymore–I thought it was hillarious that he waited to give her a key to our house until just weeks before she moves 18 hours away…).

Jonas “entertained” us until about midnight. What that means is that he refused to go to bed and kept reappearing with all sorts of kid tricks–he needed water, something hanging up looked like a mad face and scared him, the couch was uncomfortable, the living room floor was uncomfortable, the kitchen floor was uncomfortable (but at least it was right outside the family room where we were talking so he could hear what we were saying), he had no less than a million questions he needed someone to answer, and how come he had to go to bed but we did not?

This resulted in Jenny and I trying to have a really boring, bland conversation because I was sure it would make him decide that sleep was better than listening to two women talk about the dentist and when each of their grandparents passed away (the attempt at boring conversation became depressing pretty fast). This did not work.

Finally, we all went to bed with Jonas sleeping in between Jason and I because it was “the only comfortable place.” I would like to dispute this claim.

I think I’ll go try to sleeping on the kitchen floor. I hear that it’s way more comfortable than the couch.