I was so excited to hear this week that at least a couple of people read our blog. We have a lot of new updates that we will be posting soon. Aaron just got back from Uganda, our church softball team has started playing, I have been working on a few card-making and sewing projects, and we are getting ready to take our youth to camp. All this to say, there will be a lot of posts coming up and I hope you like our new header design. I was told by a friend to check out a blog of someone they knew and found great grabbie designs. She makes really great blogheaders using digital scrapbooking. Please check out her page at http://greatgrabbiedesigns.blogspot.com/2008/05/welcome.html
Updates will be coming soon!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Updates on Dylan
Just a reminder to keep praying for the Shugart family.
www.updatesondylan.blogspot.com
Our hearts break for them during this difficult time and ask that you would remember this sweet family in prayer.
www.updatesondylan.blogspot.com
Our hearts break for them during this difficult time and ask that you would remember this sweet family in prayer.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Church Softball and the Gondaliers
So I was really planning on posting some pics of our church softball team, but as I was going through the pictures I couldn't resist posting some of these adorable kids that those of us ladies not playing get to watch during the practice. Here are just a few pics of Nathaneal and Tori during one of our practices. I promise to post some pics of the softball practice soon.
Last Thursday Aaron and I decided to skip our last class and go see Christine (one of our youth) in her musical at school, The Gondaliers. It was a great performance and it was so much fun to see Christine hamming it up on the stage :o)
Here is Christine and her mom, Mary, after the show...
Last Thursday Aaron and I decided to skip our last class and go see Christine (one of our youth) in her musical at school, The Gondaliers. It was a great performance and it was so much fun to see Christine hamming it up on the stage :o)
Here is Christine and her mom, Mary, after the show...
I love plants
I have always loved planting different flowers and plants. Here are some new ones...
This is not really a new one. It's a geranium I've had for a while. It's usually more pretty than the picture shows, but I wanted to include a pic of it.
These are my double impatients. They have just started blooming and the pink colors in them are really amazing. Sorry for the fuzzy picture.
This is one of my three tomato plants. It's the first time that I have tried tomatoes on my own so I am really excited to see if they produce. There are three different kinds of them that I planted, but I will spare you the details.
Here is my squash plant. Squash is definitely one of my favorite veggies and I especially love eating grilled squash in the summertime. I cannot wait until they start growing more.
This is from the honeysuckly plant on my front porch. It smells nice, but man does it grow like crazy.
Here is the honeysuckle a little untrimmed. Haha.
These are my purple and white begonias. They are so pretty and have been so easy to maintain. They require a lot of sunlight so they hang out on the front porch most of the time.
This is not really a new one. It's a geranium I've had for a while. It's usually more pretty than the picture shows, but I wanted to include a pic of it.
These are my double impatients. They have just started blooming and the pink colors in them are really amazing. Sorry for the fuzzy picture.
This is one of my three tomato plants. It's the first time that I have tried tomatoes on my own so I am really excited to see if they produce. There are three different kinds of them that I planted, but I will spare you the details.
Here is my squash plant. Squash is definitely one of my favorite veggies and I especially love eating grilled squash in the summertime. I cannot wait until they start growing more.
This is from the honeysuckly plant on my front porch. It smells nice, but man does it grow like crazy.
Here is the honeysuckle a little untrimmed. Haha.
These are my purple and white begonias. They are so pretty and have been so easy to maintain. They require a lot of sunlight so they hang out on the front porch most of the time.Monday, April 28, 2008
Stuff Christians Like . . .
"Flags, handbells, and puppets."
"Boycotting stuff."
"Rooting for secret Christians on American Idol"
"Mixing sign language and music"
If you have heard any of these phrases, or even worse, if you are guilty of participating in any of these things, you are probably an Evangelical Christian (and probably a Southern Baptist), or you at least know someone who is. And if you shudder whenever you hear any of these phrases, you are probably like me - an Evangelical, Southern Baptist who is (sadly) well aware of the charicature that the American church has painted of itself to the watching world.
All of those quotes are from entries in a blog that Sarah and I love to read which takes some of the idiosynchrasies of the American "Christian" subculture and satirizes them, or at least simply brings them to our attention. It is hillarious. They are painfully true. And hopefully these observations will make us think twice next time we try to make a war-themed mens ministry, or buy more bible fanny packs, or getting highly specialized bibles, or dancing with enough room for the holy spirit, or quoting the message whenever the real bible doesnt say what you want it to, or breaking up with your girlfriend after camp because God told you to, or taking spiritual-gift inventories that are hundreds of questions long, or fearing the rapture would come before you lost your virginity, or rededicating your life (again), using the one "seminary word" you know, or making email addresses that go something like, GodisGoodandBeautiful777@yahoo.comm
Check out the blog, Stuff Christians like, at http://www.stuffchristianslike.blogspot.com/.
- Aaron
"Boycotting stuff."
"Rooting for secret Christians on American Idol"
"Mixing sign language and music"
If you have heard any of these phrases, or even worse, if you are guilty of participating in any of these things, you are probably an Evangelical Christian (and probably a Southern Baptist), or you at least know someone who is. And if you shudder whenever you hear any of these phrases, you are probably like me - an Evangelical, Southern Baptist who is (sadly) well aware of the charicature that the American church has painted of itself to the watching world.
All of those quotes are from entries in a blog that Sarah and I love to read which takes some of the idiosynchrasies of the American "Christian" subculture and satirizes them, or at least simply brings them to our attention. It is hillarious. They are painfully true. And hopefully these observations will make us think twice next time we try to make a war-themed mens ministry, or buy more bible fanny packs, or getting highly specialized bibles, or dancing with enough room for the holy spirit, or quoting the message whenever the real bible doesnt say what you want it to, or breaking up with your girlfriend after camp because God told you to, or taking spiritual-gift inventories that are hundreds of questions long, or fearing the rapture would come before you lost your virginity, or rededicating your life (again), using the one "seminary word" you know, or making email addresses that go something like, GodisGoodandBeautiful777@yahoo.comm
Check out the blog, Stuff Christians like, at http://www.stuffchristianslike.blogspot.com/.
- Aaron
Service
This past weekend we took our youth to Whitakers, NC to join Ben (Aaron's old roommate) and his youth group in a weekend of service. It was so great to see our youth serve a couple that really needed some help. Here are a few pics from the weekend...
Shay and Christine bleached the sheds
Some of the men building steps
Mr. Gene climbed in the top of this tree to trim it away from the power line.
This was most of our group with the Snellgroves.
Shay and Christine bleached the sheds
Some of the men building steps
Mr. Gene climbed in the top of this tree to trim it away from the power line.
This was most of our group with the Snellgroves.
All of the youth on the steps after church on Sunday morning.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Updates on Dylan
Hey friends,
Please check out this blog: www.updatesondylan.blogspot.com
It is about our friends from church, the Shugart family. Dylan has been in the hospital for about 3 weeks now with some serious liver problems. This blog gives the latest updates on Dylan, Gary and Debbie so that we can better pray for them and enourage them.
Please check out this blog: www.updatesondylan.blogspot.com
It is about our friends from church, the Shugart family. Dylan has been in the hospital for about 3 weeks now with some serious liver problems. This blog gives the latest updates on Dylan, Gary and Debbie so that we can better pray for them and enourage them.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
