Baby Baby...

Being pregnant definately makes me appreciate the finer things in life,
~Having a husband who is able to put things together, refinish old rocking chairs, and talk to a baby he cant see.
~Stuffed animals
~Blues, Greens, and giraffes

















And Just for Kicks, I added this photo. This is my lovely husband with my father. The harley is borrowed.

The High Life...

They say to stay away from high altitudes when you are pregnant, but high altitude is relative... us girls in colorado are a little more used to the thin air.


Wont my honny be a good dad?

Month Five

So Baby and Me are officially in month five now. Month five has signaled for me the end of most morning sickness, (last week was an exception, I don't know what was going on really) The beginning of really wanting to nest, and the frustration of not being able to lay on my back. The best part has been feeling the baby move around though, it is worth having my hips be goofy, and worth having my "bending over to pick something up" skill be slowly fading away.




This is the man who got me pregnate...

Salutations

Happy New Year! Happy 29th anniversary to my parents! Happy Valentine's Day!

It is the Third Saturday in February, and I am spiffy. This is one of the first mornings I have woke up feeling well in probably the last 3 weeks. I made myself warm peaches in sauce, and put it over waffles, and had a good breakfast.

Merry Christmas!!!

This was my Birthday present from Josh. I have been wishing that I had a CD of this for at least 5-6 years, when in actuality this does not exist in CD form. However, Josh, being the man that he is, somehow found a company in Canada that records, remixes and remasters vinals and re-records them to CDs. So now I have the very first in existance Evie, Come on ring those bells CD. And I am thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks hon!

"Here in His world turned away. Angles in heaven wonder to see the son of the Highest treated so.
No room- surely the world is blind, no room. Have you any room for Jesus? He who bore your load of sin...
Room for Jesus king of Glory, hasten now his word obey, swing your heart's door widely open: Bid him enter while you may."
(taken from one of my favorite songs of the CD)

Homework, just in case you needed some

Romans 12
Questions

By the Grace God has given you are you able to challenge others? Why would you need to be aware of the grace of God just remind people how to think?

How do you think of yourself? To highly? To Lowly? In accordance with Measure of faith God has given you? Or in accordance with how the world thinks about you? In accordance with how God's word talks about you or in accordance with the world?

How does being a living sacrifice affect you being joined to others in a body? Which is more of a sacrifice, Serving God or serving others? Why?
Different parts with different functions: What about this requires transforming your mind? How does this require sacrifice? How does this naturally affect us...if we weren't learning to transform our minds?

One body...corporately, as a region, and world wide: how does that change your natural thinking (or how SHOULD it change your natural thinking) ?
Do you behave as though you really do belong to all the others?
Name someone who behaves as though they were connected to all the others.
Think of skin, although there are many cells skin covers every area of the body, connecting from the toe to the top of the head to the finger tips, Excluding of course eyes & finger/toe nails. Skin doesn't get much credit. How many times have you heard someone say “Oh, i just hurt my elbow and my elbow skin!” ? Or “I have a zit on the skin of my forehead!”? There is something about belonging to each other that assumes that together each individual part succeeds or suffers. Do you demand to receive credit? Or do you love to bless people, suffer with people, rejoice with people and be ok with not being given credit for it doing it “in secret”?
Name some one who seem to understand being connected or “belonging to each other” in the Body.
Tell some of the things that they do.
Name some ways that you could improve in this area.
Is having compassion on some one easier when you know them more? How about constructive criticism?
What Gift do you think that you have? ( Or do you want to receive from God?) What about this gift requires renewing or transforming your mind? What about this requires some dieing (living sacrifice) from you?
“Using it according to the proportion your faith” makes me think that you have to be renewing your mind, letting God build your faith, learning how to think, in order to really be everything God has called you and gifted you to be.
(c) Mary Walker 2007, used with permission

Power in weakness.

He said to me, "my Grace is sufficient for you, Because my power is made perfect in weakness." So because of that I will boast all the more about my weakness, because He is seen so strong when it becomes obvious how weak i am on my own.
I feel ill iquiped for the work I do. Not because i don't have the trainning, but because without the Lord everything I do is vain. I am now teaching at the LFI programe 3 days a week. I have one class on mondays. It is similar to "prophetic worship class" that Terisa teaches. I call it "Singing the Psalms." Last week we looked at the Lords prayer, this week we will be singing psalm 63. This class has three purposes. For the 7 students (ok, and me too) to #1 grow deeper in their love and expression for the Lord, to #2 understand worship and prayer more, for them to not just be foggy idealistic things we do, but to be real and understandable, and to #3 give the students a better understanding of scripture.

Wednesday and Friday I teach basically all morning. there is a "Words in the Word" study, in which we are currently exploring romans 12 &13, a practical outreach and servanthood class, in which we spend time working or talking or praying for people in the church with needs, or where we work, evangelize and get aquainted with our community, and the lowly, lonely and needy. I am excited and scared about this class. It will have to be God who gives us the divine appointments: scarry cause i know im not in control, exciting cause God does a much better Job at working things out than I ever could. And im leading worship, and teaching some other classes. Terisa would be so proud of me how I have been playing the piano for others to sing out and have not been stopping the cord progression every time i mess up, but just keeping going.

Been thinking about "what does it mean to live for God's eternity?"
Been thinking about servanthood, truth in the word of God, and wide is the road to destruction, narrow the way to life.
Been thinking...how much of people who do the "Christianity thing" are not truly changed by the dividing, powerful, always active word of God.
Funny how The grace of God is this ammazing power that enables us to live the way God designed us to live.

God has Given Josh and I a couple to be friends with who share our hearts...What an amazing thing! And we each have a single friend who also share our hearts. It is increduble and so exciting!

Have you ever noticed how much of the new testiment is about being patient and loving your brothers, and loving the lowely, the poor, the obscure. It is a beautiful idealism, but can be acctually quite painful and convicting in reality. Have you ever tied together matthew 25's "sheep and goats" story with the place in John that says you dont love God who you cant see, if you don't even love your brother who you can see. Have you ever then gone to romans 15 where it says to accept others to bring praise to God, and thought about how if you say God accepts them, but you yourself don't...HOW is anyone going to believe you? Just some thoughts i have been thinking.


This is a picture I made for Pietze's wedding shower invitations....didn't end up using it, but i think its "lovely."


Kendra, my very first sister...I love you! (Note: we are pretty hot too! Good thing we have amazing husbands fight off evil people jeoulous of our good looks) haha!
Lindsey, I have been quoting you alot lately. "if you have to hold it together, when you let Go it will fall apart, but if God is holding it together it will last."