24 countdown begins

only 2 months 19 days 23 hours 59 minutes and 55 seconds till season 6 of 24! i can't wait! how will jack get away from the chinese?

i love our church

our church is great. we have had someone here almost everyday to help kara and myself. we have had meals brought to us and parents and students and others have come over to help watch isaac and clean house so i can keep up working. this is a true community of believers.

house hunting progress

our house hunt came up empty today. **sniff** we're back at it on saturday though.

woohoo

we are going house hunting today. we were approved for a morgage and we are looking for a new place. i think there are 11 houses on our list to look at. the cool thing about living in the sticks is its affordable. houses here are between 60-100K.

what should i expect from God?

So I promised a friend that I would blog, and Im a little late. We had a pretty busy weekend. We did a youth service at our church (and may I say it rocked!) we did all four services. I was wiped out yesterday.

On Friday afternoon we had a real scare though. FYI Kara and I are expecting our third child. Isaac has a history of medical problems starting at pregnancy, hes doing great now. Our second son Elijah passed away after birth due to medical problems. This pregnancy we are so very nervous because of our history.

Friday afternoon Kara called me because she was bleeding red. I rushed home and we called the doctor. It was a sign of a miscarriage. We went to ER the next morning and the baby was okay. We found out it was sub-corionic bleeding (the separating and reattaching of the placenta from the uterine wall). If it continues there is a risk that we could lose the baby.

Some people think that we deserve to have a normal pregnancy after all weve been through. Some people think that God now owes us a good pregnancy. Some are Christians, some are not. I got to thinking about this idea of what I deserve and what God owes me. I couldnt think of anything that God owed me. I couldnt think of anything that I deserved from him. He has already given me more than I deserve. If God never gave me another thing the rest of my life he would still be a loving God because he has given me far beyond what I already deserve.

So many Christians say to me, well we are believing that God will give you a healthy pregnancy. Do we have the right to expect anything from God? He has already given me more than I deserve, and he will continue to give me grace and mercy on a daily basis that I do not deserve. So the question of the day is, should I expect in faith that God will give us a healthy pregnancy? Many thought that after Isaac we deserved a normal pregnancy. We lost him. I do not understand God and his plan and his way.

Completely Uncalled For

i wet myself after seeing this

Dove Real Beauty Workshop for Girls

wow. we are messed up as a culture.

what can i say, rean is a beast 

rean decided to take on the "cliffs on insanity!" while a few others did the beginers side, and some took on the more intermediate side on the back. 

everyone took on the wall. 

rachel is rockin the wall for the third time! 

nicole and chelsey taking on the wall 

nicole is getting ready to conquer the wall 

christian being a dork at the climbing wall 

i think we got up to 50 mph on the zip line jump. it was exhilerating. you got to jump off of an eight story wooden structure on a hil and zip down to the bottom. 

this is group two for the big jump. i think rachel kasper was the only one not scared. 

me and kelsey were scared. i've never jumped off an 8 story structure with abandon before. it was great fun. 

a closer picture 

this is the big jump 

off they go...suckers 

lacie is going spelunking later 

rachel was happy to jump off of an 8 story structure with merely a cord between her and the ground 

sarah was fearless 

rean was scared 

this is us getting ready for the 300 yard zipline. t'was an amazing feeling. 

this is the after picture of crudwars. sarah smashed soggy horsefeed and shavingcream in my mouth, so i took the excess and stuck it in her ears. 

here are some pictures of "crudwars" what is crud wars? it is just what it sounds like. you get crud, and you smear the other team with it. there is no winner or loser, just alot of fun. 

a view from our window in the morning 

this one is so very cute. i love this little guy. 

there's that finger again. 

he takes after his daddy...messy. 

the cook hard at work