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Pretty funny! These two are a bunch of clowns...
Just the Beginning (Kendall & Maisly)
11 months ago
Sunday, June 28, 2009
"Show Us Your Muscles"
Here's a little video we took during lunch the other day. Elijah (and Natalie) wanted to show us the exercises they do to make their muscles grow bigger :)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Sharing What God Has Done
But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.
This verse from Deuteronomy 4:9 has been one I have been meditating on for a few months. God has been teaching both me and Dave a lot about Himself, His peace that passes understanding, His sovereignty, and His plan for our lives. We wanted to share with you what’s been going on with us.
Late last August, we found out we were expecting a baby and we were thrilled!!! I called and made an appointment for my first OB check-up, and then I miscarried very early on at only 6 weeks. We were shocked and thought this would never happen to us! This wasn’t what we planned. We had figured out how far apart we wanted to have our kids and moved forward with our timeline. Well, God had other plans. He wanted to teach us about trusting Him and giving Him full control of our life and plans.
A few months later, we were trying again for a child. Around Christmas, I started feeling nauseous, a very clear sign that I was pregnant. I again made an appointment to go to the doctor around 8 weeks into the pregnancy. We were very anxious to go since we had previously miscarried. The date of our appointment finally arrived. Our doctor did the ultrasound but what he saw was not an 8 week old baby growing. He was confused and thought maybe I had gotten my calculations off and I was really 5-6 weeks pregnant instead. He scheduled another appointment a week later to see if the baby had grown any larger. That next ultrasound did not show a baby. Instead it was only a “bad” egg. My body believed I was pregnant, was growing a placenta, had symptoms but no baby was there. Again, we were surprised! This time I was actually feeling pregnant so why was this happening?!
We scheduled a procedure to have the pregnancy cleaned up/removed and looked forward to moving ahead. For what could have been another devastating loss, God gave us indescribable peace, a testimony to the power of prayer (we had a few close friends and family aware of the “bad egg,” praying for us). Through this second miscarriage, God was again teaching us to trust in Him and give Him full control of our family plans. (I guess we didn’t really get that figured out with the first miscarriage. :))
Since January and that last miscarriage, we have experienced such freedom and peace. We trust God completely and look forward to what He has planned for our family. We stopped thinking about “trying” for another baby and just allowed God to be in control. We were at peace with whatever He would decide. If it was His plan to give us only two beautiful kids, we would be more than blessed!!!
We are excited to share that God has now blessed us with another little one!!! Again, I started feeling nauseous and tired and knew I was pregnant. We made it, again, to the 8 week check-up and this time saw a beautiful, growing, healthy child with a strong heartbeat! We are completely thrilled and honored that God would trust us with another child. Right now I am 11 weeks pregnant, expecting the baby around January 12!
As Deuteronomy 4:9 says, we don’t want to forget what God has done for us. He has revealed Himself to us over and over through these past nine months and has blessed us abundantly with this child. We’ll be sure to pass on the stories of His goodness and faithfulness to our children and grandchildren, but we also wanted to pass it on to our family and friends now. :)
God is good! Rejoice with us!!!
This verse from Deuteronomy 4:9 has been one I have been meditating on for a few months. God has been teaching both me and Dave a lot about Himself, His peace that passes understanding, His sovereignty, and His plan for our lives. We wanted to share with you what’s been going on with us.
Late last August, we found out we were expecting a baby and we were thrilled!!! I called and made an appointment for my first OB check-up, and then I miscarried very early on at only 6 weeks. We were shocked and thought this would never happen to us! This wasn’t what we planned. We had figured out how far apart we wanted to have our kids and moved forward with our timeline. Well, God had other plans. He wanted to teach us about trusting Him and giving Him full control of our life and plans.
A few months later, we were trying again for a child. Around Christmas, I started feeling nauseous, a very clear sign that I was pregnant. I again made an appointment to go to the doctor around 8 weeks into the pregnancy. We were very anxious to go since we had previously miscarried. The date of our appointment finally arrived. Our doctor did the ultrasound but what he saw was not an 8 week old baby growing. He was confused and thought maybe I had gotten my calculations off and I was really 5-6 weeks pregnant instead. He scheduled another appointment a week later to see if the baby had grown any larger. That next ultrasound did not show a baby. Instead it was only a “bad” egg. My body believed I was pregnant, was growing a placenta, had symptoms but no baby was there. Again, we were surprised! This time I was actually feeling pregnant so why was this happening?!
We scheduled a procedure to have the pregnancy cleaned up/removed and looked forward to moving ahead. For what could have been another devastating loss, God gave us indescribable peace, a testimony to the power of prayer (we had a few close friends and family aware of the “bad egg,” praying for us). Through this second miscarriage, God was again teaching us to trust in Him and give Him full control of our family plans. (I guess we didn’t really get that figured out with the first miscarriage. :))
Since January and that last miscarriage, we have experienced such freedom and peace. We trust God completely and look forward to what He has planned for our family. We stopped thinking about “trying” for another baby and just allowed God to be in control. We were at peace with whatever He would decide. If it was His plan to give us only two beautiful kids, we would be more than blessed!!!
We are excited to share that God has now blessed us with another little one!!! Again, I started feeling nauseous and tired and knew I was pregnant. We made it, again, to the 8 week check-up and this time saw a beautiful, growing, healthy child with a strong heartbeat! We are completely thrilled and honored that God would trust us with another child. Right now I am 11 weeks pregnant, expecting the baby around January 12!
As Deuteronomy 4:9 says, we don’t want to forget what God has done for us. He has revealed Himself to us over and over through these past nine months and has blessed us abundantly with this child. We’ll be sure to pass on the stories of His goodness and faithfulness to our children and grandchildren, but we also wanted to pass it on to our family and friends now. :)
God is good! Rejoice with us!!!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Laker-Mania!
Today was the parade for the Lakers. After winning the championship by defeating the Orlando Magic (4-1), our city has to celebrate, right? We went since it was right down the street.
The parade started around 11am and the route went from the Staples Center down Figueroa St. to the Coliseum. There were tons of people lining the street. According to the news, the estimate was 150,ooo people watching the parade and another 80-90,000 at the Coliseum for the celebration.
The Lakers rode on double-decker buses and it was really neat because we were able to be super close. It was hard to try and pick out certain players as they went by, but I think we did a pretty good job. We almost missed Kobe because he was on the other side of the bus waving at the crowds on the other side of the street. We did get to see Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher, Lamar Odom, Trevor Ariza, and Kobe Bryant...we didn't find Luke Walton or Phil Jackson. You'd think that they'd be easy to find since they are some of the only white people on the team :)
It was a lot of fun! It was cool celebrating the Laker's victory. Congrats guys! Let's do it again next year...
The parade started around 11am and the route went from the Staples Center down Figueroa St. to the Coliseum. There were tons of people lining the street. According to the news, the estimate was 150,ooo people watching the parade and another 80-90,000 at the Coliseum for the celebration.
The Lakers rode on double-decker buses and it was really neat because we were able to be super close. It was hard to try and pick out certain players as they went by, but I think we did a pretty good job. We almost missed Kobe because he was on the other side of the bus waving at the crowds on the other side of the street. We did get to see Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher, Lamar Odom, Trevor Ariza, and Kobe Bryant...we didn't find Luke Walton or Phil Jackson. You'd think that they'd be easy to find since they are some of the only white people on the team :)
It was a lot of fun! It was cool celebrating the Laker's victory. Congrats guys! Let's do it again next year...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Saturday
On Saturday, Jenn and the kids offically made their move...out of Hawaii (at least). In the afternoon, we met them at the airport, along with my parents, and then we all went over to our house.
We ate dinner together - we made California Tacos and the kids had a ton of fun playing together and eating homemade icecream for desert.
We evern tried to get the kids to take a picture together. It worked ok...at least until Natalie started crying because we were making her take a picture and all she really wanted to do was play on the slide.
It was great finally meeting Naomi too! Natalie and Naomi are fast becoming good friends.
We ate dinner together - we made California Tacos and the kids had a ton of fun playing together and eating homemade icecream for desert.
We evern tried to get the kids to take a picture together. It worked ok...at least until Natalie started crying because we were making her take a picture and all she really wanted to do was play on the slide.
It was great finally meeting Naomi too! Natalie and Naomi are fast becoming good friends.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Many Faces of Dave
Vote for your favorite look...
#1 Beard
#2 Handlebars
#3 Mustache
#4 Charlie Chaplin
#1 Beard
#2 Handlebars
#3 Mustache
#4 Charlie Chaplin
Monday, June 08, 2009
Baptism
On Sunday, our church plant, Christ the Victor, had a baptism service for Laura Knock, a friend of ours and World Impact missionary. She had been baptized as an infant, but wanted to be baptized again as an adult.
We weren't sure if it would be a cold day or not since most of the week had been kind of cloudy, but it was actually really nice down by the beach - mid 70's, sunny. We gathered together as a church at around 9:30am, hung out for awhile. All the kids got in the water right away! We had to drag them out so we could start the baptism service.
We went through some passages about the symbolism of baptism and then I baptized Laura in the ocean. We had to get the timing right so we didn't get nailed by the waves. The water wasn't too cold.
Afterwards, we started a fire and cooked some hotdogs for lunch...then some smores (can't have a fire without making some of these).
The kids got some more play time in before we had to leave. We also flew some kites since there was a good breeze. Elijah had fun trying to fly his dragon kite. It was a fun time.
We weren't sure if it would be a cold day or not since most of the week had been kind of cloudy, but it was actually really nice down by the beach - mid 70's, sunny. We gathered together as a church at around 9:30am, hung out for awhile. All the kids got in the water right away! We had to drag them out so we could start the baptism service.
We went through some passages about the symbolism of baptism and then I baptized Laura in the ocean. We had to get the timing right so we didn't get nailed by the waves. The water wasn't too cold.
Afterwards, we started a fire and cooked some hotdogs for lunch...then some smores (can't have a fire without making some of these).
The kids got some more play time in before we had to leave. We also flew some kites since there was a good breeze. Elijah had fun trying to fly his dragon kite. It was a fun time.
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