An Update on Life

Wow! Lots has happened in the past week.

First of all, I did get an update on Baby Lily. Last I heard, she was out of ICU and in a room of her own, breathing on her own and swallowing on her own, which was GREAT news!! Your prayers are working!! I'll post more when I know more!

This past weekend was our long-awaited, long-planned Disciple Now Weekend. Basically, this is a weekend for youth filled with food, Bible teaching, staying up late, crazy events, etc. We decided to make this D-Now a True Love Waits theme, so we also did the whole commitment service/ring ceremony thing. We played broomball on ice (SOOOO fun!) and it was such a great time with our 35 youth who attended.

After gearing up for all of this, though, we got news that Blu's grandma passed away on Friday morning. So we had to leave our Disciple Now weekend in the hands of parents/youth leaders and spend the weekend with family at the funeral. Now, the funny part. We left our True Love Waits (sexual purity) weekend, and stayed in an old brothel! It was a place called Coupland Dance Hall that they rented out for the family, where the brothel/inn was above the dance hall. So you climb these narrow stairs and there's poker tables, blackjack tables, sitting areas, and TONS of bedrooms. It looked like what I pictured a brothel to look like back in the day! (ever read Redeeming Love??) So we went to visitation, ate, and then us youngsters all headed for the dance hall and did some two-steppin' late into the night. :) What would our youth think?! I'm sure they all pictured us sitting around in dresses mourning the loss of his grandma (which we DID!), but as we played Texas Hold 'Em and later did the jitterbug, I couldn't help but laugh!

Anyway, between these two events, we are exhausted! My KIDS are exhausted! I will definitely spend this week detoxing them back into MY schedule of eating/naps! Speaking of kids, I know that I have been negligent in posting pictures of them....So here's the most recent..



And if the purple bow got such attention for sister, he had to try it too...


Have a great week!