Josiah and I had some fun while Steph and Kharis played with the camera:

Pray for me y’all.

This little girl could ask me for a unicorn and I’d find a way to get one for her…

This was about half-way in.

More photos coming, eventually….

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Here are a few of the photos:

We were so excited to get the kids in their costumes and take Josiah trick-or-treating that we didn’t wait until dark.

So at like 6:00, Josiah is in his Buzz Lightyear costume, with long-johns underneath, and Kharis is in her (thick) fleece pumpkin costume.

We took a few photos and tried to kill some time waiting for the sun to go down, but it didn’t take long for Kharis to get really hot in her costume.

So, Steph was trying to help her out with a little “mommy air conditioning”.

So, without further ado:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvs__fWNmME

My little sister is the cat’s pajamas.

This past weekend, she threw us a baby shower for Jelly Bean (coming to a nursery near you in just 9 more weeks) that looked like it should have been featured on a cable reality show.

After weeks of planning and preparation, she came over Friday night and was up until the wee hours of the morning getting everything decorated.

These are just a few of the special details.

Thanks Katie!

I LOVE our church.

I LOVE our church.

I freakin’ LOVE our church!

19 services. 178 baptisms*. The Gospel preached. The Kingdom expanded. History made.

Check out this recap of Easter Sunday:

Easter Recap from The Summit Church

Jesus is moving in RDU. Watch out Granville county: you’re next.

*give or take about 5… they change this number every time I hear it

In this part of North Carolina, there are usually a couple times every winter when the weather man forecasts a ‘BIG’ snow event.

This usually results in considerable chaos — everybody freaking out:

-buying all the bread and milk in sight

-crashing local news websites by re-loading the weather page every 20 seconds

-impulsively buying kerosene heaters and snow chains for their car tires…

I completely blame the media around here. They show the weather every 10 minutes and the weather people totally soak it up.

A few of years ago, this happened. They forecast ELEVEN inches of snow, so our local airport preemptively canceled all flights for the following day. In the end, we didn’t see one flake, and mom and dad missed the first (and only, so far) cruise of their lives because their flight was canceled.

So, all that to say, this weekend we actually got some snow!

We probably got around 7 inches here, and about 20 miles north, mom and dad got a good foot and so did our mom and dad in Virginia.

Part of the reason that a good snow around here is so exciting is that it pretty much mandates staying at home and just relaxing.

I’ve read that the entire NC DOT budget for clearing roads is usually whiped out in one morning after we have a good snow. I believe it, ’cause it’s been 5 days and our road is still an ice skating rink.

But on the up side, we had a good time doing not much of anything this weekend!

We took Josiah out to play and he had a blast.

He looked like the kid in “A Christmas Story” who has so many layers on that he can’t move his arms. It was really cute, but even with all the layers, his nose started running like a faucet about 5 minutes after we got him out there, so we didn’t stay very long.

His favorite part was when I would throw snowballs. He would say, “Ball! Ball!”

He also got a kick out of the ice scraper, which he decided must be a spoon (“poo-nah”).

The kicker is that they’re forecasting lots more snow for this coming weekend, so we’ll see what happens!

…but I won’t hold my breath

This is July – September.

Which was the summer…

Which is when we lost our dang minds and started snapping pictures like it was the end of the world apparently drank some funky kool-aid and took WAY too many pictures.

So here’s your warning: There are like 20 pictures here.

Or 30.

Or 117.

Don’t judge us…

Most of these come from our ‘official family vacation’ that we took in July.

One of them is the first photo I ever had officially published! (Can you guess which one it is?)

We spent a couple days handing out at mom and dad’s to celebrate thanksgiving, and I made them come outside to take some pictures. Neither one of them like having their picture taken very much, but they were gracious to humor me, and I think it was worth the 10 minutes of agony they endured!

I think I’ll treasure these for a long time!

In the meantime, here’s my desktop for this week: