#1 Fan

I love rock and roll. And I am this bands biggest fan. I had front row tickets to this one-time special edition concert! You only wish you could be there to see him performing live. Stay away girls, he's mine...all mine!

The great outdoors

Our family has been trying to get outside and we've succeeded a few times lately. We have been hiking at Tiger Mountain twice in the past week and Jeb has been taking Liam there most days while I am working. I like hiking. I like being outdoors. Sometimes I just feel so bottled up in my little apartment that I can hardly contain my desire to be outside. Times like this make me a whole lot happier. I like God's creation. I appreciate it. It's beautiful. It's calming. It's invigorating. There's nothing quite like it. Along the way we saw this happy log. Jeb carts Liam around and always gives him a stick to play with. Liam sits there in the back with his stick reaching with all his might to hit trees and bushes with it and every now and then accidentally takes a swing at Dad too.

At the end of this particular hiking place we run across some blackberries. I know, scrumptious after a hike. They're so sweet and ripe right now too. The other day we went to some friends house to pick blackberries and had enough left over to make a pie AND a cobbler AND some to go in my freezer. During the picking I got into some stinging nettle. I haven't been stung by that stuff since 3rd grade at Camp Yamhill. My skin welted and everything! But after all that I still had a delicous homemade-still-warm-from-the-oven pie to soothe the pain. I think it was all worth it.

Later Alligator

Liam's little friends keep coming and going out of his life. Here he is with his friend Jude who moved to Texas. We'll miss Jude's mom and dad too. They are getting a pretty sweet deal since they'll be a lot closer to their families now. God bless you Abuzeides as you make your new home!

Jeb and I just got back from a trip to Santa Rosa, CA. We went there for Peter Wilson and Lindsey Morgan's wedding. It was such a beautiful and worship-full ceremony! Their love and faith was so evident in everything that was said and sung! We interned in Santa Rosa for a summer 6 years ago and while we have seen people like Lindsey over the years, we saw everyone from church while we were there. I must say that there is something special and awesome going on at the Sonoma Ave church of Christ in Santa Rosa. To me they embody a people that lives out the grace that Jesus shows us. Their love for eachother and their community is so evident. It was funny going back and visiting all of the places that we spent time at that summer...places like the church building. Going back today, to be honest, it is a pretty ghetto church building. But that never seemed to get in the way of God's spirit moving hearts and changing lives there. Should you ever be passing through that way, stop on by and more than likely they will open their doors and arms and welcome you in and you will get a sense of God's presence like never before!