Pic of Week

From KTs gymnastics meet this past weekend.  She was 1st on floor, 2nd on bars, and 3rd all around! A great showing for the 1st meet of the year!

No Vacancy

Have you ever been to a church that was really crowded?  No "man-space" aka one-chair in between me & you?  How about the reverse...have you been to a church that looked like this?

Our church (Waters Edge Church) announced this past weekend that they are opening a 4th campus (mobile this time) in Williamsburg and will be expanding the Yorktown campus!  Amazing what God can do!  WEC is doing this because the "optimum" church service times are at capacity.  I know alot of people will struggle with the $ aspect of this growth, but let's ask a question. Is it important to make room?  What if your neighbor, your co-worker, your aunt, or whoever comes to church one day and see's this...

and maybe under it in smaller letters it says "sorry, go to Hell".  Is that ok?  So why do we say ok, ok, ok when we talk about reaching people but when $ gets involved our tune tends to change?  Things that make you say Hmmm.

Quick Trip

Nicholas & I dropped off Katelyn, Jenny, & Alex (her gymnastics friends we carpool with alot) and then we decided to run to Sam's for a "quick trip". Goldfish, laundry soap, and maybe some granola bars. Yeah right! One cart full later and a pretty $ at the register we made it out. Oh well, we needed everything we ended up getting. There seems to be a bunch of locus' in this house...food goes fast! I don't know how extremely large families or families with all boys do it!

Emma had a volleyball game tonight, and the JV team won again! Almost tournament time.

Dream Weaver

Last night I had this dream where I was driving a semi-truck.  This truck had every electronic known to man inside the cab, and the front looked like a little like this...

I was driving hands-free and talking to the truck on where to go next (kind of like KITT from Knight Rider!). Next thing I know, I'm free-falling off a skyscraper.  Spider-man swings by to save me, but he misses!  Next thing you know...boom!  I made it all up!

I rarely dream, or rarely remember that I dream.  According to www.dreamresearch.net, we can think of a "dream" as a report of a memory of a cognitive experience that happens under the kinds of conditions that are most frequently produced in a state called "sleep."  It went on to say; It seems likely that all of us forget 95-99% of our dreams for the very ordinary reason that we sleep right through them and aren't paying attention to remembering anything.  Whew! I think I'm ok for not remembering many.

Anyway, I've always been a little jealous of people that describe their dreams and the crazy things that happen there.  

How about you...do you dream?  

Week in Review

Be happy, it's Saturday!  Some things from this week:

- I was recalled back to work on Monday.  Yeah!  Furloughed only 4 days...whew.  My heart goes out to those that are still furloughed because we have political parties that can't come together for decisions.
- Emma had a couple volleyball games this week, and they won both.  Last night was a nail biter though! They are now 11-3. Only a couple more games and then tournament time.
- Nicholas's Zoo trip was cancelled thanks to all the rain we've had the past few days.  We had a mini NorEaster with wind/rain.  The school is gonna try for this Thursday
- Katelyn's class is going on a field trip this week to Pamplin Park in Richmond...it's a Civil War historical park
- Nicholas/Emma both have volleyball clinics this morning
- We're going to try to make a trip to the Pumpkin Patch today.  The one we go to has awesome pumpkin ice cream!
- 1st quarter is almost over for the kids...and all are still carrying As across the board!  So proud
- I talked with Mary several times this week as Dad spent some time in the hospital.  Doing ok, but his situation has really brought to light how scary health care can be w/o an advocate for the patient.  Love you Mary!
- Katelyn's principle told Angie she was so happy our kids are part of SCA and how Katelyn brings a "calming sense" to the classroom.  Katie Kenney?  Our Katelyn?  :)  Wow, glad to hear she can sit still!

Thursday Thoughts

Day 3 of government shutdown...day 3 of furlough.  Trying not to think to much about it, nothing I can do to fix it.  Praying for our leaders to work together.  I think they need prayer...I know they get lots of negative attention.

I took the pool down today and got it to the dump.  The poles had more rust in them than I thought...I'm not sure it would have made it through another winter.

Emma's been on her school retreat since Wednesday.  She'll come home tomorrow afternoon.  I'm one of the drivers to go get them and bring them home.  That's been one positive of being furloughed...I've been able to be with the kids in the morning and take them and pick them up from school.

Emma was re-baptized this past weekend.  She's been talking about wanting to since she says she was baptized young and she understands a little better now.  This past weekend was a spontaneous baptism..256 baptisms!

Nicholas has come home from school with an "accident report" twice already!  Neither time was serious, but geez!  He gets to go to the zoo on a field trip next week..I've signed up to drive!