Travelers

So we recently made a trip to Pennsylvania for a family reunion. We got a picture of Noelle sitting in the seat all by herself. It reminded us of another trip we took when Nathan was about the same age. :-) They are both about 6 months in these pictures.

Donkey

Nathan has a new Bible insight he'd like to share with our blog-reading family and friends. Though many of the passages in the Bible focus on people, there is an equally important Biblical figure - the donkey.

Pictured prominently in our illustrated children's Bible, "don-dey" takes people to and fro. He spans many generations. He is a part of both Old and New Testaments. He is sometimes sitting, sometimes carrying, sometimes watching, but always integral to the best stories. Nathan will flip through page after page looking for "don-dey" and smiling with glee when he finds him on yet another adventure. Jason has had to ad lib the Bible text a bit to include the important plot elements centering around "don-dey". (As you would suspect, Elijah traveled often with a "don-dey" and Joseph and Mary and "don-dey" had to go back to the temple to find Jesus...)

Sometimes it takes a child to open our eyes to a different world. I imagine God looks at our lives through very different eyes than our own too. I hope that I may see as He sees.

Workout Wonderland

I’ve been saving a list of blog titles the last couple weeks, knowing I was falling behind on all the fun things I’d like to be sharing with everyone. And so now I’m trying to capture in as few words as possible what we’ve been up to.

Jason and Aaron (of Aaron and Amanda, who live in our basement apt.) have discovered a new use for an old, poorly maintained greenhouse. Empty it out and turn it into a new house for the workout bench. With a couple afternoons of hard labor, we now have an exercise facility on the premises. And as you can see, Nathan was very helpful in the whole endeavor. (The guys even fumigated the place with a bug bomb. Hopefully the critters will leave it alone.)