Brent Preaching

For those of you who want to listen to Brent's sermon from this morning... click here... It should be on there in the next day or two...

Clarification... and some other stuff

Kara's initial reaction to her purse was that I was disappointed in... but she did get way excited about it after we were done with presents on such...

I also got the best deck of cards ever... they have a picture of Jenny and David on them :)

We made it back last night around midnight... when we were going to bed, we realized that our bed was falling apart. Not really sure how it happened, but we got it back together best we could last night and will have to take it apart today to really fix it.

We had a great time visiting with the people we saw. Sorry it couldn't have been longer...

Anyways.. I should probably finish getting ready for church and such. Have a wonderful New Years week!

Merry Christmas

We made it to Michigan.. the drive was long and boring and uneventful. We got some rain in the eastern part of PA... but other than that, we had no bad weather....

Christmas morning with the Mom, Mike, and Kara was good this morning. I was pretty disappointed by Kara's reaction to her pretty much amazing gift from us... But her present for me made up for her lame reaction. Kara got me a cabbage patch doll that is named Keyla! And it eats ice cream :) I also got a TomTom and a huge picture frame. Brent got some more noomas and Guitar Hero for Wii. We got some games and movies too.. and of course more stuff for our house :)

Then we had the Franks family Christmas... we were only there for a little while, but it was nice to see Mike's family. I got some scrubs and Brent got some puzzles.

We headed to Battle Creek and saw Aunt Judy, Uncle Randy, Tiffany, Tommy, and Allie before they left for Florida. Then went to Brent's parents' house... where Jenny was! She was excited to see us:) Ashley and Jason and David and Alyssa and Shane were also there. David is pretty cute and way cuddly :) I got some more scrubs and a picture frame set and a game and some other stuff. Brent got some new pants, some shirts, shoes, another Guitar Hero game. We also got some more movies. We got to go see Grandma and Grandpa Cary too. :)

It was a good Christmas... with lots of family and some snow (that came just stay in Michigan)...

For those of you in Michigan...

.... I just thought I would let y'all know we don't have ANY snow on the ground!

I'm thinking I'm never going to miss the FEET of snow that Michigan gets :)

Christmas Plans and an update

If you haven't heard, we are going to be in Michigan for Christmas! But it is going to be a very quick trip. As of right now here's the plan....

Christmas Eve - work until 1:30 or so then head out to Michigan to my mom and Mike's house (we should be there about mid-night)

Christmas Day - morning with my mom, Mike, and Kara, then Mike's family is coming over around noon for Christmas, we plan to leave Williamston about 1:30 or so to head to Battle Creek to do Christmas with Brent's parents, Ashley, Jason, Jenny, David, Alyssa and Shane. We'll spend the night in Battle Creek.

Friday - we plan to hang out with some different family member and friends and will probably spend the night back in Williamston.

Saturday - Christmas with my mom's family around lunch time, then heading home hopefully by 2:00pm.

Sunday - Brent's preaching :)

Hopefully we will get to see a lot of people while we are home, but please keep in mind that our time is very limited while we are there. If we don't get to see you, hopefully we'll be able to be home for longer in July when we go to Michigan for Tommy and Allie's wedding.


As for an update... life has been pretty uneventful for the week or so.

Saturday we were in the Claymont Christmas Parade with church. It was actually kind of fun. We went to Qdoba on Saturday night for dinner. It was snowing (not much at all) and people were struggling. It's crazy how chaotic it gets around here with such a little amount of snow. We also did most of our Christmas shopping on Saturday.

My health seems to be improving. It's been over a week since my last kidney stone! My migraines are occurring more often but don't seem to be as bad (I'm no longer taking one of the meds to prevent my migraines because it was causing all of the kidney stones.) So that's all good :)

Friday night I'm hosting "Girls Night" for the girls in youth group and there friends. One of my friends from church, Modesty, is coming to be another adult here and Brent is spending the night at Ryan's (Modesty's fiance) house. It sounds like there will be ten or so girls here!

That's about it... like I said, not much is happening. :)

Thanksgiving Update

I'm still really enjoying my job... specially the short drive and the not having to dress up everyday.
My mom and Mike and Kara came over Thanksgiving. Kara road out with my dad on Tuesday, then he brought her here on Wednedsay afternoon, so we got to see my dad, Mariann, Trevor, and Katie for a little bit to. Thanksgiving was good... I've decided cooking a turkey is a nasty as cutting up chicken, but all of the food was yummy and I ate WAY too much. Thursday evening we went and saw the movie Four Christmases. It was okay... On Friday, my mom and Mike and Kara got up early and went shopping all morning. I had to work, so they came and visited me at work, then they came home and played Wii with Brent all afternoon. On Saturday we went into Philly. We saw the liberty bell and a bunch of parks and some different areas in Philly. It was fun. Then Sunday after church they all left to go back to Michigan.
This week/weekend we don't have much going on. Its good to have some time to relax and just chill.