Happy Birthday to Jonathan

Jonathan's birthday is on Monday so we had a birthday supper tonight made by Kelli's mom who is visiting from Colorado.

Kelli made Jonathan a note puzzle with one word of the note inside 20+ balloons. This is his face when he realized he had to pop all of them...

How many ways can you pop a balloon?

Putting the note together

The Promise of Morning

Yesterday afternoon Nathan Kennemore, age 6, fell out of a tree and was killed. Carrie, Stephanie, Grant, Ross, and I worked with his mother, Deborah, at the snack bar at Carolina campmeeting and I remember him running around or sitting in the stroller in the kitchen. Their family is very special to our conference.

The promise of the SonRise pageant and Easter weekend is even more special to me today. I just can't wait until we'll get to rise up in the clouds with Jesus and get away from this filthy, sickening world. Please keep their family in your prayers.

Games and SonRise scenes

Playing Settlers last Saturday night

Kelli monopolizes ore

Ryan tries to catch Jonathan in Challengers Dice

How many people that you know can you spot in the SonRise masses?

Ok, you might not know this one but it's Ryan's Uncle Eddy and Chelsea, Luke is somewhere...

I don't really know him, but Brandon was Jesus (Tara and Erik worked with him in NZ)

Alex being obnoxious while Jesus is led to the cross

Anybody know these guys? They wore this heavy armor for almost 12 hours and fell on the ground when the angel came to the resurrection scene over and over in it...

My Wall-walkin' sister

Stephanie showed me her amazing wall walking skills when I passed through MPA this week. Now she's in Bermuda soaking up the sun.

Wedding bells and showers

Wedding bell assembly

Carrie's brother Grant and Gabby came too!

I bought Carrie the Cities and Knights extension for Settlers of Catan. This is Carrie giving Ryan the "No, for the 5th time, I will not trade you _______" look. Ryan made us lots of sweet deals despite his insisting we trade him something we didn't have...

Carrie's monopoly on #10 wood including the McDonald's metropolis

We got more and more crazy as we got more and more tired

Some Highland faculty ladies threw a shower for Ryan and Carrie on Sunday. Olivia and Gabby liked helping them unwrap all the gifts.


Don't they look so happy? I'm so excited that two of my favorite people in the world are getting married JUNE 1!!!!

Happy 21st birthday to Stephanie!

Stephanie likes yellow roses (should you ever need to know)

Making corn chowder and cornbread

Settlers of Catan extension, Corningware bake dishes, 3 tier cooling rack, and a service for 8 set of dishes back at MPA

Because we have no clue where the candles are...