No Place Like Home

We have returned home from our trip to New York City.  The kids survived miles and miles of walking.  I survived flying in a plane.  Meggan survived dealing with the three of us and 9 million of our closest friends.  I'll post more about the trip over the next few days.  For now, I'm just happy to be back in my own bed...


The view from my seat on the plane...

 The view from our hotel room on the 28th floor...

On A Jet Plane

It was very hard to break the news to her that she wasn't coming with us on our trip to New York City....

For those of you that know me, you probably can guess how many times I offered to stay home with her instead of getting on an airplane...All.the.times.

To The Hole

My man just kicked off another hoops season.  I'm not going to hold my breath, but I'm hoping he gets his first dunk this year.

Who Shot Him?

When we saw this display the other day, Everett, who loves all Christmas decorations, said "look, for $14.99 we can get bullet-wound Santa".  While hilarious to me, I do wonder where his little mind goes sometimes....

There Are No Bad Questions

We've been sitting around the Christmas tree each night and talking about Advent.   Amelia had some deep questions regarding how we know the strength of God's grace,  how we know if we sin too much, and what we expect to happen when Christ returns.  Everett, however, had questions related to Christ, but not at all what we were discussing.  His big question tonight, and he asked it as earnestly and seriously as he could, was "If God talks to you in a burning bush, which is burning with Holy fire and not regular fire, and you touch the bush, will you get burned?  You might because it is still fire.  But you also might not because the bush doesn't get burned. I don't know.". 

Goalie Moves

Everett got to play in his first ever Futsal game this weekend.  As part of that game, he also had his first opportunity to play goalie.  While he didn't have to defend any shots, I haven't seen a goalie with better moves....

Thanks

Another great Thanksgiving is in the books.  Unfortunately, a few guests weren't able to make the trip, but we still made the best of it. We were able to survive with great food (thanks to Amelia for making peanut butter balls and Meggan for making nearly everything else) and great company (thanks to my sister, my aunt, and my uncle who made the trip),  Hopefully everyone can make it next year.  For now, we're enjoying the day.