Thursday, January 15, 2009
Our new nephew
Our new nephew Eli is here! Our sister-in-law Robyn had her second son early this morning. She was at the hospital all day Wednesday, but the baby did not come until just after midnight this morning. Rachel was at the hospital all day and night - we were still in Georgia when Ross was born, so she did not want to miss being there when Eli was born.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Christmas Time
Here are some pictures from December:
Our friends Brian and Maria are having their first baby in March. Ken and I helped put together baby furniture and rearrange rooms to get it ready. The pictures are from my cell phone so they are dark and grainy.
One Sunday afternoon we kept Ryleigh so Ryan and Samantha could finish Christmas shopping. We also babysat one night so they could have a date night. Ken loves to cuddle with Rowan!
This is our Christmas decorations that we did this year. The mantle wasn't as nice as I would have liked it to be but I got some decorations on sale after Christmas for next year.
Ross and his favorite hat this year!
I always do my hair in a towel after the shower. Ken was being silly and making fun of my towel head. We were cleaning and he decided to put my hair twist on his head. He can be so silly!
Here are some pictures from Christmas. Our memory card in our camera messed up and we lost a lot of pictures. Ken was able to recover most of them but I know there a quite a few missing.:( Here are some of them that we recovered.
Ross helped pass out gifts. Ross got a new hat.
Dad got a new hat too
Mom got a Wii from my dad for Christmas. Ken set it up and it was family bowling time!
We got Ross a tunnel. He is also obsessed with trains--so here is a picture of him playing trains in the tunnel. We had "Christmas Eve" on Monday the 29th with all my cousins and their kids. Ross and Caleb played trains together.
Lily was worn out! Ken and Ross playing
Ken's parents came to visit after Christmas. See the previous blog entry for more pictures but one afternoon we were driving to get the supplies for painting. It had been raining and we saw the double rainbows (enlarge and look to the right of the other rainbow). It makes me think--we were stepping out in faith and aren't rainbows a sign of God's promise?
Another day we went to the Big Dam Bridge. Dick was so excited to go on it that he locked his keys in the trunk of the car. AAA was called and an hour later someone came and popped the locks!
Our friends Brian and Maria are having their first baby in March. Ken and I helped put together baby furniture and rearrange rooms to get it ready. The pictures are from my cell phone so they are dark and grainy.
One Sunday afternoon we kept Ryleigh so Ryan and Samantha could finish Christmas shopping. We also babysat one night so they could have a date night. Ken loves to cuddle with Rowan!
This is our Christmas decorations that we did this year. The mantle wasn't as nice as I would have liked it to be but I got some decorations on sale after Christmas for next year.
Ross and his favorite hat this year!
I always do my hair in a towel after the shower. Ken was being silly and making fun of my towel head. We were cleaning and he decided to put my hair twist on his head. He can be so silly!
Here are some pictures from Christmas. Our memory card in our camera messed up and we lost a lot of pictures. Ken was able to recover most of them but I know there a quite a few missing.:( Here are some of them that we recovered.
Ross helped pass out gifts. Ross got a new hat.
Dad got a new hat too
Mom got a Wii from my dad for Christmas. Ken set it up and it was family bowling time!
We got Ross a tunnel. He is also obsessed with trains--so here is a picture of him playing trains in the tunnel. We had "Christmas Eve" on Monday the 29th with all my cousins and their kids. Ross and Caleb played trains together.
Lily was worn out! Ken and Ross playing
Ken's parents came to visit after Christmas. See the previous blog entry for more pictures but one afternoon we were driving to get the supplies for painting. It had been raining and we saw the double rainbows (enlarge and look to the right of the other rainbow). It makes me think--we were stepping out in faith and aren't rainbows a sign of God's promise?
Another day we went to the Big Dam Bridge. Dick was so excited to go on it that he locked his keys in the trunk of the car. AAA was called and an hour later someone came and popped the locks!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Stepping Out In Faith
Back at the end of November, our pastor's brother came and spoke at our church. The sermon was called "The Power of Prayer". At the beginning of the sermon he asked us to thing about a particular issue/problem currently in our life. The first thing I thought of was trying to get pregnant. (Ken and I have been trying just under a year.) The points were:
1. Powerful prayer will speak positively about the situation
2.Powerful prayer set our focus on God, not the obstacles
3. Powerful prayer stays committed even in difficulties
4. Powerful prayer sees miracles
If you want to watch the sermon-email me and I can give you directions on how to get to the website to watch it. (raebarnes@hotmail.com) It was a really good sermon. I am watching it again right now. I wish I could find the sermon notes so I can put some scripture up too. I will have to keep looking..........
At the end on the sermon he was giving example of things people have done to show their faith that God would answer their prayers. One example was: Tithing where you would like your income level to BE, rather than were it was currently at. Another was--GET THE BABY'S ROOM READY. As soon as I heard that, I knew that is what I wanted to do. Ken was working up in the sound/video booth that night. I immediately sent him a text message saying "Lets get the baby's room ready". He sent one right back saying "I was just thinking the same thing!". I have to say that I loved Ken so much more in that moment. We went home and discussed it a little. There was a lot to do before we could even think about that room being ready to paint. I did go and pick up some paint samples and we picked a shade of green that we both agreed on.(Ken was a little disappointed that I wouldn't allow "panthers blue") When Ken's parents were in town after Christmas they asked us if there were any house projects that needed to be done. We told them about getting the baby's room ready and they jumped at the opportunity. Dick did all the painting--he doesn't like to share! Ken and Dick got new shelving put up in the closet. Paula and I rearranged several rooms and reorganized things. That was a big help. We also went to Babies "R" Us and bought some gender neutral baby clothes.
So Ken and I are stepping out and faith. We are getting our baby's room ready. We are getting it ready and waiting on God to do the rest. Soon we will start looking at furniture and deciding on cribs. We are going to get everything except the baby bedding. That will be decided when we know what we are having. Here are pictures from that fun time!
BEFORE:
DICK GETTING STARTED:
KEN AND PAULA LISTENING TO THE PANTHERS GAME
AND LILY WANTING TO PLAY!:
THE AIR MATTRESS ON TOP OF OUR BED:
ONE GREEN WALL AND ONE WHITE WALL:
GETTING THE CLOSET DONE:
FINISHED FOR NOW!:
1. Powerful prayer will speak positively about the situation
2.Powerful prayer set our focus on God, not the obstacles
3. Powerful prayer stays committed even in difficulties
4. Powerful prayer sees miracles
If you want to watch the sermon-email me and I can give you directions on how to get to the website to watch it. (raebarnes@hotmail.com) It was a really good sermon. I am watching it again right now. I wish I could find the sermon notes so I can put some scripture up too. I will have to keep looking..........
At the end on the sermon he was giving example of things people have done to show their faith that God would answer their prayers. One example was: Tithing where you would like your income level to BE, rather than were it was currently at. Another was--GET THE BABY'S ROOM READY. As soon as I heard that, I knew that is what I wanted to do. Ken was working up in the sound/video booth that night. I immediately sent him a text message saying "Lets get the baby's room ready". He sent one right back saying "I was just thinking the same thing!". I have to say that I loved Ken so much more in that moment. We went home and discussed it a little. There was a lot to do before we could even think about that room being ready to paint. I did go and pick up some paint samples and we picked a shade of green that we both agreed on.(Ken was a little disappointed that I wouldn't allow "panthers blue") When Ken's parents were in town after Christmas they asked us if there were any house projects that needed to be done. We told them about getting the baby's room ready and they jumped at the opportunity. Dick did all the painting--he doesn't like to share! Ken and Dick got new shelving put up in the closet. Paula and I rearranged several rooms and reorganized things. That was a big help. We also went to Babies "R" Us and bought some gender neutral baby clothes.
So Ken and I are stepping out and faith. We are getting our baby's room ready. We are getting it ready and waiting on God to do the rest. Soon we will start looking at furniture and deciding on cribs. We are going to get everything except the baby bedding. That will be decided when we know what we are having. Here are pictures from that fun time!
BEFORE:
DICK GETTING STARTED:
KEN AND PAULA LISTENING TO THE PANTHERS GAME
AND LILY WANTING TO PLAY!:
THE AIR MATTRESS ON TOP OF OUR BED:
ONE GREEN WALL AND ONE WHITE WALL:
GETTING THE CLOSET DONE:
FINISHED FOR NOW!:
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