Yeah me!

Got this in the mail this week. Unfortunately it's for the smaller of the two school loans, but good news none the less. Hard to believe college was 10 and a half years ago...

Nani's Birthday

Had a great party last night. Didn't think to pull the camera out until kinda late, but here's what we got. Wish you could have been there.

Nani got a "china doll" which JAC was quite interested in. Took my first video and while it's not real great, you can see a little of his enthusiasm with this. The boy is taking multiple steps, but I couldn't get that on camera.

Update - OK, the video thing isn't going to work as it's been "processing" for 12 hours now. I'll see if I can't figure out what I'm doing and try to get it up later

Getting Ready

Nani gave me permission to post these. There's going to be a party tomorrow.

In case you can't tell from the picture this says "come to Anna's princess party"

The cake

Happy Birthday

Just some pictures from the weekend birthday parties. Sorry these are so blurry.

Posing, but not for me

Someone likes to play with the camera.

JAC's b-day cupcakes

Jama's Bible quizzing awards

JAC in the box

RAPture or rapTURE'

Due to a headache, I went to bed early on Friday, and slept a bit fitfully after 9 hours. Anyway, about 4:30 Saturday morning, I heard something that in my groggy state seemed like something slamming into my front yard. Really brief, but pretty loud. I got up and looked out my window, saw nothing, looked at the clock and truthfully this was my thought.

"in a twinkling of an eye, must be the rapture. Wait, I'm here. Do I have any doubts about my salvation? no. positively not. That must mean that I am part of the remnant left here to show others the way. NOOO! I don't want that responsiblity. Lord, I can't handle that. Wait, what time is it, 4 something or other. Did I dream that? Could be, I've slept a long time and my brain doesn't know what to do. Well, I have a tough day ahead of me if it was the rapture, I'll go back to sleep."

And I did. I didn't think of it again until last night when I was watching the news. It turns out that there was an explosion and fire at a house just a couple of blocks from me. Truly horrific damage to house, and someone died. They so far don't know what caused it, but for that 23-year-old it was his last moment. He was gone in the twinkling of an eye. And I realized that I had actually heard something that morning. And then I remembered my reaction. I obviously don't have a great understanding of end times, but I was happy to realize that I was very secure in my relationship with God, and not so happy to realize my fear of the responsibility of evangelism.

I don't have a point, just thought I'd share. If you want more of the story, including some video of the devastated house, there's some here.

How was your weekend?