I’m that cool

Lorrie and I have been recently watching the TLC show, “Little people, Big World.”   Great show, documentary style of a “little people” or “dwarf” couple who have 4 children.  Three of the children are regular size and one is also a dwarf.  They’re all real though, real blood, real hearts, real minds, real people.
Well, [...]

New Life Throws down

We hosted a “White Elephant” Christmas party for our church (New Life) at our house.  Food, friends, and fun-a winning formula for a merry time.  Here some pics:

Left to right: Summer, Gabe, Samuel & David (wannabees)

Erin and John hanging by the most popular place: the food table

Gabe deciding on his gift

Gabe E. wondering if he’s [...]

Christmas in India

Thanks to New Life Church and their Christmas contributions towards their India mission work!  We received this email this week about how our contributions help bring about a Christ-honoring holiday in Andra Pradesh.  Here’s an excerpt:
“We all wish you A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. In this I want to give a [...]

Breath of Heaven

All that Christmas racket

from God in the Dock by C.S. Lewis
“I mean of course the commercial racket. The interchange of presents was a very small ingredient in the older English festivity. Mr. Pickwick took a cod with him to Dingley Dell; the reformed Scrooge ordered a turkey for his clerk; lovers sent love gifts; toys and fruit [...]

Rollie Pollie

Trey rolling down a slide at Burger King playland.  Trey finally started walking…when he wants to but he still prefers the crawl.

Welcome Larry Fedora to USM

Southern Miss announced the hiring of their new head football coach yesterday.  This is an exciting time at USM.  Larry come from Oky State as their offensive coordinator.

Here’s a quote from Southermiss.com:
“General George S. Patton said, `Instead of waiting to see what might develop, attack constantly, vigorously, and viciously. Never let up, never stop, always [...]

Time in Tacoma

The week before Thanksgiving we took a two day trip up to Tacoma, WA to visit our friends the McMillans (who previously lived in Vancouver, across the river from us)  We wanted to check out their cute new house and see how they still mourned moving away from us.

#3

#3 will be here around June 19th.  That’s right, Lorrie’s pregnant again.  Must be something she’s drinking?  Otherwise, I don’t know what’s going on.

Fare Thee Well

*I’ve been gone for about 10 days to Mississippi.  I’ll be catching everyone up on the Clark family this week.
We finally found a home for our cats….in Kentucky.  We couldn’t find anyone in Portland who could take our cats.  We tried Craig’s list three times, word of mouth, animal shelters, and sending out mass emails [...]