Entries from November 2008

November 30, 2008

Colossians, Kolaches, Klobasneks

This is my personal chef with Colossians, the name the youth gave to what we told them were kolaches. Turns out that Kolaches are a Czech food made with a dinner like roll topped with sweet fruit filling. According to Wikipedia what we make are called klobasneks, also of Czech origin, but only popular in [...]

November 30, 2008

Good Parenting

Surely this is not as weird as it looks. You’ve done this…right…?

November 27, 2008

Q&A: Thankful for Christ

This year’s freshman class at Westminster Christian Academy is appropriately studying the Westminster Shorter Catechism; not simply memorizing questions and answers, but going deeper into what each question means, where we see it in Scripture and how this applies to our lives as we actively live out the Word of God.
The students’ most recent exam [...]

November 25, 2008

Hi, I’m a Mac

This past month one of my Windows PCs crashed and burned while the other was so slow that I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Windows. The files are backed up online, but as of today I still have not been able to get them back due to the downloads constantly failing. So when it [...]

November 24, 2008

Pumpkin Muffins

Christmas music has started in our house (honestly, it started about 2 weeks ago, but that’s embarrassing!), so that means lots of pumpkin stuff! My favorite was Pumpkin bread, until last week when I made these. They called for pecans, but I substituted chocolate chips, can’t go wrong there!
They froze great and I just took [...]

November 21, 2008

SP pics

Feeling a little hindered by the baby gate!

November 20, 2008

Funny pic from this summer

Wish you could have seen this–it was awesome! Brian thought it would be funny to stand in the back of the church during VBS and try to make Janey and Amy (leading the singing) laugh. That backfired on him when they called him up there to do it in front of everyone! Some of the [...]

November 20, 2008

In-town Retreat

We had an in-town retreat this weekend (including video scavenger hunt), and while we always have a great time with the youth, this weekend was especially fun because we got to spend to much time with them. I know you may not know these teens, but they are all such a joy for us to [...]

November 18, 2008

Feeding the ducks and “beaber”

Jayne (“Yay Yay”) had the great idea of heading to a pond and feeding ducks! Becks had a blast! We saw what we ignorantly thought was a beaver, who liked the bread too and was getting really close. Which was cool when we thought it was a beaver. As we were leaving we saw the [...]

November 18, 2008

Sweet boy