Well, as you may remember, my life and I were planning on going camping Friday night after attending the wedding of our friends Josh McDonald and Amy Wade.
I got to show off my new clothes. As you can see in the photo, I still have a habit of leaning or slouching down when I’m standing next to Laurie. I’m hoping I didn’t do that in our wedding photos. We’re still waiting to get those back.
While we were at the wedding reception in downtown Dallas at the Trammel Crow building, we received a call from Dollye saying, “There’s a tornado watch and a thunderstorm warning. They’re expecting 70 mile an hour winds and we don’t think our tent will hold up.” Needless to say, they began packing up to head home.
So we opted out of heading north and decided to head south and home afterwards. The storms hit around 1 a.m., about the time we were falling asleep.
With no other plans for the weekend we took it easy Saturday and visited our parents, went to an Army Supply store for some Geocaching goodies, ate an early dinner at El Fenix (Mmm) and picked up the Pres-i-nator from Laurie’s parents.
We came home and drove around the Waxahachie area before retiring for the night. We’re planning to hide several Geocaches in the area so we drove around to scout out a few ideas.
I decided to sleep in Sunday morning and not help the set-up crew at encounter since they weren’t expecting me. It was a nice change.
Sunday was another relaxing day as we (I really mean she) took care of some laundry and we visited Brian & Heather and other encounter folks for an anniversary shower at their house.
Now we just have to figure out a time we can go camping again before it gets too unbelievably hot, or too cold again.
Month: June 2007
Nigerian missionary housing
Ever wonder how a Nigerian missionary lives?
Erin has some photos posted of her home in Jos.
Sally gives her testimony at encounter
Sally gives her testimony at encounter
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
Sally was back at church yesterday! Praise God. Three weeks after being sent into emergency surgery at Baylor Dallas for AMV and a blood clot, Sally gave her testimony at encounter yesterday.
I’ll post her testimony online as soon as we can get it uploaded.
Thanks so much for your prayers. Sally and her husband Jose are a living testimony of grace and God’s power.
Listen to Sally’s testimony
The times are a changin’
From the DMN:
Here’s an interesting pair of statistics from Christianity Today:
42% — American evangelicals who say school boards should have the right to fire homosexual teachers.
73% — American evangelicals who said this in 1987.
Avoid popsicle madness
Everyone loves a good popsicle, but everyone also hates the sticky goo you get on your hands if it’s not eaten fast enough.
Lifehacker passes along a simple solution for everyone, that may come in super handy with all the church VBSs coming up soon.
Slide the wooden stick of an ice pop through a coffee filter so your hands stay mess-free.
Wa-lah! Save yourself some fuss with a bag full of coffee filters this summer.
A Fat Rant
A Fat Rant.
A family friend seems to be making it pretty big on YouTube. Joy Nash was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight for her YouTube video, Fat Rant. Over 775,000 views. Not bad.
From my mom:
Have you seen the video on the web called Fat Rant? It has created quite a stir. The creator and star in it happens to be Joy Nash. Do you remember her. Perhaps you were too young when they moved to California. Anyway, her dad was best man in our wedding. We were watching Entertainment Tonight last night, and they showed part of the video and interviewed her. Almost at the end it hit me….Joy Nash…..could it be? I hadn’t seen her in years (she was just a little girl when they moved), but she was the right age for the Joy I knew and looked like pictures I’d seen. Fred called John, her dad, and sure enough, it was her.
Checked out her website, and this is actually how I remember her (I think we might have even had this pic on our fridge at one point):
