Lehmann baby 3 on the way

Well Keri and Aaron made it to encounter this morning, but it wasn’t long before they were headed out the door and heading to the hospital in anticipation of baby 3.
The latest from Aaron around 1 p.m. CST is that they are going to induce Keri today. So we should see a new addition to the Lehmann family before too long.
Laurie and I will be heading to the hospital before too long so we’ll be sure to grab some photos of the going-ons.

New reading

We picked up a couple new books at Mardels today (as if I really need more books to finish :-)). I feel like I’m reading four books right now – which is pretty close to the truth. I read different ones at different points of the day.
Laurie wanted to get Don Miller’s book, Searching for God Knows What and I was hoping to get Rob Bell’s latest book, Sex God.
We didn’t find Sex God but I got Bill Hybel’s book, Holy Discontent, which Brian’s been reading lately. I’m looking forward to reading both.
In the meantime, I think I’ll throw out a couple tags…
I want to know what Michael Robinson is reading, my mom, my dad, Thomas and Walker. So tag – you five are it.

Power Uno

Laurie and I just got back from Kara and Tim’s, we kind of invited ourselves over to hang out with my sister and her husband. They went to the Dallas Farmer’s Market today and picked up a bunch of fruit and veggies, so they provided the sides and a great blackberry cobbler and we brought the meat, sirloin steaks.

We had a great meal, a strawberry summer salad, green beans and new potatoes and the steak.
It all went down great with the hot cobbler and Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. MMMmmmm….

Afterwards we played a couple games, Imagine If, and Power Uno.

I think Imagine If maybe Kara’s new favorite game – but she cleaned house the first round we played so that may have something to do with it.

We ran into a couple snags though with Power Uno, since Laurie and I had only played it once a couple week’s ago at our Community Group meeting (it was a very spiritual week :-)).

I’m going to try and remember the situations and see if anyone has an answer to them. I can’t find any “official” rules or instructions for Power Uno on the web, although I did find some instructions for Super Power, No Sissies.

Just to set up the game/picture we were playing in this order, Jonathan > Laurie > Kara > Tim.

Situation 1: Going around the circle, it was my turn and I played a Draw 2 card. Laurie was next and she drew 2 cards from the deck. I then played another Draw 2 card (same color – identical card to what I laid down originally). We were confused on who would draw the next 2 cards. Would it be Laurie since I jumped in (out of turn to play a duplicate card) or would it be Kara (next in the circle after Laurie) since Laurie had already drawn two and I played at the end of her turn or the beginning of Kara’s turn?

Situation 2: When a duplicate card is played (as in above) who plays next? If I played a red 5 and Kara played a red 5 (out of turn) does she get to play again or would Tim play next since he was next in line after Kara?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated – any Power Uno players out there let us know what you think.

Anyone else find any new games or variations on old games they love playing?

We’re enjoyed Power Uno, Imagine If and another game we played on July 4 with the Treadaways, Sequence. We haven’t purchased that one yet but we’ve been meaning to. I think we have a hard time justifying paying $15 for it when we saw it at Half Price Books for $6 :-). We’ve also enjoyed Boxers or Briefs but I think Imagine If may beat that one out as a top game. And if we can find it in a store, we’d like to purchase Dirty Laundry.

Why young adults stop, continue and restart attending church

Churchrelevance has the latest from a Lifeway survey that shows that 70% of Protestant young adults ages 18-22 stop attending church regularly for at least a year, why 30% continue attending church, and why 75% of those who dropout return to church at ages 23-30.

AMONG THOSE WHO STOP ATTENDING CHURCH

  • 27% say they simply wanted a break from church
    >> 20% planned on taking a break from church once they finished high school
  • 25% say they moved to college and stopped attending church
  • 23% say work responsibilities prevented them from attending
  • 22% say they moved too far away from the church to continue attending
  • 22% became too busy, though still wanted to attend
  • 17% chose to spend more time with friends outside the church

ABC talks to The Edge


ABC’s Nightline talked with The Edge of U2 recently about what songs were on his playlist.
The Beatles, The Skids and some great American bands top the list.
There’s also footage of ABC’s interview with The Edge and Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day before they helped open the Super Dome last year in New Orleans.
Check it out