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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Hi
As you can see I have added some very cute pictures of Eva and all her friends since you last checked the blog. However, what I am about to do next is to show you some pictures of the annual dying of Stevie's hair. These pictures come with a warning - if you are offended at all by big hair, please proceed with caution.
Stevie is still with us and we are just having fun doing not very much and eating far too much. We watched Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgandy, today and almost pissed our pants laughing together. That movie is so funny.
Got a tough day happening tomorrow, and thats all I can tell you about it right now. So if you reading this on the morning of the 16th August - say a prayer for the people I will be with today, they need your prayerful support.
Okay, I think I will add the rest of the pics and come back to post some more tomorrow.
Blessings
As you can see I have added some very cute pictures of Eva and all her friends since you last checked the blog. However, what I am about to do next is to show you some pictures of the annual dying of Stevie's hair. These pictures come with a warning - if you are offended at all by big hair, please proceed with caution.
Stevie is still with us and we are just having fun doing not very much and eating far too much. We watched Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgandy, today and almost pissed our pants laughing together. That movie is so funny.
Got a tough day happening tomorrow, and thats all I can tell you about it right now. So if you reading this on the morning of the 16th August - say a prayer for the people I will be with today, they need your prayerful support.
Okay, I think I will add the rest of the pics and come back to post some more tomorrow.
Blessings
Friday, August 12, 2005
Okay, major apologies for not updating sooner than this. It has been a busy week and I have not had the time at my computer to updates, except to add some pictures. Today is the opposite, I have a wee bit of time to write but no time pictures to upload.
So this week has been good for us as a family. we took Eva to the Doc for her 9 week check up and we found out that she is now 15lbs and 9ozs and is 25 1/4 inches tall. The Doctor was very happy with her and said she was in perfect health and doing extremely well so far. She is such an angel of a child as well. Eva sleeps 10-12hrs every night and has to be woken up - I reckon she has inherited her Mum and Dad's ability to sleep. Not only is she a sleeping machine but she rarely gets upset with things. The only time she is stressed is when she is in the car - she does not like it for some reason and definitely lets us know. Other than this though she seems so content and at peace. It is cool.
The other highlight of our week was the arrival of our BFF stevie Patterson who is here with us for three weeks on a well earned holiday. It has been great just to hang out and play Championship Manager. It has been even greater to get to talk and listen to where he is at right now and to see what God is doing in him and through his ministry. It is also good for me to be able to share some things with him that are on my heart. hwever, the greatest joy I have had it to introduce Eva to him and let them meet. Stevie is great with her and makes her giggle a lot - just as he does with everyone around him.
Youth was great last night. We had 23 kids turn up to our house for our senior high youth and I must say that for me it was one of the most amazing nights I have had with them. I think I have already stated how our youth group has had an amazing summer and how the mission trips have totally impacted them all as individuals. We have kids that are experienceing their relationship with God personally for the first time - they are hearing his voice and hearing his call on their lives and they are being salt and light in their schools to their friends. Last night I asked them again to consider how their relationship with God is going and at what level they find themselves at the minute. Then I read to them the story of the Rich Young Ruler from Luke's Gospel. In this story a man ask jesus what he must do to gain eternal life. Jesus tells him to keep the commands (he mentions about 6 of the commandments). The guy in return says that he has kept all of these since he was a boy. Jesus then says that there is one more thing he has to do then - sell all his stuff and give the money to the poor. At this the young man walked away saddened as he was very wealthy. He was prepared to live the righteous life, but when it came to giving up his wealth, he was not cool with that. Stevie asked me when i was talking with him, what would have happened if the young man had have given his wealth away? His question was more about what Jesus was trying to teach the young man. See what Jesus was trying to illustrate was that even though the young man was living a righteous life of doing the right thing and being in the right places, there was still one more thing that was not being surrendered to God. The secret to eternal life according to Jesus in this story, is the total surrender of our hearts and wills to God - the giving up of the things we hold on to. Youth group was so cool last night because it seemed like our youth were getting that. My prayer is that God will continue to hold them close and raise them up to be the leaders and world changers he has called and given them the potential to be.
Okay, thats enough for now. Oh, hold one one more thing.
Eva's Auntie Jen has been making some comments on this blog and has made rerference to the fact that we never let anyone know how much Eva loves her. So you are seeing it here and now that Eva love's her Auntie Jen and really struggles in the times betweenher visits. He he he!!!! We all love you Jen and Ron - Eva has great people around her.
Blessings
So this week has been good for us as a family. we took Eva to the Doc for her 9 week check up and we found out that she is now 15lbs and 9ozs and is 25 1/4 inches tall. The Doctor was very happy with her and said she was in perfect health and doing extremely well so far. She is such an angel of a child as well. Eva sleeps 10-12hrs every night and has to be woken up - I reckon she has inherited her Mum and Dad's ability to sleep. Not only is she a sleeping machine but she rarely gets upset with things. The only time she is stressed is when she is in the car - she does not like it for some reason and definitely lets us know. Other than this though she seems so content and at peace. It is cool.
The other highlight of our week was the arrival of our BFF stevie Patterson who is here with us for three weeks on a well earned holiday. It has been great just to hang out and play Championship Manager. It has been even greater to get to talk and listen to where he is at right now and to see what God is doing in him and through his ministry. It is also good for me to be able to share some things with him that are on my heart. hwever, the greatest joy I have had it to introduce Eva to him and let them meet. Stevie is great with her and makes her giggle a lot - just as he does with everyone around him.
Youth was great last night. We had 23 kids turn up to our house for our senior high youth and I must say that for me it was one of the most amazing nights I have had with them. I think I have already stated how our youth group has had an amazing summer and how the mission trips have totally impacted them all as individuals. We have kids that are experienceing their relationship with God personally for the first time - they are hearing his voice and hearing his call on their lives and they are being salt and light in their schools to their friends. Last night I asked them again to consider how their relationship with God is going and at what level they find themselves at the minute. Then I read to them the story of the Rich Young Ruler from Luke's Gospel. In this story a man ask jesus what he must do to gain eternal life. Jesus tells him to keep the commands (he mentions about 6 of the commandments). The guy in return says that he has kept all of these since he was a boy. Jesus then says that there is one more thing he has to do then - sell all his stuff and give the money to the poor. At this the young man walked away saddened as he was very wealthy. He was prepared to live the righteous life, but when it came to giving up his wealth, he was not cool with that. Stevie asked me when i was talking with him, what would have happened if the young man had have given his wealth away? His question was more about what Jesus was trying to teach the young man. See what Jesus was trying to illustrate was that even though the young man was living a righteous life of doing the right thing and being in the right places, there was still one more thing that was not being surrendered to God. The secret to eternal life according to Jesus in this story, is the total surrender of our hearts and wills to God - the giving up of the things we hold on to. Youth group was so cool last night because it seemed like our youth were getting that. My prayer is that God will continue to hold them close and raise them up to be the leaders and world changers he has called and given them the potential to be.
Okay, thats enough for now. Oh, hold one one more thing.
Eva's Auntie Jen has been making some comments on this blog and has made rerference to the fact that we never let anyone know how much Eva loves her. So you are seeing it here and now that Eva love's her Auntie Jen and really struggles in the times betweenher visits. He he he!!!! We all love you Jen and Ron - Eva has great people around her.
Blessings
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Eva went for her first swim today - it was so cool. She is only two months old and we thought the water might have shocked her a bit but she loved it and just let it all happen.
Enjoy the pics.
I have a lot of stuff to write and share that has taken place in the last few days but I am not in the writing mood. You can catch up on that later when I am in the mood!!!!!
Blessings
Enjoy the pics.
I have a lot of stuff to write and share that has taken place in the last few days but I am not in the writing mood. You can catch up on that later when I am in the mood!!!!!
Blessings
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
A Song for My Wee Girl
So I not a great song writer at all but I love to do it. Here is what I wrote for Eva
She arrived with us on the 6th of June in this year of 2005
She'd been kicking and punching in the womb for a while
But now it was time to arrive.
Eva, you make your Mum and Dad so proud
Eva, your time has come around
It took just a few seconds for you to capture our hearts, for you we would do anything
And our love for you Eva, has done nothing but grow.
You've made our hearts to sing.
Eva, you teach your Mum and Dad to love
Eva, you're our sweet gift from above.
It's only eight weeks but we've got so many dreams of the things that we might see you do
But whatever it is that you do in this life
To your heart, Eva be true.
Eva, together we're making a start
Eva, each day you capture more of our hearts.
God is your maker, he knows the hairs on your head, he knows the plans that he has for you
As you Mum and your Dad, we have surrendered our hearts to him
We hope that you will too.
Eva, God holds you in his hand
Eva, he's the shepherd your his lamb
Eva, you're teaching us to love
Eva, you're our sweet gift from above.
She arrived with us on the 6th of June in this year of 2005
She'd been kicking and punching in the womb for a while
But now it was time to arrive.
Eva, you make your Mum and Dad so proud
Eva, your time has come around
It took just a few seconds for you to capture our hearts, for you we would do anything
And our love for you Eva, has done nothing but grow.
You've made our hearts to sing.
Eva, you teach your Mum and Dad to love
Eva, you're our sweet gift from above.
It's only eight weeks but we've got so many dreams of the things that we might see you do
But whatever it is that you do in this life
To your heart, Eva be true.
Eva, together we're making a start
Eva, each day you capture more of our hearts.
God is your maker, he knows the hairs on your head, he knows the plans that he has for you
As you Mum and your Dad, we have surrendered our hearts to him
We hope that you will too.
Eva, God holds you in his hand
Eva, he's the shepherd your his lamb
Eva, you're teaching us to love
Eva, you're our sweet gift from above.
I never knew this blog was being read by as many people as it is being read by - thats cool but makes me think I should be careful what I write...just joshing!!!!
So the weekend has passsed since I last updated and we have taken a stack of photos of stuff to be shared with you.
Last week I got to spend a lot more time with Eva than I have in recent weeks due to mission trips and busyness at work. It has been such a fruitful week in terms of me being Eva's Dad. When Margaret asked me could I come home early from the office to accomodate her going out for some messages last week, I thought 'Yeah, no problem!'. As I mentioned already, I had all my little plans in place in terms of how I would get Eva to sleep and use the resulting time to myself wisely. It turned out that I had not got a clue what I was tlaking about and neither did I have a clue what I should be doing with or for Eva. I was literally calling Margaret every ten minutes asking her what it was I needed to be doing. Thankfully it is experience which teaches us and I have learned a thing or two in the last number of days and I feel much more equipped now to look after Eva - realising that that time is her time and not mine!!!!!! I actually am loving the time we get together now. It is time where I get to see how she is developing and the cool new things she can do. She has developed this very cool smile/giggle, she is able to focus on us and look into our eyes, her muscles are developing and strengthening all the time - to coin an American phrase (which I feel I have the right to do given that I live here) it is way cool!!!!
The weekend was a fun time. I got to take the kids from our youth group to the Rapids Water Park - www.rapidswaterpark.com - in West Palm Beach on Friday morning and afternoon. It was a fun day out. I reckon the youth could have stayed there all day but we came back for around 4.30pm. I got to chill out in the Lazy River at the park and go on a few of the slides - water parks are cool - though on Friday it was a full house, I am hoping that when/if Stevie visits in the next couple of weeks I will be able to take him there and the kids of Florida will all be industriously attending school again after their summer break. If that is the case I will be able to report more on the cool rides and slides there. Friday night we were supposed to go to the local Baseball park and watch the St Lucie Mets in action. This is the closest we get to any major sports in our area. It ended up being very hot on Friday night and we decided that it was not going to be comfortable to be sitting out in and thus skipped on it. Staurday morning I had a meeting for an event that I will be involved in this coming September called the Walk To Emmaus - www.upperroom.org - The meeting went well and I am glad that I am a part of this team. more will follow on this as the weekend gets closer.
On Saturday night, Margaret, Eva and I went to our good friends Pam and Eddie Szymczyk's house for some dinner and a visit. This was also going to be the venue for the second Championship Pictionary game between the ladies and the men. In the inaugural match the girls won in a very closely fought match and to be honest it looked like they would win again this time. They stormed out of the blocks to build up a commanding lead getting half way around the board while the men were still stuck on the first couple of spaces. It took us a while but we eventually got our game together and started to catch up on the ladies. After the half time 'Feed Eva and go to the Bathroom' break the girls again drew themselves into a reasonable lead leaving the guys for dust. But as predicted by the men in the pre-game smack talk, we came back and passed the ladies, marching our way to a great victory. They are trying to claim a 1-1 in the series but as men we know in our hearts that we are the current and defending champions of pictionary.
On Sunday we had church as normal in the morning and youth as normal that night. In between however, the church put on a post birth baby shower for Eva. It was so humbling to see all the brothers and sisters of our spiritual family turning out to celebrate the arrival of Eva in this world. Each of them were all so generous and Margaret and I were deeply humbled. We had a lovely time together and I got to debut a wee song that I had written for Eva. I will post the lyrics for you next time I write. I will also put up some pictures for you.
Today we have lazed, tidied, shopped for some essentials and watched The Closer - a very cool new drama on TNT here in the States. Not much to write about today.
I have probably written enough anyways for now. I know some of you don't like to read a lot!!!!!
Blessings
So the weekend has passsed since I last updated and we have taken a stack of photos of stuff to be shared with you.
Last week I got to spend a lot more time with Eva than I have in recent weeks due to mission trips and busyness at work. It has been such a fruitful week in terms of me being Eva's Dad. When Margaret asked me could I come home early from the office to accomodate her going out for some messages last week, I thought 'Yeah, no problem!'. As I mentioned already, I had all my little plans in place in terms of how I would get Eva to sleep and use the resulting time to myself wisely. It turned out that I had not got a clue what I was tlaking about and neither did I have a clue what I should be doing with or for Eva. I was literally calling Margaret every ten minutes asking her what it was I needed to be doing. Thankfully it is experience which teaches us and I have learned a thing or two in the last number of days and I feel much more equipped now to look after Eva - realising that that time is her time and not mine!!!!!! I actually am loving the time we get together now. It is time where I get to see how she is developing and the cool new things she can do. She has developed this very cool smile/giggle, she is able to focus on us and look into our eyes, her muscles are developing and strengthening all the time - to coin an American phrase (which I feel I have the right to do given that I live here) it is way cool!!!!
The weekend was a fun time. I got to take the kids from our youth group to the Rapids Water Park - www.rapidswaterpark.com - in West Palm Beach on Friday morning and afternoon. It was a fun day out. I reckon the youth could have stayed there all day but we came back for around 4.30pm. I got to chill out in the Lazy River at the park and go on a few of the slides - water parks are cool - though on Friday it was a full house, I am hoping that when/if Stevie visits in the next couple of weeks I will be able to take him there and the kids of Florida will all be industriously attending school again after their summer break. If that is the case I will be able to report more on the cool rides and slides there. Friday night we were supposed to go to the local Baseball park and watch the St Lucie Mets in action. This is the closest we get to any major sports in our area. It ended up being very hot on Friday night and we decided that it was not going to be comfortable to be sitting out in and thus skipped on it. Staurday morning I had a meeting for an event that I will be involved in this coming September called the Walk To Emmaus - www.upperroom.org - The meeting went well and I am glad that I am a part of this team. more will follow on this as the weekend gets closer.
On Saturday night, Margaret, Eva and I went to our good friends Pam and Eddie Szymczyk's house for some dinner and a visit. This was also going to be the venue for the second Championship Pictionary game between the ladies and the men. In the inaugural match the girls won in a very closely fought match and to be honest it looked like they would win again this time. They stormed out of the blocks to build up a commanding lead getting half way around the board while the men were still stuck on the first couple of spaces. It took us a while but we eventually got our game together and started to catch up on the ladies. After the half time 'Feed Eva and go to the Bathroom' break the girls again drew themselves into a reasonable lead leaving the guys for dust. But as predicted by the men in the pre-game smack talk, we came back and passed the ladies, marching our way to a great victory. They are trying to claim a 1-1 in the series but as men we know in our hearts that we are the current and defending champions of pictionary.
On Sunday we had church as normal in the morning and youth as normal that night. In between however, the church put on a post birth baby shower for Eva. It was so humbling to see all the brothers and sisters of our spiritual family turning out to celebrate the arrival of Eva in this world. Each of them were all so generous and Margaret and I were deeply humbled. We had a lovely time together and I got to debut a wee song that I had written for Eva. I will post the lyrics for you next time I write. I will also put up some pictures for you.
Today we have lazed, tidied, shopped for some essentials and watched The Closer - a very cool new drama on TNT here in the States. Not much to write about today.
I have probably written enough anyways for now. I know some of you don't like to read a lot!!!!!
Blessings
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