Worship Music

Our Worship Leader, Tom, has introduced us to some incredible music. God has blessed our little church with Tom, who points us to Christ every Sunday. I can honestly say that I’ve never been part of such worship on a continual basis. And it’s just Tom and his guitar – no one else leading with him. The songs that we sing are not bubble-gum Christianity. They are deep, thought-provoking songs that lead us to worship because of the picture they paint of God.

Tom loaned Keith some of his CDs, and they were all incredible. They were all deeply rooted in the character of God. How I wish that we American Christians would drink from such a well of nourishing water that leads us to really think on Christ, whether it is the music we listen to or the books we read.

With that said, let me introduce you to Sojourn Music. The CD we have is Over The Grave, songs inspired by and adapted from the hymns of Isaac Watts.

You can listen to some of their music on their MySpace page.

You will not be sorry that you checked them out!

All About Nathan

Nathan is 1!

Saturday was Nathan's first birthday. I can't believe that my little baby is a year old. I've been through this 5 times, and each time, its hard to believe. In about a 2 day period, he went from not crawling, not rolling, and only occasionally pulling up to crawling, moving, going...

We were at my parent's home last week, and we had a small party for Nathan. My aunt made him his own cake.

He was a little apprehensive at first - what do I do with this?

Then he realized what he could do with it!

Then he just enjoyed it...

By the time he was done, he was pretty gross, but he had a great time with his cake!

I love you, Nathan!

Thought I'd Say 'Hi'

It's been a while since I've blogged...its been a busy month. The kids came home two weeks ago today and we started school two days later. We just finished our second week, and it has gone really well. God has really blessed our time in that both babies are napping in the afternoon and we are able to have plenty of quiet time to work fairly uninterupted.

Our first day, I decided to have a last minute field trip. Literally. We went to take pictures with the sunflowers in a field. It would have been nice to have everyone smiling and happy, but since we don't fake much around here, having 5 children looking happy all at the same time would look pretty contrived. Or photoshopped.

I tried to get all 5 of them in one picture, but Bethany knows that you can see the picture if you stand by Mommy and look at the tv on the camera. What she hasn't figured out yet is that Mommy actually has to take the picture first. So when I get the camera out, she runs to see the picture that I haven't taken yet. Which is why she is not in this picture. Oh, and Abby started to have a meltdown. And Nathan thought the grass was cool.

My sweet, happy boys.

Abby was still melting down. I did get Bethany in front of the camera, though!

My favorite Seth in the whole world...

Followed by my favorite Micah...who only winks at his momma.

Abby finally relaxed enough to smile a little. By then, she was too hot to be too happy.
Bethany had her own meltdown, but it was literal.
And my precious Nathan, who rarely complains about anything.

Michael Jackson

When I was little, my mom had a Christmas decoration that she would get out every year. It seems like it was a little house with a "pond" in front where little ceramic couples would skate around while music played. It took me a while to catch on that there was a magnet moving the figures under the mirror.

I don't mean to jump on the MJ bandwagon, but when I saw this clip, I thought it was too cool. He reminds me of those figurines that moved around with the aid of a magnet. Watch and you'll see what I mean!

Gone fishin'