Fun over christmas

Well, Christmas has come and gone - but it was fun. I hope all ya'll out there had a great Christmas, I know I did. It was great to be with my family, and the added plus this year was this was the first Christmas Terra and I have celebrated as a married couple - that was really cool, too!


I wanted to share a couple of really interesting gifts I got with everyone out there. First off, there's a neat book called "Through Painted Deserts" by Donald Miller. It looks really awesome. I was also given "Obsessed" by Ted Dekker, who is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. I definitely suggest checking him out if you haven't read anything by him yet.

A couple of CDs I was given that I recommend everyone checking out are "Collision" by the David Crowder Band, and also "I See Things Upside Down" by Derek Webb.

Well, I hope everyone out there had a great Christmas, and that everyone took time to remember Christ this season!

Pics of our new home

Here are those pictures of our apartment I promised...

This is my little space in the office - definitely smaller than the office we had at home, but it's got just enough room to fit what we need to in it.

This is a shot of our living room. It is a little more cramped than our last one, but it is rather cozy, and so far we've been able to fit everyone we need to in it.









This is from the kitchen where our table is - we actually have a larger kitchen here than we did in our home (before we moved), so that's a lot nicer.

A new home!

Well, my wife and I have finished moving into our new place. Sorry I haven't posted anything in the last week - it's been a little crazy. I'll try to post some pictures of our new place in the next day or so. We had fun this morning checking out the employment board - we gotta get jobs now! Crazy stuff, I tell ya. Terra wants to get some sort of administrative job, but I'm not too sure what I want to get. I'd love to get some sort of technical job, but there are never too many of those out there.

I dunno - we'll just keep looking and praying. I know God will help us get the jobs we'll need.

So, for all those of you who were concerned, we're all moved in, safe and sound. The office is a little cramped, but other than that things are shaping up pretty nicely!

Ah, the joys of moving

Look at all those boxes! Yeah, my wife and I are packing up our home to head down to Seminary. We have been packing ourselves silly! And we've packed so many boxes, and yet we have so much left to pack - it's insane!

This is the question that rules my life at the moment, "What can I pack now?"

Ah, How I Love the Beach!

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days - my wife and I took a short vacation to the Beach for our six month anniversary. Whoa, that's so cool - I've been married six months! And I've loved every minute of it, too! Here are a few pics (you can click on 'em for larger versions)

Well, here's what the living room of the place we stayed in looked like - yeah, it was pretty fancy. We actually got to stay there for free, courtesy of my cousin. Thanks a million, Wes!

I think that TV was at least 32", but it may have been more, it was pretty awesome - I really enjoyed watching stuff on it!

Yeah, this is the dining area, and behind it you can see the deck. It was a little too cool for my wife and I to really enjoy the deck - though on our last day there (when we were packing and leaving!) the temperature did finally jump up to 70-something. Wish it had been like that earlier...

This may seem a little weird, but this is the bathroom. Okay, from the picture it's kinda hard to see how cool it was in here, but let me tell you about it. See, first of all, there were two sinks, so my wife and I got our own personal hygene space - which is really cool, because I'm a little messier than my wife, and I think she enjoyed not having to mess with my stuff. Then there was a TV in the bathroom, and a specific light switch and fan for each section, one for each sink, and then a separate one for the shower - crazy!

And this is a picture I took on Saturday, when we finally actually went out on the beach. I think we lasted about 15 minutes - it's really windy on the beach, and it was already pretty cool that day anyways. But my wife and I had a bunch of fun taking pictures of different stuff on the beach. It's crazy, but it always seems like the view from the beach is always awesome.

So now we're back from the beach and we've begun the insane task of packing up our lives and putting them into boxes so that we can move in less than a week and a half!