Great-Grandpa's Birthday

We made the trip to West Sacramento last night to spend time with some of my family and to celebrate Grandpa Hal's 78th birthday! Jenell ended up getting nicknamed Jabba the Hut... LOL We got to see aunts, uncles and cousins, including my cousin Jessica who has her own baby on the way in January! Now all the granddaughters will have had babies! My brother and his awesome wife, Emily were there too!! Here are some of the pictures from last night.

Great Aunt Kathy

Cousin Eric

Grandpa Mark

Great Uncle Paul

Great Aunt Renee

Our family

Secondary Audio Programming...

We've been having technical problems all over this house lately. The SAP (secondary audio programming) one I solved myself after many weeks unaware that there even was a problem.... No joke, I just thought we had a lot of Spanish channels... it drove me nuts every time I saw a show I wanted to watch and it was in Spanish! I was pondering purchasing Rosetta Stone when I realized the TV was set to SAP so any channels that had that option were in Spanish!!! Geesh..

And now, we've moved Tim's school stuff to the garage so he has his own little place to study and the router is not working. This comes after having Comcast come out twice and numerous phone calls to try to fix the PC in our bedroom's internet connection.. Well, they fixed it, but now the router doesn't work so Tim is spending Saturday at Starbucks using their Wi-Fi.. :( It's good, though, because I don't even have the option of distracting him! Apparently, something keeps happening with our IP address.. I don't know. So if anyone is tech savvy, I need you!

Also-- Jenell has always slept well on her back until this week! Now she alway ends up on her side, face in the mattress, horizontal, in the middle of the crib! No matter how much I reposition her, that's how she likes to be! I'm losing a little sleep over it, but she's not, so I guess we're okay..

We went to the Harvest Festival at First Christian last night and took our little Tigger with us! I should have taken a picture of the cute little tail... :) My sister-in-law gave the costume to us a few days before and it couldn't have worked out better since it was cold and rainy! Yay! (We've been sooo wanting some rain!) Tigger conked out about 30 minutes after we got there and only woke up for me to take off the suit. :) We had a nice time catching up with friends, making new ones, and of course..enjoying chili cheese dogs! Have a blessed weekend!

She did it!!!

I love these.

Amen.

I received this in an e-mail from Susie Taugner and needed to share it. I hope you're as encouraged as I was.

TOP TEN PREDICTIONS NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION.

1. The Bible will still have all the answers.

2. Prayer will still work.

3. The Holy Spirit will still move.

4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.

5. There will still be God-anointed preaching.

6. There will still be singing of praise to God.

7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.

8. There will still be room at the Cross.

9. Jesus will still love you.

10. Jesus will still save the lost when they come to Him.

And God approves this message!

ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL?

Growing up so fast...

Jenell had her first taste of rice cereal this morning! It was so cute, and I think she really enjoyed it! It ended up being a big mess but it was super fun and such a big milestone! We were happy, too because we finally got to set up the high chair! Yay!

And of course, Tim and I thought we should taste the stuff... um... yuck. :) I've never been so excited over something that tasted so gross.