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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Yearbook Pictures

As we were packing boxes this afternoon, we came across some old yearbook photos we thought you might enjoy...

Lisa - 1952


Kevin - 1952


Lisa - 1966


Lisa - 1968


Kevin - 1968


Lisa - 1972


Lisa - 1978


Lisa - 1980


Kevin - 1980


Lisa - 1994


Kevin - 1994


Lisa - 2000


I hope this was as fun for you as it was for us!
-Lisa

Monday, April 21, 2008

Flower In The Window


Stacie is a beautiful 10 year-old girl in our small group. I heard that she likes to write poems, so I asked her to write one for me. She brought this to me the following week:

SPRING
by: Stacie MacDonald

Spring
Is a magical thing
While some pass away
Others begin a new day

Spring
Is a wonderful thing
While plants regain life
Others are given children and a wife

Spring
Is a beautiful thing
While Mother Nature shows her goodness
Others see God's glory and faithfulness

Spring
Is an exciting thing
While we celebrate the Resurrected One
Others will join in to the joy and fun

Spring
Is an unbelievable thing
While some just watch us and enjoy the view
Others comfort us saying God always loves you

Spring
Is a magical
wonderful
beautiful
exciting
unbelievable
thing

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Kevin's growing older...(by Lisa)


This week we celebrated Kevin's 23rd birthday!
It was a week full of joy and surprises. Thursday morning Kevin woke up to a surprise breakfast with some of our dear friends that live in our apartment complex. I managed to set off the smoke alarm at 6:00am. That surprised us all!

Thursday night, Kevin was surprised, again, by a visit from his parents and some family friends at dinner. They bought our dinner and brought him a Black Russian cake. It is so yummy - if you haven't tried one, you need to get on that pronto.

Friday morning Kevin got a gift basket on his desk at work. It was full of coffee, hot chocolate and all kinds of fun baked goodies. The girls in our church put those together for some of the guys as a thank-you gift.

Saturday evening we celebrated with our church friends by eating a gourmet meal at Chick-fil-a. It's within walking distance from our house. Of course we walked because Kevin prefers the trek through the path in the woods as opposed to driving in an air-conditioned car. He hasn't lost his love of the outdoors. I love that about him!


So, Kevin's a year older. Here's a list of everything I have been blessed to be a part of during this past year of his life:
  • Wednesday night Home Group
  • our engagement
  • college graduation
  • moving him out of his apartment
  • moving to The Woodlands
  • starting a new job (Chocolata)
  • buying our first car
  • finding a church
  • getting married
  • learning how to be married
  • learning more about being married
  • having a budget
  • starting another new job (Capital One)
  • learning how to be more "green"
  • moving apartments
  • walks on the Waterway
  • our first Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter!
  • IKEA trips
  • taking care of each other when we're grossly sick
  • grocery shopping at H-E-B
  • hosting home group at our apartment
  • our first pregnancy tests/scares
  • Saturday morning coffee and Library trips
  • cooking together/teaching Kevin how to cook
  • $1 movie rentals
  • Kevin's new girlfriends (he has 2 - they're both under the age of 2!)
  • weekly Chick-fil-a dinner (and discovering free Thursday breakfasts!)
  • snuggling on the couch
  • turning the guest room into a play room (for small group, of course!)
  • shopping for chairs
  • making sushi
  • another new job (Texas Systems)
  • late nights grading papers
  • road trips to Austin
  • and of course - lots of dinner and coffee dates!


Happy Birthday Kevin!
All my love,
L

Monday, December 24, 2007

Advent Beauty


Merry Christmas all ye beautiful people! We wanted to wish each of you a blessed advent season and blessed Christmas day. Put on some stretchy pants, enjoy sweet conversation, eat well, and remember who it is we are to be celebrating, revering, and worshiping.

Merry December 25, 2007!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Happy Belated Columbus/Veterans'/Thanksgiving Day


If you are reading this post, I want to thank you. You must be either my mom/dad/brother, a happy user of Google Reader (i.e. Reese or D.O.), or a very very patient and hopeful blog checker (i.e. Kathryn). Whomever you are, I send much gratitude your way.

Please know that my absence from this here blog doesn't mean I've been equally neglecting your literary work. It has simply been a struggle to sit down, be still, and try to type up something half-interesting for 7 people to read. But do find comfort and encouragement, for I am still stalking a great deal of you!

This is old news that I meant to share back when it was new news.
Living Hope, my former and dear-to-my-heart church, now has a podcast!
This is huge. Monumental, even. For ye who are technologically "special," a podcast is similar to a magazine subscription. Only instead of Better Homes and Gardens being shipped to your mailbox via USPS, a .mp3 file (in this case, Butch's latest sermon) is automatically sent via the internet to your hard drive.

Here's how to make this dream come true. If you don't yet have iTunes, repent and then go here to download it. It's free and beautiful. After you have iTunes installed, up, and running, click here to automatically subscribe to Living Hope's weekly podcast. That's about as simple as it gets.

Then you can search within iTunes' Music Store for a wealth of various other podcasts. A few of my other delights are Desiring God, The Village Church, and The News From Lake Wobegon. What are your favorites? Don't be shy.

News on our marriage, our church, my [relatively] new job, and all the awesomeness therein will come your way "shortly."
In the meantime, grace and peace.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Faith = Dependence


"Faith is dependence upon God. And this God-dependence only begins when self-dependence ends. And self-dependence only comes to its end, with some of us, when sorrow, suffering, affliction, broken plans and hopes bring us to that place of self-helplessness and defeat. And only then do we find that we have learned the lesson of faith; to find our tiny craft of life rushing onward to a blessed victory of life and power and service undreamt of in the days of our fleshly strength and self-reliance." - James McConkey

*an excerpt from "The Complete Green Letters" by Miles J. Stanford
*photo taken at Market Street in The Woodlands

Monday, October 08, 2007

Lady Lingo


My lady and I have been doing married life for 58 days now. We're young-ins. Just today an old sales-woman asked if we were shopping for homecoming. Homecoming? Lisa took it as a compliment. I not so much.
Time to grow a mustache and hit the weights.

During these 58 days (and the 8 months prior), I've learned things that have evaded my brain for 22 years prior. I put together a collection of vocabulary words that I have learned thanks to my wife.
For you women, laugh away.
But for you single gents, I pass my wisdom onto you. Now go sweep a young maiden off her little feet.

PETTICOAT, noun: An underskirt usually a little shorter than outer clothing and often made with a ruffled, pleated, or lace edge. (The layers of fluffy lace stuff that makes dresses poof out. The style was invented in 1908 by lobbyist at Gold Bond.)

TRIVET, noun: A usually metal stand with short feet for use under a hot dish. (Yup. There is actually a name for those things.)

PAISLEY, adjective: A design or print of fabric characterized by curved abstract figures. (The black tie I wore in my wedding had a hint a paisley action. I'm sure everyone noticed.)

"EVERYDAY" CHINA, noun: A sibling of the more well-known and useless breed of dishware. To be used everyday, thereby increasing practicality. (Frequently found habitating on wedding registries across the country.)

YANKEE CANDLE, noun: The largest U.S. manufacturer of scented candles. (Buy your wife one of these $23 bad boys and see what happens! I know what happens, and $23 is still a load of money for a jar of wax.)

PAMPERED CHEF, noun: The Mary Kay of kitchen gadgets, minus the pink Cadillacs.

RAFFIA, noun : The fiber of the raffia palm used especially as cord for tying and weaving. (Making wrapping paper feel inadequate since 1453.)