Meeting Canaan

On our way home from Kansas (yes, I'll post photos soon), we made a little detour to BJ & Jessie's house to meet my new not-quite-nephew! (I fully intend to be Aunt Kate to him, even though we're only related in my imagination...and in Christ!) Canaan is a sweetie, and I adore him! I only wish we lived closer to each other so that Jess & I (oh yeah, and the kids and our husbands) could hang out more often.

They were both so sad that we had to leave...

Please ignore the scraggliness of Lilly, Judah & me. We had only been in the car for 14 hours. And then we got in the car for another 4. Lucky us.

We know how to party.

Lilly spent ALL DAY yesterday looking forward to our New Years Eve "party". She had it all planned out: Eat treats, go to The King's Crown (Fancy Nancy's favorite restaurant...you may have also heard it called Pizza Hut), watch The Prince of Egypt (and about 9 other movies), eat more treats, and watch the ball "fall down". And then say, "Happy New Year!"

She almost made it. At 11:47, she lost the good fight and fell asleep. And we COULD NOT wake her up. She sure is cute when she sleeps, huh?! We love her.

Good night, Lilly. And Happy New Year.

We are soooooo blessed!

We have the best and most fun job on Earth...we get to co-pastor our youth at Soul Pardon each week, and last month, we celebrated the birth of Christ at our annual Christmas Extravaganza, complete with food, fun, worship, the Word, and our white elephant gift exchange. We even brought Lilly & Judah along for the fun. (Judah was asleep before I got the camera out, but he was there, trust me!

Last year, we set up a "photo booth" to take fun and silly photos of the Soul Pardoners. Here are some of my faves from the night:

And now for the other silliness of the evening: