Thursday, April 19, 2007

Fun With Google Maps!

1. Go to Google Maps
2. Get Directions from New York, New York to Paris, France.
3. Check out line #24.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Randomness

Here are some random photos from the past couple weeks. Enjoy!

Freshwind 2007: Pure Life

We took Soul Pardon to Toronto for the Freshwind conference April 5-7. This is the 3rd year Soul Pardon has gone, and we weren't disappointed! It is so much fun to worship with 6,000 other young people for days on end. There were awesome speakers, great workshops and amazing worship. And the food was edible! Here are just a few photos from the week:

Lilly's Birthday

Lilly's 1st birthday was on the 9th and we had our family over to celebrate. Here are a few photos:

Auntie Ann gave Lilly a photo album filled with beautiful pictures...here's one:

Thursday, April 12, 2007

No pictures yet, but an update nonetheless!

So, it's been a busy few weeks here at the Podjan homestead. We taught our very first "Busting Free" Explosion of Widsom (seminar) in March, then when into Freshwind mode. Last weekend we took a group of 15 to Toronto, Canada for the Freshwind Conference at TACF. We had an amazing time! I love my Soul Pardoners! You guys are awesome.

Monday was Lilly's first birthday! I can't believe it. I love her so much. We had a party for her Monday night and My whole immediate family was there (yep, even Sam & Shannon--they are in town until Friday) as well as Matt's parents, aunt, and grandparents. It was a full house, to say the least.

I took Lilly for her 1-year shots yesterday. She had 4 of them. She was brave, and only cried for about 5 seconds. Then I took her to visit her daddy at work. She charmed his coworkers!

I know it's been a while since I last posted anything, and I wanted you to know that I haven't forgot you! As soon as I upload my pictures I will post more interesting blogs about the past couple weeks. Have a great day and be blessed!

Monday, March 12, 2007

New House Pics

We had a WONDERFUL weekend! Friday, Nic came over and he & Matt painted Miss Lilly's room. Friday night, Matt & I put her room back together while she slept in the spare room upstairs. (No paint fumes for our little girl!) On Saturday, we woke up bright and early and I took this picture:About an hour later, the snow was completely melted! We finally have a yard and our whole driveway! (Until now, we've only been able to use one side of our 2-car driveway.) We went for a walk around our neighborhood and then met up with Nic at the furniture store and picked up 4 more chairs for our dining room table, 2 nightstands for our bedroom and a dresser for our bedroom as well. We're still waiting on our chest of drawers, so I'll put up a picture of our room when all the furniture is here.

After we got the furniture arranged, Matt's mom came over and watched Lilly so Matt and I could run some errands and hang out together. We had a great afternoon! We ran into my friend J and it was fun catching up with him.

Sunday, Matt preached at Open Door and did a great job. I am so proud of my man! We went out to lunch with Matt's family and then rented some movies and took a much needed nap in the afternoon. Nic & Jen came over and we all took a long walk and then had dinner and hung out for awhile. All in all, it was a pretty great weekend. I can't remember the last time we had an entire weekend to do anything we wanted without appointments, ministry responsibilities or obligations of some sort. I feel like we had a vacation!

I have posted some pictures of the house below. With the exception of paint (I can't decide on a color), the downstairs is done (for the time being). This is the living room, dining area and kitchen:
My office is now green and I'm working at getting it all organized. (You can't see the PILES of papers all over the floor! I promise I'll get them filed away this week!)This is the hallway leading to Lilly's very pink room. To be honest, I never thought I'd willingly paint any room pink. I also never thought I'd own a minivan and like it...Don't worry...There's still a LOT of unpacking to do. We just hide it away in the spare rooms. Spare room #1:Spare room #2: In other news, Lilly is now in her big-girl car seat! She's growing up so fast! She's said her first word ("baby"), clicks her tongue, whistles, and says "Wow!" in a cute little whisper. She really likes sniffing out of her nose. She scrunches her face up and wrinkles her nose and breathes really fast. It's pretty funny to watch. She's an amazing baby. We love her so much!