New Furniture!!

I got to buy these pieces yesterday! I can't wait to put them in the house!

Zach and Tanya are getting married!

My cousin Zach and his long time girlfriend Tanya are getting married on November 8th! We are so excited that they are finally getting together! We through a family shower on Saturday after the baby shower and i would guess that there were close to 150 people there! WOW! It was great to get to have these get togethers to be able to see some family that we don't get to see that often. Tanya got lots of presents and is even more anxious for the wedding now. We are looking forward to the 8th!

Baby Shower #2

Emily had her second baby shower last Saturday. It went off GREAT! Her best friend Stori was supposed to throw it, but due to unexpected circumstances, she was unable to make it. We missed her dearly and I know she wished she could have been there, too. We had a blast and Emily got lots of goodies.

My Senior Year at Texas Tech

I made a video of a few of my favorite highlights from my last year at Tech. I have really been missing my friends lately! I love you all dearly and think of you often. This song was kind of our sound track our last few weeks together. Here's to you!

The Secret Life of Bees

I am reading this book right now! It seems like Hollywood is tracking what I am reading and making a movie out of each one... The book is really good so far, but I am only half way through with it. I need to hurry up and finish it.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi437321753/

Baby Shower

Emily had her first baby shower in Nederland this weekend. It was very nice and great to see all of the goodies that she got. Annelise is going to be one of the most spoiled children in the world! She will be very loved by so many people. We are blessed to have such a wonderful family! Only 2 more months to go until she graces us with her presence. There are 2 more showers coming up; the next two weekends in October, so I will add more pics from those showers at that point.

VP Debate

Unfortunately, I missed the first Presidential debate last weekend. I am going to make sure that I really watch and listen to the issues that the VP Candidates have to talk about tonight. I have to say that this is the first election that I have tried to stay up to date with. I am not an economic or foreign relations expert by any means, but I do have to say that everything that Palin has said so far has really made me excited about her potentially being VP. I can't wait to see her rip Biden apart! I hope all of you can vote this year. I am still waiting to get my voter registration back in the mail... hopefully by November 4th!

"Religulous"

I received this from my Pastor here in Baton Rouge, Pastor Bahr. He has some great insight on the new movie "Religulous"...

Suffice it to say that "Religulous" does not hold religious faith in very high esteem. The title for the movie says it all: "Religulous"‐a combination of "religious" and "ridiculous." The premise is that nobody really knows anything about God; so to say anything with certitude is simply to express unfounded faith in the ridiculous. To the film's credit, there are entirely too many Christians that do not know why they believe what they believe, and those Christians were all too available for Bill Maher's interviews.

While Maher questions all religious belief, it is the Bible which irks him most of all. Because he was raised a nominal Catholic, he recalls hating church and viewing it as boring and irrelevant. This, if anything, should be instructive to us about how important it is to positively engage kids in their Sunday school classrooms, if we ever hope to have them value and retain their faith into adulthood. His gripes about the inability of believers to respond to his simplest of faith questions should remind us how important it is for every generation to be prepared to revisit the old questions and to have good answers for them. If Maher would focus in on biblical scholarship and seriously be open to answers regarding Christian faith that our congregations espouse, he might actually find himself believing what he now denies.

Should thinking adult Christians see the movie? If anything, it will put your faith into high gear as you seek to answer its challenges. The movie is the world's playbook, opened for our understanding and subsequent response.

Pray that God would work through even this evil to bring people to faith in Jesus Christ. If you have questions about this or any movie, please don't hesitate to ask your pastors. Remember that the best way to know why you believe what you believe (and not be the kind of Christian whom Bill Maher found for his interviews) is to remain active in worship and take advantage of educational opportunities!

87 days...

...till what?! CHRISTMAS! If you are anything like me and can't wait for the holidays, you can download a desktop Christmas tree that will count down the days untill Christmas for you at this site:
http://www.drive-software.com/desktopchristmastree.html

furniture

Being in the whole "Moving Mode" from helping T&A, we got busy yesterday packing up more of the apartment. I have to say that we are super organized! We have made the dinning room our "box room". It is already full! It is amazing how much stuff you accumulate and have tucked away in corners.
We went shopping for furniture yesterday, too. We had plans to get a Media Stand, 2 end tables (pics below), a King size mattress, and a rug. We left with the mattress, bedding, and a rug. The media stand and end tables were not in stock, so we will have to wait till next week. This works out better for us anyways!
We are such a blessed couple! I thank God everyday for the life he has given me and the ability to have a home and furniture at such a young age! I can't help but think of ways that I can give back.
Here is a picture of the rug we got (I couldn't find a picture of the bedding online):