R.I.P. Xanadu

So I just came across some sad, sad news.....Xanadu, the house of the future has been demolished(back in October 2005...boy am I up on my current events). It was located in Kissimmee Florida and I remember going to it multiple times as a child. Though I remember it more as being rundown than a true house of the future, we always seemed to go back on each trip to Florida.

Stomp!

I saw Stomp for the first time on Sunday night. It was amazing. I appreciate it for the same reason I love the TV show "so you think you can dance." These people have a God given ability that is so different from the talents and abilities that I have. I could never have rhythm like those performers on stage. (In a similar way there is NO WAY my body could ever move like the dancers on "so you think you can dance). We also made a good discovery that night. If you go to the theater a few hours before the show begins, you can get half off tickets. So basically, we sat in the orchestra section (row R and close to the middle) for the same price at the balcony folks. I love good deals! Avenue Q comes to SD soon...I really want to see it....and with this half off discovery, I probably will.

babysitting

We babysat our niece yesterday as Sam's sister and brother in law celebrated their wedding anniversary. This was a test to see if we could handle the whole baby thing. It was pretty fun and not as crazy as I had feared. There was some crying involved (she was supposed to "love bath time" however we found the opposite to be true!) I did realize that the whole messiness that comes with letting your child eat for themselves would be something that I would have to adjust to. Here's a pic that Sam came up with from our babysitting adventure....

growing weeds....on purpose.

Sam has finished designing and building our planter box for our balcony. After going to Home Depot today to by a weed (aka horse tail- a type of bamboo) here's what we've got so far (It's supposed to spread out to fill the entire box with a little time since it is a rhizome).:

Frustrated

I tried to put a youtube video in this blog...and I can't get it to work. Ahhhhhh. I wish I had better computer skills. I've mastered the picture, but I guess a video is just too advanced for me. I really don't want to be one of those old people or parents who have no clue about technology/computers/etc...well I guess I don't have to worry about that quite yet.

In Christ

I am the salt of the earth, the light of the world
I am a child of God
I am part of the true vine, a channel of Christ's life
I am Christ's friend
I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit
I am a son of God; God is spiritually my Father
I am a joint-heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him
I am a temple--a dwelling place--of God. His spirit and His life dwells in me
I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him
I am a member of Christ's Body
I am a new creation
I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation
I am a son of God and one in Christ
I am a saint
I am God's workmanship--His handiwork--born anew in Christ to do His work
I am a fellow-citizen with the rest of God's family
I am righteous and holy
I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life
I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved
I am a son of light and not of darkness
I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling
I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house
I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession
I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live
I am an enemy of the devil
I am a child of God and I will resemble Christ when He returns
I am born of God, and the evil one--the devil--cannot touch me
I am justified--completely forgiven and made righteous
I died with Christ and died to the power of sin's rule overmy life
I am free forever from condemnation
I have received the Spirit of God into my life that I might know the things freely given to me by God
I have been given the mind of Christ
I have been bought with a price; I am not my own; I belong to God
Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Christ
I hve been made righteous
I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I am now living is Christ's life
I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing
I was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and am without blame before Him
I was predestined--determined by God-to be adopted as God's child
I have been made alive together with Christ
I have direct access to God throught the Spirit
I may approach God with boldness, freedom and confidence
I have been rescued from the domain of Satan's rule and transferred to the kingdom of Christ
I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. The debt against me has been cancelled
I have been made complete in Christ
I have been given a spirit of power, love and self-discipline
I have the right to come boldly before the throne of God to find mercy and grace in time of need
I have been given great and precious promises by God throught which I am a partaker of God's divine nature.

Heidi's 24

Happy Birthday Heidi!

I've been on vacation...

from this blog, but I'm back now. Check out our pics from Minnesota. We visited with Jon and Kate for a long weekend. It felt like we did tons of driving around since everything is so spread out compared to what we are used to. We went to the Mall of America, visited one of 10,000 lakes, and roasted marshmellows on their back porch (smores=yummy).