The Night Watches

When we signed up to be part of the Arlington Church Plant, I had no idea that there might be a few little perks along the way! One of those "perks" we got to experience happened this past Tuesday night, when we got to go on a tour of the West Wing of the White House. This was a perk- because it was organized by a gentleman who is on the church plant team, Josh Deckerd , who also used to be the Assistant Press Secretary. It was amazing! We took the metro down and met up a the gates, waiting our turn to go through security. We were only allowed to take photographs outside the grounds, and in the Press Room of the West Wing. We did get to see the Oval Office though! I did trespass at one point... I did not see, or just walked right past a "do not cross this line" sign and headed straight to the Residence.... so I am lucky I did not get yelled at or anything! Here are some of the pictures I took! When we signed up to be part of the Arlington Church Plant, I had no idea...

Happy New Year to anyone out there that still reads this neglected blog! I know that there are a few of you out there, as I have been getting gently prodded over the past few weeks to write an update on what is going on with us and to post more pictures from a few of you! I have sat down and begun to compose an update on this blog many times, only to delete it all, or to just sit at a blank screen without words to adequately communicate what is going on in my heart and in our lives. Most of our friends know the "Big" update- (nope not a baby) and so this isn't really news at all... but I have yet to write about it, and somehow, I guess that would make it even more official than it already is.... We decided back in September that we felt called to join our friend and pastor, Eric Simmons, on a church plant in Arlington VA. This decision was NOT an easy one to come to for both Jordan and I. The journey to making this decision was filled with much prayer, much seeking counse...

We had a little party for Tyler's 3rd birthday this year. I gathered from all the resources I had to make it a little playground in the basement of Mimi and Pop-pops house! Thanks to some generous friends and family to let us borrow two ball pits, tunnels, balloons, a tent and a climbing thing... it was full of fun things for the kids to play with! I wanted to make him a cake, but had no idea what he wanted. Everytime I asked him he just said he wanted chocolate... so I looked online for a "cool cake" idea and found the idea for a frog... which was super easy and turned out pretty close to what the site had on it. It tasted good too! And most important, Tyler loved it! Tyler seemed to enjoy himself, and it was as low key as I can do (I can tend to want to over-do events!). He was really blessed to play with some buddies and just be a boy. He had been talking about his birthday party for months (literally). Here are some shot from the party! I cannot believe he is 3! How...