Week Rundown (09/11/2011-09/17/2011)

Sunday

A pretty nice typical Sunday. Lydia and Mysia attended a baby shower for our youth Pastor's wife, Kristen before evening services.


Monday

Back to work, school, and daycare! At work, I got to handle the board while Jonathan Edwards was in Kentucky for the National Quartet Convention. He would introduce the songs by cell phone, and I was engineer! I also got to announce the weather.

I attended a PTA meeting. There are some exciting events coming soon for Mysia's school. It's neat to be a part of it.

For the evening, it was relaxing. No major plans.


Tuesday

After dropping Malachi off at daycare, I took Mysia to the dentist. Her tooth was bugging her, and come to find out, a filling had come loose. They took it out and replaced it! We're good to go!

In weather, today was HOT! We hit a new record... 99 degrees! Ugh!

Mysia got her entire week's homework finished at the Boys & Girls club after school. She was excited.


Wednesday

The weather cooled down quick... we actually set a record low!

This evening's services was the start of a three-day financial conference. We're trying to be good stewards of our money and keep within a budget.


Thursday

Today was Malachi's 4th birthday! Lydia woke him up before she had to leave and wished him a happy birthday.,He bolts up and looks down at himself. Since we're working on night-time potty training, Lydia asked if he was dry. He says, "yep and my legs are bigger too!!"

We went back to church for the continuation of the financial conference. It


Friday

My last day doing the board for Jonathan at work. We had some technical problems, and I lost him while he was doing an interview during the last hour of the show. I came on, introduced the next song, and tried to make contact back with Jonathan. I didn't realize it until afterwards, but I left the mic on!!!! Yikes! Yup, I'm still learning.....

We attended the last conference at church tonight. It went longer than the other nights, and we didn't get to bed until after midnight! Even though it wore us out, the whole thing was good.


Saturday

We woke up early and headed out. Granny watched Mysia and Malachi for several hours while Lydia and I helped our friends, Doug and Mary, move into their new home! We're so excited for them. It's a great place! We got most of it moved before the rain came, and the rain didn't stop!

We came home for the later part of the afternoon. We did chores, ate supper, and got the kids ready for bed. Lydia worked on homework and I did an evening grocery run.


~Matt

Friday Fun: Minister Jokes

I decided that I'd share several jokes today... it being Friday! The theme is Ministers.

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A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17."

The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17. Every hand went up.

The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only sixteen chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying..."

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As part of his talk at a banquet, a minister told some jokes and a few funny stories. Since he planned to use the same anecdotes at a meeting the next day, he asked reporters covering the event not to include them in their articles.

Reading the paper the following morning, he noticed that one well-meaning cub reporter had ended his story on the banquet with the observation "The minister told a number of stories that cannot be published."

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An old preacher was dying. He sent a message for his banker and his lawyer, both church members, to come to his home.

When they arrived, they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the room, the preacher held out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side of the bed. The preacher grasped their hands, sighed contentedly, smiled, and stared at the ceiling.

For a time, no one said anything Both the banker and lawyer were touched and flattered that the preacher would ask them to be with him during his final moments. They were also puzzled; the preacher had never given them any indication that he particularly liked either of them. They both remembered his many long, uncomfortable sermons about greed, covetousness, and avaricious behavior that made them squirm in their seats.

Finally, the banker said, "Preacher, why did you ask us to come?"

The old preacher mustered up his strength and then said weakly, "Jesus died between two thieves, and that's how I want to go."

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Three people were visiting and viewing the Grand Canyon -- an artist, a pastor and a cowboy. As they stood on the edge of that massive abyss, each one responded with a cry of exclamation.

The artist said, "Ah, what a beautiful scene to paint!"

The minister cried, "What a wonderful example of the handiwork of God!"

The cowboy mused, "What a terrible place to lose a cow!"

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Have a great weekend!

~Matt

Happy Birthday Malachi!

Well, today our little baby boy turned 4!

Okay, he's not a baby anymore, but an energetic toddler! Malachi is guaranteed to wear anyone out... he's everywhere and hard to keep settled down for more than 5 minutes. Just when you think that all of his energy is zapped, think again. He'll keep going, and going, and going, and going, and going!

He is our source of laughter from day to day. You just never know what he might say. He makes some great observations, and you really get an insight of a view of a kid when he speaks.

It's hard to believe that our youngest is now 4. He's grown up so fast!

DESIGN: The Flash Drives

Last week my brother Benjamin asked me to help him with a project. His work was doing a scavenger hunt with the theme of super heroes. The group that he was with needed a logo, and didn’t have time to come up with one. The name of the group was “The Flash Drives”. He asked me to come up with something like an outline of a flash drive with letters "TFD".

I talked to him over the phone that evening and drew up a sketch...

Then later that night, I used Adobe Illustrator, and finished up the graphic...

Makes me want one!

~Matt

Week Rundown (09/04/2011-09/10/2011)

Sunday

I made pancakes for the those in the van ministry before we headed out to pick up our folks for services. I then taught our Sunday School class. It was a short lesson. I also had the privildge to sing a special in the morning service. Boy, talk about a busy morning!

Leftovers and sandwiches were for lunch, and then we took naps. Evening services were good, by the time we got home though... we were ready for bed.


Monday

I had hoped to sleep in, but no chance of that. Unless one considers 7:30 sleeping in, which many of my facebook friends do!

I made pancakes for the family, making special creative shapes. Mysia liked hearts and diamonds, while I made a ‘race-car’-shaped pancake for Malachi. After breakfast, we spent the morning working on cleaning and tidying up the house. There was plenty to do, since we neglected it over the weekend.

Before noon, Lydia left to go hang out with her sisters. They did nails, manicures, and watched movies. I stayed home with the kids, fed them lunch and we took a short nap. I actually got a few things done on the computer before my rest, so my nap wasn’t that long. It sure was nice having the windows open and sleeping in a nice breeze that flowed throughout he house.

After naps, I took the kids to the park. They played and played for several hours. They claimed that I was the best daddy in the world! Not bad for just taking them to the park! When we arrived back home, my parents came over for a visit. We had shaved ice and home-made frappachino while visiting.

Lydia came home in time to make supper (chicken tenders), and we spent a nice calm evening watching RugRats and shows on NetFlix before giving showers and going to bed.


Tuesday

We again had nice weather, but it was a bit chilly in the morning. In fact, the kids wore jackets to daycare and school. Today sure felt like Monday since yesterday was a holiday. For me, I had some catching up to do at work.

Mysia got to go to Boys & Girls Club after school since we couldn’t pick her up until after 5. She liked it. Mysia came home with her entire weeks homework, and we encouraged her to go ahead and get it all done tonight. With little assistance, she did!


Wednesday

Another nice day, weather-wise. But a typical Wednesday. School, work, home for supper, and then church! However, today was the start of our children’s program for the fall semester. “Fun Night”, we had games, a great lesson, and snacks. Three kids recieved Salvation, and as a extra excitement... Lydia had the privilege of leading one of them to the Lord.


Thursday

After work, Lydia had a Honors Society meeting. I picked up the kids and we headed home. I let them fight it out on the Nintendo Wii while I made supper. They argued a bit on what games to play, but they did a job sorting it out. By the time supper was ready, they were ready to just sit and watch tv, so we watched RugRats while eating.

I got them got ready for bed and Lydia arrived at home. She ate some supper and then got right into her homework.


Friday

Today was pretty neat for me at work, I got to run the board for the radio station and announce the weather. I was learning it so I can do it next week from 3-6pm. Exciting...!

This evening was just a nice restful calm one. Lydia made lasagna for supper, the kids played, and we didn’t do much.


Saturday

Today we cleaned out our garage. No much fun at all, but it was something that needed to be done. Malachi and Mysia played outside while Lydia and I sorted through things. We loaded the van with the stuff we didn’t need.

We ate a quick lunch and took naps. Lydia had planned on doing homework then, but was feeling too tired. The nap felt great!

Afterwards, the kids once again played outside while I finished up doing some re-organizing. Lydia started her homework. Around 4ish, the clouds rolled in and I seen it was about to rain. I made the kids bring in all of their toys and we put them in a specific spot.

We ate supper, watched tv, and got the kids to bed. I then did a quick run to the grocery store.

~Matt