Christmas

what did you get for Christmas last year?  if you can remember, where are these "gifts" right now?  

i am genuinely asking this question?  i am not being a consumer hater but just following a thought process.  

i was reading online today that we spend (as americans) on average $450 billions dollars a  year for Christmas.  There is an estimated 305 million people in the US today...counting everyone...even my one year old daughter.  if that figure is correct then that's just over $1,475/person spent each year on Christmas...including my one year old daughter.  point being is that we spend a lot of money for christmas.

as i am typing this blog post i just realized that i am using the computer that my wife surprised me with last year for Christmas.  i am even wearing the pajama pants that she got for me too.  consumerism isn't all bad, just out of control in my mind.  

what were the menial gifts you received last year that you returned, lost, broke, or forgot about?  i am not really meaning this to be rhetorical.  i am genuinely curious.  

check this out:

ditching the glasses

today i joined the "contacts" club.  THERE FREAK'N AWESOME.  i've been wanting to ditch my glasses for a few years now and today i did.  it's so strange not having the glasses on my face and still being able to see.  

surprisingly...learning how to put them in and take them out wasn't that difficult.  

Seahawks Fans SUCK

i hate seahawks fans!!! they suck this year and they play this game over the Cowboys. these people need to know when to give up!!!!

got kids?

how is it that three of my kids (all weighing less than 50 lbs each) can make me lose my salvation in the morning and become satan?

this morning i had an amazing time in the Word and amazing time praying. when my family got up this morning i felt i had an extra kick in my step. i felt like a kiddish school girl.

an hour later was a different story.

The best $90 I have ever spent

tonight was the greatest night i have had since we have moved to Vancouver.  it involved a date night, my first experience with sake, and ice scream renaissance. 

 

nights like tonight remind me how much i love being with my wife.

New Church

Stacy and i have found a new church that we like a lot.  i hate "church shopping."  we don't know everything about this place yet but the people are warm, the spend a lot of time serving outside the four walls of the church, and they love Jesus.  all things that are very important to us.  

if you have read my past blogs then you know that Stacy and i have a heart for the children and people of Haiti and guess what, this church does too.  we could never understand why God would, over a year ago, place Haiti on our hearts.  since we have wanted to visit so bad but never perceived the oportunity would be there outside of a Young family mission trip.  this shows how little my mind is compared to the hand of God.

i am not saying that this is the greatest place on earth or that this is where we will be for the next 100 years but for today...it seems perfect.  

it's called Mosaic.  check it out here.