Friday Night

TGIF!

oh man...and it's a 3 day weekend thanks to Memorial Day that is celebrated on Monday.
Well at least the work day did go by fast for me (isaac) and Amy went into work late and got off early. luck duck!

So the weekend has started off great and so now we're home trying to decide decide what to do until we pick up Mom Allen from the airport tonight. We just looked up the flight info and the flight has already been delayed 55 minutes! So now she is estimated to arrive around 9:50 tonight.
The house is clean and tidy so now we just need to decide when to go to dinner and waste some time in the city. I think we might go get some sushi tonight! Our favorite place in Nashville is this dive called Ru San's and they have 500 different type of sushi items! So we'll see if we head that way or not.

So at my work there is this huge tract of land across from our office and it is a land trust that is protected from being commercialized or building anything on and since it is the beginning of Summer the people around are already getting the first round of hay together. And it is a awesome view with all the hay bails laying around the field. So I took 2 pictures today on my way home to try and capture the image for you all.


The scenery alone is a huge reason we love living in TN.

ok...we're off to eat dinner!!!!


and by the way the flight just got delayed another while longer...it'll be 10 before we pick Mom up. yup...another loooong night.

So Much Work

The title of the post is referring to owning a house. I feel like we work on the house so much...yet there is still so much more that we can do. So we just thought that we hadn't really shown pictures of our house to anyone but those who have actually visited. So here is a picture from the front of our home.

We have a great corner lot...the front yard extends a way to the right of the picture. So our garage and our drive way is over on the right side of the house too...the 2 windows on the right are in the garage. If you look closely you can see the dogs over there on the drive way looking at me wondering what I was doing across the street.




You can hardly see them...so here's a close up.


Well you can tell, or maybe not, I just finished mowing the front yard and if you look on the other side of the driveway you can see hay on the ground. Yes, I just got around to seeding my back yard so now I am waiting on it to grow in.

So far it is looking promising and I'm really excited about it's progress, however I'm not excited about our next months water bill.


Also we just painted a few walls in the house so now there is some color on the walls. We painted 2 walls in the living room and the foyer/entryway. Maybe our next series of posts should be on the inside of the house. Even though there's not much to it...the only room we spend times in are the living room and the library/media room/movie room. It's our favorite room and most everyone that comes over like the room too.


OK well there is the outside of our house. The inside of it coming soon...

Bicycle Race

Well today was my (Isaac) first day to go mountain biking on an actual mountain bike trail. Josh has had a mountain bike since living in TX and has been wanting to go out to some trails but i don't have a mountain bike, or a bicycle in general actually. So I borrowed one from a good friend of mine and Josh and I finally hit the trails this afternoon.

I had research that about 20 minutes from our house was a good trail that was great for all skill levels. Great! That means we wouldn't kill ourselves trying to be macho dare devils on the bicycles. Turns out those 8 miles just about did kill us. As I am sure my body will wake up sore tomorrow as my bottom already hurts to simply sit on a hard surface. Bicycle seats are not comfortable after 1/2 a mile or so...give or take.
But the trail was a lot of fun and it was an adrenaline rush at times going fast through the bending trail curving between the trees.

The other down side was that now that we have hit the warm seasons the bugs are out full force. So a few minutes into the trail I stopped to take a swig from my water bottle and noticed 6 ticks on my legs. Geez...every few minutes we would stop and inspect our legs for the nasty critters. Every time...at least 3 were found. Luckily they had not really grabbed a hold of our skin yet....they were all still searching for a spot so removing them was as easy as a flick of the finger. So to say the least, I was so paranoid the entire time on the trail as the grass, shrubs, and various leaves were whipping at my legs as we rode by. So I had to throughly inspect myself when I got home to be cautious about the dogs and keeping them safe from any ticks.
So it's been a long day.

Speaking of dogs...this is usually how Rupert sleeps when we are in the living room watching tv in the evenings.
I don't see how that could be comfortable...but he never fails to make us laugh by this awkwardly contorted sleeping positions. Blows my mind everytime.

Take a Picture

Here we are in all of our glory!

We had taken this picture during the egg hunt and forgot to go check it out on the online photo album that the church had posted on the web. So here is probably our most recent picture together.

Well this weekend we have planned an Ultimate Frisbee game with all of our friends and Isaac's co-workers. The last time we had a Ultimate game a bunch of girls and 2 guys showed up...but it was still a lot of fun. So hopefully we'll have a bigger crowd this time. Amy took some marketing online tutorials on event planning. We'll see how good she does.
Only kidding.

40 Acres

Well the egg hunt could not have gone any better! Except that we could have used an extra 40 acres to lay out the thousands of eggs we had for the kids. Harvey park where the even was held is a brand new park in the city and it is not very big and does not have large tracts of land around it. But the turn out was really good and we just glad people came being that the temp this morning was at around 40 degrees.

You can see everyone bundled up in their winter clothing that I'm sure people had to dig out of the back of their closest for this weekend.
But check out all the people!

Needless to say we ran out of our hot drinks really fast.


I even got an action picture of Amy doing some face painting on some children.
I'm surprised her hand was still enough to paint on a child's face being as cold as it was.
Or maybe I'm more surprised that children let some people with shivering cold hands lean toward their faces with wet brushes.
And I had to take a picture of the lovely wife because she looked exceptionally beautiful today...yet some random dude had to ruin the pure awesomeness of the picture.
Yea it is our friend Adam...he's a cheese ball.

So even thought it was a chilly day we had a blast with the entire event.
Afterward a few of us went to the neighborhood Applebee's for some soup...
it was yummy and really warm.

How Deep The Father's Love

What a wonderful weekend it will be! Isn't it wonderful that the season in which the Resurrection happened is the most prettiest season of the entire year. Yes the Fall does have wonderful colors but those are the colors ending the external life of the plant life. In the Spring everything is in bloom! New life is happening all around us and that new life is full of wonderful colors.
What better way to celebrate this weekend of remembrance than surrounded by the beautiful colors of Spring. And yes we realize that it is not the Spring season all over the globe...but we are so glad it is here and that we have this season to help us remember the life that was given to us through the Son. Hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoy the lyrics to a beautiful song in remembrance of Him.

How deep the Father's love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He would give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure

How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the chosen One
Bring many sons to glory

Behold the Man upon a cross
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers

It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished

I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power's, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom

The April Fools

It is the end of the day. Today was the first day of April. And I did not realize that it was April 1st until tonight at some point. When the opportunity to try and fool anyone was too far gone. Dag!

Oh well, so since April is now upon I also missed my chance to post an entry before the end of March. Is it really April now? The first quarter of 2007 is gone? Geez time has really flown by!

Well Rupert is holding up pretty well with his bad haircut...he's had no problem going outside to face public humiliation. But on the other hand he has no choice.


In other news, our church contacted the city of Spring Hill (the town we actually live in) about doing face painting and helping out with the city wide Easter egg hunt they always devise the weekend of Easter. Turns out the city is not doing one for lack of shown interest by the city.
What?
So the church asked if we can organize it and carry out the egg hunt. They had no problem with it so now our church is doing the egg hunt for the city and we have certain sponsors. How crazy is that? So this is a great opportunity to get out there and meet new people in the community and be able to provide for them a family event.

So now we're having a cook-out with our community group at our house this week to eat, fellowship, and stuff all the eggs that people have bought for the egg hunt.

So if you happen to be in Spring Hill, TN on Saturday April 5th at 10am come by Harvey Park and join in on the festivities! (located on Main St.)