disturbing sight

This is the kind of thing nightmares are made of. The other day I step into our downstairs bathroom and flip on the light. I hear something hitting the exhaust fan and I look up and see a tail through the grills. I watch for a second and then the fan starts going crazy and a mouse drops down into the light fixture. It tries to get back up but is stopped by the fan. It tries to move around but keeps running into the light bulbs. So it just lays there twitching once in a while. I have no idea what to do so I get the kids and the camera. It starts moving around again and finally jumps into the fan. After a lot of weird noises and the sound of a motor grinding, the mouse disappeared into the ceiling. I have no idea what happened to him but I haven't smelled anything bad yet coming from up there. Maybe it will scare him to the neighbors house.

an evening at the park

Sarah had to work the other day and I had the kids for the evening. The weather was nice so we went to a park, had a picnic, played and fed the ducks. We had a real good time.

a special privilege

Last Sunday I had the special privilege of praying with Tanner to ask Jesus into his heart. He came into kids church because he was the only boy in his second service preschool class. Since he had already sat through first service, his teachers asked if he'd like to join us in kids church. When I asked for those who needed to ask Jesus into their heart to raise their hand Tanner's hand went up. Sarah and I have waited until he made the first move so that he would know what he was doing. I had him come up to the front and I asked him a few questions and we prayed. I thanked the other kids because they were just really quiet and well behaved while they allowed a dad to pray with his son.

praying for the play?

This year's Christmas play turned out well. I particularly like this picture from a rehearsal. Sam is supposed to be looking at things in a storefront window although it looks like he's praying. He's really probably eyeing the box of jellybeans that were hidden down there. There are more pictures on our kids ministry website at eklife.org.

the pouty princess

How's that for a face? She got into a little phase of big displays when she has her feelings hurt. Here she was upset that she couldn't have more sour cream. Her chili was already almost completely white because she had helped herself.

video calling

Ok, so I've had the ability to do this for some time and didn't even know it. My brother sent me this picture from Oklahoma of me and him talking to each other over the internet. It's pretty cool. I have a camera built into my laptop so I can carry my computer around and show live video. I told my mom that since I can't make it for Christmas this year they could just set me up on the coffee table on a computer. Then anytime I talked too much they could just mute me.

launch lights

We've been having a lot of fun lately on Wednesday nights with the lights. With the addition of a little (ok sometimes a lot) of fog, it makes for a pretty cool effect. It seem like everyone thinks the songs are funner. Even some of our older songs have new energy. It's just fun.