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video day with students

During the summer we have events with our students every Monday (download our summer pocket calendar). Because school’s out and most teens are looking for something to do, the summer is an ideal time for hanging out and building relationships.

Last week, we held a “Make a Movie” day. The guys and girls separated and created their own videos. I took the guys and Rick took the girls. The following videos are the result.

First, the ladies made a music video to the song “I Don’t Care”.

And then the guys just made a bunch of random stuff (commercials, shows, 300 trailers, etc.)

I should add that the guys video was shot using my Flip MinoHD camera. I worked out pretty well, except that our old G5 had a hard time processing the HD footage. I had to change the Final Cut sequence to SD and then exported it out with the HD settings.

9 years

Today marks 9 years of marriage to Bethany. I’m sure she has an amazingly well-worded blog about it today. I haven’t check yet because I wanted to write this first.

Bethany, you are amazing. I know I wrote that in my card to you, but honestly, every day you captivate me with your beauty, character and passion. I’m so grateful that you are my closest friend and strongest supporter. You’re an amazing mother to Parker and Kent. I’m constantly impressed with your ability to love and nurture them. When you’re not around and I’m with the boys, I often think “How would Bethany handle this situation” (usually when I’m having to discipline them, which is often!).

I love you and those vows I said to you 9 nine years ago are just as meaningful and true as they are today.

Thanks for putting up with me.

a change of pace

We’re changing things up during our Wednesday evening service for the next few weeks. Instead of our regular service, we’re cutting out some of the “extras” (like games and goofy videos) in order to spend more time reading the Word and in prayer. My hope is that during this time, our students will be intentional [...]

bedtime prayers

I recorded these a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d share them here. They’re some clips of the boys saying their bedtime prayers a couple different nights. The opening text is something I made in Kinemac (a program I got in the last MacHeist bundle), just to play around with it and try to [...]

lizards

Yesterday we finished up our series on Proverbs 30 by highlighting the wisdom of the lizard.
Verse 28: Lizards—they are easy to catch, but they are found even in kings’ palaces.
The wisdom of the lizard is found in the fact that it goes into places where it isn’t expected and/or wanted. The irony of this image [...]

vacation pics

From Vacation to Tennessee 2009

Last week, our family went to Gatlinburg TN, for a few days of vacation. Vacationing with your kids isn’t exactly relaxing, but we had a blast and it was great to get away and just be with each other. Life has a way of getting crazy and distracting. Taking a few [...]