A WHOPPING 6 MONTHS LATER...!

Wow. I know. Where to begin.

For starters, we have moved back to California! Home again, home again… Oh God, please let this be it! I am so tired of moving, and the sad part is, there is another move in our foreseeable future. Our sweet little home is for sale in Arkansas. The market is TERRIBLE and we are just praying God sells it for us soon. Until then, we are shacking up with the ‘rents. Okay…that sounds bad. We are living in my parents’ guesthouse until we can sell our home in AR and find one of our own to rent here. Their “backhouse,” as we call it, is small (just one large room…a mini-kitchen, closet, bathroom and bedroom all in one). We have made the most of what space we have, using my dad’s old office cubicle walls to make bedrooms for the kids. We are rather fond of our little place and are quite content there. The only problem is we are far from where we need to be. We have moved back to this area to launch a new church called Cross Church San Diego in the ever growing and popular Carmel Valley area!! God has done an amazing work in our hearts and has called Scott and I to team up with our new awesome friends, Brad and Becky Graves. Together, we will begin a new work that we believe God will use to transform the hearts and lives of San Diego’s North County area! We have hardly begun and are already seeing the fruits of God’s blessing on this church! Check out our website at www.crosschurchsandiego.com!

I’ll try to fill you in on a few key things that have happened since I last blogged (a really, really long time ago)…

Hayden cut his hair. So sad. I loved his long hair, but it is no more. Scott found him with the scissors and a large chunk of his hair missing. I tried to cut it without buzzing the whole thing, but he cut it right to the scalp. So, we buzzed it off. He thought it was cool and told everyone, “I’m a buzz!”

Delaney is walking like a pro and has 8 teeth! (Four on the top and four on the bottom.) She has such a beautiful smile!

The road trip/move to San Diego was pretty uneventful until the last day. We went to Disneyland!! It was so much fun and Hayden ate it up! We bought him a Disneyland book so he could have the characters autograph it for him. He got Mickey’s, Pooh’s and Buzz Lightyear’s signatures. He loved the Buzz Lightyear and Dumbo rides and he went on his first roller-coaster (in Toon Town)! I was so nervous because I thought he would be too scared. It goes really fast! But, he loved it! He wanted to go again and again! It was SO cute! I was a proud mama!

Scott’s birthday was a great day! We decided to go see a taping of the Dr. Phil show because it was an audience participation show. They were looking for audience members who had “strong views on everything from politics to religion.” That is so my husband! We filled out the request form on-line and they called us right away to say they wanted us to come be a part of the audience. We decided to go up the night before and staying in a dump of a hotel (that cost us over $100!!). Early the next morning, we made our way to the studio and got our VIP tickets. While we were sitting waiting for the taping to begin, a guy named Chunky B was revving up the audience and giving away prizes. He heard it was Scott’s birthday so he led the entire audience in Happy Birthday to Scott and then he gave him a Dr. Phil mug. Ha! The show was on extremely judgmental people. There were six in all and they have now become the new “Dr. Phil House.” During the show, Scott got a chance to speak to young woman named Kimberly, who had a very harsh way of sharing her faith. Here is a quote from the Dr. Phil newsletter (the ‘man in the audience’ is Scott)…

“A man in the audience addresses Kimberly. “Of all the attitudes I hear up here today, yours makes me most sad as a pastor, because I think that you fuel all the stereotypes that [Jason] has about people who follow God. They think they’re a bunch of airheads and just follow blindly, because of your judgmentality,” he tells her. “I just want to say that if you would exemplify what Christ intended, that people would be more receptive to your message.” 

“You don’t really know me,” Kimberly says. “

Yes, my amazing husband is a star! I was so proud of him! This show aired on Tuesday of last week. The Dr. Phil house continues on Monday and Scott will more than likely be featured again. So tune in!

Of course I have to include pictures of the kids from Halloween. They had fun dressing up! Laney knew she was cute and loved showing off her little costume! Hayden had a blast being Buzz. They went trick-or-treating and helped pass out candy too!

Well, I guess that's it. I'll leave you with a few more pics. Love you all!