Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving by the Pool

Our little indians...


 Thanksgiving by the pool...a first for me!



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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Decorating for Christmas


We REALLY tried to wait until after Christmas, but just couldn't! We had a fun evening...

Already have a stocking for Baby #2, just need a name to go on it!

He was a big helper this year with the tree!

Daddy and Mommy's nativity

Nathan's nativity

Advent wreath

Nathan's tree that is in his room, it is the perfect night light!


Monday, November 22, 2010

Thanksgiving

You know you are a pastor's family when: yoru son asks "Why doesn't Caillou say a prayer before dinner?"

We have so much to be thankful for. I feel like this is a very generic post, but it is just so important to remind ourselves of the absolute abundance that we live in. We have felt so blessed this year for so many things:

1) Direction to our call here in Florida this spring
2) Celebrating the end (finally!) of Zach's seminary
3) Safely packing up, moving down, buying a home, moving in, getting settled.
4) Weddings of our siblings Charista Zehnder to Peter Baye and Peter Buck to Teesh Baudhuin
5) Announcing the birth of our second son in April, bringing me (Allison) through the first half of pregnancy which was pretty rough
6) the Hoyer family: Paul and Betty and Ben and Megan who have been so essential in our transition to Florida. We treasure their friendship so much.
7) The Cross East Lake, our new church plant and MOST specifically the people who join with us hand-in-hand: the Buntzs, the Nutters, the Bergmanns, the Starks, the Africanos, the Glienkes, Tiffany Guido, the Moores, Frank Kipp, Beth Thorton, the Stephans, the Seiglers: you guys are amazing.
8) Our supportive family and friends back in St. Louis, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and all over the States. We love you so much, and love to hear from you and feel your prayers.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

First Florida Blog

We have been a little lazy with our blog because facebook is just so much easier, but we are going to get back into it, (thanks for the inspiration Charista and Peter!)
I don't think we need to catch anyone up on any information since I have been posting pretty regularly on Facebook, but I am going to try to use our blog again. I am going to keep a running list of "you know you are a pastor's wife when..." stories. Here is the latest one:

Last night at 3:00 am Zach suddenly sat up and put his hand on my shoulder (waking me) and began praying that a family would be "sent a car so that they can use it abundantly for Your will. Amen" Then he layed back down and kept sleeping. This morning he has absolutely no recollection of any of this. I guess there was someone out there who really needed a car...he has NO idea were it came from, he doesn't know anyone who needs a car!