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Month: March 2010

Up for THE CHALLENGE?

03/17/2010 /

To cut to the chase is that I’m wanting to make some changes in how/what I eat and how I exercise. I’ve been slacking in both of those areas. But I decided to invite a few friends to to make some changes as well. And in doing so the idea of a “Challenge“. I don’t know what to call it exactly. I hesitate to call it a weight loss challenge because it is so much more than just dropping a few pounds. But it’s about being healthier (which dropping fat (but adding muscle)) is a big part.

So there are currently eight of us who are going to undertake “The Challenge“. We’ll do weekly weigh-ins. Record the results in a handy spreadsheet. Hopefully post some pictures with progress along the way. And hopefully have some input from contestants along the way about how things are going and the methods they are using. Then after three months whoever has lost the most percentage of their starting weight will be crowned “THE WINNER”!

The payoff? As an entry fee for The Challenge everyone will send me a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. After The Challenge is over I will in turn send all the codes for the certificates to the winner. Then they can buy whatever they like from Amazon.

Sound fun? Think you might want in on the action? Then contact me. You can join at any time, just know the end date will be the same (probably June 18th) so you’ll have a little less time.

We’re in the new building!

03/07/2010 /

Back in January I posted a video from the first work night The Orchard had in the new building. That work night was on January 20th. And we’ve come a long way since then.

Last weekend Pat made the call to call it a 95% chance that we’d have church today (March 7th) in the new building. And I think that pushed us to get as much done as we could in the next six days. And there were lots of folks in and out of the doors. There was still painting, carpeting, putting together 200 chairs, hanging televisions, putting together children’s ministry furniture, setting lights, running sound system cable, building a stage, changing light fixtures, replacing facia board, getting the Fire Marshall to approve us, getting fire extinguishers, hanging posters, and probably a dozen other things. And all fo that was just this past week.

But there have been many, many people who have put in many hours to get the building to where we are. And today felt good. And one of the coolest things is that now we don’t need to spend near as much time before and after a service setting up things and then taking them right back down. We have had some great volunteers give their time and strength to that. We have been blessed. But now we get to reorient their efforts/focus to other ministry areas.

The new building still needs some more attention. There’s a punch list we’ll still need to knock out (did you see the bathrooms?). But it’s great to be in a building of our own. But we have to be careful that we don’t allow a building to define us. Sure, it opens up many opportunities and should also make other things easier. But it’s not an end all solution. Our heart, as a church, still needs to be focused on Jesus. And our passions need to be the same as His passions.

So while we’re quite excited about the building, we’re more excited about the opportunities it provides for The Orchard to impact Oxford for God’s Kingdom.

[I wish I had a few photos from this morning. Maybe next week.]

Haircut for Rowan!

03/02/2010 /

It seems that when our kids are really young my wife and I think that it can’t be too hard to cut a kids hair. And we end up messing it up. And then we give it a few attempts to “fix” it. And it only makes it worse. I’ll try to find some old pictures of Ella. Her hair looked horrible. She had a really bad “boy’s haircut” for a few months when she was two.

But I had to run get a tire fixed this morning and decided to take Rowan to get his haircut afterwards. We were thinking of trying to wait until he turned two later this month for a haircut. But he was shaggy. You couldn’t see his ears. I’m not sure he could see anything through his bangs. And he was sporting a serious mullet too!

So after Walmart (and an emergency diaper change which included me having to buy diapers, wipes, and a new pair of pants!) we headed to get him all cut up. Here are a few pics below.

This was at Walmart before we left. His hair was CRAZY!

Still @ Walmart

He sat really, really still.

Bev showed up to watch from behind.

He was still, but paid strict attention in the mirror.

Almost done. He's getting a quick clean up

The finished product. But he couldn't be still.

He's cutting up. But his bangs aren't so severe now.

The Not So Newlywed Game

03/01/2010 /

Not too long ago Bev and I had a few friends over for supper. You know how that usually goes. Some people are on time. Some are a touch late. But everybody makes it eventually. And then everyone eats at the table or the barstools or standing around in the kitchen. And then the guys end up in a clump while talking about sports or tv shows or how they would probably make up a good Curling team in the next Olympics. And on the other hand the ladies clump up and talk about their kids or how lame it is that their husbands watch Curling.

So this time Bev wanted to go with a theme for dinner. And for some reason she chose a Wedding Theme. So everyone wore something from their wedding or brought something from their wedding and wedding pictures and all that fun stuff. It was quite fun. But we also played a game. We called it “The Not So Newlywed Game.”

It is played like the classic Bob Eubanks version I guess. But we had five questions each. It provided quite a bit of laughs and insight as we talked through the ten questions. Here’s what they were:

Questions for the Ladies

  1. The saying “opposites attract must be true because my husband and I couldn’t be any more different when it comes to _________?
  2. Every wedding has something to go wrong. What detail at your wedding didn’t go as planned?
  3. Where did you share your first kiss?
  4. What is your husband’s most irritating habit?
  5. If your husband won $5000, what would he want to spend it on?

Questions for the guys

  1. If your wife could have unlimited access to any store, what store would she choose?
  2. If your wife could send you to the body shop for a tuneup, which body part of yours would she want worked on?
  3. What is your wife’s favorite comfort food?
  4. If you could have a second honeymoon, where would your wife want you to take her?
  5. If you wife was married to a tv/movie star instead of you, who would she want to be married to?

One fake question I threw out there for the husbands was, “Which of your wife’s friends would you most like to see in a bikini?” I asked it and then watched them squirm like crazy. But I was sure to jump in before anyone attempted to name a friend. It was funny. But what was funnier was when I asked the wives, “Which of your friends would your husband most like to see in a bikini?” I almost held it in to let the question go around the room and actually see if they would name anyone. But I couldn’t keep a straight face.

As I said, it was a great time. And I meant to mention that my wife actually wore her wedding dress from nearly 11 years ago for a while. She’s a trooper!

What questions should we have asked? Have you played the game before with other questions? Leave a comment below and let me know!

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