A Good Ol' Fashioned Southern Baptist Potluck

The Gracious Hosts: Paul and Cassey

The guests were hungry!

Girls' Night Out at Benihana

Welcome Irbys

Nearly & Newly Marrieds welcome Elizabeth and Houston Irby to our group on September 5th.  They are taking over leadership of the class as Amy and Jamey Clark move on to new things.

Welcome Irbys!  We look forward to learning from you, and getting to know you better.

Wii game night

The contestants prepared diligently in the waiting area...

The food of champions was served...

In preparing the dessert careful consideration was paid to the contestants strict diatery requirements...

The games were fierce...

And in the end champions were crowned...

Now that he's three weeks old...

...we should go ahead and announce his arrival. Welcome to the world Liam and congrats to Brent & Anna!

Congrats Erin & Marv

Welcome baby Gesse!  You're precious.  6 pounds, 3 ounces... 20 inches

Nearly & Newly Represent!

This past weekend First Baptist Church provided a Christmas Dessert Theatre experience for the community and a couple of our classmates were a part of the fun-filled productions.  Luke, who is a baritone and Beth, who is a soprano sang in the choir.  In addition, Erin was supposed to sing in the choir, but did not due to minor complications with her pregnancy.
This years production was titled "I'll Be Home", which takes place during the second World War in the forties.  All of the characters were dressed in forties style clothing and sang forties style music.  The characters in the theatre portion of the show dealt with the struggle between the problems of this World and relying on God.  A line in the show says, "It if often difficult to hear God in this World."  This light-hearted production was a great way to get in gear for the Holiday and serve the community with hospitality and love.
Here are a couple pics from the show:

Above: Luke with Sam and Dave (right to left)

Above: Beth with Kayla and Alinda (left to right)

First Baptist's Holiday Dessert Theatre

Congrats Pounders Family

Baby Logan is here!

7lbs, 9oz

20 inches long

Congratulations Josh, Lindsey, Lily and Jordyn!  May the Lord continue to bless your family.

Who planned this?

Kristen and Rayna celebrating a successful and tiring week of VBS… er… I mean VBF (Vacation Bible FUN). No, they did not plan this serendipitous wardrobe moment (and they don't know I'm posting this either), but great fun was had by all.

Everyone sing:
On Outrigger Island we live God's unshakable Truth
da da da da da da da da … everything that we do (I forgot the words)
In a world full of shifting sand, we'll stand firm on God's commands,
and live His unshakable truth on Outrigger Island.

More Dog Mountain Pictures

We posted the rest of our pictures that we took of our hike on our blog; address found in the right column: lukeandkristen.blogspot.com. They are similar to the photos Josh posted, so I won't duplicate. We had fun everyone!!

-Kristen

A dog on a mountain.

Friends on a mountain hike.

Dog Mountain

Here we are hiking on Dog Mountain with a few DOGS!!


This is where it supposedly evens out!

2nd trip to pumkin patch

So much fun was had the first go-around we had to go again!

Here are some pictures from our first trip to the pumpkin patch: