I have to make a plug here for my wife and her new business... It's a really awesome ministry opportunity for her along with her teaching.  If anybody has a baby shower or bridal shower or other family-oriented occasion coming up, I would strongly recommend at least browsing through my wife's website.  It's http://www.onceuponafamily.com/rachelw .  The company (Once Upon A Family) is all about valuing and strengthening family relationships.  They have a whole bunch of neat stuff for all sorts of occasions.

On a similar note, Rachel and I have thought about possibly purchasing the Leather Family Album.  It's a really nice, big photo album that you are supposed to get out every New Year's and put on one page a collage of the family's photos of the previous year.  We really look forward to doing this ourselves but we also thought how cool it would be to have an album for the Indy Mac church plant and how our church family has grown and changed since the inception of Vecino's to now and looking ahead to the future (like an actual church building, etc.)  Rachel thought it would be a neat craft idea for girls' night, but I don't think the guys would go along with the girls having all the say. 

Anyway, I did NOT want to get up and go to work today.  I am hoping and praying to have a new job soon, one definitely closer than my current commute.

Ummm... I think that's all for now...