Happy 80th Birthday to my DAD!

Please comment or email birthday wishes/greetings to my dad; I know he'd appreciate them! I love you, Dad!

Hair... can't live with it... can't live without it!

For most of my life I've struggled with my hair. I was born with curly, unruly hair; my younger sister was born with straight but full-of-body hair.

Becoming teenagers in the late sixties, we both agreed that she was the fortunate one. When everyone wanted to have long, straight hair with long, straight bangs, I was the one who had short, curly hair with bangs that seemed to shrink up to my hairline.

No product produced would make my bangs straight.

(I didn't even try with the rest of my hair.)

Not Dippity-Do.

Not pink hair tape.

Not jumbo hot rollers.

Not big pink foam rollers.

Nothing!

So, why am I telling you about this? Because I went to my sister's surprise 50th birthday party this past weekend. Her friends and family had put together a photo collage for sis and because we are only 11 1/2 months apart in age, I was in many of the earlier shots. The hair horror all came back to me as I saw photos of the two of us side-by-side. There she was looking cute with her soft, long, flowing head of hair. There I was with my short, kinky, unruly blob of hair. Yikes!

(That's my sis on the left and me on the right. The guy just to the right of my sister is now married to famous fashion designer Trina Turk!)

Then I remembered my months of chemotherapy and the totally bald head I sported throughout that process. It certainly put things in much better perspective....

"Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered...." Luke 12:7

"...for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." I Samuel 16:7

Happy Birthday, Erik!

One score and seven years ago today,

Erik was born into this world.

Today, Erik is healthy, successful, married to the love of his life and following our Lord Jesus Christ. What more could a mother want?

Happy Birthday, Erik!

Living the Cross-Centered Life

I just finished reading a great book by C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing. Mahaney did a wonderful job of removing all of the distractions of life and focusing straight on what matters most--Christ crucified. Just as Paul said in I Corinthians 15:3-4, "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...." I highly recommend this book to all who are serious about living for God.

Hiking 2007

Now that the weather has turned chilly and drippy, I'm reminded of some of the terrific hikes I was able to take this year in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Ahhhh....

Anybody want to buy a GREAT house?

We've got our house for sale and are hoping that a nice family will buy it! Do you know of any nice families (or nice young couples) looking for a terrific house in a terrific neighborhood?

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Weekend

Typical October weekend... with a few extras!

We "dogsat" for Kara and Dusty while they had a weekend away. Gunner is a terrific dog who is polite, quiet and clean--my kind of dog! K&D came to pick him up on Sunday and stayed to watch the first three quarters of the Seahawks-Steelers game. (No comment about this lame game.)

Since we're trying to sell the house ourselves, we sat around most of the weekend waiting for people to call. VERY few calls.... We'll give it a couple of more weeks before listing the house with a real estate agent.

Went to church Sunday. Jeff had a good sermon, but attendance seemed a bit down (due to Seahawks 10:00 a.m. start??).