currently i’m sitting in the Stoney Creek Inn in Moline, IL. i’m getting ready to speak before a Quad City Steamwheelers game. they an arena team located here. my good friend Geoff Pearson works with the FCA up here and asked if i would like to come. i’m looking forward [...]
Last night at about 4:37am, the earth shook here in the Midwest. We registered a 5.2 mag earthquake that originated in south east Illinois. I’m sure most of you reading this probably felt it.
Apparently I wasn’t too worried about it. It woke is up and when Kristie said “I think it’s an earthquake”, [...]
so, Easter is a few days past, it’s never to late to shout “He is Risen!”
we had an excellent Easter. Kristie and i got the kids up early. we went into Caleb’s room and said “He is Risen!” and Caleb said, “awesome!” then we followed them into the play room to find their [...]
Caleb and I went to the dentist yesterday. It was Caleb’s first visit. The lady who cleaned our teeth was very nice. Her name was Miss Nikki. Mister sunshine looked into Caleb’s mouth while Miss Nikki counted Caleb’s teeth. 10 on the bottom and 10 on the top! Just right.
Next, Caleb got his [...]
Please be in prayer for my family. It’s not appropriate to talk about it here, but some of you know.
There is a need for wisdom and grace. God knows where your prayers are going.
Thanks,
Grace and peace
one of caleb’s and emmry’s favorite things to do is take a bath. that was what we were doing a few nights ago when caleb got me into stitches! i had just finished washing emmry and caleb was laying flat on his back, taking up most of the bathtub space, with his head emerged in [...]
In the past, Caleb has said that when he grows up he wants to be a big daddy like me. We were driving in the car yesterday and talking about how when Caleb eats he’s going to get bigger and bigger. He says, “yeah, I’m going to get big like you daddy. And have a [...]
so, friday night (i know it’s monday) we had quite an evening. just as we were putting the kids down for bed, Kristie says to me, “do you think Ansley feels warm?” since our entire family had, by this point, gotten the flu i knew where this was going. we took her temperature and it [...]
so i came home from work today to find Kristie sporting a pair of jeans for the first time since the hospital. i have to say she was looking good! it was nice to see her looking comfortable.
she is finally starting to feel better. if we can keep from doing things [...]
yesterday, i took ansley to get her 1 week checkup at our pediatrician’s office. if you remember she was 7 lbs 4 0z and 20 inches long, so far our smallest baby. (when we left the hospital ansley weighed in at 7 lbs.) at 10 days old she weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and had [...]
ansley is officially 1 week old today! we have been home now since tuesday afternoon and we are in the beginning stages of experiencing life as a party of five. tuesday evening was the first time the king team had been all by ourselves. andy had prepared dinner and we were all sitting down [...]
here are some highlights for us over the last few days…
9:26am, February 1st, 2008. Ansley Lorene King is born by cesarean Ansley has dark hair and looks like me!! friday afternoon Caleb and Emmry meet Ansley for the first time. Emmry is very curious while Caleb is not so sure, until Emmry is interested [...]
