"Who hears these words of mine & puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, & the winds blew & beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine & does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, & the winds blew & beat against that house, & it fell with a great crash."

Matthew 7:24-27

Sunday, March 16, 2008

I have a new job

I don't know who all reads this but I figured I would let those that do read what we write know that I have a new job.  I've been working at Community National Bank for almost 2 years now.  It's been fun, I've learned a lot.  Starting March 31 I'll be working at Orchard Hill Church as the Operations Director.  I'm excited to start and it should be a great place to work.

St. Patrick's Day

Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of the greatest proposal of all time.  There is only one other proposal that might come close.  That one happened during the Fiesta Bowl a year ago.  The amount of planning that went into this proposal and to have it work flawlessly makes it the best.  Three years ago, Ashley was in New York City when I showed up on top of the Empire State Building the same time she did.  It was a day I will never forget, spending a day in the city walking around and waiting at the top of the Empire State Building for 3 hours for her to get there.  The perfect surprise for a great gal.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Our latest house project...





We have almost lived in our house for 1 year!  Over the past year we have done lots of projects and updates.  Our latest project took place this past weekend.  We had ripped out the floor in our front entry down to the subfloor.  (It was an ugly linoleum material that was originally brown and had been painted baby blue.  When we moved in I painted it white just to make it look decent until we replaced it!)  We had been looking at the subfloor for several weeks until last weekend when we finally tackled the project of laying down hardwood.  I shouldn't really say "we" as Erik did most of the work, but I helped supervise and added my opinion on how the boards should be laid. :)  We are so excited to have this done!  It is not quite finished as you can see from the above pictures; we still need to re-apply the trim but we are going to re-finish it first.  Even though it's not all the way finished, it sure is nice to have a floor down!