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We went over to see Chris & Stephanie’s new baby boy, Ryan, and we got this special surprise!

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It’s not every day you see someone driving with corn-on-the-cob.

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I took this picture last week in Catalina of Miles.

Eric took this one of Joshua last week…

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Our Audio Engineer, Chris, who you see from time to time on the worship confessionals & tech confessionals, and his wife had their little baby boy on Saturday, July 7th (what a cool birthday!). It’s their first, so they won’t be getting much sleep - but how exciting! Isn’t God good to us?

You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.

Psalm 139:16

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Miles’ best little buddy, Joshua had his 4 year old party last night - it was a blast! It was at Pump it Up - a local bounce house, crazy birthday joint. I think I worked off about 10lbs playing with the kids, racing through mazes, sliding down the giant slides, and just having a great time. Both Miles and Macy had fun, our whole family had fun, so much fun in fact that I TOTALLY forgot that I had to leave early for rehearsal. Now you know that we were having too much fun! Thanks Beemans!

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The McLean’s came over tonight and spoiled Miles. He got 3 new Transformers (his latest infatuation), pizza, and lot’s of sympathy for his 4 stitches. Beau was out of town, Travis was at a staff meeting, but Papa Bob, Mamo Barbara, Lisi, Emily & Cassie (see the last post) were all there hanging out. At one point in the evening everyone was paying a little too much attention to Macy, so Miles announced that this was supposed to be a celebration for him. He is so loved by his whole family - I am sure Mamo Karen and Papa Rick have plans to spoil him rotten next time they see him.

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“I do my own stunts”… yeah. The night started off with a 2 hour search for babysitters for the kids - finally we settled on a babysitter for Macy and a night over at Lisi’s (his aunt). Started off great, Miles was over at Emily’s (his other aunt) swimming with Lisi and a bunch of other friends, while me and Jen were cozying up to a nice evening with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino and the rest of the gang. Just as the movie started we got the call: Miles had a “slip and fall” accident.

That’s when the date night got interesting. After a 20 minute whispering, text messaging conversation between me, Jen, Lisi & Emily - we decided to go get him and take him to the emergency room. A quick queezy look at the gash in his chin and we decided it was probably a stitcher. So, Romolo and Lindsey (friends) had a doctor friend who said he would look at Miles and let us know if he really needed stitches, at his home (this was about 9:30pm). So Jen and I and Miles, and Lisi, and Emily, and Travis, and Romolo, and Lindsey (sp?), all caravaned across town to the good doctor’s home. After a quick look he recommended a trip to the ER, called us in and we were off again (THANK YOU DR. P?).

Oh yeah so we had a babysitter at home watching Macy. So we called Karen (Jen’s mom) to come pick up the babysitter, take her home, come back and watch over the house while Macy slept. Oh yeah, then we had to call Cassie (our roommate), to see if she could stay with Macy while Karen took the babysitter home.

Then it was off to the ER. Jen hates the ER and I just hate hospitals period, so that’s good for us. Luckily because of the doctor’s call we were taken to another part of the ER (Jen said it was the “Grey’s Anatomy” wing, where the interns worked - whatever, at least people weren’t throwing up). The rest of the story is filled with me trying to keep Miles happy, Jen washing our hands every 10 minutes, crying, numbing, crying, consoling, papoosing, consoling, cleaning, crying, stitching, cleaning, and finally leaving. Miles was very brave. He now has 4 stitches in his chin and will get whatever he wants today.

Thanks everyone who helped & prayed. Someone owes us a date night.

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Jen and I had just finished watching “Letters from Iwo Jima” and were heading up to slip into bed and catch some much needed z’s, when we found this:

Another bad photo taken with my Q (have I mentioned how awkward it is? it takes like 4-5 seconds to change to camera mode!).

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