This is what my family does during the fall festivities!
Bye Bye Pumpkin
Day at the bay!!! Monterey Bay that is.
After Church on Sunday, Bree and I sat watching Football and realized, we BOTH have Tomorrow off! We decided we should do something fun! So… We made quick plans and headed off to Monterey! Here is a little video from our amazing trip.
A loss of appetite
Bree and I were watching the food channel and we were loosing the battle of watching chocolate being made vs. not eating it!
So, Bree ran downstairs and grabbed the Milo that her parents brought home for us from Papua New Guinea! I was really excited! Chocolate milk! Yummmmm. But then…. she took a spoon and ATE MILO STRAIGHT!!!
The shivers ran though my bones! “WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!!!” I could not believe it… Then she blamed the habit on her childhood! Then it was “Everyone did it when I growing up! Really?!?!? I must have missed that memo …Weirdos… 🙂
…Almost as bad as my boss who eats his Toast with butter and chocolate sprinkles…. Oh the Dutch…
A view from the Top!
Bree and I had a free day and after coming off of a rather busy few weeks we decided to take a road trip!
We walked out of our front door, looked at Mount Diablo, and said “let’s go to the top!” So we did! Here are a few pics from our journey.
A view from the Top!
We even had Lunch with a View!
…and a friend!
A1 Closet Refashioned
In the Zone Children’s Ministry, we have restructured our entire ministry so we can become more intentional in the things that truly matter in the eternal sense. We have broken down our team to focus on Relations and Program. I fall under program (Elementary Program to be exact) and will work on developing our spiritual content of our program on both of our campuses. My focus is to look long and hard with open eyes at what is working and what is not. What matters and what is just fluff or habit. I feel God is at work in this move and is blazing a trail in effective ministry to Kids.
Spearheading the Elementary program also means I inherit lots and lots of task and materials. My first task has been to reorganize a walk-in closet and get it ready so I can keep things organized enough prepare our various Elementary programs.
A1 Closet Before
A1 (Let’s just say “in transition”)
A1 Closet After
Good ol’ Charleston!
Pete was able to join some of the Brentwood team last week and head to South Carolina for a Multi-Site Church conference. It was an amazing trip and as always it’s taking days for him to download all of his thoughts and notes and start the expedition from notes to application. Check out some snapshots from the trip!
As we took off from SFO I looked outside the window and had a view of my hometown of Livermore!
Then moments later I had a perfect view of our new home in Brentwood/Discovery Bay!
On our long flight over the Country, Delta (yes… unfortunately not Untied ) had a cool trivia game on the little TV’s. Check out what place I was in! (It didn’t last long…)
We were in the greater Charleston area pretty much the whole time, but it did not disappoint. The downtown looked like it had come right out of the 1800’s with just a fresh coat of paint.
We went to the shrimp Boatin’ area of town and enjoyed some waterside dinning.
The Conference went great and I came away very encouraged and ready to return to my Children’s team with some new energy.
This is what they served as one of the break time snacks! “Shrimp and Grits” Only in the South………..
The BW team Pooped on the way home…
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