New Year Photos

Here are our New Year’s photos. We went to church and Panera Bread then had Sudi’s famous homemade vegetarian Lasagna for dinner that night. With blueberry cider and cherries. I’m trying “PictoBrowser” to pull our pictures from flickr. I think it’ll cause less stress on browsers since it doesn’t automatically download all photos upon loading.

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Christmas 2006

We went to Church on Christmas Eve for the candle lighting service then had Christmas at Mom & Dad’s house with all the Gliebes, Lucy, Bob, Mark and David. It was a lot of fun.

SudiRoo got me Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis, a book light, “Go Fish” cards, a super portable tripod and a flickr Pro account (unlimited photo storage space, etc.). It really is the best way to store, organize and share your photos (has an API too). Sudi got some perfume, all kinds of purses, lots of clothes, boots and a custom CD. Lucy got a bunch of Joyce Meyer tapes and some other goodies. I made two oil paintings for Dan and Mom & Dad. Lucy made us beautiful oil painted aprons and brought the Gliebes some of that fine Mexican chocolate.

Here are our Christmas-time pictures, powered by my new flickr account (which is where we’ll upload all our future photos). Or, visit the actual Christmas 2006 gallery on flickr.

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December Fun

On december 9th, my good friend Reese invited Steven and I to her CD release. It was fabulous, she is a very talented saxophone player and singer. The opening numbers before her, were very good, great gospel music. It was a night full of fun and worship. Our other friend Britt was there and we all had a great time.

Ready to Go Out

Britt and Sudste

Sudi and Reese

Last week my honey took some beautiful pictures of the sunset and I have included one of them.  This past Saturday, on December 16th I was invited to a Tea Party. I had never been to one. It was wonderful, I had Candy Cane Lane Tea and Cranberry-Orange Scones. 

San Diego Sunset

Tea Party

Fun Times Ahead

Yesterday, I was able to sing with the choir at church, we sang from Handel’s Messiah, the Hallelujah Chorus, it was so much fun. I loooooove singing! After the service we took some nice pictures in front of a Christmas tree. It was a cold morning.

Hallelujah Chorus

Merry Christmas

Smile

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Thanksgiving Celebration

Sud “The Dude”	Portrait	Goof Balls
Tough Guys	Stars and Stripes	Sudi and Jackie
Frisbee Champ	Photo Shoot	The Fam
Steven & Jackson-Our Car	We found a kitten, her name is Star

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Give Thanks

The Thanksgiving message from Pastor Jeremiah was superb. A timely reminder of what Thanksgiving is. A time for family and close relationships, a time to remember the blessings God has given us, a time to reflect on what this past year has brought, and a time to respond by giving to those who are less fortunate. My favorite part of the message however was an excersice he gave us to do.

Make a list of all the blessings God has given you, include at least 15-20 items.

Once the list is done, erase or delete each item and picture what your life would be like if you didn’t have that particular blessing.

After you have deleted all items, write them ALL again and thank the Lord with a grateful heart.

The greatest blessings in our lives are those that we are so tempted to take for granted.

As pastor said, it has been found that the degree to which a person is blessed is proportionate to the degree to which that person is ungrateful. Give a homeless person a piece of bread and he will be far more grateful than a rich man at a lavished banquet.

But souldn’t it be the other way? Shouldn’t those of us who have been given so much be the most grateful?

Psalm 30:12 ”O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever”.

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Royal Night & Photo Ministry

On October 31st our church hosted its annual Royal Night, an alternative to Halloween. Families from the community were invited to bring their kids for free candy, rides and fun activities in a safe environment. Nine teenagers accepted Christ as their savior! 6,000 people attended - so many that hours had to be extended.

Our church has a Director of Servant Ministries whose name is Joyce. What she does is “connect” church members with opportunities to serve. First, she had us take the Spiritual Gifts Inventory. Sudi and I both came out exactly the same as #1 Mercy and #2 Giving. Joyce met with us both to listen to our life stories, our hobbies and abilities, etc. and then suggested some opportunities. For me, she said she had been praying for a photographer to take photos of servants in action, and doing something with photography is exactly what I was hoping for!

I decided that Royal Night would be my first event. With Sudi at my side, as the Name Collector and Target Finder, we managed to get about 12 great shots of servants in action (candid shots are the idea). Joyce plans to use the servant shots on the Shadow Mountain web site in Servant Profiles, on her Servant Photo Wall and in materials used to inspire more servants. She hopes to assemble a bigger team of photographers later so that we can shoot everything that goes on in our church.

Here are some shots from the night. “Servant Action Shots” withheld (with exception of Joyce’s below) since they’re for the Shadow Mountain site. I’ll post a link later when that section of the site is ready.

Kiddie Coaster	Fun Factor	The Octopus
6,000 Attended!	Giant Jugglers	Joyce in a “Servant Action Shot”

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Puerto Vallarta- Our Trip To Paradise

Our trip to Puerto Vallarta was unforgetable. We ate the most delicious food, enjoyed beautiful sunsets, had a great time with Lucy and friends and rested. We also celebrated our third wedding anniversary on September 8th. It was truly wonderful. We created 6 galleries, click on the pictures below, they will take you to all the pictures on that category. Enjoy!

Anniversary	Family	Food
Places	Portraits	Sunsets

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Fourth of July

We spent 4th of July with Mom and Dad at the Del Mar Fair. It was great fun!

The Four Stooges	An American Girl	Follow me…
Stars and Stripes	Steven and Mr. Leaf	B&W
Close Up	Hat Show Model A	Hat Show Model B

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America The Beautiful

This 4th of July remember that freedom isn’t free.

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It’s My Birthday

Sudi got me the coolest book for my birthday to compliment the coolest camera she got for my birthday a couple months ago. It’s called Understanding Exposure.

I also got a beautiful Mickey & Minnie birthday card and tonight Sudi’s taking me to The Old Spaghetti Factory. I’ve always wanted to go to the one in San Diego, but they closed it (why would such a popular restaurant close?)! This one is in Duarte, about 10 minutes from Azusa.

Woohoo!

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