Learning Joy

Today is a dreary day here in the Nortwest. For lunch, the boys asked for tomato soup. So I decide to make it a “Glenwood” day. I’m having tomato soup & homefries left over from yesterday. 🙂
The Glenwood is a coffee house in Eugene, OR. Actually, there are two Glenwoods, but one is right near the University & is more of a coffee house than a restaurant. They have the BEST food there! I used to always get their tomato-cheese soup or their homefries. Sometimes I would get both! Sadly, I don’t know how to make a Hazelnut Habit, or I’d be drinking one of those right now, too. 🙂
Do you ever miss your college days? Or just days when you were young & having fun? I do. But I love our family!!
God has been really good to us. He has totally blessed us this past week! Jef had a job on Wednesday, and got a call for another one on Thursday (he didn’t work Thursday, but the place asked him to come pick up a bid packet! This means he might get a really big job (40-50 hours of work) sometime in the near future.) Friday he had a job and Saturday he had another job. Today he is working again! 🙂 Tomorrow he hands in the bid, and we wait to see what happens. It seemed to Jef that the place wants to hire him specifically, but they have to have two bids because it is a grant. It just seems too coincidental – so it must be God! 🙂

Hi everyone!! Pure Service is now on the web!!! Jef is really cool. He made the whole website (I only helped a little :)). He’s been working on it for a bit now, but last night he was able to finish all the content. Go check it out – www.purelyservice.com. Tell us what you think!

So Google has decided to censor its content in China. Here is a side-by-side comparison of what Americans see vs. what someone living in China sees. What do you think? Should Google censor its content for the almighty dollar?

Google.com and Google.cn side-by-side image search

Tom, our very dear friend. He lives in Eugene, OR. 

My mom & dad in 2000? I think it is more recent than that – they’ll have to tell you. 

They used to be so little!! Now they have a bunk bed, and they sleep end to end beside each other! 

This is another one we took just after moving here. I used to wear contacts! 

This is an old picture of Jef & I, but we haven’t changed much. 🙂 This was taken in 2001, just after we moved into our house. 

One of the reasons we don’t have a lot of pictures on Jonathan. He’s always bein’ silly!!! 

This was one of Nicholas’ first times sitting on the potty. I think we gave him to book to make sure things were covered! 🙂 He’s so cute!!