Will is pretty impressive when it comes to sports. I played with him this weekend quite a bit and he is almost as good as me when it comes to golf. Here's a video of him in action!
Notice a certain quote: "Past the women's.." where Will remarks that he hit the ball past the Lady tee box. We had made it crucial in our game that day that each man hit it past where the women tee off from. Thought you'd like to know that....
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
isaac ryan bunch
isaac, bored with us
with uncle mark
with uncle david
with dad :-)
so this is our nephew, who was born last thursday and who is adorable. mark is in love with him and today when he got home from work he was acting really weird. when i asked what was wrong he said, i miss isaac. and then he said that he wants to have kids. i asked him when and he said, like in two years. so i said, okay we will talk about it then. and then he got upset that melanie and i painted over the baby room so that i can use it as a guest room now. but, seriously? should i have left it baby blue with airplanes all over the walls for the next 2 years and 9 months?
it looks great now- it is kind of a mango color. the exact color is titled "apricot surprise." i will take a photo for you all manana.
ps. i am really trying to enforce the baby calling me tia mercedes. everytime someone says, look isaac, it's aunt denise, i say, uh hem...it's tia.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Labor pains
It's 3:45 am on Thursday morning and I can't sleep here at the hospital. Denise is asleep on the floor next to me in the chair and my mom and cousin are trying to sleep. I had starbucks at 8pm and I'm still feelin it, I think being in a brighter-than-day hospital waiting room is contributing though.
Amy is at 4 cm, which I didn't know before but one has to reach 10cm of contraction before actual delivery begins. I can't imagine, I know guys we've always tried to hold on to the equivalent pain level of getting hit below the belt but really, think about that rush of pain for 8-16 hours in waves every 3 minutes guaranteed. Now I'd most likely tap out after the first 2 waves. Just knowing that another one was coming would make me cry like a sissyman.
Anyways, watching Amy a little here, a little there has made me think of the part of scripture where Paul says, "my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!" (Gal 4:19) And I wondered how short our life is, compared to eternity, like 9 months in the womb to an entire lifetime. This life, and all its pains are only for a short while, we need to do now what we won't be able to do then, and do those two things (witnessing and trusting) by looking forward with hope to the next existence promised to us.
I told Denise tonight that sometimes I picture the heavenly scenes and think of the huge gatherings / concerts we'll participate in and how Jesus will occassionally appear as the lead guitarist or blow us away with an amazing drum solo. I enjoyed last Sunday's sermon Driscoll gave about how we will hear Jesus sing at the great wedding feast of the Lamb. Looking ahead to these days has helped me see the joy I have in Christ during those monotonous days, the ones where you can sometimes feel like a waste of space as far as kingdom building/disciple-making/prayer-full days go.
Come on Amy...you can do it!
Amy is at 4 cm, which I didn't know before but one has to reach 10cm of contraction before actual delivery begins. I can't imagine, I know guys we've always tried to hold on to the equivalent pain level of getting hit below the belt but really, think about that rush of pain for 8-16 hours in waves every 3 minutes guaranteed. Now I'd most likely tap out after the first 2 waves. Just knowing that another one was coming would make me cry like a sissyman.
Anyways, watching Amy a little here, a little there has made me think of the part of scripture where Paul says, "my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!" (Gal 4:19) And I wondered how short our life is, compared to eternity, like 9 months in the womb to an entire lifetime. This life, and all its pains are only for a short while, we need to do now what we won't be able to do then, and do those two things (witnessing and trusting) by looking forward with hope to the next existence promised to us.
I told Denise tonight that sometimes I picture the heavenly scenes and think of the huge gatherings / concerts we'll participate in and how Jesus will occassionally appear as the lead guitarist or blow us away with an amazing drum solo. I enjoyed last Sunday's sermon Driscoll gave about how we will hear Jesus sing at the great wedding feast of the Lamb. Looking ahead to these days has helped me see the joy I have in Christ during those monotonous days, the ones where you can sometimes feel like a waste of space as far as kingdom building/disciple-making/prayer-full days go.
Come on Amy...you can do it!
Monday, July 7, 2008
it's july
hi, i don't have much to say but thought i could update you on our lives. we are in summer school right now- taking one class each and mine is over on friday and i cannot WAIT because i will have august off from school so i will just sleep in every day and then lay on the couch eating potato chips all day. not. i will work. but this class that i just took was amazing and so helpful to my life and thinking. it was called cultural apologetics and was about understanding the culture around us so that we can better share god and the gospel with it. i have numerous resources to suggest to you from the class. these include the books: unchristian by david kinnaman, total truth by nancy pearcey and religious literacy by stephen prothero. i think i need to do a post about total truth because i learned an awesome lesson from that book, but i'll have to write it later when i feel like thinking. (i literally just finished writing an 8 page paper)
mark's sister is about to have a baby and we are so excited! we are going to have a nephew. just call me tia mercedes. (that's spanish for aunt denise.) also, in family news, mark's brother is about to get married in two weeks which we are also really excited about because it is about dang time (just kidding if you're reading this) and we are getting a new sister-in-law that we love!
some things i want to do this summer that i have not done yet are to paint my front door red and my shutters black. right now they are green and green. i do not think mark wants me to undertake this project because he thinks he will end up doing all the work. we'll see. i also need to paint our guest room which we now call our "baby" room because it has airplanes painted all over the walls for a baby boy. however, we do not have a baby boy, nor will we in the near future, so i want to paint it either a light green or mango color.
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