24 Hours of Prayer @ CBC

We did 24 hours of prayer this weekend at Concord. It was sort of a mini-revival type thing. We had services Saturday and Sunday night, and people signed up to pray for 24 hours straight, in 1 hour time slots. It was a great blessing to everyone who participated, and I hope will be a blessing to those who weren't able to as we continue to pray/grow as a church! Here are some pictures of the set-up of the prayer room. *Where those praying around the clock were stationed* The family photographer *myself* was sick the first night :( but I had Billy take some shots for me! :)

The Song Station...

Confession Station...Glorification/Creativity Station...Missions Station...Psalms Station...Listening Station...

These aren't quite all the stations, but most of them. It really was a great weekend! I hope that each of you had a great weekend as well. Some other news from around here is...Billy turned 23 on Saturday! Happy Birthday, stud! :) "Us 3" love you!

Deep & Wide

Merrick learned to do the motions for "Deep & Wide" at church...well sort of. :) He's trying at least! So cute!

She's a Lady

Yep it's official! I'm not outnumbered anymore! :) We had our 20 week ultrasound today, and they told us Merrick will have a sister this summer. We are both very excited, and are glad that we will have a boy and a girl now! I am looking forward to dressing someone up *in something besides camo or navy blue*, and painting someone's toenails. ;) Billy is very excited also, and has been wearing the "It's a Girl!" bracelet they gave us at the doctor's office all day. Haha. They told us at this point she was breech *definitely a dirty word around here, as I'm praying/begging God for a VBAC, but the Dr said at this point they are still flipping around constantly* I thought she was more still than Merrick, but they said that she's just fooling me. The placenta is in between my belly and her; I think they called it anterior. So I just haven't been able to feel her kicking quite as much, but she definitely is! Here are some pictures of our little lady...her first photo shoot. ;) We may be partial, but I think she's already a doll baby! :D

En Garde!

Boys will be boys. And leave it to MY two wild men to make any activity into some type of battle. Where were we when I took this? Simply shopping in Target. Why were they sword fighting in the middle of the store? I was looking at boring girl stuff and they found swords. (As if you NEED a reason to swordfight!) It doesn't take much to entertain them...a couple of styrofoam swords on the $ aisle will do just fine. As long as they let me shop in peace I don't mind. ;) Maybe this next baby will be of the "pink" gender and will happily go to the cosmetics with me and not complain about the mall. If not...I'm kinda getting used to flying debris while I'm shopping. ;)

Startin 'em early

It's hard to see from this (bad quality very dark) video, but Merrick has half of Ali's earphones and they are listening to music in the car on the way home from work today. He only tries to take a test bite once. Haha. He loves music, and dances all the time. I guess we should have expected as much, though, since Billy used to play Nickelback to Merrick inutero. ;)