Very powerful service

This was from a service at our church a few weeks ago. Choked me up when I saw it live and did it agin when I watched this back.

Ian's Baby Dedication

Ian was dedicated at Hillside Christian Church this Sunday. There were probably 25 or so new babies at the service that we went to, at least double the number that were there at Landry's dedication. It is mostly a ceremony for the parents, our promise to raise our children with Godly principals, with a love of Jesus Christ and an open request for prayer from the congregation. I personally thought is was very well done and we got a little plaque and the end of it the says "Ian, Precious Gift of God Dedicated this 4th day of May, 2008"" It quotes James 1:7, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights."

The family:

Momma and Ian:
The Kids:

Easter Sunday Message

We went to church with the Laissle's at Bandera Road Christian Church(The church that rocks!) and they lived up to their name. They have an rocking band that was a lot of fun.

They played this video which I tracked down on the web. Pretty good stuff.


I think this is done be a group called Igniter Media.

Christmas Pageant "The Journey"

Jason and Ian were both in the Christmas pageant this year. It was a revamped version that folks could walk through and experience the journey of Christ. Jason was a Roman soldier and had a great time playing the part even though it was outside in the freezing cold. Ian was Baby Jesus in the birth scene.

Laissle's go home

Shannon's Mom and Dad are going home today so that is the end of our free playmate for Landry. We will see how she does now. So far she has been pretty good, but it helps having Grandma and PaPa here to entertain her. They have been a big help, but I am sure Rudy is ready to go since he has been sleeping on the couch all week. Thankfully, our Sunday school class is bringing food over for the next few nights that will be very welcome!

Shannon is feeling pretty bad these last couple of days. Very achy and sore. She is actually going to go to the doctor today and see if there is anything going on.

Landry's bottom tooth looks like it is going to be ok. It is out of place but not too bad. The top touch is loose to the touch so we are going to have to watch that one.

iBible Video

David's church in Naperville puts together some great video snippets that they run as part of their services. This was one they ran when I was there (I am sure to take advantage of the iPhone hype). Hilarious.

David to Chicago: Part Four The Final Chapter

Downtown Naperville is what every town in America is striving to obtain. It is honestly a totally cool downtown that is probably 6-7 city blocks filled with shops, restaurants and bars. It was buzzing with people when we arrived at about 8:30. It was almost impossible to find a parking spot, we cruised the entire parking garage and finally lucked out on the street. Bordered on one side by a 5 mile brick walking path down the Dupage River it is a just perfect.

We chose, what else?, a Chicago style pizza place called Lou Malnati's. This pizza was great. Definitely recommend the butter crust deep dish style. http://www.loumalnatis.com/ We enjoyed some Sam Adams and and the pizza then cruised around downtown for a bit.

Next day we headed back to David's place and got him unpacked, went to Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, etc to get him all hooked up. He even picked up some new furniture. We had lunch at Portillos, http://www.portillos.com/portillos/look/, a must stop while in the Midwest. Portillos makes great hot dogs. We went to the Naperville location where the line was around the block to get a dog. We opted to go inside and the service was quick and food terrific.

We picked up, Shawn and Lindsay at O'hare who were flying back from Amarillo after visiting the family. We stopped off for Italian food that night at Carrabas and it was good as usual. Only funny part was the waiter, who basically insisted that he was the best waiter we would ever have , and refused to write down our order, only to screw up Lindsay's order. To compensate of course, he stared at his book and blamed the kitchen!

Next morning we headed to Davids new church Community Christian Church (CCC), http://www.communitychristian.org/. This is a forward looking church that has several campus locations but teaches the same message at each campus. David is going to be working at the Romeoville location which was the first official satellite location. They have a very nice facility for the youth programs and then have the services in the community center there. The service was a lot of fun and everyone was very friendly and seemed excited to have David there. We had time after the service to hit the "Yellow Box" service back at the main campus back in Naperville. There we got to meet some of the staff and check out the service there for comparison.

We grabbed lunch and wrapped up back at David's apartment. It was already time to head back to Amarillo (Southwest this time!!). So onto the next adventure!