In my previous post did I say I would update the blog two times a week? I'm crazy. It will probably be closer to two times a month...
Anyway, until I post some pictures, here's an update on what's been going on in our lives lately:
We're pregnant! Hopefully you already know - if not please knock Clay upside the head for not telling you sooner. Baby Briz is due October 20; we will wait until then to find out if it is a boy or a girl. Clay thinks it will be a girl.
Friday, April 18, 2008
[Map removed April 30, 2013]
We closed on a house! On the map above, it's not the one on the corner but the one to the left of it. That was the biggest check I have ever written, and I hope I won't have to write another one like that for a long time to come. The house is in pretty good shape, but we are working on painting the walls and refinishing some of the floors that were carpeted. The pink bathroom will have to wait for now.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
We went to the funeral of Mae Jane Sun, the mother of one of the youth at our church, who passed away after a long fight with breast cancer. Allie and I sang "In Christ Alone" with the youth choir during the service. The whole day was one we will never forget, a testimony to a person who fought the fight, ran the race, and now is at peace with her Savior. This funeral was solemn, yet joyful because as the song says, in Christ we have "no fear in death." I was inspired to live every day for Jesus as though it were my last.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Our dear friends Kristy Andrews and Carl Shenk got married today! We flew down to Atlanta late Thursday, visited Clay's grandmother on Friday and told her the news about Baby Briz. We had dinner with Clay's parents and the Forsyths. Clay visited with Kristy and Carl and members of the wedding party that night while Allie stayed home sick :(
Saturday Clay put the finishing touches on his preparations to marry Kristy and Carl. (Please note: the state of Georgia allows 1st cousins to marry, but you must be either ordained clergy or a justice of the peace to make a marriage official - go figure) Clay is not ordained so Kristy's brother-in-law who is had to make it official, but Clay officiated the wedding ceremony. More on that later...
The wedding itself was intimate, beautiful, fun, and muddy. It rained buckets all afternoon and finally cleared around 8pm, but it was a backyard wedding so everyone was cool with waiting - and it was worth the wait. With wise foresight Carl had rented a tent; however, even though it kept drops from the trees off us, the yard was consuming shoes left and right. Carl was dapper and Kristy was amazingly beautiful. Though it was his first wedding ceremony ever, Clay seemed to do a good job (or else the alcohol consumed during the rain delay improved people's perceptions). A dance floor was set up, but it quickly became slippery and met the rump of more than one dancer.
May 8-12, 2008
Allie's mom came to visit us, see the belly, and help us with the house. I am blessed to have such a wonderful mother-in-law.
Today
Pretty much all the rest of our time has been spent working on the house. However, yesterday we had to radically alter our plans for moving in. We have been planning to make the move on the 31st, but our landlord is selling the row-home we live in now and set up the closing date for the 30th. The buyer is unwilling to budge on the date - even to let us sub-let the place for 2 days - and our landlord is a member of our church who has been very kind to rent out her home to us on short notice and for cost, so we have to figure out how to have time to let the refinished floors dry and move 2 days early. It looks like we will be able to get some help to load a truck on that Thursday and we'll park it in our driveway until the floors dry and do the final move-in on Saturday.
Please pray that there are no more hiccups with the move and that we have the energy to get everything done in time.
Blessings,
Clay
