Kristen's back in class

After a very nice break, Kristen is back in classes as of a week ago Wednesday. She is enjoying it...but it does make our calendar more hectic. In fact, my Wednesday night class had to move to Thursdays (how nice are they for doing that?) so that I can be home with the boys on Wednesday night...and of course, since that moved to Thursdays, my men's group had to move to Mondays. I am pretty sure Jaden's baseball is going to be practicing Tuesday evenings...so, we will be pretty much booked all week, every week...at least for the next 8 week's of her class. Wish us luck.

Test Back from Bethel exam

Got my test back this evening. And, while I wish we had gotten a little more feedback on it based on the effort and time spent, I did have to share one comment...

As our teacher handed them back she made comments to each person about what she appreciated or liked about the way they laid out their topics, or how they wrote it up. When she got to me she said..."And Jason...I think that you should get some sort of seminary credit for what you wrote up."

I knew that I had written more and spent more time than others...but I still found it fairly amusing.

Happy Birthday to the love of my Life

Happy Birthday honey!

You are more beautiful today than you were when we met...and yes, I really mean that :)

I just thought I would jot down a few things to tell you I love you:

- I love what an incredible mother you are. Our children are so blessed to have you and if not for the way you worked your magic in this family...we would not be anything close to what we are today.

- I love what an incredible woman you are. The way you share your life, your feelings, your heart with others...the way that you have made a great life out of difficult circumstances and the way the you see the world is a blessing to me and to everyone that we come in contact with.

- I love what an incredible faith you have developed. I have seen you change over the last few years as you have grasped what God means to you...to have a relationship with Him and how you want to share that with those around you. That has been amazing for me to watch, is an amazing example that you set for our kids and I truly believe you have been an awesome influence on many around us.

So many more things to say...but some stuff has to be left for the letter...

I love you and wish you the happiest of birthdays!

Joined BookSneeze

As everyone knows, I love reading books and then I pretty much always blog about them :) Well, I found this site called BookSneeze and essentially, they will give me a book at a time to read and blog about. They just ask that I do a write up and post it on multiple sites...which is pretty easy to do...and then I can do what I want with the book.

The first book I requested just arrived in the mail. It is a John Maxwell book on communication. I know that his books take a little time to get through, but I am looking forward to it! Hopefully it will even help me with my communication skills :)

Long Test!

Took a very long essay test yesterday for Bethel. I was at the church from 7pm to about 9:30 writing 9 pages of content on the New Testament. I was struggling with the references that I wanted to use but thought that I did a good job with the overall content.

Essentially the question was...you are on a cross country trip, on a bus, and you strike up a conversation with someone who is interested in Christianity...especially Jesus, his life and the church. Go through those things with references to scriptures as you have this conversation.

Would you be able to write anything on this :) ?