Playing Catch Up

I need to apologize for being so quiet for so long on our blog. There has been lots going on and I will try my best to remember everything exciting, good or bad, that I can to tell you about. Just a glimpse into what is to come....lots of pictures of Bryce including his first teeth and holding a sippy cup, Jacob's baptism, Bryce's first ER visit for rotavirus and, of course, a BMX update.

Let's start with Jacob's baptism. Unfortunately, the lighting in the kid's chapel was so bad that the pictures did not come out. I do, however, have an amusing video for you to watch if Shane will put it on his youtube account. Jacob was baptized on February 7th with several other children in elementary school. I had always imagined him being baptized in the big church, but this was great. Several of our friends from our small group and our family came to witness it. Shane did the dunking, which was very special to him. They had cake afterwards to celebrate the kids' baptisms. Then we went to Hido, a japanese steakhouse to celebrate with our parents. The food was great and the chef was very entertaining.

Jacob first accepted Christ when he was just 4 years old. He doesn't remember it, and I would not expect him to as he was so young. I remember Shane was out of town and Jacob and I were reading this big board book about the life of Christ. It is a pretty long book and I kept saying "let's finish this tomorrow night" but he pressed me to go on. When I read the pages about what they did to Jesus and his crucifixion, Jacob began to cry about the suffering Jesus went through and asked "He did that for me?" The next page talked about what a Christian is and he said that he wanted to become one, so we said the prayer together. I was amazed by his understanding of it all at such a young age.

When he attended VBS at church a few years later, we told him that they would be giving the message of salvation to the kids and reminded him that he was already a Christian but if he wanted to say the prayer again, that was fine. He did, of course, and has a vivid memory of it.

I used to keep a little kids bible in the car and he would read it everywhere we went. He would ask me if I knew the story of someone important and I would always ask him to read me the story. This not only improved his reading but his knowledge too.

We are so proud of Jacob's decision to tell the world that he is a Christian and pray that he will grow to become a God honoring man, husband, son and father. Of course, we can expect a few rough years somewhere in there. I mean, he is Shane and my's son, right???? Yikes!