Florida Pictures....finally.

Our Little Cherry Bomb that took us from Saint Louis to Crystal River and back.

John Deere Tractors in Lecanto, Florida

We spent a Saturday at The Villages with Sam and Carole. The Villages is a large retirement community in Central Florida that is just amazing! Everyone there drives golf carts and they come in all different styles!

We also got to see Tucker play basketball in a tournament at The Villages.
He's a stud on and off the court!

We traveled down to Florida to see friends and to attend Amy and Bibb's wedding.

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If you don't like the weather......

It was 61 degrees two hours ago. Right now its snowing. If you don't like the weather....wait 15 minutes and it'll probably change.

We are way behind in the blogging world. Big changes have been happening in the Brown household. Hopefully in the next few days we'll have a real update.

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I am hungry... I wish it was dinner time.

This has been somewhat of an eventful week for the Brown family, here in St. Louis, MO.

Sara started a new job today at The Covenant Presbyterian Church, as the Children's Ministry Director. We are pretty excited about it. She is spending this week shadowing the girl she is taking over from, and getting settle into the job, and all that it entails.

And today I registered for the ThM at Covenant Seminary. Finally! It will be very good to get back into the studies. It has been good to have some time off, and to read what I want to read, but I am looking forward to something a little more structured and with definite goals and deadlines!

So, we are a Covenanted family just now.

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Christmas day.

We had a great Christmas day in St. Louis, with Sara's parents and Ninny. After a relaxing morning spent round the tree, opening presents and eating oh-so-sweet 'Christmas goodies', and an afternoon watching new M*A*S*H episodes, our friends the Bedenbaughs came round to join us for Christmas dinner. It was a really good day, and we all enjoyed ourselves.

Here is a selection of the presents Sara and I received:


(James: note the three volumes of Reformed Dogmatics! Awesome.)

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Making.

From this...

to this...

On Saturday afternoon, I attempted to make bread. However, that failed. So, on Sunday I tried again, and managed to make a pretty good white loaf. I was a little salty, but not bad for a first attempt.

And then on Christmas eve, I tried out (with the help of the mother-in-law) our meat-grinder and sausage stuffer, which we got as wedding presents.


Now I just need to raise my own wheat and pigs, and we will be well on our way to being self-sufficient!

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Snowed in with you....

Pictures from a perfect weekend......

This is what we woke up to on Satuday morning

Snow falling.....

Perfect time to curl up and finish the pile of thank you notes

We warmed ourselves with blueberry pancakes.....

And attempted to make our way to my parents house for an afternoon of baking and warmth from the fireside....

This was the veiw Sunday morning from our front window

Gulf Drive from our Dining Room Window....

The Fire Escape



Alex's footprints in the snow

We got almost 7 inches of snow!

So we stayed inside and ate a yummy meal of pot roast, potatoes, and some sad lima beans.

Snowed In With You

When you come homeAnd all the world's asleep

I'll close my eyesAnd breathe with sweet relief

This world has had you

Long enough for now

And when I get you homeI'll show you

I wanna get snowed in with you

I wanna shake off these winter blues

These ain't no blues that I can use

And when the lights are gleaming

I'll be leaning into you

What's a girl to do?

I wanna get snowed in with you

I'm gonna make every effort to

Be so good to you

That when the snow melts away

You'll want to stay

Snowed in with me

Till it's time to take down the tree

And it's all I really need baby

To be alone awhile with you

What's a girl to do?

Drift with me While we're still awake

Every new snowflake Is like a wish we make

Dream with me Leave your cares far behind

Is all love snowblind?

Let me awake in time to find

That I'm snowed in with you

I'm gonna make every effort to

Be so good to you

That when the snow melts away

You'll want to stay

Snowed in with me

(From Over the Rhine's Snow Angels)

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Atherton Christmas

I have been trying for some time to put up a post about how our apartment is looking for Christmas, but every time I try to put the pictures up, blogger goes funny, so I am trying again, and apologizing for the lack of postage. We do not yet have internet in our apartment, and so Covenant Seminary or Bread Co. are the providers of our blog-access these days, which, perhaps, is why we are not so good at posting. It could also have something to do with our lives really not settling down yet. We seem to spend a lot of evenings out, either shopping or visiting, or something. Getting married just before Thanksgiving has meant that we are landed in having a home to set up, and holidays to prepare for and celebrate all at once, while also trying to get yet more paperwork done for my status to be changed. So, right now I am am kinda longing to a routine-rut to get stuck in! I am sure it will come though, in the 2008.... maybe.

Well, 8449 Atherton, 1W is looking pretty festive these days. We got our decorations up a
few weeks ago, and the little apartment is looking good. Here are some pictures -

Our Front Window.

Our Front Window.

Our Tree.

Our backdoor and dining room.

The word is that we are in for some this weeked. We had some ice last week, but nothing as bad as Oklahoma. That cleared up, and it even got up to 60 one day! But the forecast is 2-3 inches of snow tonight, which is pretty exciting! I feel sorry for our squirrel in weather like this though... he must get cold feet. Hopefully next week I will post some pictures of it... but we have heard those promises before!

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