It was about now 2-years ago that our daughter Ella entered this world as our first-born!

I can’t believe that was already 2-years ago!

Tonight we went out for ice cream to celebrate her birthday and of course found time to play outside together this afternoon after I was done tilling our garden-plot!

I took Brad, one of my teens, on a road-trip with me this afternoon down to Deerfield, IL to pick up a dresser that was offered to our family. The dresser is an amazing blessing and allows us to put one of our other dressers into our guest room! Jess is having fun rearranging all of her dresser-items into their new home as I type this.

Anyways… we were also offered a 50-inch projection screen television, but I knew we wouldn’t have room in our minivan to put the tv, so I politely declined. When we arrived to pick up the dresser, we were once-again offered the tv and we made the attempt to fit it in the van along with the dresser.

It fit:

What a gift! We would NEVER have been able to buy a television anywhere NEAR this nice on our own! Thank you to our Deerfield friends and to the Swansons for connecting us! We’re also thankful to the Lord for providing these unique blessings for our family!

During the previews for today’s movie, I happened upon the movie they filmed while we lived in Warsaw! It’s called “American Teen“, and you can bet we’ll be watching when it’s out – if not only for the hope to see things we recognize! The movie may be a great (hopefully not scripted) look at the lives of real-teens with real-life-situations. Whatever the case, I thought this film dropped off the radar until I saw the preview today!