THIS JUST IN:

After browsing through my Great-Grandmother Story’s book, “Footprints on the Sands of China”, I am now able to trace our daughter Ella’s heritage back 7-generations.

01. Ella Marie Sheets
02. Stevan Paul Sheets
03. Paul Kenneth Sheets
04. Aletha (Story) Sheets (my grandmother)
05. Ella Grace (Cowles) Story (my great-grandmother)
06. Roy T. Cowles (my great-great-grandfather)
07. A. F. Cowles (my great-great-great-grandfather)

How cool is that?

Any family members want to see what I’ve done so far?

Check out www.famster.com/sheets – click on the Family Tree section and enjoy. It’s obviously a work-in-progress, but it’s been fun-enough to keep me up well past midnight!

Another visitor today!

I got to play a good nine-holes of golf with this guy and our mutual-friend Tom Young! I lost, of course, but had a blast!

Josh came up from Marion where his Mom and Step-dad live. He’s visiting them before heading back to West Virginia where he currently lives. He’ll soon be a new employee at McLean Bible Church where he will be involved in all matters of technology! He’s pumped and so am I – I can’t wait till he starts teaching me new stuff!

By the way – we think Ella is “officially” the first baby Josh has ever held! How cool is that?

Tonight we enjoyed the special visit of “Uncle” Brandon Schenck! He called when he was about 20-minutes away from our house and said, “Hey, what’re you doing?!”

20-minutes later we were blessed by his visit!

Brandon is en route to becoming a Navy SEAL! He has finished the first training test and is continuing to take these monthly tests before “shipping out” in January!

This was his first introduction to Ella and after a few awkward moments, Ella eventually smiled at her “Uncle Brandon”.

It was so good to be surprised tonight by Brandon’s visit!

Tonight, after the Community Singspiration – Jess and I took some time to do a photoshoot with our amazingly beautiful daughter.

Photoset here.

Slideshow:

Tonight’s Warsaw-area Community Sinspiration was a huge blessing to all who were involved! Folks from at least 7 area-churches combined tonight to worship the Lord at Central Park here in Warsaw. FLICKr photoset here.

Here’s the slideshow from the photos I took tonight: