We spent the weekend painting our dining room & kitchen. One of the list of things we'd like to do around the house throughout the summer. It was fun, but a lot of hard work. I am the King of Underanticipation. I ALWAYS think things will not take as long as they do. Take for instance our painting project. If you would have asked me on Friday how long it would have taken, I would have probably told you a day - we'd definitely be done with it by Saturday night. Of course when you add in the removing things off the walls, the filling the holes, taping everything, painting the trim, painting a second coat of trim, rolling the walls (thank God for one-coat paint!), removing the tape, touching up where the tape pealed the new paint off the wall, re-hanging everything... it took just a tad bit longer than that! :-)

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There is a landmark of sorts near here called Rice's Country Hams or affectionately known as 'The Ham Store'. Evidently it is "Tennessee's Finest Award Winning" country hams. They have this marquee outside their store (for a pic see: www.ricecountryhams.com/aboutus.html). The last couple of weeks the marquee says only one word (you guessed it) - bacon. We pass it going to and from church, to get our haircut, etc. Micah loves it. I've got to remember to take the camera and get his picture in front of it.

Remember how I told you that Micah likes to answer 'bacon' to any question at any given random time when he doesn't know the answer or simply to be funny? Tonight it paid off. The kids and I were playing Family Fun by Cranium. Micah and I (same team) drew a card where it shows close up pictures of three items that you try to determine and name. We examine the card. First off I recognize the middle pic. "An egg," I declare. Si: "That's one!" We look some more. Micah declares, "Bacon!" Si: "That's right!" We look again. Sure enough - one of the pictures was a close up pic of bacon. He didn't see it. I didn't see it. He just said it. The three of us had a big laugh. Emerie laughed too, but she didn't know or care why - she just laughed for the sake of laughing. Three year olds are great at that. For those of you who have to know what the last close up pic was on the card - it was a cup of coffee. Mmmm.... breakfast is sounding really good right about now.

Micah has a new favorite word. It's one of the many things I love about him... the fact that he'll pick something like a word or phrase... he'll like the way it sounds or the way it feels when he says it and he'll use it as often as possible over the course of several weeks until a new one comes along.

His favorite word right now is - bacon. We think it might have come from Veggie Tales' Lord of the Beans, but we just figured this out a few days ago. He'll say 'bacon' when you are least expecting it. "Micah, what do want for a snack?" M: "Bacon!" "What kind of tree do you think that is?" M: "Bacon?" or M: "Mom, what's for dinner? Bacon?" He thinks it is too funny. It makes us laugh, too (most of the time).

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Go, Taylor! Highlight of the evening had to be when the guys were doing their medley & Taylor comes out playing his harmonica. Too cool!

Just in case you haven't had your Taylor Hicks fix yet, or if you need something to satisfy it until his album comes out (probably next year - unless you want to pick up the hideous single he was forced to sing on the show okay, I take it back - heard a streaming version of the studio release & it is MUCH better than the live version was - might actually have to buy it), here are some places to check:

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We've been looking for a way to offer an easy way to keep up with your favorite Gladeville Blog - and I think we've finally found one! FeedBurner is an online blog management service that will allow us to offer the ability for individuals to subscribe via email to one (or more) of our GBC staff blogs. Simply enter your email address into the form in the "Subscribe" box to the right and you'll be set-up to begin receiving updates via email whenever anything new is posted here.

Be watching for additional subscription boxes to appear on the remainder of the GBC blogs in the coming week. 

Josiah & I were playing around with Photo Booth on my Mac. Lots of fun - really cool effects that you can put on photos. This one is called "Comic Book."

I've got some other pictures of all the kids. I'll try and post some more soon. 

Andrea & I went on a double-date with Craig & Barbara Webb this weekend to see The Da Vinci Code. I've been reading the book in preparation for our teaching series in June for the past week & a half or so. You should have seen me before we left! I was reading every chance I could get, trying to intake as much of the book as I could before I subjected myself to the movie. I knew that there would be discrepencies, but I also knew that I didn't want the movie to ruin the book for me. If you have a choice, definitely pick up the book. It is about 450 pages long, but it is an extremely easy & good read.

Overall I would probably give the movie a B-. I admit I'm jaded in at least two ways from probably the majority of people who will see the movie: A) I've read the book (at least partly, with plans to finish it before June 4th) and B) I'm a committed Christian. These two things kept me both a little skeptical & unimpressed when it came down to it. No one is going to win any Academy Awards for this one. It will be a blockbuster, mind you, but only because of the success of the book, the hype surrounding the movie release & the overwhelming tendency for the millions who've read the book to largely ignore any bad reviews there are of the movie & to see it anyway (and there are many bad reviews). 

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Read about a major fau paux on a church website. Seems they were using one of the many online quote databases to find Scriptures to display on their home page. They posted the following on their site:

"If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine." - Luke 4:7

Problem was that they unknowingly were quoting Satan himself! The quote was from the passage when Satan is tempting Jesus in the desert. Seems someone forgot to proof the site before they pushed it out for all to see .

VIA >> ChurchMarketingSucks.com

Well, it's been over a month (I think) since I've posted anything here. Since then we've set-up Craig Webb, Michael Eubanks & Chase Baker with blogs in the Gladeville Blogs system. Of course, none of us has been posting with any frequency, probably because we're the only ones who have been reading it. That will likely change soon as we look to officially release Gladeville Blogs and alert others at the church about this new way for them to get to know some of our leadership and get 'behind-the-scenes' insights, if you will, into some of where Gladeville is heading.

Look for a landing page, of sorts, at blogs.gladevillechurch.org to appear in the next week or two, and along with it some more worthwhile banter on our parts.