Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Erin go bragh! :)

My (Katie's) family has a wee bit o' Irish in our family heritage--my great-grandfather's last name was O'Toole. Adam and I also have several Irish friends and acquaintances. We would like to wish you all a very Happy St. Patrick's Day!

By the way, do you know the TRUE story of St. Patrick? He was actually a Christian! I read a great article about him this morning called "Will the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up?" Here's the link: http://www.joyfulheart.com/stpatrick/pat.htm
(Please note that I do not necessarily agree with everything on this website. I just thought they had a great article on the topic).

Both Adam and I have had the privilege of going to Ireland on separate occasions. It's such a beautiful country! Here are some scenery pics...enjoy!



The Cliffs of Moher

Bunratty Castle

Kylemore Abbey

Historic Dublin

Praise the Lord for Providing! (Matt. 6:33)

Back in August of 2010, the Lord provided for our needs according to His promise (Matt. 6:33). Today, as I fueled it for an errand, the odometer passed into 63000 miles :) I was reminded what a blessing it is to have a God who provides for our needs according to His promise and a congregation that is sensitive to being used by God to provide for our needs. Praise the Lord!

Men's Prayer Breakfast

This morning was our first Men's Prayer Breakfast! We had 5 men besides Adam show up. Adam preached from James 5:16 about "effectual prayer" and they had breakfast after a prayer time. Deb Schoelkopf and I had a great time in the kitchen making food for the guys! :)



Please excuse all the weird and wacky looks in these pictures :) We have some interesting personalities in our church, and these are the best pictures they would let me get! ;)

My Girls :)

Well...I told y'all that there would be pics coming from my Girl's Bible studies, so here they are! For those of you who don't know, I hold a Bible study for the girls every Sunday morning and Wednesday night.

Here are my Sunday morning girls...


....and here are just a few of the Wednesday night girls! (I have about 8 that come on Wednesday, but I can never seem to get them all there at the same time for a picture. Oh well! One of these days I'll get one!)

I praise the Lord for this unique opportunity to minister to these girls! There are about 15 total that have been coming regularly, and the number keeps rising each week as the girls bring friends. Please keep praying for us--This is an awesome mission field!

Red Robin Fun

Adam and I decided to splurge a little on Monday night :) We went to Red Robin for dinner and got these awesome drinks served in cute glasses! Adam got a "Mint Chocolate Brownie Milkshake" and I got a "Very Berry Raspberry Limeade." It was a blast!

Wood Splittin' and Gun Shootin'

Adam went over to the Delps today and helped Cory and Kyle split wood. Here's the pile they had to tackle...


Afterwards, they decided to have a little fun and shoot guns (I guess that's fun to a guy :))

Valentines' Day

We had a lovely 1st Valentines' Day as a married couple :)



Adam took me to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner. We enjoyed a "romantic" time together! :)

Valentines' Day 2010 Memories...

This time last year Adam and I were getting engaged!

Texting family and friends afterwards...

I love you, Adam!

Bible Studies

Here are a couple pics of the Bible studies we've been doing...

Monthly Ladies Bible Study (in this pic we were putting together college care packages)


Teen Bible Study every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month...

I forgot to take pics of my girls-only Bible studies on Sunday and Wednesday, but they will be coming soon! Last night I had 7 girls attend, 2 of which were new. Praise the Lord for such a wonderful opportunity with the teens! Thanks for your prayers!

Winter Wonderland!

Before we went to bed last night, Adam called me over to the window to look at the snow. Here's what we found...almost a foot of snow!


This morning...

Craziness! We even had to shovel our way out of the house!

Adam did a great job shoveling a walkway for me. Thanks, Sweetie :)

Fun with Friends

Last night we had Chris and Laura Sanderlin (college friends) and their little boy, Gabe, over for dinner. It was great to see them again! Chris and Adam played "Settlers of Catan" while Laura and I watched old college dorm videos. :)

Chris beat Adam TWICE!

I haven't played a piano duet in quite a while, so I asked Laura to play one with me. So much fun!

Listen to us play!


The guys amused themselves by playing with Chris' work coat and boots...

Signing our guest book...

Thanks for coming, Chris and Laura! We enjoyed having you here :)

Yet ANOTHER teen night!

Yep...another night at Cory and Becky's house! We always have such a great time fellowshipping and playing games with everyone!

Last night nobody wanted to do any boxing (thank goodness!), so they decided to do arm-wrestling matches instead...

Adam was able to beat TJ...

...but he met his match when he played Cory! :)

Kyle and Cameron (brothers)

The Walls twins (anyone think that Adam needs a haircut? We all do! :)).

Who says the girls can't join in on the fun?

Becky probably would have beat me, but I had to quit before she could get me down because I thought my wrist was going to pop! I didn't think that would be too good for a pianist. All the guys thought it was a hoot watching us, though! :)

Boxing

Tonight at Cory and Becky's House, the guys decided to have a boxing match...



Adam fighting Cory Delp...


Fighting Caleb Walls...



It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt....then it's HILARIOUS! :)





The vein under Adam's eye was a bit swollen afterwards, but he'll live. :)



After the boxing match, we all decided to play a safer game -Round Robin. :)

New Year's Day

We enjoyed having Cory, Becky, and Sami Delp & Mr. Bill over for New Year's Day dinner! After dinner the adults played a game of Settlers of Catan. Sami and I colored pictures and played other games together.





Sami even helped me wash dishes afterwards!

Happy New Year!