This is our baby boy and I am 20 weeks along. My mom and Jesse's mom think it looks like Jesse. The radiologist said our baby was very active and "wiggly". I agree. We are overjoyed!!
Melissa
Monday, July 27, 2009
It's a Boy!!!
This is our baby boy and I am 20 weeks along. My mom and Jesse's mom think it looks like Jesse. The radiologist said our baby was very active and "wiggly". I agree. We are overjoyed!!
Melissa
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Newest Professional Electrical Engineer!!
Jesse passed his State of California Professional Electrical Engineering License Exam, on the first try, which is very, very hard to do!!! He's so wonderful and smart.
Melissa
Friday, July 17, 2009
In a Week or So
Two exciting things are happening in a little over a week.
1) Jesse finds out if he passed his California Professional Engineering test. We really hope he did.
2) We find out the sex of our baby and I'll be half way through my pregnancy.
Patience....
Melissa
1) Jesse finds out if he passed his California Professional Engineering test. We really hope he did.
2) We find out the sex of our baby and I'll be half way through my pregnancy.
Patience....
Melissa
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Thinking back to the Jungle....
Yes, we were swinging on jungle vines like Tarzan. The only time we weren't surrounded by disease carrying mosquitoes. Awesome!
Melissa
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Back from Mexico
Our missionary group came back from Ensenada, Mexico about a week ago. Our time down there was more than awesome.
Construction wise we... (Team A: Jesse, Kara, Danny and James) framed a bathroom/showers on the first floor, since the church currently has only one bathroom. They worked really hard!!
We had two painting teams - Team "I like boys" (Alicia C., Mel, Alicia S., Daniel, and Josue) and Team Sloth( Kevin and Marce). Team "I like boys" did a great job painting two bible murals, Daniel and the Lions Den and Moses and the Read Sea. Team Sloth, as you can see, worked very "hard" and painted the white sanctuary white. 
We explained to them the the sanctuary wasn't actually painted white it was the texture and if it didn't have paint on it the texture could come off very easily.
Our last team and most dirtiest team - Team Holes (Nate and Franz, sometimes Kevin and Marce). The church building had structural problems such as the second story was not properly supported so it could fall down, keep this in mind... Team Holes worked on digging 3 X 3 X holes in the ground, bending rebar, and pouring concrete for the beams that the workers were going to put up after we left.
I really didn't have a job, other than taking pictures, running errands at the stores and being pregnant. I would spend part of the day laying down in the van napping, buying tacos, taking pictures, hanging out with our kids and talking to the people from the local church.
Overall, we had a wonderful time serving the local church, La Escalera de Jacob. On Tuesday night we had a Battle of The Bands between seven churches. The worship service was great except the fact there was over 100 people in the sanctuary on the second floor that was not properly supported, with a lot of people jumping around. Let's just say a few people of from our group including myself, were praying really, really hard that the Lord would send some angels to support the building. Later the local Pastor told us he praying the entire service so the floor wouldn't collapse. We could feel the floor sway. Either way the service went well.
On our last day at the church site, the Pastor and his wife, Veronica told us that our church was a great blessing to them because now they can continue being Pastors of the church. They did not want to burden us with the fact that they were facing having to close down the church because the building was unsafe to support the amount of people in their congregation. The Pastor didn't want us to feel obligated to spend a whole lot of money to fix their church. Of course we didn't know this when we started to buy construction materials but thankfully we were able to find beams to support the second floor that weren't expensive and were approved by the local structural engineer to fix the problem.
Many, many other great things happened on this trip just ask anyone who went. Personally, for me I felt that no matter what life situation I am in I will serve the Lord wherever he calls Jesse and I to go. One our new leaders this year Alicia C. told us statement that I thought was very interesting, "Go, until you are called to stay," rather than "Stay, until you are called to go."
Melissa
Construction wise we... (Team A: Jesse, Kara, Danny and James) framed a bathroom/showers on the first floor, since the church currently has only one bathroom. They worked really hard!!
We had two painting teams - Team "I like boys" (Alicia C., Mel, Alicia S., Daniel, and Josue) and Team Sloth( Kevin and Marce). Team "I like boys" did a great job painting two bible murals, Daniel and the Lions Den and Moses and the Read Sea. Team Sloth, as you can see, worked very "hard" and painted the white sanctuary white. 
We explained to them the the sanctuary wasn't actually painted white it was the texture and if it didn't have paint on it the texture could come off very easily. 
Our last team and most dirtiest team - Team Holes (Nate and Franz, sometimes Kevin and Marce). The church building had structural problems such as the second story was not properly supported so it could fall down, keep this in mind... Team Holes worked on digging 3 X 3 X holes in the ground, bending rebar, and pouring concrete for the beams that the workers were going to put up after we left.
I really didn't have a job, other than taking pictures, running errands at the stores and being pregnant. I would spend part of the day laying down in the van napping, buying tacos, taking pictures, hanging out with our kids and talking to the people from the local church.
Overall, we had a wonderful time serving the local church, La Escalera de Jacob. On Tuesday night we had a Battle of The Bands between seven churches. The worship service was great except the fact there was over 100 people in the sanctuary on the second floor that was not properly supported, with a lot of people jumping around. Let's just say a few people of from our group including myself, were praying really, really hard that the Lord would send some angels to support the building. Later the local Pastor told us he praying the entire service so the floor wouldn't collapse. We could feel the floor sway. Either way the service went well.
On our last day at the church site, the Pastor and his wife, Veronica told us that our church was a great blessing to them because now they can continue being Pastors of the church. They did not want to burden us with the fact that they were facing having to close down the church because the building was unsafe to support the amount of people in their congregation. The Pastor didn't want us to feel obligated to spend a whole lot of money to fix their church. Of course we didn't know this when we started to buy construction materials but thankfully we were able to find beams to support the second floor that weren't expensive and were approved by the local structural engineer to fix the problem.
Many, many other great things happened on this trip just ask anyone who went. Personally, for me I felt that no matter what life situation I am in I will serve the Lord wherever he calls Jesse and I to go. One our new leaders this year Alicia C. told us statement that I thought was very interesting, "Go, until you are called to stay," rather than "Stay, until you are called to go."
Melissa
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