Christmas '06 in photos and Christmas Eve @ Florence UMC...

Here are a few photos from our Christmas tree and living room @ the Hollums House and then a few from the Florence UMC 11:00 pm service yesterday (and today this morning)


Mitford Snowman


bubble lights (my favorites!!!)


blurred nativity ornament


Nativity with lights


The Hollums' Christmas Tree


Cago wearing his reindeer antlers!

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Florence UMC Candle light service from tonight/last night


The people of God


The Altar Bible


The Altar from the front

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Well, if you want a see a few more photos (and I chose the best ones btw, heh....then head on over to my flickr page by clicking on the flickr logo and moving photos over there on the right side of my blog.... OK. I am very tired....it is 2:10 a.m. and I am going to bed...some one remind me to tell the story of how i was almost late to the 6:00 pm service tonight..when I am not so tired..it really is a funny story! OK Merry Christmas everyone take care and God bless yall!

Merry Christmas Eve....Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year....

Well, the sermon went very well this morning and so I thought I would allow everyone to read it if they would like and I might try to put up the audio for it again..but I need Courtney to host it on his site...and I need the Cd from it too, heh...

But here is this years Christmas Eve (morning Sermon:

Their Story, Your Story, Our Story

(don't forget that you need Adobe Reader to Read the sermon)

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So I was looking @ the blogs I read and I saw this and I thought it was kind of cool:



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Well, I am off to go to the 6:00 pm candle light and communion service....and then another one @ 11:00 pm... I hope and pray that everyone is having a wonderful end of Advent and has a WONDERFUL Christmas!!!!

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My Apple laptop is in the shop and I hope to get it back in about a week so, I you do not get to see much of me around here, or on my email that is the reason...I feel naked...but it is probably for the best! I love each and everyone of you and I hope that whoever reads the sermon is blessed by it. Yall take care and God bless yall! KUPTs!!!


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

1st ever blog post from my Wii.....

check it out! I am posting from my Nintendo Wii! It is very slow but still very cool to surf and post from a videogame console! This is history in the making. Man I wish the Wii was in HDTV ....you might be able to read the words,heh heh Take care, God bless, and KUTPs

Emerging UMC: A Gathering.....

So, a while back I was told by a friend (love you Betsey) that works in the national headquarters of the United Methodist Church to join a blog called emergingumc. So, I got on, joined up, and started a discussion that grew into great relationships. And now, they have asked me to be a speaker at a new event coming up in October '07 to speak about Organic Gatherings and how we are living into a "missional/emerging" way of being Christian. (yeah I know they have not met me so they might not ask me to do it once they do...but hey for now, as far as I know, we are still on, ha ha ha ha) So, here is the information so far and as more comes in I will post it here on the blog... please keep this event in your prayers....Oh and Merry Christmas!
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The dates for emergingumc: a gathering are set: October 4-6, 2007 (Thursday evening to Saturday noon). The location will be Nashville, Tennessee. Registration will be limited. We're still working on finalizing all sorts of other details, including price. We'll have more news about that by mid-January.

emergingumc: a gathering will be:

• eminently practical-- you will share and learn what's happening where you are and identify and celebrate many ways forward-- or downward, or backward, or sideways
  
• deeply spiritual-- in worship, spiritual practices, and the disciplines of Christian conferencing lived from our postmodern context
• institutionally challenging-- the "subtheme" of this gathering is "What we want the mainline church to know about the emerging missional church," and we're looking to publish the presentations you and others bring to make your voices heard
• authentically missional-- not "here's ten ways to fix your church and get lots of people to come," but "here's how we're discovering and learning to respond to God's mission in the midst of the people and institutions where we are, and here are some questions we still have"
  

But above all, emergingumc: a gathering is your event-- an opportunity for you as United Methodists who are exploring and birthing the emerging missional church among us to

• share what you're doing and learning,
  
• build stronger networks across the connection, and
  
• amplify your voices to strengthen and deepen the practices of the emerging missional church among United Methodists in particular and mainline denominations in the US in general

So, mark you calendars now!

And keep watching for more specifics in the weeks ahead...

halo popping a balloon from my birthday....

i took this video of halo popping a balloon from my birthday (sorry Alicia)...and man it cracked me up....he had so much for for the VERY short time that he had it....and before i took it away from him, heh.... but anyway here it is...and you can tell he loved it....



oh and the shift key is not working right now on my computer and that is the reason the only time you see capital letter is when i turn on the caps lock and then off again...and it is killing me so i will just go one for now...

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speaking of halo...we had his teeth cleaned and while he was under they took off his dewclaws i guess that is what they are called....well everything went fine until we got home and he ripped out the bandages...and then this morning i looked down and his right foot was swollen to 4 times its normal size and noticed that they put the bandage on his foot too tight...and then when we called the vet they said to just take off the bandage and continue to keep giving him his antibiotics and pain medicine...and guess what they never gave us pain medicine....so poor halo went without pin meds and a swollen foot all night last night...and that was after we went back to the vet three times to get a collar that would still fit him and be long enough for him to not reach back and rip out his own stitches...anyway he is doing much better now...even though he has that plastic collar around his neck that he hates...but the bandages are off, the swelling is gone, and he seems to be a much better puppy dog now...but he has to wear that collar for 7-14 days and then we take him back t get the stitches out...and still not sure how that is going to go with us leaving next Monday to go home for Christmas...anyway... he is much better and i must now go to bed for church tomorrow..... kutps....God bless yall...

here is a picture of halo looking at me through the book case before the bandages came off almost asking me to please let him rip them off....please daddy please.....

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oh and on our way out the door to go to the Friday night OG Tiffany's new purse broke and so she had to give what was supposed to be a surprise Christmas gift early...i got her with my parents a seatbelt bag purse...and very cool...and yes momma and daddy he loved it...sorry that she broke her other one and i had to give it to her early....and then i turned on my tv and it looks like the blue cannon that makes the picture look so amazing ly clear and hd...is really messed up and i have no idea how it got to be that way.....aaarrrggggg....and there is no way that we have enough money to replace the t.v. so between my dog and t.v. and wife's purse all breaking in one evening life is still going well, and we had a great time tonight going to the nursing home with the Friday night og and then everyone came over and had Texas chili and played the wii...well the guys played the wii while the women went out to shop, heh.... and then we now have 3 wonderful people staying at our house from their ski trip...and i am very tired.....so it is off to bed and work tomorrow.....so yall have a great week and i hope to post something before Christmas...oh and did i mention that my laptop latch is broke so it will not open properly...it works ok but is not where it should be...so i will have to take that in to get fixed and they have to ship it out and then ship my laptop to my parents house for me to be able to use while i am there....oh well merry Christmas everyone and God bless ya....kutps

some Wii videos....

so the last Monday night OG I took over my Wii to Matt's house and my Wii went over well....so well that I wanted to show yall some videos of the games played....


as you can tell Alicia's form in boxing is amazing...

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Christian's form and athletic abilities are out of this world.....
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here Alicia was told by me that I wanted to see some trash talking, but in the end she took it out on me, heh heh heh.....
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here Matt and Christian have a Wii tennis volley challenge...tons of fun.....

yall have a wonderful night take care and God bless ya KUTPs....

Court got a new car....

So Court got a new car...and guess what car he got? Yep a brand new Honda CR-V...yeah yeah I know the influence I have on him is crazy deep, heh heh...just kidding...he just knows how good of a car it is...anyway...so on of the cool things they put in the car...was when you press the sunglasses holder to open it has a "conservation mirror" on it that allows you to talk with the passengers in the back seat or look at a baby just by looking just a little above the rear view mirror...very cool, and it was so cool that we just had to take photos of it...so that is exactly what we did, heh... just thought yall might get a kick out of it..anyway yall take care, God bless, and KUTPs!!!

oh and if you want to know what the outside looks like here you go:

Christmas 06 and Tiffany's Birthday was Smokin!

Here are a few picture from the past few days:

Court and I went out together and bought Christmas Trees...here they are:




Oh yes that is one sexy tree hugger!


What tall tress you have!

Now on to Tiffany's birthday party:


Tiffany blowing out her fire cake, heh...


Everyone that was not playing the Wii or the board game down stairs.


Court and others bowling with my Wii

And here is the video I took of Tiffany's Birthday party...the footage is horrible...but man you would really be surprised what 32 candles can do to a fire alarm!! ha ha Ha... oh man there are so many jokes here..but oh well, love you girl and I hope your party was great!




Lastly, here is a shot of the decor outside of our house when you are coming into the front door...well the angle is that of what a dog might see...but it still shows you what the front door looks like at least...


Well, life is going good, I will try to post on something that is going on in my life right now..but for now I must get back to work...take care and God bless yall! KUTPs!!!