Consolidating

We've combined all our web stuff into one totally redesigned blog:

Check it out: www.TheRieslands.com

Come on... you know you want to do it...

Click here, here, here, or here!

It is finished

Our new home on the web, that is.

If you use www.TheRieslands.com to access this page, then you must not be reading this, because that now sends you to our new blog at wordpress.

However, if you still use the pesky, long blahblah.blogspot.blah... domain, then you should update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to our new site:

http://www.therieslands.com

See you there!

need your opinion

I'm re-designing this blog!

We had high hopes for the version you're looking at now, but life keeps us pretty stinking busy, and we never really got around to it.

Plus, apparently I'm a bad judge of these things. Steph never likes the templates I like.

But I'm trying anyways. I moved our stuff over to a wordpress account at http://therieslands.wordpress.com. Once I get it all prettied up, I'll point therieslands.com to that address.

Wordpress makes it really easy to switch between a lot of nice templates, so I want your opinion! Please go take a look and let me know what you think about the current theme, and in a few days I'll try a new one.

Eventually we'll settle on the one everybody likes the most :0)

zack is going to be a quarter century

Go look at http://weblog.zackweb.net to hear about the partay

July 4th

Steph and I met face-to-face for the first time on July 4th, 2006.

This year, we re-lived our evening by returning back up to Gloucester and heading out on the Dayspring (named for Luke 1:78). It was an awesome evening -- except for getting home at like 2 in the morning.

Here are some photos for your viewing pleasure :0)

Hard Times...

My heart is a little heavy today for my sister Adrienne and her husband Drew. I am so proud of my sister for how strong she is being right now. A couple of months ago she found out that Drew would perhaps be headed to Iraq. At the time it seemed like they were just talking about it and he wouldn't go.

Last month we found out for sure that he would be leaving for 6 months. This month he is going for 8 months instead of 6 and now he's leaving sooner than expected (July 19th). All of that to say that it has been difficult for me to not be by my sister's side helping her. I can remember when Drew was in Dallas training to be in the Air Force and I would go up on weekends and keep her company. We would grocery shop, talk, watch movies, and laugh.

Zack and I have been praying for both of them through this time, but it puts everything into perspective. Our lives are precious and short. We are not promised tomorrow, today, or even our next breath. I think what I'm beginning to see is God's sovereignty played out in my life. I get so worried about the unknown or what will happen, but my trust and faith needs to be in a God that is in control of it all. He knew that Drew would go to Iraq, that I would be here and Adrienne in Vegas, and to be honest I'm comforted by that fact. Please pray for them!

More to come.