Just in case you hadn’t seen the facebook status and photo I put up a day or so ago, Denise and I are going to have a baby! Anyone who’s been following this blog for the last few years knows how much I’ve wanted to get married and have a family of my own.  It’s a really surreal thing to realize that in December of this year I’ll officially be a father.  That’s a scary but exciting reality and it’s already started some of the pressure to get some things together LOL.  I’m already feeling like I haven’t studied the Word as much as I should, and I haven’t been spending money like I should, etc.  Even if those things were false and I’m doing fine, it’s just easy to go crazy.  Denise hasn’t been feeling that great at all with her sleeping and feeling sick most of the last week and a half or so.  She’s pretty much been down for the count.  We don’t have a doctor yet so we need to find one ASAP.

The more we talk about Georgia the more and more our talk of it morphs into a sure thing.  We’ve just started talking like it’s happening and looking at life here in NY in light of that.  That puts on some more pressure since Denise will be like 7 months pregnant in October when we had planned to go.  Moving with a pregnant woman will be crazy enough, but moving with a new born baby is simply impossible.  If we don’t go now, we’ll never get out of here.  The housing situation still isn’t known.  Basically we have the possibility of getting a house to rent that’s newly remodeled without a lot of strings attached, or we’ll have to get an apartment.  We’re hoping for the house but you never know how things can work out.  Finding an apartment will be annoying since it’ll be a temporary fix to a bigger problem.  We need three bedrooms if we hope to keep our sanity because I need a space to work, ship, etc., and we both need a place to sleep as does the baby.  I’ve known some to live in the same bedroom with the baby but I feel like that’s going to be more trouble than its worth, LOL.  The cost of a 3 bedroom apartment is the same as a house most of the time, so it would just be a stepping stone whatever we find.  The church I’ve been researching down there we’re both really excited about and continue to be the more we think about it.  It’s called Christ Reformed Church and is about 30mins away from where we’ll likely be (Snellville, GA about 30mins outside downtown Atlanta).  Their doctrinal statement is amazing, they’re family integrated, and they’re size is modest and something I’m used to.  I’ve already emailed the pastor and spoken to him just to put the feelers out and see what kind of response I would get.  I feel really good about this place but you never know until you attend.  Finding a Reformed church that is supportive of family in the way this one is isn’t common.  I look forward to getting back into a congregation that is more expository in the way they preach as well.

Please pray for my grandfather who had a stroke a matter of days ago and fell in a parking lot all by himself.  Nobody knew it happened and he managed to get back to his car but sat there for a few hours before anybody found him and called an ambulance.  My parents just drove in from Georgia to see how my grandma is and to visit him.  Pray for the salvation of my grandparents.  This will be hard on my grandma and my dad especially.  The last I heard an update from my mom he was very disoriented and his memory a little fuzzy.  That’s a bad sign but I haven’t heard of he’s doing OK now.  We’ll find out more tomorrow.  Either way it’s pretty scary and we really haven’t had anything like this happen in our family for as far back as I can remember.

On tuesday Denise and I fly out to Tupelo, MS to visit the American Family Association and be at the screening for Sherwood’s new film COURAGEOUS.  I’m very excited to see the film and meet up with some friends there, and make some new ones!  I guess my buddy there setup some time for me on the radio with AFR’s JJ Jasper on Wednesday morning so if you’re listening in perhaps you’ll hear me?  To be honest I don’t know much about it, except that I need to get up pretty early.  I hope our flights are on time and that it’s low stress.  I’m not big on traveling and especially flying so I just hope all goes well.  Special thanks to the AFA for their generosity and for being so accommodating!

I’m also pleased to report that I finished that Roy Rogers DVD Cover.  Now I need to scramble to get the other cover done before a deadline, LOL.  The cover for Roy Rogers came out AWESOME, and I’m very excited to add this one on my portfolio.  It’s got a very cool and rich feel to it that I love. Who would’ve thought after all that worrying that it would come out so great?  I got it done in like two days too, just like I figured.  It’s funny when I finally see what I need to do I just sprint to the finish line.  Too bad parenting won’t always be that way huh?  Expect some interesting posts in the future in that regard, haha!  I’m reading Steve Farrar’s Anchor Man over again right now, and plan on reading quite a few books this year to prepare my heart/mind as much as I can for this beautiful gift God is giving my wife and I.

On the STANDING FIRM front, we just released the Soundtrack of the film for download on iTunes! People have already started downloading some of the songs from the film that they were asking me about, particularly the end credits song called “Overcome.”  It’s a fantastic song and I listen to it all the time!  God is also opening some possible doors for STANDING FIRM on DVD far beyond what we’ve seen it do already, and that blows my mind.  I found myself in shock after an email last friday, but I can’t tell you right now!  I’m such a tease huh?  Nothing is for certain yet anyways, so it could be nothing, but time and again God has taken this movie to heights I never would’ve dreamed.  Perhaps he’s planning to take it just a bit higher?

Time to hit the hay!  G’night!