It amazes me how some of my friends blog almost every day.  I decided that I should do the same....especially to remember the sweet day to day happenings of our now 6 month old.  Crazy. Six months.  I am having a hard time already with the fact that our little man is half a year old, and all of the lovely strangers I meet at random places, Whole Foods, on walks, etc, tell me how quickly the time flies.  They usually follow up with telling me that thier now 24 year old just graduated college.  Crazy.  College. I can't even imagine those days.

Our sweet Jackson is such a happy and friendly baby boy.  He is doing all of the "normal" 6 month old things.  Talking ("Ma", "Ba", "Da") , and he giggles when you imitate him.  He laughs at us making silly voices, and imitates his Daddy shaking his head back and forth and blowing raspberries.  Ah, such blessings.  He can sit up on his own (when placed in the precise seated posture), and is pushing up on both hands....I'm sure he'll be crawling before I know it.  Wow.  This time has been so precious because he plays on a blanket, very happy to roll over to get a toy or to look at himself in his mirrow, yet is not "mobile".  I think God knew we would have a tough time with a mobile child at such a time as this.  Packing. Moving.  You know.

We officially leave Austin TX on May 27th.  Our 2 year anniversary.  I am not sure if Jeff forgot our wedding date when he booked the truck, or figured I had forgotten (a common occurance....sometimes I tell peopole we were married in Aug.  I'm not sure why...)  As a side note, when we were visiting Dennis and Linda, we were listening to a CD Dennis had made and a really cool song came on.  I commented that I really liked that song, to which Jeff lovingly replied "I hope so.  We danced to it at our wedding!"  Baby brain?  Maybe.  Anyway, we have been so incredbly blessed living in Austin.  Granted, it is no Colorado when it comes to the beauty of the landscape, but the emotional and spiritual growth we have had here is, we believe, the sole purpose of our time here.  School was  a side to the experiential expansion of knowing our Lord better.  Our church, The Austin Stone, will forever be thought of as the "spring board" for our family living missionally as New Testament believers.  I think we could sum up our time here as an "Ah Ha" moment.  Thank you Jesus!  It feels so freeing to be moving to a new city with a Biblical view of being on  mission. Not that Colorado is among the ranks of Africa. But does it have to be?  I don't believe so.  People are people, and all people need a God. They need a Savior. They need to k now their Savior and be loved as their Savior loves them.  We are excited to pour out that love to the city of Colorado Springs.  I was thinking about making magnents saying "pray for us, and our new city".  I think often of the new song on Tomlin's latest Passion CD "God of this City" , one of the lyrics that circulates in my mind often is "Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done in this city".  That will be true until the return of our Jesus.  I am blessed to be a part of it.