our house is forever in transition, but we only grow with each other in the LORD because of it, as He teaches us how to live with change.
we haven't written on this blog for quite a number of months, and for that we are sincerely sorry. much has happened in that time that has made us focus on other things than updating this here blog.
lindsey beach and ben kaspar moved out of Our House September 1st. they both still live in Wallingford -- our friendly, little neighborhood. ben now lives with two friends in a small house with a big front yard, and lindsey lives with five other women in a house with a big back yard. with their departure came Kaylee's arrival who cory and abby met earlier in the spring through a dear friend and professor, Dr. Kathleen Braden.
in October, our friends Torin Schaafsma and John Hyde moved into the house. so, there has been seven of us living here since October [Cory, Abby, Greg, Shantel, Kaylee, Torin and John]. cory, abby and kaylee are still students at Seattle Pacific University, so they have been focusing on school this quarter. Cory and Kaylee will be graduating this year, and Abby will be graduating next fall hopefully.
Our House has taken up having soup nights every Friday night. we invite our friends and hope people bring in others that we haven't met. this has become our "community dinner". we miss having potluck dinner-style though, so we're considering changing soup nights to our normal community dinner like last year.
tomorrow night is an important house meeting for us, because it will be the last time we will all be together for quite awhile. Abby is leaving with her fiance Jacob [that's right. they're engaged and are getting married in June 2009!] for her parents' homes in Indiana; they will only be gone for five days though. Cory will be leaving for Michigan to spend the holidays with his family; he will be gone for one whole month! Torin will be going home for the month and most of January in preparation to leave for Columbia for two years, where he will be working with the Seattle Mennonite Central Committee. we will miss you torin!! Greg, Kaylee, John and Shantel will be around Seattle for December though.
two weeks ago, we got to have dinner at the Mustard Seed House and were graced with the presence of Tom and Christine Sine, Eliacin and Ricci Kilmer and their two children Catie and Gabriel, Dustin and Joy Cross, Judy and a friend of the Sines. at our house, we hosted a new theology professor at SPU, Mike Langford and his wife Kelly and daughter Hannah. they just had another baby who they named Seth. he's only a couple weeks old. Congratulations family! the Langford's have become an important part in some of our lives here at Our house. they're a beautiful family that has taught us a lot about community. we're hoping to have more professors and friends over for house dinners more next quarter.
hopefully there will be more frequent posts to come.
live in love.
2 comments:
What? Why did I not know you were officially engaged? Yay!
oh andrea. you did too! didn't you? jake is making my ring, so there will be an official proposal when he finishes it, but we say we're engaged and have been since about august.
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