Married to a Pastor? I got your back!

For any of you that are pastor's wives or p.k's(pastor's kids) for that matter, you know all too well the feeling you get when you hear your husband start to tell a story about you for a sermon illustration. This one goes out to all my fellow pastor's wives (Inger, Lenore, Kir, Ing, Kathy, Suzanne, etc.) ............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY4khRpG8O8
(a parody on Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats')

fresh mint+ sunshine= mojito time

I bought some mint the other day at the farmers market and just enjoyed my first mojito of the season on my deck tonight. It is a beautiful 70degree night here with the sun shining, the water glistening, and the mountains out. Very refreshing!

My Memorial Day Weekend Recap

1 campout in our basement

1 boat ride on the Nordic Dawg for ice cream

1 wiffle ball game

1 church kick ball game

1 family tennis match

1 farmers market

3 ultimate strength classes

2 fire pits with s'mores

1 baseball awards party

3 hamburgers

1 hot dog

1 chicken/apple dog ?

Lots of chips

5 BBQ's

Happy Memorial Day!

Viking Fest 2008

Lots of fun in Vikingland this weekend! Every year our town celebrates Norwegian Independece Day. It is a mixture of respectable traditions and an interesting traveling carnival. Of course, the kids love the carnival rides.

We had fun watching them for at least three hours of making themselves dizzy and running around with friends. The girls participated in a Fun Run, while Justus had a baseball game.

Greta also performed with the Norwegian dancers and she did such a great job there and at the parade the next day. As you can tell in the video, she was very hot after an hour of walking in 90degree weather. She was in heaven performing-it is a passion of hers, as all of you that know her can attest to.

Thanks for your prayers

Thanks for your prayers everyone! The testing on Thursday for Justus went well and he was such a tough guy with the bone scan and blood work. We just got a call from the doctor about an hour ago with the results and things look good. She was able to rule out Perthes disease, which they had thought it was. I am very glad it isn't that, because there would have been a lot of complications with the bone. It also looks like there is no tumor-thank you God! Basically, they were able to rule out things, but still not pin point what it is. His white and red blood counts are lower than normal and they are still waiting for more results to come in. The scan showed that his hip is inflamed though, so he is on some anti-inflammatory meds for the next 10 days and we will have another phone conference with her to mark what has been going on. At that time, she may refer us to another doctor depending on how Justus is doing and what the last blood tests reveal. Thanks for all your prayers and well wishes. It really helped me knowing all of you were thinking of us and praying. Justus also read some of them and I know it reassured him.

What's going on in our house these days....

Justus has been having pain in his leg for the last month and we have been going in and out of the doctor's office trying to figure this out. First we thought maybe he pulled a muscle in baseball, then growing pains, and then we found out that they thought one leg was longer than the other. Last week we went into Seattle to a pediatric orthopedic that told us that actually his legs looked the same length, but his hip was really tight. After another x-ray of the hip, she noticed it looked like blood wasn't getting to one of the hip bones. It could be a number of things still, but we are headed into Children's Hospital tomorrow for more blood tests and a bone scan. We would love any prayers we can get for Justus to feel at peace and be calm during the injection and scan, as well as the blood work. We would also prayer for quick answers, knowledgeable doctors, and of course healing! They are supposed to give us results next Monday, so we will let you know. Thanks in advance for your prayers for our our family!