colts games

Jason and I enjoyed our first ever date to a Colts game this year for the Colts' first win of the season on December 18. We enjoyed doing something different and fun without our boys.


My dad and brother were also at the game, seated almost directly across the stadium. My cousin Olivia and her husband were there also, and we ran into them at the end of the game.

Later that week, Jason returned to see the second Colts' win of the season on December 22!

This time he took two of our nephews along. They are huge Colts fans and loved the chance to see the game. Several others in my family also joined in. Some of them ended up getting seated in priority seating because my mom was using a wheelchair after her hip replacement surgery.

Caleb is 10 years old and Elijah is almost 8. When they were dropped off at our house to leave for the (very late evening) game, Noah realized what was happening and cried, asking for a ticket to see the Colts game. Poor buddy....maybe another time, Noah! (I did let him stay up late and watch the first quarter on TV though....)

super mario

Jason taught Noah how to play video games recently. It is Jason's very, very old gaming system that he has had for maybe 15+ years.... Though it mostly goes unplayed in our home, Noah recently got the opportunity to play with Jason. They played Super Mario World for a little while, and they both loved it!

It's funny how badly it looks on a big HDTV! Video games have come a very long way since we were younger!

Nikki

The first two weeks in December were difficult as a friend and cousin passed into eternity.

We rejoiced with heavy hearts, if such an irony could be possible.

Many lives were touched and changed.

Many began to consider heaven with a new longing and a new joy.

It is incredible seeing a family and a community rally together to support one another. It is faith in action as people "carry each other's burdens" (Gal 6:2) and encourage one other.

Yet, she was too young, too vibrant, too full of faith. So we ask, Why, God? Why not a miracle to display your magnificence and wonder to the world? Why her? What about her husband and her two little ones? What about all those who love her who prayed for a miracle? Is our faith lacking?

We do not understand God's ways, but we trust Him and we look forward to the hope of heaven! He is faithful whether or not we know answers in this life.

He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. - Ecc 3:11b

Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me completely. - 1 Cor 13:12

"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father's home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am." John 14:1-3

The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. - Psalm 34:18

"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." - Isaiah 55:8

So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. - 1 Peter 1:6

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal. - 2 Cor 4:18

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" - 1 Cor 2:9b

"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis