March 2018 Update

I began last month’s update with “Greetings from the deep winter of western New York where the high temperature later this week will be near 70.  But we know all of the weather’s tricks, and we’re too smart to put away our snow shovels, boots, hats, and gloves when it’s only February, because we know that upper 60s this week can still be followed by 2 feet of snow next week.”  Just to prove my point, God sent us a heavy, wet snowstorm at the beginning of March with close to two feet of snow.  That snow is still on the ground now, over two weeks later because our temps have not gotten out of the 30s since then.  Welcome to spring in Western New York!

 

March 2 Snowstorm



Our family celebrations this month were Ella and Cody’s fourth anniversary on 2/22, Caitlin and Ben’s second anniversary on 3/5, my brother, Ken’s, birthday on 3/6 (I’m not allowed to post his age due to a binding NDA, but it rhymes with blixty-blee), and Kortney’s birthday on 3/17.

 

Other than the snowstorm, our month was pretty uneventful.  Cai and Amy continue to work on wedding plans for an August 18 wedding near Amy’s home in Canton, CT, and we are excited about that.

 

Zach helped with the T&T Games for our church’s 3rd – 6th grade Awana clubbers, and Levi participated on our Trek Games team for our 7th and 8th grade Awana clubbers.  We only have 4 kids at our church that are actually that age, so we had to import T&Ters to fill out the team, so we weren’t very competitive, but I hope they had fun anyway.

 

Levi at the Trek Games (in middle with red on the bottom of his sneakers)

Basketball relay

Three-legged race (Levi on the inside)

Sprint race

Tug of war (Levi in front)

Agility race

Marathon Relay

On Sunday 3/18, our pastor was away on a family vacation, and I had a chance to fill the pulpit.  He has been going through the book of Genesis, and I noticed in my personal devotions in the book of Luke the same three themes our pastor had been highlighting from Genesis.  If you care to listen to my message, you can find it on our church’s website here http://www.gracebrockport.org/forms/Media.aspx#/mediafile/193.

 

That’s it for March, so until April!

Grandson Alex enjoying his meal

...and his dessert!