We are getting a new steeple!!

NOBTS Steeple

The seminary is finally getting its new steeple installed. The workers have been here all of last week and this week working on it. Last week, they had to take the old rusted frame off and put the new frame up. This week, the actual steeple has been delivered and is being installed by the "Steeple People" out of Campbellsville, KY. Click on the picture above to watch ongoing photos of the process. It isn't over with yet, but I upload the pictures I take daily, so there will be progress. Our new office is located right at the chapel so I have the best view on campus! We actually have a list of people to call each time we see them starting to do something. It is funny! If for some reason you can't click on the picture above and go to the web album, click here and that link will take you there.

National WWII Museum

DDay Museum

I never realized how busy Travis and I have been until today when I uploaded yet ANOTHER album to our online photo album. Yesterday, we toured the National WWII Museum (formerly known as the DDay Museum) and thus I have posted pictures. It was very interesting. They have had a special Anne Frank exhibit and today is the last day for that exhibit. Therefore, we toured yesterday so we could accomplish two tasks- tour the museum AND see the Anne Frank exhibit. I really enjoyed the Anne Frank exhibit. Her diary is a great book to read if you haven't already done so. Like the other posts, click on the picture above and you will go to that album. Also, if you have missed any albums, on the left you will see a heading "Our Photo Albums" which has the last 5 albums that I have posted listed. Click on any of those and you can see those albums as well. When you go to a photo album and you want to see other albums that perhaps aren't listed anywhere, click on "Travis and Stephanie's Public Gallery" in the upper left corner and it will take you to the main page where you can see all the photo albums I have created. Just click on the album you want to look at and it will take you there. Enjoy!

Our Anniversary

Anniversary 2007

Yesterday was our 4th anniversary. What did we do? We took a day trip to "Acadiana." That is the lower part of Louisiana in "real, bayou, cajun country." Most everything down there was written in English AND French since most TRUE cajuns are bilingual in those two languages. We had so much fun! We toured the Tabasco factory and saw Tabasco hot sauce being made, toured the Jungle Gardens and saw LOTS of alligators, toured the Conriko Rice Mill (oldest operating rice mill in the US), toured Rip Van Winkle gardens and saw 2 peacocks, and ate at a "real Cajun restaurant." It was a blast! Click on the photo box at the top of this post to go to our web album and view more pictures. I labelled the first picture of each group, so you will know when we changed locations. Enjoy!

My first wedding

Tom and Nita's Wedding

This past Saturday, I was the official photographer for my first wedding! We had a couple in our church get married and Nita (the bride) asked me if I would take the pictures. I have a new found respect for wedding photography. I LOVE taking pictures but shooting a wedding is HARD WORK! I was exhausted when I got home. Click on the picture above and you will go to my online album with a small sampling of some of the pictures. If you view it as a slideshow, you will probably want to set the time to display each picture to 1 second to keep it from going on and on and on...Let me know what you think by posting a comment below (to do that, simply click on the word "comment" immediately below and it will open a new window where you can leave a message.)

Our Elliptical

Well, I decided to use the money I was paid for a wedding to buy some form of exercise equipment. Our campus is DARK at night and therefore, I stopped walking consistently because I didn't want to walk in the dark. Also, "rainy season" will be upon us soon down here and I don't want to have the excuse of rain to keep me from exercising. I did "boo-ku" amounts of research and decided to purchase a treadmill that Prevention.com recommended. I took Travis to Wal-Mart and showed it to him but he was more drawn to the elliptical machines. After talking about the pros and cons of each, I decided to further my research and look into ellipticals. The pros are tremendous- virtually no impact (which helps me knees and ankles), cheaper than a treadmill (which helps the bank), smaller than the treadmill (which helps the space in our apartment), and it is has more resistance than the treadmill we looked at. Then, we went to Academy to "try out" some ellipticals. The one at Wal-Mart that we liked was up on a display so we couldn't really test it first. We tried all sorts of ellipticals- cheap ones and expensive ones, ones with smaller stridelengths and longer stridelengths, ones with flexible foot pads and ones with fixed foot pads. We determined the features we really liked and didn't want to compromise on (stride length, resistance, ability to change incline, and the presence of a fan.) We went back to Wal-Mart and looked at the one we liked there and double-checked to be sure it had all the features we decided we "had to have." Needless to say, it did and now we are the proud owners of an elliptical! We love it! I use it 30 minutes a day (it has personal trainer settings that will automatically change the resistance throughout the workout) and get a much better workout than if I had walked for 1 hour. It is great!! Travis likes it too. However, as you will see in the pictures below, we need to work on getting him some workout clothes! HA!