Moving

I have been procrastinating blogging about our latest news, but here it is...

We are moving!

God has provided in awesome, beautiful ways, and this week we are moving to Columbus, Georgia!

We had a great weekend, enjoying our time with our amazing small group! Friday we celebrated Emma's birthday, Saturday we were suprised by lunch with everybody, and then we went to Scott and Kelli's wedding with more Redeemer folks, Sunday Springer shared our story (really God's story!) at church, and in the afternoon, we threw a baby shower for Josh, Betsy, and Mini Desch! Whew! It was a really fun weekend, but we are pooped! (Especially since at every moment we weren't celebrating something, we were packing.)

And speaking of packing, where did all this stuff come from?!

Please pray for us this week, as we finish packing, wrap things up with work in Augusta, and say "See you later!" to our precious friends here. We will miss them terribly!

Laura Susan

The Fun Girls
The Crazy Boys

Near the Cross

I'm singing this song in my head right now... Beth Altman Young style...

Jesus, keep me near the cross,

There a precious fountain

Free to all, a healing stream

Flows from Calvary’s mountain.

In the cross, in the cross,

Be my glory ever;

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river.

Near the cross, a trembling soul,

Love and mercy found me;

There the bright and morning star

Sheds its beams around me.

Near the cross I’ll watch and wait

Hoping, trusting ever,

Till I reach the golden strand,

Just beyond the river.

Laura Susan

Masters

So I got lucky again this year and got a call on Tuesday with an offer for a free ticket to the practice round on Wednesday. I didn't even hesitate to say yes. Considering work is kind of slow this week I just decided to take the day off. I've only been to the Masters 4 times I think. Twice in college and also last year. So while living in Augusta I'm 2 for 2.

Unfortunately Laura Susan hasn't been able to come with me either year. I really want to go and experience it with her. I know that she would really enjoy it. It would be so much fun to be in such a beautiful place with my beautiful bride. I think next year we will sign up to try to get our own practice round tickets.

I'm not a really huge golf fan. I love to play, even though I'm not good. I just really love going to the Augusta National. Everything is so beautiful. I don't really care about seeing all the big players. I like watching everyone. Standing behind a teebox and watching them drive the ball is amazing. I can only dream about hitting it as far or straight as they do. We followed Luke Donald for a while at the Par 3 tournament. He just missed a hole in one on #5 I think. I also love their sandwiches. The egg salad is my favorite. I tried the pimento cheese and fried chicken this year but wasn't impressed. I wish they had chicken salad and I'm pretty surprised that they don't, that seems like a southern classic.

Right now I'm at work trying to keep up with the live scoring on the Master's website. Not too exciting, it only updates like every 10 min. We really need a tv here.

Springer