Merry Christmas

Mia's Birthday

This weekend was Natalie's sister, Mia's birthday. I won't tell you her age since she didn't sign my waver but Mia and I graduated the same year from high school. Natalie's parents came down and we had a fun weekend. Friday night we went to Benihana and had some amazing food. Then Saturday, Natalie went to work for half the day and we went shopping. Then Saturday night we went to El Torito Grill. It was a fun weekend with family and here are some shots from Friday night.

New Wheels!

Natalie and I traded in my truck and bought a 2006 Jeep Commander. We are pretty excited about it. Here are a couple pictures of it.

Christmas Decorating

Here are some pictures of our house this Christmas. We finally put up some lights outside for the first time ever. We would have shown pictures of the inflatable nativity and the giant snow globe with 47 elves but we never bought them because we really don't like those things.
(Sorry to anyone who has those in their yard and is offended.)

Living Room

Entryway

Dining Room

Dining Room

Rathskeller & Rob Bell

Last night we got invited to go to dinner at the Rathskeller downtown and then go see Rob Bell speak at the Murat. We were invited by Jeff Krajewski who is our neighbor and our pastor at Common Ground Church here in Indy. We went with 10 of our neighbors here on our street so it was fun to hang out and with and have such cool neighbors. We were surprised when we got the the Murat that we had front row seats in the Great Hall that seats about 2500 people. Rob Bell came in and spoke for about 2 hours with no notes or anything. He is a captivating speaker who uses his incredible historical knowledge to help people understand our role as followers of Christ. His spoke about gods throughout human history and how people try to please their gods through rituals such as sacrifices at alters. He tied it to how we are not so different in that we get caught up with rituals and how things are supposed to be and a lot of time miss that our God is different and is a God of love. That's my short summary and he could explain it extremely better than I just did!

Eye level with the stage

Front and center

Great Hall at Murat

Rob Bell on the alter