Painting Party

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For those of you who enjoy updates on the Larsons, here is our most recent adventure: painting three rooms in our house. The green is the baby room (peeled pistachio), the brown is the living room and that bright orangy yellow is our bedroom. They all look great and Kari is very happy, which makes me very happy :). The staff of Camp Squeah put on this painting party to help us in our endeavor but also as a going away gift for Kari for the 10 months of work she did with them this year.

Thank you Rob, Liz, Dan and Brittany for helping us out! Thank you Lavern for lunch and thank you to those who put money towards paint (it's not cheap!).

Less than a month to go!!!

Wow, I can't believe we've gone through 8 months of pregnancy and we're less than a month to our due date! We're both getting excited and nervous as we discuss all the 'what should we do's and the 'what should we not do's. Baby car seat, buggies, crib, blankets, swing and a few clothes line our basement in anticipation of a new addition to our world. (I know you all are thinking I'm going to tell you what his/her name is going to be ... but I'm not).





Today we traveled into Chilliwack to get another Ultrasound done. Normally this doesn't happen but due to a routine check of the baby's health a few months ago, there was something that was needing some check up on it's progress in growing. So .... we have the latest pictures of our little baby. The top picture is clearly its chubby face, looking straight at you (lying down); the second picture is a profile of its face.

Ethics vs. Morality

A quote from a website of an emerging churches core value on character. I'm interested to hear your comments on their take on morality from this excerpt:

"We think that a person’s character is best judged by ethical standards as opposed to moral ones. Morality seems more concerned with specific behaviors (drinking, smoking etc) whereas ethics are more concerned with principles such as love, justice and humility. In determining the quality of a person’s character, we are far more concerned with the answer to the following question “what is this person like to live with?"

Is morality something that can be relegated to the backburner of Christian living?

Astronomy and space discovery

I was just reading my new edition of National Geographic (a fantastic magazine, I might add) which had a stunning article about Saturn, our solar system and certain discoveries and space missions we have sent into the dark about our planet earth.

I don't know why it is but these are some fascinating things happening! Does nobody know that we are sending machines that operate very well in space millions of miles away from our planet? They get them to return images and information to us about other planets we will never get any closer to.

In particular the Cassini spacecraft snapped a pile of images (including the one above) as it orbited the giant gas planet. How do they get these things into an orbit around a planet that is moving at amazing velocities millions of miles away in a different direction and speed than we're going?? THEN they send this mini probe off of Cassini, when its in range, to orbit and drop down onto the moon Titan around Saturn! Amazing! We're landing on a moon next to Saturn! This just amazes me. And nobody really thinks much about what we're doing or discovering in Space. It is ground breaking; never done before. We've just discovered Pluto is only one of many dwarf planets that orbit our sun away out there beyond Neptune.

I just had to share my appreciation and amazement of the world of space that is so much larger and unknown than our little world (which we are always discovering more about as well). I love space :).

Christmas, Holiday or Season?

Question:








Do you prefer to say 'Happy Holidays!'
















'Seasons Greetings!'














Or 'Merry Christmas!'?