All posts by Ray

In case you aren’t aware, Jennifer and I are the youth pastors at our church, so every Wednesday night we do the youth thing. Typically, when I get home from work I try to squeeze in some last minute prep-work before we load up and take off. On this particular occasion you can see that [...]

This past Easter we did our usual: Had a great church service Had a great lunch Hunted the poor & helpless Easter egg Went home and played some more We had almost all of the family together. Once we got to the Easter egg hunt Maddox and I put our game faces on. I tried [...]

We love hanging out in the boat. It’s so peaceful and relaxing. We went out with Mimi, Poppy, and Maddox’s best friend and favorite uncle (Uncle Jarod). Maddox was captain for a little while…he got face-to-face with a massive bass (seriously massive)…he swam in the waters of Lake Livingston and actually walked around on his [...]

This past Christmas our church gave bicycles out to 40+ kids. To our surprise, the church bought all of the toddlers tricycles as well, which included our little superstar Maddox! It was a proud moment for Jennifer and me watching Maddox light up when he saw his bicycle. He kept saying “that’s my bicycle“. What [...]

This past Christmas was, well what can I say, special…like every Christmas. Maddox understood that Christmas was about “baby Jesus” (which he would say over and over) and he was excited about presents. We couldn’t get him to sleep on Christmas Eve until after midnight. This past Christmas will definitely go down as one of [...]

This morning I was reading 1 Peter 4 (NLT) and verse 18 completely grabbed my attention. Let me first say that if you have a smart phone and don’t have the YouVersion Bible App you are missing out. There is a TON of stuff you can do with this app. You can check out the [...]

This past December I reached a milestone. I had my 30th birthday. From one perspective, I’m thankful for my life, my health, and that I am a blessed 30 year old. From another perspective, I’m thinking what?!?!?! How could this have happened so quickly? People were not kidding when they said your 20′s will fly [...]

Maddox was our little hot dog for Halloween and boy was he a cute one! We had many events planned for Halloween. We went to The Woodlands Halloween Festival with our friends Chris, Michelle and Chloe. Look how cute Dorothy was!!! Maddox got tons of candy at our Hallelujah carnival at our church and had fun riding the barrel [...]