BenandJacq in the blog.

2009

June 28
May 27
April 25
March 18
January 32

2008

June 32
May 12
April
March
February
January
NCAA 2007 for XBox. Fun times.
Sep 1st
Clyde and Jenn are tying a knot today. :)
Aug 31st

Enjoying a lazy Saturday afternoon.

Jacqueline has gone to the Goodwill to procure some deals on clothing, little man is asleep in the...
Aug 30th
Tar Heels is correctly two words, but we’ll let it...
Aug 29th
Warch Watch
The coolest thing I’ve done on a PC in YEARS.
Aug 29th

Better luck next time.

We ended up leaving without getting all the blood they needed, because it would have been too...
Aug 29th

Carolina Blue blood

It’s a metaphor, don’t panic. His blood is normal colored, but hard to get to, it turns...
Aug 29th
Aaaand… After they stuck him.
Aug 29th
Before they stuck him…
Aug 29th
Caleb acting a fool on UNCA’s campus. Beautiful day!
Aug 29th
In the waiting room at the geneticist. What a cute kid.
Aug 28th
This French press, according to the box it came in, is...
Aug 28th
…and the back! Benjamins all around!
Aug 28th
From the front…
Aug 28th

Democratic National Convention (and...

There has been much hullabaloo over Donald Miller closing out a night of the Democratic National...
Aug 27th

For the confused...

After talking to some friends on the phone and having to consistently explain the same things over...
Aug 27th

The Results are in!

We just heard back from the geneticist with the results of the MRI.  My son has a partial corpus...
Aug 26th
Warch Watch
For something a little lighter today… Holy Cow this is funny.
Aug 25th
The sweet boy taking a drug-induced nap.
Aug 25th

All finished!

We are done, on the way home stopping to get pedialyte from the CVS, and listening to the little man...
Aug 25th
Me and Ellen are now hanging out. Oh, and there’s also...
Aug 25th

Left out...

Turns out they only allow one additional person in the MRI room during the deal (which lasts 30...
Aug 25th

Sedated

We went ahead with sedation. He was starting to wake up. Now to the loud room.
Aug 25th

Dwayne the nurse

give this man a raise, mission hospital. He is awesome.
Aug 25th

pray!

the MRI machine next door is LOUD. We will need a miracle for him to not need sedation. Keep...
Aug 25th

The waiting room drama.

“All My Children” is playing on the TV here in radiology waiting, but it has nothing on...
Aug 25th
Hello, old friend.
Aug 25th
Warch Watch
This is our attempt to get Benjamin ready for the MRI.  Turns out he likes the drum!!
Aug 25th

Headed to the Hospital.

On the bright side, a few weeks ago if you had said to meet in the radiology department at Mission...
Aug 25th
Youth Group friends reunited at a 10 Year reunion!
Aug 25th
Improv napping crib at grandpa and mama-dub’s...
Aug 23rd
Warch Watch
A few different days of video all spliced together.  Helping you remember how cute our little guy is...
Aug 22nd
Benjamin found his thumb!
Aug 22nd

Little Man Update

We heard back from the Plastic Surgeon (more baby-head-surgeon than celebrity-face-lift surgeon, in...
Aug 21st
The view from my “office” in the student union...
Aug 21st

Blue Ridge Cru Dot Com

So I just finished making a really basic iWeb website for our local area.  But the creative effort...
Aug 21st
The aftermath of a table at Tusculum college, where I...
Aug 21st
Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian...
Aug 20th
All the WCU student leaders, the Johnsons and Josh.
Aug 19th
Heather and Teri (student leaders at WCU)
Aug 19th
WCU organization fair, take 2.
Aug 19th

Here's a lighter look...

So, if you’ve been around me (Ben) for 3 minutes or longer, you might find that I joke a lot. ...
Aug 19th

Less diagnosis, more complication and...

Since the middle of pregnancy, we have been sent to one specialist after another, all of them saying...
Aug 18th
Love how they put us right beside IV, to “help”...
Aug 18th
Little man is attracting people to our table.
Aug 18th
We got the best spot in the room at the UNCA organization...
Aug 18th
This dude just turned around in my driveway in the above 6.1...
Aug 17th

Financial Reality Check.

We are in the midst of the craziness.  The first six weeks of class are upon us, and God is doing...
Aug 17th
Ballyhoo deluge. Lots of liquid falling from the sky.
Aug 16th
Leaders meeting before the shindig.
Aug 16th
Benjamin’s first trip to campus. Ballyhoo here we...
Aug 16th

Valley Ballyhoo...

We are headed to Western Carolina University today to participate in the “Valley...
Aug 16th
“Crab mac-n-cheese!?! What kind of communist joint is this?”
— Jacq, reading an online review...
Aug 15th

In waiting for a second opinion

Remember earlier today when we confessed putting up a front about how well we are doing and often...
Aug 14th
Little man with the anklet.
Aug 14th

Hospitals and Authenticity

We struggle with what is appropriate to share with folks in life. There are multiple things going...
Aug 14th
One of the creative elements in the “prayer...
Aug 13th
The prayer room in downtown Asheville. Refreshing time spent...
Aug 12th
Prayer meeting. I love our staff team.
Aug 12th
Saw this in a honky-tonk bar where my brother-in-law Jason...
Aug 12th
Me and Ryan “Big Fella” Bolden. A serious arm...
Aug 12th

Bumper Stickers

Yesterday as we were driving back from SC visiting family, we saw a car (pictured in the previous...
Aug 11th
Hard to see, but this is a car literally covered in what...
Aug 11th
“Why does that saggy thing look like a brain?”
— Our 7-year-old niece, while...
Aug 11th
The little man kicked back and relaxin’
Aug 8th

Apple trying to redeem itself

I just got off the phone with Casey, a customer support representative with Apple.  He was extremely...
Aug 7th
This popped up about 4 minutes ago.  They must be on...
Aug 7th
Holy Cow.  My days of being an Apple fan may soon be over.
Aug 6th

183 Pushups

That’s not a misprint.  I (Ben) just did 113 pushups, split into 5 sets (27, 21, 21, 18, 26,...
Aug 6th

The Struggle

It’s funny how my little man struggles to stay awake. I am sitting beside his crib, standing...
Aug 5th
Most recent family picture.
Aug 4th

Golden Compass

I just watched the golden compass. Well produced film. It’s pretty sad that Christians made...
Aug 4th