new house

we heard that it was time to buy, so we did... well, almost. we put in an offer yesterday, today they countered and we accepted. if all goes well with inspection etc. we will get our keys on april 10th... Good Friday.

free give away

Bible Study Magazine and Mars Hill are giving away 20 copies of Mark Driscoll’s new book, Vintage Church. Not only that, but they are also giving away five subscriptions to Bible Study Magazine and a copy of their Bible Study Library software! Enter to win on the Bible Study Magazine Mark Driscoll page, then take a look at all the cool tools they have to take your Bible study to the next level!

random update

here is an update for the sake of updating... :) nothing much to report on. 2009 so far has not brought the snow like we had at the end of last year. when it started on december 17, we got 17 inches in 24 hours. wow.

im still throwing bags with horizon air and i started up classes again last week at moody. megan is still a shining star in the er at providence holy family hospital.

we traveled back to seattle several weekends in december and january for different birthdays, weddings, and parties. here are a few photos from then.

saying farewell to the allen's before they headed back to zambia.

megan and paige at christmas.

doellefeld christmas

good times in spokane.

new years eve, downtown spokane.

cbc youth pastors at their best... COL

snowflake lane, downtown bellevue.

kauai

despite the hurricane and flash flood warnings, we had a great relaxing time on kauai...

megan and i ventured to hawaii after my mom gave us a time share for an anniversary present. we left december 9th (two days after my birthday one day after my last final) and got home december 18th, just in time for the big snow! we beat the winter rush and were able to fly stand-bye on alaska. we had a whole row to ourselves there and back on the 6 hour flight. 

we spent a week at the westin princeville resort. it was definitely the sweetest hotel we have ever stayed at.

this was the view from our studio

sunset at the resort

hiking trail by ke'e beach



kilauea lighthouse

whale watching spot at the lighthouse



church in hanalei

we checked out a lot of beches for next time we go back...

kapaa beach

bubba's burgers are awesome

waioli beach

wailua falls

the only access to the napali coast is by boat, we hooked up with captain andy's boat tour and his 40 foot catamaran. it was sweet. on the boat we spotted turtles, spinner dolphins, bottle nose dophins, mantaray, humpback whales and crazy flying fish... it was awesome, the one thing we missed out on was snorkling because of all the run-off.





driftwood beach

the whole island was very chill. we look forward to going back some time soon to grab a burger at bubbas and do some snorkeling.

from tropical storm to winter storm

just a quick update... we made it home to spokane today, miraculously. the last two scheduled flights from seattle to spokane last night got cancelled, and so did the first 4 scheduled flights for this morning... i dont know what to tell you, but after realizing our second flight got cancelled we caught wind of a secret, NON-SCHEDULED flight, leaving in 30 minutes that was carrying most of last nights passengers to spokane... all i can say is, wow! it took me two garbage sacks covering up my keen sandals, a frisbee to dig out my jeep, and some CRAZY driving to get us finally home. its seriously like a blizzard out there. check it out, records are being set here in spokane for accumulated snow fall. 

i trucked through snow past my knees in the front yard as i made my way up to our house when we got home, this pic is taken in the back yard... we will fill you in on kauai as soon as we catch up with this snow! cheers!

autumn in spokane

aaron and i decided we would send out a christmas card this year...we didn't last year for some reason. having a good christmas card involves having a GOOD picture to put on it...so we attempted to take our christmas picture this year using a gorillapod and our camera. we walked to franklin park, which is 2 houses down from our house, hooked our gorillapod to the tree branch and set the 10 sec timer on the camera...here are a couple pics that we didn't choose for the card :)


it is SO hard to take a cute picture playing with leaves...as you can see, we tried and failed plenty of times. i was determined to try to get a good one though :)




by the end of our "photo shoot," our hands were frozen and i was DONE with taking pictures...where is ryan when we need him!

tuba man

if you are a seattle sports fan, then you have at one sporting event or another crossed paths with seattle's iconic tuba man. his sudden and tragic death puts a stamp on this year in sports for the pacific northwest...
seattle times article

Toilet Bowl 2008

its been a tough year for washington sports. with the start of the nba season i had a hard time trying to pick out the players on the oklahoma city thunder... for those of you who dont recognize that name or know what the heck im talking about, no, that is not a wnba franchise... even though it sounds like one. no, that is in fact the new name of the once and former seattle suuuuuper sonics. sad i know. even sadder is the idea of now turning south on i-5 to the portland trailblazers to get my thug on. actually having b-roy on the squad helps a lot, but i think im going to check out those underachieving zags now that i am on this side of the mountains. a team who sleeps through a weak a** conference year after year and tanks the big hype in the big dance, year after year. but home games are like getting into lambeau field, your not getting in unless you know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.... so... yeah. im still working on a solution.

now where as the disappointing seasons from the mariners and hawks are tough to stomach, they are edged out by this years toilet bowl for 2008. im actually taking deep consideration about packing down for this record setting season... take a look. this is truly an historic event.

cabo wabo

hi, this is megan. just this last week, my good friend sarah and i just got back from a week vacation in the sun in cabo, mexico. aaron graciously allowed me to use a companion pass to take sarah with me for my birthday (aaron didn't go because he had school...and because he would have hated the HOT weather in mexico). we had been planning for over a month to go to mazatlan...we had our hotel booked and everything. well the joy of flying standby...when we got to LAX to catch our flight to mazatlan, the flight was oversold and we didn't make it on. there is only one flight out of LAX to mazatlan a day, and the flight the following day was oversold also. so sarah and i were sitting in the LA airport trying to decide what we were going to do when these two women approached us and said that they overheard us talking about our dilemma. to make a longer story shorter...they had a timeshare in cabo that they had already paid for and were not using. they offered the timeshare to us for a great price and there was a flight leaving for cabo in an hour. SO we hopped on the plane and landed in cabo 2 hour later! it seriously felt like we were on the amazing race!

who's on first?

so funny.