IT'S A BOY!

Lets see...what all has happened recently...oh...I saw both the Miley Cyrus movie and High School Musical 3 in their entirety. So that was exciting. Gotta love having girls in the house. What else has happened...oh yeah! We had our ultrasound and are having a BOY!!! Unless we find another name that strikes us his name will be Samuel Owen. We have been trying to post about this for awhile but life keeps getting in the way. But we are so excited. Jen has been feeling him and getting bigger but before I saw the ultrasound there was nothing tangible that I could grab onto about our having a child. It was just a happy idea. Once we saw his head and his foot and his...little Sammy...the whole thing became so real. The day we found out we went into town to celebrate and bought him a little Rock Star shirt. It's great, it has a guitar on it and everything. Hey any kid of ours is gonna have to get into music young.
In other news one of our teen girls moved out and 10 year old twin sisters moved in. We had finally found a set of rules that we could stand by and enforce that were directed toward teenage girls. Then we ended up with a house dominated by youngster's. Back to the drawing board. Instead of dealing with more emotionally charged teenage issues we are now spending most of our time getting the kids to be quiet and stop running in the house. Back to the basics. It still takes a lot of patience but we feel that it is less draining. It is mind blowing the things that the young kids that are on campus know and don't know. Sometimes they don't know even the most basic aspects of personal hygiene. They do know about gang-banging and having sex. Some of the youngest kids are coming on campus having had sexual experiences and knowing how to cut cocaine. It makes me so angry. It also makes me determined to be the best father to my son that I can be. My wife is currently sitting on the couch stroking one of our girl's hair because she is scared to go to bed. We have no clue what went on in this girl's life, or most of our kid's lives for that matter, but all we can do is try to be there for them in the little ways. It's strange that Jen and I are having the most beautiful experience of our lives amidst the ugly mess of this place. I've found that that is how God works. But he redeems the mess while at the same time creating new beauty. Speaking of new beauty here are some pictures of our kid. He's handsome like his papa if I do say so myself.