New Carpet!

Well, it's been a while! Last week we got back from a trip to relatives house in Petaluma for four nights, and then a stay in Willow Creek for four nights. It was a very relaxing vacation and great to soak up the sun, but boy, were we ready to come home by the end!

Today, we just got new carpet!!!!! (Thanks Carpet Express!) We had a furniture moving party Sunday after church with some of the boys in our church and got all the furniture moved out, so Monday they could install the carpet. The fun part was that we were basically camping in our house that night with matresses on the floor and empty bedrooms :) It is so nice and makes the house look much nicer! I added a couple pictures so you can see the difference.

Lately I have been hearing that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I would easily fall into condemnation about things I say or think or do, and cannot in my own power over come that. (It is truly just a trick to get us caught up in ourselves, so that we cannot see others around us) Thankfully, I have faithful friends and parents who can see that in my and call my sin out and then forgive it! What a freedom it is that we do not have to carry our own sin, but Christ became sin for us. We can then be free of that and actually serve and love our neighbors (even the unloveable) :)