Yesterday I woke up feeling pretty terrible, and I spent most of the day shivering while wrapped up in a fleece blanket. But before that, we managed to take a visit to see some newborn lambs at the farm where Keri’s sister works.
Just for the record, baby lambs are even more cute than you might think.
I thought it would be fun to look back over the past year to pick out my favorite posts from 2009. What a fun year! Here are my top 10 in chronological order:
For several years, we’ve drawn names to give Christmas gifts with both my family and Keri’s family. This past Christmas, someone from Keri’s family came up with the terrible fantastic idea of creating a surprise handmade gift for “our person”.
I drew Keri’s sister, and after a few weeks of making no progress, Keri suggested that I make her a bird house. After a little research, I decided to go the route of decorating a birdhouse that I bought at a hobby store nearby. Here are a few pics of my project in action:
The bad news of the story: I think they want to do hand made gifts again next Christmas.
Just a few weeks before Christmas, my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer. At this point, they still don’t know the stage or extent of the cancer, but it seems that she will be undergoing surgery in the very near future.
Fortunately, the news didn’t disrupt their trip to Knoxville, and we had a great time together during the time they were here (including a trip to Biltmore).
We would really appreciate your prayers for my mom and dad – for wisdom in their decisions and healing in her body.
I’m planning for 2010 to be the most disciplined year of my life so far. Rather than planning for big ministry or family breakthroughs, I’m going to commit to daily and weekly disciplines that I believe will pave the way for those other things to happen too. This isn’t a new thing for me, but this year I’m branching out to include some new areas.
To aid me in this process, I’ve documented each of my 11 goals (for accountability). For the first time, I’m also going to journal my food intake and try to lose 10 lbs with the aid of an awesome free website called DailyBurn.
You can see a few of my resolutions below as well as the main screen from DailyBurn running on my iPhone.
What about you? Have you set any goals for 2010? If so, I’d love to hear about it.
Last night I realized that it was time to update the KyleGilbert.com page. In the photo above, you can see the old design and the new design format.
I like how it turned out for a few reasons:
The new format is highly borrowed from flavors.me, and I would highly suggest it to anyone who’s looking for a cool and easy portal-style page.
My wife is an amazing photographer, and I love this picture that she took of me holding my son while we waited for a train.
It’s a little bit difficult to tell from the photo, but at my request, my daughter took the time out of her playing at Chick-fil-A to wipe her brother’s nose.
What did people ever do without camera phones to capture these moments?
Keri and I just got back from a fantastic night at the Whitestone Inn. It’s really an amazing place. The rooms and scenery were very nice, and the food was delicious.
With little kids, it’s hard to find the time and resources to get away like that, but we’re more committed than ever before to carve out time to spend together.
The top image below is a panoramic image that I created from our photos, so you can click the left and right buttons to pan across the view.
Kyle Gilbert is the Pastor of Communications & Internet Campus Pastor of Faith Promise Church [more]
