Just chillin' with mama
Smiling and flailing in his play gym
My office sent us these beautiful flowers to congratulate us on Joshua's birth, and David commented that they were larger than Joshua!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Just some cute photos
Taking advantage of the new blog layout to post some of our recent favorite photos of our very favorite little subject!
Just chillin' with mama
Smiling and flailing in his play gym
My office sent us these beautiful flowers to congratulate us on Joshua's birth, and David commented that they were larger than Joshua!
Just chillin' with mama
Smiling and flailing in his play gym
My office sent us these beautiful flowers to congratulate us on Joshua's birth, and David commented that they were larger than Joshua!
Celebrating the Ristuccias' 25 years of faithful service
This past Sunday, our church had a special service to commemorate a milestone: Pastor Matt and Karen have been serving the church for 25 years!
Because the church wanted to have the whole congregation come together for this special service (as opposed to the two services we normally have on Sunday mornings), they decided to hold the service on campus, in McCosh 50. This lecture hall actually plays a role in Pastor Matt's story of coming to faith -- immediately after he accepted the Lord as his Savior his freshman year at Princeton, he had to run to his PSY 101 class in McCosh 50. And it was there, sitting in the hard wooden seat, that he realized that he had real peace in his life, for the first time. So while the lecture hall was a practical choice for space considerations, it was really cool to hear Pastor Matt's testimony again and be in the very place where God had worked so powerfully in his life!
We got there about five minutes before the service started, and it was already almost standing room only! Good thing I had little Joshua on me in his carrier -- young mothers get special consideration, especially from church folk. :)
There was special music, with a worship band, an expanded church choir, and a really cute kids' number. It was also such a treat to have the entire church congregation singing together, in a room with decent acoustics -- what an experience of worship through song!
And Pastor Matt preached, on Romans 1:16-17 ("I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'").
My favorite funny moment from Pastor Matt's sermon: "Now, young Skywalker, you must die!!"
And, of course, Karen was honored as well. There's so much that goes into being a minister's wife -- and Karen does all of that, and serves as the principal of a classical Christian private school. Since we were in the rear of the room, I could only get the back view of this scene, but I'm glad I caught this moment -- a spontaneous standing ovation, with Karen flanked by her husband and sons.
And the time of testimonies in honor of Matt and Karen was led off by their eldest son, Joel. (There were other testimonies, but Joshua started to have a bit of a meltdown, so we had to make a hasty retreat during Joel's testimony...)
Congratulations, Pastor Matt and Karen! Thank you for your faithful service to us -- we love you!
For the complete set of photos from this service, check out this SmugMug gallery.
Because the church wanted to have the whole congregation come together for this special service (as opposed to the two services we normally have on Sunday mornings), they decided to hold the service on campus, in McCosh 50. This lecture hall actually plays a role in Pastor Matt's story of coming to faith -- immediately after he accepted the Lord as his Savior his freshman year at Princeton, he had to run to his PSY 101 class in McCosh 50. And it was there, sitting in the hard wooden seat, that he realized that he had real peace in his life, for the first time. So while the lecture hall was a practical choice for space considerations, it was really cool to hear Pastor Matt's testimony again and be in the very place where God had worked so powerfully in his life!
We got there about five minutes before the service started, and it was already almost standing room only! Good thing I had little Joshua on me in his carrier -- young mothers get special consideration, especially from church folk. :)
There was special music, with a worship band, an expanded church choir, and a really cute kids' number. It was also such a treat to have the entire church congregation singing together, in a room with decent acoustics -- what an experience of worship through song!
And Pastor Matt preached, on Romans 1:16-17 ("I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'").
My favorite funny moment from Pastor Matt's sermon: "Now, young Skywalker, you must die!!"
And, of course, Karen was honored as well. There's so much that goes into being a minister's wife -- and Karen does all of that, and serves as the principal of a classical Christian private school. Since we were in the rear of the room, I could only get the back view of this scene, but I'm glad I caught this moment -- a spontaneous standing ovation, with Karen flanked by her husband and sons.
And the time of testimonies in honor of Matt and Karen was led off by their eldest son, Joel. (There were other testimonies, but Joshua started to have a bit of a meltdown, so we had to make a hasty retreat during Joel's testimony...)
Congratulations, Pastor Matt and Karen! Thank you for your faithful service to us -- we love you!
For the complete set of photos from this service, check out this SmugMug gallery.
Some blog housekeeping
We're implementing some changes here at Keddiebears central, hopefully for the better, so we wanted to give all of our faithful readers a head's up, and apologize for any broken links or weird formatting while we put the new formatting in place...
For a while now, I've wanted the ability to post larger photos. Over the last several months, I've been tweaking the background image and the code in order to expand the main column of this blog, but there's only so much you can do with a 2-column blog before you start getting wider than the average person's internet browser screen. Then it occurred to me -- why have two columns at all?
So the biggest change is the shift to a one-column template. (And I'm so proud of myself for being able to figure out the coding necessary to make this shift!) The widgets that used to be in the right-hand sidebar are now shifted either to the new linkbar at the top, or in the footer at the bottom. So if you want to see what other blogs we're reading these days, click on the "Blogrolls" link at the top. And if you want to go back and read all of our archived posts, check out the "Blog Archive" widget at the bottom!
Now that we're a one-column blog, I've gone back to the last few posts and uploaded larger versions of those photos. Do let us know what you think -- especially if the photos are now too large for those of you with slower internet connections.
And let us know if you come across any broken links or other wonky items. I'm trying to test everything as we go, but I may miss things.
Hope you enjoy the new and improved Keddiebears blog!
And since I can't write a post without a photo... Here's one of my latest favorites of Joshua, holding his head waaay up like a big boy!
For a while now, I've wanted the ability to post larger photos. Over the last several months, I've been tweaking the background image and the code in order to expand the main column of this blog, but there's only so much you can do with a 2-column blog before you start getting wider than the average person's internet browser screen. Then it occurred to me -- why have two columns at all?
So the biggest change is the shift to a one-column template. (And I'm so proud of myself for being able to figure out the coding necessary to make this shift!) The widgets that used to be in the right-hand sidebar are now shifted either to the new linkbar at the top, or in the footer at the bottom. So if you want to see what other blogs we're reading these days, click on the "Blogrolls" link at the top. And if you want to go back and read all of our archived posts, check out the "Blog Archive" widget at the bottom!
Now that we're a one-column blog, I've gone back to the last few posts and uploaded larger versions of those photos. Do let us know what you think -- especially if the photos are now too large for those of you with slower internet connections.
And let us know if you come across any broken links or other wonky items. I'm trying to test everything as we go, but I may miss things.
Hope you enjoy the new and improved Keddiebears blog!
And since I can't write a post without a photo... Here's one of my latest favorites of Joshua, holding his head waaay up like a big boy!
