Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (250 pages)

Read The Bible and Homosexual Practice (520 pages)

Listened to Team of Rivals (944 pages) and bought a paperback copy on AbeBooks!

Hello Strangers

Yeah..... so What's a couple years between friends? I reviewed my own blog today and was reminded of all the minutes, seconds and fractions of seconds that God has accompanied us through in our days here in St. Louis.

Is it possible that I could bring this site up to day? Hmmmm. Likely not. Amy and I have been stretched and grown in so many ways.... we'll see what I can put on here... I mean finals are next week... and as you can tell... i'd rather update my blog than study right now.... but I'll go study now.

See ya all soon.
Andrew

Winston & Piper Tussel

Winston gets to know Piper

Winston

Well we've finally started to approach normalcy since adopting Winston. We got him Saturday Feb 28th. He was in pretty good shape with the exception of kennel cough and "smarting" from some "man work". His first weekend with us was HORRIBLE. On Sunday he came down with pneumonia and was throwing up and hacking up white foam. By mid day Sunday he was lethargic, not eating and sooo tired. He wouldn't lay down because it compressed his lungs making it hard to breath... and he didn't like to sit down because "the boys" were very swollen. Essentially he would fall asleep standing up and then fall over - It was quite sorrowful looking. By Sunday afternoon were were convinced that he might not make it through the night... so we made a trip to the emergency hospital...KA CHING $200.00. They gave him fluids and a bunch of antibiotics which helped him almost immediately. He is much better now and is looking forward being able to socialize with other dogs next week. (he has been quarantined).












As you can see, he is full of energy and is getting stronger...

Remembering December 2008

These pictures were taken in the afternoon on December 21, 2008, to prove it really does snow in Tacoma. They make me think of quiet family evenings reading Farmer Boy, shoving for the best spot over the dining room heater vent, endless intertube rides behind "Old Nellie", violent games of Spoons, early morning "wisdom searches", bottle rockets, snow forts, snowball fights, & a great family...

My childhood

H O M E
(during our only ever white Christmas)

7813 A Street

(Andrew, is that you in the picture?)

I miss it.


~ Amy

It's Beginning to Look Like a HOME!

Today is a monumental day... our last meal on "the card table". For five months now we've been dining on a card table. Well not any more. We found a beautiful dining set on Craigslist and Andrew picked it up today. Thankfully, our home will never be the same. Here are the pictures to prove it:


Before

more before

& even more before
(I know. It's bad)

But not any more....



AFTER

Ahhhh!

It's Amy's Birthday!!

A little trip to Hermann Missouri

Amy and I took a trip to Hermann. It was beautiful scenery, music and woman... you'll see what I'm talking about in the video... she's a hotty.

Grace and Peace Presbyterian Church

Before Amy left for her trip home we attended this church (Grace and Peace) twice - we were blessed both times. I have been attending there since - and anticipate that when she returns we will continue attending. The services are very God honoring - and the messages have been quite encouraging. As you can see... it's a very old and beautiful building... there are many things needing to be fixed and upgraded (I didn't include pictures of those) but its a work in progress. I believe the church bought it awhile ago and has been raising money to restore it over time. The church is located on the outskirts of St. Louis in a area that has much need. The church has a very active outreach to the city.

The trip from the Northwest to the Midwest

Anniversary in Winthrop

Well... I'll do a bit of backtracking here to get you up to speed. This is before we even knew that we were coming to Seminary. Amy and I went to Winthrop for our 3rd anniversary... and we found some sweet sledding hills. The challenge was that we had to hike up the hills in waist deep snow.... whew!!!




And what is a anniversary experience without a bit of competition.... especially an Allen/Troja anniversary!! Amy may try to disagree... but I won this one (by letting her win)... (-:

Well, here it is... a picture of our "Crib". Actually, Amy and I are living on the second floor. This is the front entrance off Tulane street. Inside the main door, there is a stairwell with three landings... we had lots of fun to get Amy's piano up there!

The side entrance to the left of the house (you can't see it) goes all the way up... and then also all the way down into our basement. We'll post some really exciting pictures of the flood we had down there a couple of weeks ago!

This picture was actually taken prior to our arrival. Amy took those two ceramic goats out to the street and smashed them. They had it coming... they were ugly.

More to come...

Time to get up to speed!

Ok.... We are actually here. I'll get up to speed and post something soon!!

Amy Turns the big 30

This weekend was the big celebration for my lovely & youthful wife Amy!
It was a great party - we had over 25 friends and family at the event.

Amy loves all her nieces and nephews - and they loved blowing out most of her birthday candles.

In addition the birthday girl, we had another notable guest at the party. Lola Green - The star of jengreeninjapan Lola & More. We have a picture of Lola commenting on having to wait another 2 weeks for her dad to join her and mom here in Washington.