ANOTHER attempt

so here we go again - another attempt at this blogging thing. call it a new years resolution if you want. i just enjoy journaling the account of my day.
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so 2011 was a good year. the girls turned 8, isaac turned 1, and sarah and i both celebrated our 30th birthdays with a 6-year anniversary thrown in to boot. first steps were celebrated along with good grades. it was the first 12-month period in my short history that i logged over 1,000 miles on my bike, over 100 of which were on a tandem with sarah for the first time. it was also the first time i shot a deer... dead... which deserves an entire blog post on its own based on my sheer excitement alone (but i'll spare you, unless you REALLY want to hear about it). and the adoption of the girls was finalized in february - that's HUGE!
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and 2012? it's only just begun, but i'm looking forward to it. already growing too. i took the week between christmas and new years off work and ended up turning my office at home upside down. it's usable now, which provides a nice early morning venue for prayer and bible reading. God's really teaching me through those times... though i'm still a sucky person on my own, God looks at me and sees Christ. HIS righteousness covers me... kinda like a blanket of white snow covers the brown, muddy look of winter. the brown, muddy terrain is still there (like my crappiness as a person is still there), but you can't see it through the pure, white snow (like God can't see my crappiness through the precious blood of His Son). and i've already learned through the book of genesis that even in people like abraham, we're not perfect, but God can (and WILL) still use us!
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so we'll see what this year has in store - hopefully this blog will provide me with some built in accountability to retain what i learn each day, to share here.
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favorite bible verse read today: "then i heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'whom shall I send? and who will go for us?' and i said, 'here am i. send me!'" (isaiah 6:8)
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favorite picture taken today: okay, i haven't gotten that far in my day as it's only 7:15am - we'll try that for tomorrow (or maybe i'll be dangerous and post twice today) depending on the schedule. so for the time being, here's a picture of my family in 2011 along with my first deer.
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