Girl in LOVE!

Valentine's Day has come early in the Mondragon home.
Juliana has never been so affectionate toward anything like she is for Breck.
The minute he came home, she can not take her eyes off of him.


Addie on the other hand is curious, but not impressed.

What happened???

Yesterday I blinked. And today I find myself past Christmas already. OH. MY. FLYING. TIME. How in the world? For our single digit readership out there, I’m sure you’ve noticed the lack of any new posts. Let me just give you the skinny on some possible reasons.

Late summer – Chad and I feel God calling us away from our beloved church in Lexington and to possibly church-planting in Colorado.

September – we decide for sure to pursue this calling … announce to elders…Juliana turns TWO…we announce to church … put our house on the market…house sells in less than two weeks (yes, two weeks!).

October – learn that our third child will indeed be a BOY … take respective trips to Colorado and Georgia, only to come back and pack up our house in a week … Adeline turns ONE … we move out of our house!

We are living in a temporary housing situation (praise God for this!) out in the middle of nowhere …. Paris, KY. We have no cable and no internet (except on Chad’s phone). I can look out the breakfast nook and see cows on the hills around and sometimes the neighbor’s horses on the side of the house. These are the sounds I hear during the day: tractors, the occasional horse trailer, and sometimes the train going down the tracks. VERY different than living in Lexington!

So now here we are in January, weeks away from welcoming baby boy into our family. And even more weeks away from moving across the country. We are so behind in posting, but we will try to catch up.

Happy New Years!

New Years with great friends and new beginnings. We will miss KY, but anticipate what God is going to do in this new year! (this picture has not been altered by makeup, hair goo, or showers...obviously)

Political Theft

Everyone says that politicians are crooks. Today, my bank card had been hacked and used to purchase things online. Some of the things purchased where electronics and webgear. The surprising thing charged was a $5 donation to BarackObama.com. Now we all know how these crooks get their money.

Christmas Considerations

THIS is the season of the year when, whether we wish it or not, we are compelled to think of the birth of Christ. I hold it to be one of the greatest absurdities under heaven to think that there is any religion in keeping Christmas-day. There are no probabilities whatever that our Savior Jesus Christ was born on that day, and the observance of it is purely of Popish origin; doubtless those who are Catholics have a right to hallow it, but I do not see how consistent Protestants can account it in the least sacred. However, I wish there were ten or a dozen Christmas-days in the year; for there is work enough in the world, and a little more rest would not hurt laboring people. Christmas-day is really a boon to us; particularly as it enables us to assemble round the family hearth and meet our friends once more. Still, although we do not fall exactly in the track of other people, I see no harm in thinking of the incarnation and birth of the Lord Jesus. We do not wish to be classed with those

"Who with more care keep holiday
The wrong, than others the right way."

The old Puritans made a parade of work on Christmas-day, just to show that they protested against the observance of it. But we believe they entered that protest so completely, that we are willing, as their descendants, to take the good accidentally conferred by the day, and leave its superstitions to the superstitious.
(Dec 23, 1855 C.H. Spurgeon)

Faith Trials

Matt Chandler challenges his people just prior to going into surgery. Video from Matt.

Ministry Getaway

Melody and I are leaving Lexvegas and heading to Denver for the weekend. It is exciting to have the opportunity for the two of us to go and meet some new potential church planters. We will be looking at houses in Centennial on Friday, meeting with potential core group members on Saturday, and having a core group meeting on Sunday. We are also looking forward to worshiping with friends Jason and Jennifer Janz and the Providence Bible Church in Downtown Denver in Sunday AM. Pray for us as we leave the girls in KY with Melody's parents. Also pray for opportunities to connect with potential core group members.