study on bikinis vs. clothing

I've seen this video floating around facebook and no matter what your view is on how much clothing to wear, this video is definitely worth a watch. The speaker talks about a study that was done on men that saw pictures of girls in regular clothing and girls in bikinis and how their brain reacts to it. Want to know what a man is thinking about what you wear? Give this a watch. It's only about 4 minutes.

What message do you want to give?

preparation for the future

So...we recently found out that our baby is a boy! We had not started any registries or anything before because I figured that would be too difficult without knowing the gender. We started one registry the day we found out and I immediately wished I had started sooner. We need so...much...stuff. And most of the stuff I just stared at trying to decide which kind we should get! Anyway, I went home a little overwhelmed and exhausted and thought about how difficult it was to decide what we should get for Eli. 
I then had another thought...something way more overwhelming and WAY more important. I'm responsible for getting this boy to Heaven! Just THINK about all that I need to do! This is going to be way harder than deciding which stroller to get!
Luckily, we started preparing for this in advance. Even before we got married, we started discussing what things we would do with our kids and how we would raise them. I know this doesn't mean we're always going to know what to do or that it's going to be easy...but it's definitely a start. We've been praying for our future children for years now and continue to pray for this one and any more children that we might have one day. I believe that gives us a head start in raising our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord! I'm so excited for what the future holds!
We also covet your prayers as we embark on this difficult and exciting journey. Pray that we never get lazy and that we stay consistent in the way we live our lives and in teaching our children to fear God.

My baby boy!! He's yawning in this picture.

chance to voice your opinion for science standards!

Apologetics press just put an article online that has the information for how we can voice our opinions to affect science standards in public schools! Please take a few minutes to read the article and follow the instructions! It's our duty as Christians to make our voices heard on these matters. This may be the only chance we get!


Go here: http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=9&article=1614


If you want directions on exactly what you need to do, go to this website, and click on "directions for feedback" at the very top of the page:


Directions for feedback


This took me only a few minutes- it's very quick. Can you give just a few minutes of your time to make a difference in what is taught in science? We need actual science back in the science classroom!


Have an active part in changing the world!