My parents and sister, Emily, stood in line for hours yesterday to attend the McCain/Palin rally in Lancaster, PA. Their waiting paid off! Not only did my dad get to shake both McCain’s and Palin’s hands, but McCain’s armpit rested on Emily’s head while he shook Dad’s hand. Quite an exciting day for the entire family!
(If you look at the first picture, you will see my parents standing two rows behind Emily.)
Today is my dear friend Mr. West’s 86th birthday. During my past four years at Cleveland Park Bible Church in Spartanburg, SC, Mr. West has become my adoptive grandfather.
Mr. Leo West was born in 1922 and served our country during WWII in France and Germany. He is a faithful servant of the Lord and continues to serve those around him. Even though his knee causes him severe pain, he still helps his friends with their yard work and assists with the upkeep of the church’s grounds. Happy Birthday, Mr. West!
On August 21, 2008, my older brother Sam married Ashley Baker on Long Island, New York. We’re delighted to have Ashley officially join the Sutter family and look forward to the times when our whole family can be together.
Why am I happy at 11:45 pm? Well, I can think of a couple reasons:
Welcome to our apartment! Our apartment is on the second floor. Our window is the middle one directly to the left of the stairwell. Last night we completed our last move-in project and hung up all our pictures. Here’s some pictures of the rooms in our apartment. (Click on each picture for additional information on each room.)
Last evening we finished our last major apartment project: decorating the walls. Amy will tell you more in a later post (which will include photos), but this 37-sec. video — unedited and in real time — shows you the frenzied pace that we keep up here in Texas.
(This video requires Quicktime player, available as a free download from Apple. Or you can download the video here — right click and save target — and watch it in Windows Media Player.)
What does one do with old t-shirts, a blue sharpie, Elmer’s glue, scissors, and the Dallas Cowboys logos?
Chick-fil-A is introducing new bigger, tastier, dippier Chick-n-Strips and sauce – and you can try them for free. This Labor Day, from 10:30 a.m. to close, wear any football team logo into any Chick-fil-A location for a free three-count of Chick-n-Strips. Unfortunately, we don’t own anything with football logos. But thanks to the ideas of Deb, this morning after I made our own Dallas Cowboys t-shirts, we went to Chick-fil-A and enjoyed two servings of their Chick-n-Strips.
This week we entertained our first guests, a young couple (also just married this summer) from our church, New Life Bible. They are both UT Arlington students, and each week they spend all day Tuesday and Thursday on campus. So we had them over for dinner on Thursday evening.
Since Amy won’t tell you this, I will: the food was fabulous. We forgot to take photos on Thursday, but we had leftovers for lunch today, and I snapped a photo of the corn, potatoes (thanks, Ruth Bixby, for the recipe) and the chicken wrapped in bacon (thanks, little sister-in-law for that recipe).
Good job, Amy. And thanks for the fine cooking!
For the past several months, we’ve been praying for UTA campus housing, but as Josh’s semester approached, the Lord did not see fit to make an on-campus apartment available to us. So we found another apartment 10 minutes away from campus and left for Texas on Tuesday, August 12th. Upon arriving in Arlington Wednesday night, we found out that we would not be able to move into our apartment until 4PM the next day. While we waited on Thursday, we were contacted by The University of Texas at Arlington and told that someone had canceled his housing reservation and that there was a campus apartment available for us to move into – not in 30 days – but that very same day!!!! We were amazed to see how the Lord worked every detail so perfectly and we continue to praise Him for our on-campus apartment.
This evening we played our first game of Monopoly as a married couple. We have a beautiful set received as a wedding gift from Rebekah Pringle. (Thanks!) The last time Amy and I played Monopoly was at Jon and Ashleigh Sutter’s house. One of us might have taken the game a little too seriously — at least that’s what the other thought.
So tonight we began around 9:30 and played till 11:45. I won’t bore you with the details. Suffice it to say, it’s a good thing that I’m in charge of the budget in real life, too. One of us ended up with almost all his or her properties mortgaged and $335 in debt to the bank. (He or she was married to the banker, 
who floated an extra loan — which started as theft but was graciously legitimized.)
If I weren’t being tickled right now, I’d write more. But I think it’s time to retire for the evening.
Dear Josh ~
Thank you so much for creating our very own blog!! I’m very excited about sharing our lives with all our friends and family! I a-d-o-r-e YOU!
~Your Amy
Dear Amy,
This blog is for you. As we agreed, I’ll try not to spend too much time on the little details…. But it is fun!
Happy 2nd-month anniversary! I love you!