Happy Valentine's Day!!

Well I just want to brag really quick on my amazing husband!!!
We haven't really talked much about Valentine's or if we had any plans, especially because Jamey has been sick all week. We just decided to watch LOST (the best gift ever...well other than salvation and marriage of course) and make dinner at home!!

I woke up this morning and my sick little Jamey asked me to get him some water because his throat was hurting. I walk into the kitchen and to my surprise I find that at some point the day before he had bought me 2 dozen roses, Pino Noir (my favorite wine) and the most heart-felt card I've ever read. On top of that he has edited all our honeymoon pics, had them printed out and he put them in an album for me!! The sweet part was that he had woken up at some point in the night and put it all on display for me in the kitchen. (Hence the request for the glass of water)
Ah-mazin!!! I love my husband more than I ever thought was possible and I love little surprises that aren't even expected. So this blog was written to brag on him!!!

p.s. Did I mention that right when I was about to go hug him and thank him for my gifts that our 80 yr old german lanlord began banging on our front door to come fix our hot water heater that's been leaking in our hallway the last week.
Bom Bom!!
But by tomorrow we will have a new non-leaking hot water heater which means I might get to take showers longer then 5 minutes without the hot water going out! Praise his name for another great valentine's gift!!!


Here's some pics mere moments before Helga arrived......

It's official...we're bloggers now!!!

Hello friends and family...

Now that Jamey and I are officially married we thought the last thing we should do to truly consecrate our marriage is to....start a blog! So here we are! For those of you who don't know where we're at in life I will catch you up to speed!!

Jamey and I live in Fort Worth, TX in a cute little house that I am growing to love. Pics coming soon! Jamey is still in the band Green River Ordinance and plays lead guitar. The band is doing really well right now. They are signed with Capitol/Virgin Records and are expecting to go to LA at the end of March to record their first major debut album. Right now they spend their time practicing and writing potential songs for the album and flying to LA or Nashville to do co-writes with other musicians!!
I'm working at Christ Chapel Bible Church as the high school/college Missional Director (or a local missions coordinator). The job is a unique one. I get the opportunity to hang out with students and encourage them to live missionally. I also volunteer at TCU with international students which I LOVE to do. (It gives me so much life to love on them) and occasionally Jamey and I work with refugees, homeless, etc. It's a fun job...but not an easy one. When people ask what it's like I usually quote Matt Chandler (when I heard him speaking once about getting people in the church to "push back the darkness in the world") and he described it as difficult as getting people to climb Mt Everest in a speedo. I would agree that both are quite the challenge.

But I love where God has me in my job, in this city, and in my marriage. I can see how He's at work to redeem them all for his glory!!

So this is just a little "starter" but I will keep this up as much as I can. And I'll let Jamey give his 2 cents every now and then too. Being an avid reader/thinker (and was a philosophy major at TCU) he's actually a very good writer as well!!!

I'll leave you with a little encouragement he sent to me and a few of his friends the other day!!!


Psalm 22:27-28 27 All the ends of the earth

will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,

28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.

God RULES over all the nations. He is king over the kings, the presidents, the government. The earth Belongs to HIM! God is going to do huge things. Jesus upholds every country! He has dominion over Fort Worth. He can do mighty things. He can save a city!! Lets pray huge things, because we have a huge God. Lets pray that no one will go hungry in fort worth, that jimmy gets put out of a job because we dont need police any more because crime stops (sorry jimmy it will just mean its time to be a preacher), lets pray that malls close down because people stop buying crap.

Love you all
The Ice's