Fun Times at the May House

So we've recovered from Easter and moved straight into other exciting and chaotic adventures. 

LJ is eating solids:) At dinnertime, each night, he is getting a vegetable. We are slowly working our way through the Gerber Baby 1st foods. Eventually, I am going to try and make my own baby food, since I've heard its better and cheaper, but at this point, I haven't even thought about trying to do that! So far he has enjoyed Sweet Potatoes, Peas, and Greenbeans. We have Butternut Squash, Bananas and Apples on the horizon:) So far LJ has enjoyed making a mess and trying to feed himself. It takes lots of strength to hold back his little arms as they try to grab the spoon and shove it into his mouth! The video camera is a mom & Kevin's so I will upload that video once I get it back. 

We had an open house on Sunday. I busted my tail to make sure the house was as nice as possible. I mopped floors, cleaned the garage (well straightened since it is full of tubs, furniture baby and dog stuff). Unfortunately, the weather was cold and despite our realtor advertising, we had 1 person show. A total bummer, but I'm still keeping up hope for someone to buy it in a hurry and pay the asking price:)

Revolution has been in a series called "Rockstar: Making Him Famous" and they're prepping for the next series called "Prison Break" which is about breaking free of our past, addictions, etc. I'm really excited about this series because I think it deals with a topic everyone struggles with at one point or another. 

After Easter I was working on an event for the High Museum of Art. It's the High's wine auction and it raises a ton of money for the museum. For the past two years I have been in charge of getting Empire's product to the event. It is a crazy time b/c we have a bunch of winemakers in town (there are dinners, trade events, consumer events, seminars) and we have to make sure that everything is as perfect as we can get it. Several of our wineries have large auction items up for bid and/or are sponsors. 

I got to hang with Austin Hope of Austin Hope Winery & Treana Winery during the live auction and it was fun talking with him in the midst of auction lots being sold to the highest bidder for thousands of dollars. Our wineries had lots that went for $4000-$40,000. I can't imagine having that much money to bid on wine (although the $40000 lot was wine and I believe dinner for 12 in someone's house, prepared by the chef of one of our local restaurants). I only stayed for half of the auction so I'm sure that there were other items that went for even more. At the time I left over $500000 had already been raised! One of my friends took some pictures so I will post them once he sends them to me.  

Egg Drop Mania

Okay, after a remark from my mom, I should probably say that when I was sending out the link to this blog I probably should have written a disclaimer. One, it was written in jest (well semi in-jest; you can probably figure out which parts!)...okay... that's really the only disclaimer.

Below I've got the video we're showing at church that is a wrap up of the Egg Drop. It's pretty wild to see all of the people that we're there. Even in the short time that I was standing on a table (to try and part the crowds for a woman to get through/pass out wrist bands to the people who couldn't get up to the registration tables)...If you want to get our pastor's take on it, check this out...It's a pretty good explanation of the day:)



I hope everyone is doing well! We can't wait for this summer and the beach trip! (for those Kalvins that are reading this!).

Soo Funny!

I always want to post our promos online for you guys to see b/c some of them are hilarious...I just found these...check them out, they are at the most 2 minutes so it shouldn't take up too much time!

Okay this isn't a promo...just found a video of Tim dropping some eggs:

Maybean Happenings

LJ Update: 6 months on Sunday, March 16!
-17lbs.
-6 month doctor's apt. next week and I'll have a length update:)
-started baby food...He began with sweet potatoes and that led to lots of laughter and funny faces. We've headed back to cereal to help him with consistency. I'm feeling the need to crack back open the baby books to make sure I'm doing things correctly b/c I've been told that I should've done a thousand things different. Cracking open the books will make me either feel better about the decisions thus far or give me better options for the upcoming months. He's growing so I'm not worried about starving him! I have a video for his first several bites of food which I'll post eventually (you all know that means about 2-3months;)) 

House Update:
-Lots of visitors, but no bites yet. We're not stressed as keeping the house spotless has been good for Tim and I! Less Stress!(well it creates less stress, cleaning it is not so fun!)

Revolution Update:
-Easter Egg Drop: So we figured we'd get a few thousand kids...Umm, that's the understatement of the year. How about 5,000 people by 9:30 (we dropped eggs at 11ish). At the end the police chief said that we had 10-12,000 people with 2500-3000 stuck on the interstate that couldn't get into the park. It was just a little chaotic. The great thing is that our volunteers totally rocked and took everything in stride...they withstood getting cussed at, slapped (not joking) and trampled (yes...by tons of little kids...and probably a few parents). Will we do it again? Word is, yeah, but we'll be dropping 250,000 eggs. Oh yeah, Tim was in the helicopter so I'll have pictures of that up too (for now you can check out some pictures our friends took here. Needless to say, he was strapped in (trust me, Tim and I had a good conversation beforehand about safety and how LJ needs his dad! The event was crazy and yeah, I'll say a success as amazingly we had people show up to church today who were first introduced to us at the Egg Drop. We'll find out later this week how many others actually came from the Egg Drop...

Easter: We had 1400 at church today which was awesome! We began a new series called: RockStar: Making Him Famous. It was phenomenal. We built out the stage so there was a catwalk into the crowd. I'm going to try and get pictures up of this b/c it looked like a rock concert. This series was a follow-up to our One series which talked about why Revolution exists and why God put us on earth: To help others who don't know Christ find out that He loves them and wants to have a relationship with him. We talked about the purpose of the church and how you don't have to be a bible thumper to talk to others about Christ...anyways, it was a powerful several weeks and with Easter as the kick-off for RockStar it was a great time for everyone to invite friends and family to church.