Church, football, and Zaxby's

We had a cool thing at church today. Desi joined the church today. She has been thinking about it for a while, so at the end of the service she came up and joined. I went up with her and told about talking to her and her mom, and then took her confession of faith, and then we shook everyone's hands as they left and welcomed her. I'm so happy she joined.

Sarah and I have had a football filled weekend. Yesterday we dropped off the kids at the Workman's, and they generously babysat for us and gave us tickets to the VT game. They played Georgia Tech. It was my third straight Saturday of going to a VT game. David, Tyler, and I went opening weekend to Charlotte (where they played in the Carolina Panthers stadium and lost to the ECU Pirates), and last weekend Sarah, me, and David went to the home opener against Furman...which we won, but was closer than it should have been. So yesterday we played Georgia Tech, and it was a big test. Sarah and I tailgated with Fred and Vicki and their friend's Leon and Derinda. We used the new grill for the first time and had hotdogs and hamburgers. It was Orange Effect day, so Sarah and I got the 2008 Orange Effect and Maroon Effect t-shirts (cheaper if you buy them together). Then we watched VT pull out a close win against GT (20-17). Good game, Tyrod Taylor QB'ed the whole game (they appear to have finally given up on Sean Glennon). We came back, ate subs at the ice cream parlor, and then picked up the kids. We met the Salem children's ministry candidate Kristen, she spent the weekend with the Workman's while she visisted.

Today after church we watched the Redskins play the Saints in Washington's home opener. It too was a close one, but the Redskins improved as the game went on and ending up winning 29-24. Campbell, Portis, and Moss all had great games.

This evening I taught for the second time at Salem C of C with the combined youth groups. I did lesson three on Bumper Sticker theology, with Coexist, etc. Afterwards we played football on the church front lawn.

During youth group Margee babysat the kids at the church (Sarah was at a play with her parents). Lily was asleep, and Isaiah and I were hungry, so we went over to Zaxby's. The first couple times I've been there we had really slow service just waiting for our food. Tonight they totally made up for it. I came in with Isaiah and Lily, and they got me a high chair, pumped ketchup for me, brought the food to us, and even hooked Isaiah and I up with some free chocolate chip cookies. Good times.