SO I am not so good at this blogging.

Well so about having such a gap between post. We've moved, built a pool for my parents, disassembled, and then reassembled a swing set, all while working six days a week. I know woe is me, but finally things are getting settled.

I understand how this blogging thing is suppose to be so great at keeping connected. You'll be able to let everyone know what you are up too. Sure if you were good at it in the first place, yes blogging saves time. If you are like me, I would love to stay in better touch with my friends, but you know the older I get, the more I am just glad to have made it through the day. However, I have always been told I am a little extroverted, so I am going to try to keep all the fans of Team Ernst aware of what is going on.

Well we have moved into the new house, and we are so thankful for this place. That's me on our deck by the grill. We love our new addition to the yard. Some friends of our had to move to Oklahoma City and weren't going to be able to take there swing set so we bought it. Then one Sunday my father, and buddy Jeff dissembled this thing into enough pieces so we could move it. Once unloaded, we realized this is a two day job. So finally my father came and helped me finish the swing set. I can tell you one thing in this world for sure. Nothing makes me happier in the world than when I can make my son smile.

At our community group the other night, we were discussing gifts and if we could have everything we wanted would we still want. I have come to believe that getting or receiving everything we want isn't a good thing. Don't believe, when was the last time you went to an all you can eat, and didn't leave feeling like your head was going to pop off, or at least the buttons on your pants. No, well maybe that is just me. Still having spent the better part of a month of days off to build this swing set. One smile is worth it all. He still is grasping the concept that he gets to play on it everyday.

So life is starting to get settle, that is until the new baby comes. Next Time "being with child"

Easter The bunny and those darn Cadberry eggs

I'll admit it, I love Cadberry Cream Eggs. My wife gave me this addiction, and every year we look forward to the time when those eggs pop up in the grocery store. There must be at least a thousand calories in each one of those things, but I can't help it I love them.

I still can't understand how a celebration of the Resurrection has anything to do with eggs, or how eggs come from a bunny, still I do love them. While enjoying an egg last night it got me to thinking how we as a society can distort and modify anything to it what we want it to be.

As we approach the days when we will have to explain why eggs come from a bunny during Easter to our son, I thought how am I going to explain what Easter means to my son. As I pondered these thoughts and how in my infinite wisdom I would be able to explain this concept to my son. I thought was does it really mean to me.

In this day and age if you claim to be a Christian, you open yourself up to almost immediate stereotyping. I work in an environment with a lot of non-believers, for those that don't know I am the manager of a large wine store in Joplin MO. Even though I consider myself to be a believer, many people doubt this because of the work that I do. And that is my point, I remember in grade school going to UM Kids, and Mrs Betty King held up a piece of white paper with one little dot in the center of the page. She asked a simple question, What do you see? Of course we all said a dot, and then she explain the parable of the splinter in our brothers eye and the log in ours. It always stuck with me, judge not and you will not be judged.

So what do eggs and bunnies have to do with anything. Well I came to the conclusion that the only way people will know the truth about all this stuff is to live a life worthy of the sacrifice that Jesus made for all of us. Can you imagine if we all have a sacrificial faith? What if we lived our lives like we had a debt to pay back to someone. A debt so large that it would take a lifetime to repay. Everyday we would have to go out into the world and make payments. Never to be able to even to get close to paying off the debt. Well that is how I see my faith and my life. I am indebted to Christ to live a life worthy of his sacrifice for me.

So when that days comes to explain all of this to Beau, I hope and pray that he will understand that eggs don't come from bunnies, and Easter is not about chocolate eggs. And by my example he will understand that Easter is about Sacrifice and that we will forever be in debt to live a life worthy of the greatest sacrifice of all.

To a new begining

Its been almost two years since we moved our new family to Northwest Arkansas, and now its time for more change. My wife Sarah and I were truly brought together by God, since we'd never find each other by ourselves. Which was proven by the fact we lived less than a block away from each other for more than a year, and never met. Heck, I wasn't even smart enough to meet her the first time her friend tried to introduce her to me. Thank goodness God has always been able to work through my short comings. After the arrival of our first child we decided to move our family to Arkansas to honor our commitment to have Sarah stay home to raise our budding family.

Since moving back to Arkansas things have been a little tough, but not as tough if we'd have stayed in Colorado. The position I left was dissolved less than two months after I left, and the housing market started to stall, but we were able to sell our house right as the market peaked. Although it has been a challenge find a job, and find a house we both liked, God has blessed our faithfulness to follow His direction.


Well now for more change, we are happy to announce God has blessed us with a new baby on the way. Lord only knows how were are going to manage with a new baby, but to make things even more interesting we are finally about ready to purchase a new home. We never seem to do things the easy way, but with God we always seem to make it through.


The first time we moved we both had just taken new jobs, and to top it off found out we were pregnant with our first son Beau. This time we decided just to move and have another baby. Lord willing in October we will invite our second child into this world.

Well I've always heard Blogging is a chance to write down your random thoughts down for the world to read, and I have plenty of them, so hopefully I will be able to keep up with this and keep the world informed of all the wonderful things God is doing with TEAM ERNST phil 4:13