Leonard Log: 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Friday, May 21, 2010

Singing Happy Birthday on stage at the Hard Rock Cafe!

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Hey! I'm back! We have been very busy with Dave's job and I have been busy trying to keep up with stuff around the house and running the little errands for Dave to keep him focused on his job. The ministry is great! I find it so much easier to catch up with everybody on Facebook. I'm sorry that I am a slacker here. I have pictures to be downloaded off of the camera, but I haven't had time. I barely have time to brush my teeth :) I have been having several bad hair days because of this craziness. So, I'll make this short and sweet. We are still alive and loving Jesus....just busy. I'm off to finish up the cake the General's Wife ordered for tomorrow. (I have another dragon cake order coming up later this month). Many blessings from the Leonards!

Monday, May 03, 2010

Air Force Chief of Chaplains

The AF Chief of Chaplains joined us for the launch of the Emerging Worship Service. What a delight to have him here. I am very impressed with is humble spirit. I'm honored to have his as our leader!

Along with the launch of a new service (similar to a church plant in the civilian world) Dave has led the rennovation of the Single Airmen's Center (Lighthouse) and is the POC for the National Prayer Luncheon. Those of you in the AF chaplain world know that these three things in one week is A LOT of work for one guy! Let's not mention that he was on call too! Way to make us proud, Dave!

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Family Photos

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Baptism

Cynthia and Me

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

First nap with BaBa

Birth Certificate

Oscar the Grouch

Monday, March 22, 2010

buzz

This morning a year ago, we were headed out to Nate's orphanage to go pick him up. This weekend, Nate received his Oregon birth certificate with his new name! We celebrated with friends and a Buzz cake denoting his name change!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Dragon Cake

Thursday, February 18, 2010

49:365

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

48:365

You seeing a theme here? Nate wants to be just like his daddy at all times!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

47:365

Nate got a new carseat for Dave's car. He wasn't able to ride in it when we installed it and Dave promised him a ride later. Well, later didn't come on the same day. So when Dave was getting ready to leave for work, Nate was adimately telling Dave something. Dave asked me what he was saying. Nate was telling him that he was ready to ride in Daddy's car in his new carseat!! Dave kept his word and took him to work. I had to follow behind and pick him up :)

Monday, February 15, 2010

46:365

No photo today. Dave had the day off and so did our babysitter (Kenzie). So we took advantage and celebrated Valentine's Day with a movie (Dear John), dinner (California Pizza Kitchen) a walk on the beach and a massage!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

45:365

Friday, February 12, 2010

44:365

Fun at Cheyenne's birthday party on the beach!

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The big boy bed allows for a little mischief before nap without mommy knowing about it :)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

42:365

Lots of Valentine's Day cookies!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

41:365

Look!!! A Big Boy Bed!!!! Sniff Sniff :)

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

40:365

Sunday, February 07, 2010

36:365

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

34:365

This is my life as a mom of a 3 year old! I put my purse down on the table after grocery shopping with Nate and it just caught me funny that there were GI Joe boots sticking out of the top with his 50 cal :)

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

33:365

32:365

Not a great photo, but there will be more opportunities soon. Kenzie had her first game!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

31:365

Guam seal...I felt that I should do a cake for Dave's return. I did last time. I didn't want to do the work and make the mess. Last minute I decided that I had to. Well, I didn't end up finishing it in time for his welcome home luncheon at the chapel. I was going to take it to another function on Tuesday and when I checked it on Monday it was too dry! I had to make another for the function and we ate part and threw the rest out.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

30:365

I scored some good mommy points! Miranda and I made cookies for her school bake sale. Their mascot happens to be the dolphins!

Friday, January 29, 2010

29:365

Finally got a little beach time! I didn't go the whole time Dave was gone. It's not too relaxing to take a 3 year old to the beach by yourself :)

Reasons to Adopt

If you were to go to Jerusalem and to climb the mount of olives you would find a mosque captured by Salidin in 1187. It was a church before that where it was believed that Jesus ascended into heaven leaving his last footprints on this earth. Many of us would question the validity of this claim, however, Jesus no doubt left mighty big footprints while he was on this earth. They are felt and experienced every day in every corner of the world. His legacy is one that is far reaching and touches every strata of income, every race, gender and color.

Luke 10:25-37 (NRSV)
25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
woman lay dying on a Calcutta pavement. Her feet were half eaten away by rats and ants. She had been lying there for days and no one had taken any notice of her.
Then a nun came along. She was a tiny woman, dressed in a white sari which hung loosely about her and covered her head. She walked quickly, for she was always in a hurry. Her name was Mother Teresa.
When she saw the woman on the pavement she stopped. Full of pity, she picked her up and carried her into a nearby hospital for treatment. They told her there that the woman was too ill and poor to bother about. Besides, they had no room. Mother Teresa pleaded with them, but they said there was nothing they could do for her. However, she would not leave her patient, and set off for another hospital. But it was in vain. The woman died.
This was not the only person Mother Teresa found dying on the streets. There were many of them. There was an old man who was so thin he looked like a child. It was pouring with rain when Mother Teresa found him lying dead under a tree in a mess of sickness and blood. He was outside a hospital but no one had taken him in.
I think the world today is upside-down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other; there is no time to enjoy each other. If we could only bring back into our lives the life that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph lived in Nazareth, if we could make our homes another Nazareth, I think that peace and joy would reign in the world.

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat" - Mother Teresa"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired" - Mother Teresa

And thereafter, she got engrossed with the task of serving the poor and sick people of Calcutta. The coming years witnessed the setting up of a charity organization called the Missionaries of Charity. In 1950, her source of concern was the care of lepers, the people discarded by society.Missionary of Charity opened its branches in almost every country to assist the poor, elderly, blind and people suffering from deadly disease like AIDS. For the bright future of children, she opened up schools. In 1979, she was awarded with Nobel Prize for the services that she had rendered to the society.

32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
On U2's last tour in 2005, which sold out more than 100 arenas worldwide, Bono gave his fans what they wanted to hear. For two hours, he belted out songs from the band's new album and sang old classics.
He also gave his fans what he wanted them to hear.
He took the opportunity to reach and inform roughly 20,000 people a night about his other job, of trying to eradicate poverty and slow the spread of AIDS in Africa. Through the band's music and his own words, Bono dedicated a portion of the show to bring attention to DATA, the organization he co-founded with Bobby Shriver and Jamie Drummond in 2002.
Bono went on to become a high-profile champion of Africa, as an artist, diplomat, lobbyist and negotiator. His eloquence, celebrity and Irish "moxie" enabled him to confront the rich and powerful from a mountain top in Davos to the General Assembly of the UN, from an outhouse in the bush of an impoverished African country to The White House and Congress, not to mention the stage of his sold out concerts and on every TV network. He has pushed, persuaded, cajoled, charmed and maneuvered the likes of Bill Gates. George Bush, and even Jesse Helms, to support debt relief and the fight against AIDS. He is a passionate campaigner. No one can say no to him
Bono was awarded the Liberty Medal on Thursday for his global work with DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) during a ceremony held on the front lawn of the National Constitution Center.

33 But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity.

34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.’

BRIGHTON, Iowa - If you sometimes get the feeling kids today only care about themselves, then maybe you should take a road trip to Brighton, Iowa, where a few nights each month dozens of children, heck, even teenagers, roll up their sleeves, don hair nets and go to work making meals for for hungry children thousands of miles away.
"It's changing them on the inside," says Don Fields. "Every one of these kids will want to come back and do this again."
Don Fields launched this operation two years ago, after a mission trip with his wife to Honduras. It's part of a national Christian program called Kids Against Hunger.
The Iowa kids have shipped container-loads of meals to places like Guatemala, Romania and Ethiopia.
"It helps them so they won't die," says 7-year-old volunteer Noah.
"I like doing it," adds 15-year-old Brianna. "It's really fun to know you are making a difference in the world."
And they are making a difference. To date, the kids have sent some 200,000 specially formulated meals overseas. Nationwide, Kids Against Hunger has prepared and shipped nearly 30 million meals.

36 Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”
37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Karen Daniels, a 31-year-old nurse from British Columbia who heard God calling her to minister through her medical skills in wartorn Sudan, where temperatures often reach 115 degrees and the only "bathrooms" are pit latrines dug in the ground.
Marianne Morton, who donated a kidney to a neighbor she barely knew, a Jewish man who was being kept alive only through daily dialysis

Projected number of orphans worldwide will reach 44 million by 2010

AIDS is taking lives in Sub-Saharan Africa, swallowing families, communities, hopes. So far 17 million have died. At least 25 million may follow. An intimate look at a modern curse.

Number of Christians 2.1 billiion

What can one person Do? What would God have me do?

He is a newborn baby in a third world country. He lives in a room filled with crying babies that no one picks up and no one cradles. He is fed just enough to live, changed on rare occasion. He will most likely never crawl, never play with his own toy, and never be spoken to one to one by an adult. He doesn’t know what it feels like to be full or what its like to be loved.

I don’t know his birth name-but he’s my son. He’s one of my footprints and that is what God has called me to do. What will God speak into your life? Where will he send you? What will be the difference that you make in this world?

Who then is your neighbor? Your neighbor is the person that you see who needs something that they can’t do for themselves. Your neighbor may not know the name of Jesus, the love of God or the feeling of being full.

What can one person do? It was one person who elevated the condition of the poor in India. It was one person who ended slavery in England after a lifetime of fighting it. It was one person who taught children to read on Sundays so that they wouldn’t be destined to lives of mining coal. It was one person who shared Jesus with you and changed your life.

What will you one person, do with one life to leave your footprints on this world before you go?
What is God speaking to your heart? Obey, dream big dreams, take chances, and don’t give up. God is faithful. God gave you the desires of his heart. God designed you for his purposes and you will never be satisfied until you are living the dream that God birthed within you and equipped you to do. Go now and make a difference.