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Pregnancy Walk

Last weekend Jeff and I participated in a walk to support First Choice of Wake Forest. Thanks so some of you Jeff and I raised over $250 total! We participated in this walk with our Sunday School group:


This was a very interesting walk. They had 'obsticales' set up for us to go through. They were obstacles that pregnant women face once they find out they are pregnant. The 'obstical' below was one just for men. They guys in our group had to weave in and out of 81 boxes. There were two men in our group that had double strollers while doing this. It was quite impressive watching them weave with these in their hands!

The point of this was to illustrate the sad statistic below:


We had a lot of fun woalking with some dear friends and learning more about this great organization!


On another topic: About two weeks ago Jeff and I took on the project of staining our deck. Here are the before pictures:



After one night of staining, we ran out of stain! Here is the half-way point:



This weekend Jeff and I finally got around to finishing the project!



I think it looks a lot better! And now our deck is protected from weathering as bad as before! If you can tell from the picture Jeff's parents brought us a round metal table for our deck. We painted it dark brown so it would match the rest of the deck. Thank you so much! We've already got some good use out of it! :)

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