Here Comes Grant!

Grant Charles Walton was born Saturday 10/17/09 at 6am sharp. He was 8lbs. 5oz. at birth, as well as 20 1/2 inches long.

Continue to check facebook and our blog for more updates. We just got home from the hospital Monday at about noon.

Praise the Lord for a healthy baby with no complications during childbirth! We cannot thank the Lord enough for this as well as a rather complication free pregnancy. Please pray for us as we are learning how to be parents. Pray that God would give us wisdom and patience beyond our years as well as supernatural energy to keep up with this little one. Amanda had a lot of contractions since Wednesday leading up to the birth on Saturday morning so we both have not gotten a lot of rest before he came.

Check out the top image on how Grant and Amanda looked alike at birth! It is kind of crazy how similar they look!

Post Orlando, No Baby Yet!

Grant, when are you coming? We have asked him this many times in the last few days. We are disappointed every time he doesn't answer us. We have tried to continue our lives as much as usual but at the same time, we have to be as ready for him to come when its time. As Amanda likes to say: Eviction Day is coming!

We got back from Orlando last weekend and had a great time. We got to visit with a lot of friends, but since we were only there for a few days, we did not see everyone we wished we could have, but thats how it goes. We had an extremely refreshing time in Orlando. It has really helped us and built our faith in many ways. We were encouraged by many friends, Amanda had a good shower our church OGC put on for us, and we got to hang out with Brett and Nicole Bradley. They are raising support to be in Salerno, also.

This past week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we met on Skype with our team in Salerno for a few hours. We got to develop a bunch of our vision, goals, and focus for this school year coming up. Its so good for us to be in these meetings and get to contribute.

Also this past week at Cru at USF, I got to talk about Storing Up Treasures in Heaven from Matthew 6:19-24. I was not sure how it was going to turn out, but it turned out well as God's word was preached and I got to be his vessel.