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Yesterday was my day off and I spent the day with my wonderful family. We went to chadstone and had a great time. Asher loves the shopping centre because he can run in and out of he shops and pull the clothes off the manequins. Also he loves to reorganize the shelves in the supermarket.

Anyway, last night my family decided to go for a walk down to box hill central because we were craving dessert. About 1.5 hrs later( due to the fact my son keeps getting side tracked by something) I decided it’s time to get my master chef credentials. And as the title of my post says, I decided to bake a cake. A chocolate cake to be precise. It tasted ok. I’ve posted a pic so u can let me know what u think;)

I can’t believe Fungus launched for 2010 last week. The summer, i have to admit went by really quickly. As i mentioned last Friday at the launch it’s been a life changing summer as Sonja gave birth to our second child, Mika. For those who don’t know the story of the birth of Mika, we were really blessed with the whole birth of Mika. At around 34 weeks we discovered that Mika was breeched in Sonja’s womb which meant it was unlikely she would have a natural birth like she wanted. And so as the date approached we were praying that things would change and go according to our plan. Our doctor didn’t mind delivering a breeched baby, but the only issue was that he be at the hospital when it all happened. So we had to induce the birth of Mika (i know this all sounds technical – but you’ll understand later in life ) Anyway, Mika was due to be induced on the 28th January, but instead on the 26th January, Sonja started to have some weird pains and she called me at work at around 4pm and by about 7:00pm, Mika had entered the world – naturally! It was stressful for a period there and we were quite anxious, but God’s hand was really evident. Couldn’t ask for much more!

Anyway, as with the title of my blog, this year is flying by again. Each week seems to pass by so quickly. People always ask me, what does a pastor do? You must be so free – but believe me, there’s never enough time in the day. On top of all the Friday and Sunday preparations, there’s always other things that need to be done. This is my 5th year as a pastor, and it’s had it’s fair share of ups and downs. I still remember it wasn’t too long ago Shaun was the most random person in the world. Now he’s like working with me here. Life will never be boring again

I think one of the things God is really challenging me about is taking the time to reflect. I looked at little boy, Asher the other day – and he’s now grown up so fast. He’s walking everywhere. It was only a year ago he was less than half that size. I’m really going to take time out more this year to reflect because otherwise my whole life could pass by so quickly and i wouldn’t even know it. that would be scary.

Thought i’d upload another pic of my beautiful kids I can’t get enough of them!