Happy September!

Feeding June

June has crossed over into the world of real food. You might say, hey, why does this matter or why do I care? Well, you might not, but then again, you are following the life of SuDan, and this is a big part, so read on!

I think it is safe to say that at first, she hated absolutely everything.

Except her super bland rice cereal.

But as I continued to try every day, it got a little better and she liked pears. Then, a few days later, she accepted apples into her new taste palette.

And now she is doing very well with fruits, but does not like vegetables at all. We are really going to have to work on that because fruits lead to sugar and not a healthy diet! So, because carrots and sweet potatoes have been many times rejected, onto peas! We, I mean I am working on it...

Dan, oddly enough, let me in on his opinion of teaching children how to eat and how it just didn't fit into his clean way of life and he thought it was pretty gross. So, he informed me he would not be helping out with this part of June's life. Hmmm... Convenient.....

Italian anyone?

So, for all who don't know- I married myself a full-bred Italian. He had to forgo his dreams of marrying another Italian Catholic to carry on the family blood lines, but he managed somehow and now we have ourselves a little Scottish Italian (with a few other nationalities in there). I don't know if you have met her yet- June? ;)

Anyway, Dan's mom, Cyndy is a fantastic cook - one that I could never hope to emulate, so I don't even try. I let her win all the cooking awards in this family and pass down her excellent Italian cooking genes to Dan, who does most of our cooking. (Usually very happily, but not in this picture...?)

Well, this past week, we were invited to an Italian dinner at a friend's house from high school. A fun chance to re-connect with all my fun high school girl friends and bring an Italian dish. Dan was busy with his new job and so it fell to me- AHH! I immediately called Cyndy, who was going to give me her authentic stromboli recipe, but when we thought about it, we realized that was just a little too much for Suzanne. SO... I made her Italian sausage recipe!

And.... it was a hit!!! It was the appetizer and was all gone before the meal even started- yay! (my friend, Ashley enjoying some scrumptious italian sausage)

So, maybe this little Scottish lady does have some cooking talents up her sleeve, but probably a little more realistic- Dan and Cyndy have rubbed off on me a little. Oh well- I'll take what I can get!

SuDan?

Many people (you know, all our fans...) ask- how did Dan

and Suzanne

become SuDan?.....

Well, sometime I answer: there's Brangelina, Bennifer and CenTex, why not SuDan? Or I go into my interest in the impoverished country that took my much thought aboutwebsite name... But really, it is much more than that. We didn't put a lot of thought into SuDan in the beginning, besides my doodling on my school notebooks waiting for Dan to ask me to marry him, but it has become to mean a lot to our marriage. In fact, it is our marriage.

When Suzanne and Dan became SuDan, the Lord worked an amazing miracle in the both of us.

"And the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one." - Mark 10:8

He gave us the desire to work together and choose to love each other every day. Now, it is a choice we make every single day to continue in, but it is something that we desire to daily achieve. You see, in a manner of speaking, there is no more just Suzanne or just Dan, but instead we are only SuDan. We are one and we are no longer separate. And we are blessed daily because of it. If either of us had ever tried to figure this out on our own, we would be in a pretty big mess, but thankfully, the Lord put it all together for us!

There you have it- the saga of SuDan. If you want to know the full story, you might have to get a verbal. So, I leave you with June. How does she fit into all of this? Well, she's just June, as adorable as ever!

Ok, the move is not THAT bad....

So, the last post was pretty depressing. I am sorry to bore you with my sad details, but hey, this is the SuDan life- good and bad!

Anyway, We are getting adjusted in our little back house in my parents' backyard. It sure does make us realize how little you really need in life. It seems like all the stuff that we hold on to so tightly just weighs us down and when we really release it and live simply, the Lord is able to work so much easier. I guess we have both been learning about what the Lord can do when you push everything aside that the world says you need. You really need none of it and it is up to us to look past that and focus on what really matters- living a life for Him in the midst of so many who can't see past the forest to the trees, so to speak.

If you want to hear more about our new ideas that the Lord is teaching us, you can read about them in these two books that we have been reading:

Crazy Love

Irresistible Revolution

Well, I can't leave you without an adorable little picture of June on her first flight with her Grandad flying. She didn't even blink an eye and fell asleep in our laps! :)

More to come on the new life in Lubbock and what is in store for SuDan, June, Vern, Meuf Te' and poor, displaced, little (or I guess, really big) Zeus-man, who is living with a friend in San Antonio until we find a house here....

We moved??

We moved. And it is not so great. Here is my sweet friend, Laura's blog entry on our move. It will suffice for now, because I am too sad about leaving everyone to write anything.

We got here to Lubbock last night to a fantastic family and house, but Dan and I were sitting on the couch and I thought: Hmmm, today is wednesday. What do we have Wednesday night? Oh wait, nothing. We know no one and all our friends are back home.

So..... here we are. We are just learning to live out His plan and prepare for His next steps in our life.

Here is our last picture in front of 210 Allensworth

Weekend with Asher and Selah

So, the countdown continues- only 7 days till the big move to Lubbock. Its going by so fast!

This past weekend, we had some of our friend's kids stay with us for the weekend- Asher and Selah. They could not have been more well behaved and we had such a fun time! Dan was the greatest playmate...

And I kept the fort down of course with all the planning of when and where to go and what to eat, etc.

Saturday night, we went to Bert and Julia's house and had one last get together with all the moms and babies (and Courtney, who is due any day!)

And June had such fun with her little friends that she is moving away from :(

But we are excited to start this new venture in life and leave the details up to the Lord. Only He can show us the right path to take and the best road to travel down. We work each day at leaving it in His hands, and not trying to take it in our own...