Aileen's extended family keeps quite an active email list going, with family members all around the globe chiming in regularly. At the end of last year, one of her cousins sent out a request to help compile a list of memory verses for the new year.

I do a fair amount of programming for both PBA and BJapan. There's a new web scripting language that I've been wanting to test, so when he sent out the list of verses to everyone, I made my first project with the scripting language a web-base Scripture Memory Calendar. Take a look at it here; any feedback appreciated!

Oh, and even if you're not part of the Seely/Crum/Ogden/Wilson clan, feel free to use the calendar to memorize verses this year :-)

It turns out Aileen has an occasional gripe about me. I Know! Hard to imagine, but true nonetheless. One is that, in spite of being married to a photographer, she has precious few good photographs of her magnum opus. Er, opuses? Opii?

Guilty as charged. Sorry, kids -- your modeling sessions never happened.

But Mom's getting me in shape for when grandkids arrive and the other day set up a shoot with the Owen and Sarah Ames family, to take a few pictures of their newborn, Joshua Owen Ames. The Ames' are working on a new TEAM church planting effort, not too far away from where we live. This is the first step in a plan that will see several new church plants taking place in metro Tokyo. So they're dealing with two 'newborns' at the same time! Now you know what you can pray about this week.

Anyway, Joshua was a champ. Well, sort of. Nap time was right there on his schedule, but did he cooperate? Not really. Every time we took his blanket off, stuck a silly prop on him or tickled him with feathers, he woke up and started crying! And even though he knew we'd taken his diaper off, he still wet the blanket, and, um, er, (how to put this delicately?), soiled his Daddy.

But he was awfully cute. And Aileen and I had a lot of fun.

Not sure he did.

But you can judge for yourself -- his pics are here.