Category: Personal News

We found out in our most recent doc­tor’s vis­it that Paula is bear­ing a girl.

Woohoo!

Paula and I won’t be dis­cussing any baby names with any­one else until we intro­duce Baby Davis to the world.

Still, we are think­ing about it.

That’s why namestatistics.com is so cool.

Inci­den­tal­ly, my name is the 188th most pop­u­lar name in Amer­i­ca, and Paula is the 95th most pop­u­lar.

We just signed a lease on a new apart­ment! We’ll be mov­ing this month–I’ll update our con­tact infor­ma­tion soon.

For now, you can see some pho­tos we took of the new pad.

It’s a great place–3 bed­rooms, 2 bath, nice patio, and a fire­place! The best part is that the rent is the same as what we’re pay­ing now. Woohoo!

Today Paula and I stopped by the doc­tor’s office for a rou­tine check­up and got to hear Baby Davis’ hear­beat.

That was cool.

This is just a crazy state. The guber­na­to­r­i­al recall is in full swing, Jesse Jack­son showed up on the Stan­ford cam­pus today to denounce one of our bal­lot ini­tia­tives, and I just read an eye-open­ing arti­cle about the cost-of-liv­ing in the Bay Area.

Don’t get me wrong, I love this place.

It’s still crazy.

So Paula and I were dri­ving through Men­lo Park today (the town just north of Stan­ford) when we saw a house for rent. We decid­ed to call just to check on the price.

$9,500 a month.

It bog­gles my mind–whoever rents that house will wind up pay­ing $114,000 a year ON RENT!

Back in Lou­siana our min­istry BOUGHT a house and a six-unit apart­ment com­plex for almost $25,000 less.

Some­how, I was able to refrain from laugh­ing out loud on the phone.

Today Paula and I are print­ing up a batch of newslet­ters and this after­noon we leave for the Dis­trict Min­is­ters’ Renew­al in Mon­terey (we’re look­ing for­ward to that), on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day we’ll be doing some work at the Des­ti­na­tion: Cam­pus con­fer­ence (we’re look­ing for­ward to that), on Sun­day we’re speak­ing at a church in San Jose (we’re look­ing for­ward to that).

And last night I learned that one of our stu­den­t’s room­mates is involved in a cult and is try­ing to recruit peo­ple and we have to help her deal with it (we’re not look­ing for­ward to that).

If any­one ever invites you to be a part of the Inter­na­tion­al Church of Christ (as opposed to the Church of Christ, which is a legit­i­mate Chris­t­ian denom­i­na­tion), please run.

That is all.

It’s been a while since I’ve post­ed. Sor­ry!

We went to Pasade­na to vis­it Bri­an and Court­ney and had a great time. We’re going to miss those guys when they move back to Mis­souri.

We also got to vis­it Sad­dle­back­’s col­lege min­istry and I got to meet the direc­tor, Mike. That was nice.

In any event, I think most peo­ple who read this are more inter­est­ed in the devel­op­ment of Baby Davis. We’ve start­ed putting some pho­tos in our gallery.

Paula is feel­ing fine. She gets tired more fre­quent­ly and food isn’t quite as tasty to her as it was. Over­all, though, she’s pret­ty much the same.

We had our sec­ond ultra­sound recent­ly and had a chance to see the baby wig­gle like a cat­ter­pil­lar and got to observe the heart­beat. Pret­ty cool.

I’m in Man­te­ca, CA right now. The hotel we checked into last night fea­tures free broad­band access from each room! I love liv­ing in Cal­i­for­nia…

We’re in Man­te­ca because we went to Tahoe yes­ter­day to do an on-site inspec­tion of a poten­tial con­fer­ence facil­i­ty for our dis­trict win­ter retreat. It went well, and I think we’ll wind up hav­ing it there. We won’t make a firm deci­sion until we get hard prices, how­ev­er.

We’re cur­rent­ly bound for Pasade­na to vis­it Bri­an and Court­ney Jacob­son, friends and alum­ni from our min­istry back in Mis­souri. We’ll spend the hol­i­day week­end with them, and we’re quite excit­ed about it!

Also, we’re going to get a chance to vis­it Crave, Sad­dle­back Church’s col­lege min­istry. I’ve been want­i­ng to vis­it them for a while, and this is my big chance! We’ll actu­al­ly be there tonight.

Any­way, I’m sure glad that our hotel has net access. At home our con­nec­tion has been down since last week­end, so I was feel­ing email deprived.

I haven’t updat­ed since our last announce­ment because we were del­uged with near­ly 150 emails con­grat­u­lat­ing us on our repro­duc­tive prowess (or words to that effect). Thanks for all the love!

Peo­ple are won­der­ing about names.

So far, we’re think­ing of Gray Davis, Mavis Davis, April Fools Davis (say it out loud slow­ly), Raina Davis (like the last one, only less obvi­ous), and Dave Davis.

Also, we’re think­ing about fun­ny ini­tials: it’s not too hard to find names that spell out GOD, DUD, DED, or SAD.

For the humor-impaired, I would like to clear­ly state that these are, of course, all face­tious.

We have no names in mind, nor do we have a gen­der pref­er­ence.

If you think of any fun­ny names please do let us know!