Category: Personal News

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!

We got back in from D.C. last night, and Paula visited the doctor today. She received confirmation of what we strongly suspected while on the road–she’s preggers!

Based on what we know now (which isn’t a whole lot), the expected delivery date is April 3, 2004.

Personally, I’m hoping she delivers a little early on April 1st (just so that no one believes me when I call them on my cell phone to deliver the good news)… 🙂