"Fine, let's have some kids."

Where to begin... Shiloh and I met on a church retreat with Bel Air Pres. In fact, the above photo is from that retreat! We were both students at UCLA. After dating for 1 1/2 years we got engaged on the San Clemente Pier.


After dating for 2 1/2 years we got married in Danville.


We settled in San Mateo as Shiloh got a job as the Youth Pastor for Western Hills Church. We knew we wanted kids (2-4) and we knew we wanted to wait a bit (3-5 years) until we had them. Shiloh was definitely more eager than I was to start a family. Primarily because I am so spiritual. I mean, primarily beacause I am so selfish. As the 3 year mark approached, I was not "ready." I enjoyed our kidless life and the luxuries it afforded us. We were able to easily sneak away for the weekend, which we did about every 6 months. The main reason I was not "ready" for kids yet, because I wanted to save up some more money. Okay, let's be honest here, I wanted hardwood floors. Nope, not kidding. Wish I was because looking back I can see how completely lame that is. We had mauve linoleum in the kitchen and I wanted that dated, cheap, worthless flooring gone. I KNEW if we had kids I would never get my hardwood floors... or anything else for that matter. I would be staying home and all monies would be inhaled by children. Shiloh finally caught on that my excuses were pretty invalid, selfish, unrealistic and dumb. I finally caught on that... well nothing. I caught on to nothing. God just worked on my heart and I finally said, "Fine. Let's have some kids."