Well, let’s see if I can catch you up to where we are now.
A couple wedding shots:
This is a cute one of Greg, sort of hammin’ it up.
I don’t know where he get’s it from….
After leaving the wedding, we of course went on our HONEYMOON!!!! We had a pretty fun time…..
Our first stop was Aiken, SC. A nice place, and we stayed at the “Hotel Aiken.” It is an old hotel, built in 1898. It has been a hotel ever since it was built. If you look carefully you can see the “Just Married” poster in the back window. (It stayed there the whole trip.)
The top picture was taken way back in the day, while the bottom picture is from the same position only modern day. (If you can call that old married man in the picture “modern.”) 
Also, while we were there, we rode the oldest working elevator in South Carolina! (And considering all the elevators they have in that state, that’s saying something. Whew!) 
It actually was kind of neat.
Next we made our way to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. We stay in a cozy cottage for two, which had a view from the back porch that was great. This was our view at sunrise:
While there we took a hike up a very deserted trail (we saw a grand total of three people and one dog on the whole trail) to the top of one of the peaks. At the top of the rocks we had a beautiful 360 degree view. (Though, personally, I’d rather look at Anna.) 
These are some of the pictures we took.
This one looks like it could be on the cover of a magazine! Anna took it.
And remember that special picture of Anna I promised? Well, here she is in a special outfit she has not worn for many years. PANTS!!!!
Those of you that know Anna know how rare this really is. She usually does not wear pants, but she has worn split skirts and other things like that for certain activities. The jeans come out only when she would have worn a split skirt. She took great care to find a modest pair, and I appreciate that. But any way, there you have it. The rarest picture in the world next to a picture of bigfoot in pants. (I’ve heard he doesn’t like the modern styles.) 
On to other things – We also visited the “Luray Caverns” while we were there. That was fun, though the pictures did not do it justice, and the tour guide was amazingly….ah…..corny! But he did seem like he knew his stuff.
After Virginia, we went to Chicago for Jared and Katie’s wedding. I’ll post pictures from their wedding (maybe) some other time, but here are some shots from that leg of the journey:
We went ice skating at Millennium Park. That’s the big “Bean”. Rather remarkable really. Anna had not been ice skating out doors since she was a little girl in Germany.
I LOVE THESE PICTURES!!!! 
*sigh*
We had a security guy take our picture. It was a wonderful day in down town.
I also took Anna to see THE most beautiful and ornate McDonald’s I have ever seen, either in real life or in pictures. It’s actually a nice place to eat. All McDonald’s should be this way.
Let’s see what was next…..
Well, you’ll have to wait because we need to go eat and stuff. Maybe we’ll finish this post later….
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NO_TheOtherMatt
LOVE IT JAROD!!!!!! Thanks for all the effort to put the pictures up. Keep ’em coming!!!
Matt
twoBlondes_andaBrunette
*whistle… pretty lady*
Love the pictures! Anna looks especially good now that she’s a Hinton….
Looks like you guys had a great time…of course!! ;o)
-us 5 girls
Momma_JD
Hey Jarod & Anna: Wonderful pictures for a wonderful time of your lives! Perhaps it’s because I’ve been a Florida girl all my life and am not familiar with much wildlife outside of the Sunshine State, but how in the world did you get a picture of a flying moose?!?!? I’ve heard of flying pigs before but. . . . Please clue in my conservationally-challenged brain! Love, Mrs. D
Praying2Him
She is so pretty!!!! Love the pictures!!! Please post more!…or get Anna to update her blog = )
Greg is so CUTE!! He does look like he’d be a big ham, but like you said, I wonder where he gets it from! = )
PreacherBoy80
The flying moose came by just because he heard we were in town. He’s much nicer than the flying pig that we ran into.
It was part of a cute wind chime that hung on that balcony.
LLroomtempJ
nice pictures!
that’s one NICE looking mcdonalds!!!
was the menu the same? Did they have fancy napkins? ketchup dispensers? cups? was there a wait staff?
joshine
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing pictures Jarod.
angiearmour
To all the others, I will add my thanks here for the pictures! I really enjoyed all of them!
trufflequeen
AWww!! You guys are too cute! Thanks for posting! Keep it coming!
maryellenhuff
It was SO great to have you guys here for a couple of days, we were all so glad you took the time and effort to make the trip and we THOROUGHLY enjoyed getting to know Mrs. Hinton. Come back anytime…and in the meantime keep on bloggin!
Lellybabe
*GASP* Anna….in….pants…..I….haven’t…seen…that….since…we…were…children!!!!!;)
Havlik
Thanks for sharing, you two!
-Tim & Marilyn
LLroomtempJ
THIS IS A LOOOOOOOONG RESPONSE TO YOUR COMMENT.
jrod,
thanks for your feedback on the sermon. I really appreciate it.
yes, my dad was the person commenting. He recorded the sermon using a digital voice recorder that I got him for christmas. He wasn’t mindful of the fact that he would come through loud and clear during the recording.
Eating meat sacrificed to idols was addressed during the council at jerusalem in acts. Paul also addresses it in Romans. When all passages are taken in context:
acts is saying: don’t continue in those pagan practices
romans: Though pagan practices are done unto false Gods, don’t eat meat sacrificed to false Gods if it causes your brother to stumble
revelation: You have some people in your church you are still holding to pagan practices. They are worshipping false Gods. They need to repent.
at least that is my take on those texts.
compromise would be defined as not taking God at his word. Kinda like “I know the bible says this, but i’m going to do this other thing anyway”. It’s the omission of diligence from our act of glorifying God with our lives. That omission can lead to a seared conscience.
I will certainly take your advice into consideration (for future sermons) and welcome all the advice that you can give. I certainly struggled with phrasing my questions as I was putting the whole sermon together. I REALLY didn’t want to come off as “holier than thou”.
I just prayed that no one walked away with the impression that christians don’t sin. I remember making a point about accountability and discussing struggles with sin. My ultimate goal was to let people know how much of an offense sin is against God. I recently heard someone put it soooo well. When taking the time to prepare my next sermon (when ideas come to mind during study, i write skeletons in word and save them…but i’ve yet to flesh any of them out), i’ll probably address that issue head on.
The organ at the end was part of the invitation. At my church i can’t remember an invitation to christ that has been silent. I would attribute that to culture…it kinda plays on emotionalism to a certain extent…but there are certain things that i accept on the basis of cultural upbringing and not biblical mandates. As long as the culture doesn’t disagree with scripture.
I haven’t had any formal training on how to prepare a sermon, HOWEVER, i’ve been under really solid teaching for the past 9 months at a Calvary Chapel in maryland. Their distinctive is line upon line expository teaching. Whatever semblance of a style that I have has certainly come from my pastor down here (down for me, up for you) in maryland. This is my first time being in a church that has teaching like this.
ALSO- i’m trying to figure out which seminary i’d like to go to. I’m pretty sure that I want to go somewhere in the north since i miss new york city so much. The only issue is that the north is full of so much heresy that i’m very nervous about this decision. I see myself enrolling in the fall of 2008.
humility? I’m the most humble person i know!!! 😀 But seriously, since that came to mind, please agree with me in prayer the God would continually keep me humble and continually remind me that everything is about him.