the beckinghams: 2009

Sam 3 months!

Here's some photos of little Samantha Kate for those of you who doesn't have facebook :) She grows up so quickly! She has started giggling, smiling, grabbing toys and "talking" a lot! It's so much fun to see all the new things she can do. Being parents is truly a blessing!

Your Love Is Strong : Jon Foreman

Heavenly Father, you always amaze me
Let your kingdom come in my world and in my life
You give me the food I need to live through the day
And forgive me as I forgive the people that wrong me
Lead me far from temptation
Deliver me from the evil one

I look out the window the birds are composing
Not a note is out of tune or out of place
I walk to the meadow and stare at the flowers
Better dressed than any girl on her wedding day

So why should I worry?
Why do I freak out?
God knows what I need
You know what I need

Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
x3

The kingdom of the heavens, is now advancing
Invade my heart, invade this broken town
The kingdom of the heavens, is buried treasure
Would you sell yourself to buy the one you've found?

Two things you told me
That you are strong
And you love me
Yes you love me

Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
x3

Our God in heaven
Hallowed be
Thy name above all names
Your kingdom come
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us today our daily bread
Forgive us weary sinners
Keep us far away from our vices
And deliver us from these prisons

The near miss & JEHOVAH-SABAOTH on Postveien

Yesterday, driving on the way to Kvadrat shopping centre we had a close encounter of the almost crashing kind (including the Heavenly Hosts kind). At first we thought it was just some guy reversing CRAZY FAST from his driveway across both lanes of traffic on a main road. We (Kim, Sam & I) braked just in time, including the car in the oncoming lane. Either the driver was really really small, invisible or not present (turned out to be the latter).

The car rolled down out of a slanted driveway, across the road, up onto the footpath on the other side, hit the wood fence that then bent and almost allowed the car to continue down into someone's backyard/house. However, the fence acted like a slingshot and sent the car flying back across the road for the second time!

I put my HANDBRAKE on as you do, and flicked on my emergency lights jumped out of the car & then proceeded to try and open the driverless car's driver door (in hopes to turn on the HANDBRAKE). The door was locked. So i resorted to pushing on the side of the car to stop it from rolling backwards once again - while thinking, that fence doesn't look like it will stand another blow.

Then I noticed that someone had just opened the door at the culprits house and was poking his head out. I started waving frantically for him to come and help (not sure if any word successfully escaped my mouth, but i thought the situation was extremely obvious) - apparently not so. Culprit did some strange ("get away from my car") gesture, closed the door & went back inside. Did that just happen? What did he think i was doing with his car - stealing it?

The guy in the other car that also almost go hit {let's call him Hero#2 to make it easy} ;-) said, "Hadde han ikke håndbrekket på?" (Did he not have the hand brake on?). Answer - NO. Hero#2 jumped out of his car and helped to push the car further off the road. He grabbed a rock and stuck it under the wheel and then jumped back in his car. Being older & wiser than I, he realized that one rock was enough to stop a car moving. Thanks Hero#2!

I then considered going up to Culprit's house, to have a friendly chat, when i noticed that the traffic had actually started to pile up. So aborting that plan & before jumping back in our car I decided to chuck a couple of extra rocks under the wheels, just to be sure - which apparently put a smile on Hero#2 face :D

Thank you God (JEHOVAH-SABAOTH) for looking after us & for perfect timing. You & your angels rock!

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Announce that baby... :D

Samantha Kate Beckingham

We were blessed with a beautiful little baby girl on the 16th of August 2009. She was born at 20:55, weighed 3070 grams and was 46 cm long.

1 month on... she is healthy, hungry, growing, cute & loves her mummy & daddy :-)

Love from Shane & Kim

photos can be found:
http://bit.ly/eUtUF - http://bit.ly/jtSHV
& http://bit.ly/DV0Qc

Sam already knows what is important...

Pray and worship God! :)

Samantha is here!!!

20.55 we meet our AMAZING little girl!! - RIGHT NOW! -

Under 10 mins. for the last 3 hrs.

HOSPITAL SOON!? Come on little one...

Date;Time;Duration(s);Interval(s);
2009-08-16;12:40;41.41;0.00;
2009-08-16;12:51;147.40;677.40;
2009-08-16;13:04;79.11;735.30;
2009-08-16;13:16;105.80;738.22;
2009-08-16;13:26;48.63;605.83;
2009-08-16;13:34;110.13;507.41;
2009-08-16;13:41;71.58;368.66;
2009-08-16;13:46;92.71;342.45;
2009-08-16;13:56;87.98;562.31;
2009-08-16;14:04;92.58;481.68;
2009-08-16;14:12;68.45;506.31;
2009-08-16;14:20;90.15;450.21;
2009-08-16;14:29;110.39;563.43;
2009-08-16;14:39;105.35;574.97;
2009-08-16;14:47;77.77;509.73;
2009-08-16;14:51;68.26;244.12;
2009-08-16;14:57;96.01;357.96;
2009-08-16;15:02;136.54;310.49;
2009-08-16;15:11;121.86;502.18;
2009-08-16;15:16;117.53;327.43;
2009-08-16;15:22;81.02;351.18;
2009-08-16;15:29;79.64;446.75;
2009-08-16;15:33;101.09;227.13;
2009-08-16;15:40;82.89;420.83;
2009-08-16;15:48;131.56;442.89;
2009-08-16;15:53;73.94;339.61;
2009-08-16;16:00;84.81;404.28;
2009-08-16;16:08;116.85;491.17;
2009-08-16;16:15;154.62;423.64;
2009-08-16;16:23;89.19;469.86;
2009-08-16;16:28;115.62;322.37;
2009-08-16;16:34;98.37;334.40;
2009-08-16;16:40;69.24;339.56;

- RIGHT NOW! -

Not only Braxton Hicks Contractions

Some crew have been wondering if Kim is having Braxton Hicks
Contractions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Braxton_Hicks_contractions . We'll yes she has those too, but check
out the info from just the last 24ish hr (got plenty more where that
came from). and you can see she's got the normal REAL ones too! And
not a whole lot of sleep either. Contractions began on Tuesday and
have been continuous with the only major break for sleep being
Thursday night.

(really long gaps in contractions intervals below are often from not
login them correctly due to sleep or tiredness)

Date;Time;Duration(s);Interval(s);
2009-08-14;20:11;43.88;0.00;
2009-08-14;20:28;72.90;1019.98;
2009-08-14;20:44;52.69;979.93;
2009-08-14;21:17;70.50;1988.86;
2009-08-14;21:32;23.00;919.08;
2009-08-14;22:00;71.43;1647.10;
2009-08-14;22:06;0.86;359.24;
2009-08-14;22:27;38.36;1238.70;
2009-08-14;22:37;44.01;615.69;
2009-08-14;22:56;69.19;1126.85;
2009-08-14;23:10;33.98;865.06;
2009-08-14;23:22;43.96;701.50;
2009-08-14;23:40;69.57;1071.21;
2009-08-14;23:51;63.91;714.92;
2009-08-15;00:09;65.21;1038.52;
2009-08-15;00:16;56.74;440.26;
2009-08-15;00:29;53.35;760.62;
2009-08-15;00:41;63.88;731.62;
2009-08-15;00:51;81.53;599.45;
2009-08-15;01:05;40.42;866.10;
2009-08-15;01:11;30.42;320.34;
2009-08-15;01:16;92.34;343.31;
2009-08-15;01:26;61.83;570.57;
2009-08-15;01:36;53.39;590.21;
2009-08-15;01:51;104.84;931.45;
2009-08-15;01:58;70.92;412.05;
2009-08-15;02:06;61.60;493.96;
2009-08-15;02:21;67.52;857.11;
2009-08-15;02:29;67.83;505.09;
2009-08-15;02:39;93.79;563.99;
2009-08-15;02:49;105.64;596.77;
2009-08-15;02:59;89.02;628.78;
2009-08-15;03:12;61.34;760.57;
2009-08-15;03:21;61.40;559.48;
2009-08-15;04:19;11.73;3476.95;
2009-08-15;04:25;70.85;377.82;
2009-08-15;04:34;59.14;542.35;
2009-08-15;04:41;50.90;427.39;
2009-08-15;04:46;59.46;0.00;
2009-08-15;04:52;73.32;358.78;
2009-08-15;05:02;1.02;567.49;
2009-08-15;05:04;52.15;152.07;
2009-08-15;05:10;47.34;307.88;
2009-08-15;05:15;55.99;302.75;
2009-08-15;05:22;87.42;473.12;
2009-08-15;05:32;27.82;565.99;
2009-08-15;05:39;391.23;438.38;
2009-08-15;05:46;119.34;411.02;
2009-08-15;05:56;38.10;625.54;
2009-08-15;06:02;45.68;337.51;
2009-08-15;06:08;28.37;338.67;
2009-08-15;06:13;56.55;324.99;
2009-08-15;06:20;75.72;397.11;
2009-08-15;06:26;68.25;359.61;
2009-08-15;06:34;73.98;477.03;
2009-08-15;06:40;70.30;406.47;
2009-08-15;06:46;32.31;303.48;
2009-08-15;06:53;80.90;456.75;
2009-08-15;06:57;28.94;230.42;
2009-08-15;07:02;50.62;277.61;
2009-08-15;07:07;66.46;320.02;
2009-08-15;07:13;37.95;381.69;
2009-08-15;07:23;73.74;555.44;
2009-08-15;07:31;56.97;511.67;
2009-08-15;07:40;43.72;512.64;
2009-08-15;07:48;10.14;529.85;
2009-08-15;08:12;23.04;1430.04;
2009-08-15;08:59;30.82;2795.21;
2009-08-15;09:10;36.14;649.04;
2009-08-15;09:31;14.23;1272.75;
2009-08-15;09:40;14.63;540.83;
2009-08-15;10:01;49.52;1237.35;
2009-08-15;10:13;88.03;743.66;
2009-08-15;10:21;83.42;472.69;
2009-08-15;10:30;70.52;539.98;
2009-08-15;10:38;117.10;511.17;
2009-08-15;10:48;90.78;593.82;
2009-08-15;11:08;28.59;1166.75;
2009-08-15;11:15;49.08;453.29;
2009-08-15;11:21;46.04;372.90;
2009-08-15;13:11;88.79;6560.12;

Sleep (hopefully) time

Contractions keep going up and down, so heres Kim trying to get some
sleep with the contraction tracker ipod action not far away.

- RIGHT NOW! -

Just started to enter kim's contractions into this app. Been having
them since Monday night.. But Camille just found us this. Bring on
next phase action :-)