Happenings

Well, this week has been a rough one. I am adjusting better without my dog. I do miss him very much. I am working through it.

So, yesterday (Thursday) Ben & I went to Jacob's back to school night. It is still just hard to believe that my son is in Jr. High. We had the chance to quickly meet his teachers. We had about 8 minutes in the class and then 3 minutes to get to the next class. We enjoyed meeting his social studies teacher. He is funny. I think that is one of Jacob's favorite classes. All of his teacher seemed to be nice. Jacob made it a point to tell me that I had to meet his friends mom. He told me which classes to look for her in. He talked to her earlier in the day and she told him to have me find her and that it should be easy because she was probably the one Asian in the class. Jacob thought that was funny. By the way, she was not the only one, which I knew she wouldn't be. I got the nerve up in the last class. She was really nice and I believe she is a stay at home mom too. I told her we should have coffee sometime. That is me trying to step out a little. Now I just have to work up the nerve to call her and invite her to coffee. That is the tough part. I am glad to see Jacob making friends so quickly and being excited about it. He really wants his friend to come over which is why it was so important that I meet his friends mom. Well, hopefully we will have is friend over soon.

Our weekend plans are looking good. There is a balloon festival that is about 10 minutes from our house that I think we will be going to. I remember when we lived in Albuquerque they had a balloon festival every October. But believe it or not we never made it to it. How sad is that. So, we decided that we are going to this one. I think we will go to some of the activities that are happening during the day and then go to the balloon launching at night. I think that will be really neat to see. I will be having my camera ready. Heidi and Dalin are going to be coming along with us. We always have fun together. Then on Sunday we are going to try a new church. After church we have a great opportunity to go help a family from Ben's work. Ben got an email at work asking for help. The story is that this guy that works at the same company as Ben got sick and rushed to the hospital. He has leukemia. He has been in hospital for 2 months. In order for him to be able to come home from hospital his house has to be sterilized, outside and inside. His wife as MS, so is not able to do it by herself. I am actually very excited to help with this. We are going to take the kids with us. What a great opportunity to share Christ's love. Is this not what God has called us to do? I look forward to see what God will do with all of it. I love the chance we get to work with others in this. I am really excited that my kids are helping too. I believe that it will be a lot of fun. To think of cleaning as fun, yeah when you are doing it for Christ. It is the least we can do after all He has done for us.

We knew God was going to use us and this is just the beginning. I look forward to what else God has for us to do for Him. We know we are here because that is where He has called us to be. That is an awesome place to be, in God's will. I pray we will always be in His will. I will keep you up on how things work out with our weekend.