Couples Retreat

Couples Retreat was a blast! It was nice to get away for a couples of nights and be in the mountains with friends. 

It was nice to have nothing to do except to enjoy Kyle and the other people on the trip. 

I greatly loved listening to the couples talk, ask questions, encourage one another, and of course laugh.

 

One of our new leaders shared with us.. I can't put the whole sermon on here, but let me tell you, it was good!

 

When I got home I read Glenda Hotton's new blog post. I am so blessed by this woman! Although I can't sit down to tea with her on Tuesday morning like I used to, or sneak into her office for a quick chat (which always turned into her gently and lovingly exhorting me) I can still read her "musings". Click HERE to see her newest post and website. 

 

Enjoy your husbands today!

 

My Imagination

Over the Summer I have been working... mostly alone... at a school.

I have a wonderful imagination, which has turned into my greatest enemy.

When the air conditioning turns on and it rattles the ceiling, I think of a ninja coming in through the roof to attach me.. then my mind wanders to ninjas and I don't come back to reality for awhile.

When random cars park in front of the building that is CLOSED for the summer (except to parents turning in paperwork) and stay for a long time and the driver never gets out of the car, I think of someone in the CIA doing recon work. Why they are doing recon work on me, I don't know, but they are, and they probably want to attack me when I walk to my car. 

When I hear doors creak I know it's because the homeless man who has been sleeping in the back classroom is trying to sneak out without me noticing. I notice.

Facts: 

-I have screamed 3 times for no reason while at work this summer because my imagination has gotten the better of me

-When a mom startled me by walking around the corner when I wasn't expecting it I put my hands up, because of course she had a gun and was going to hold up the school for..... textbooks?

-I am starting to question any dream I've ever had of being a brave person

- I walk on tip-toe through the halls, because even though I'm 6'6'' I'm not noticeable if I'm tip-toeing 

Well I really need to work now.. If you don't hear from me you know it will be because I died of an over-active imagination.

3rd times a charm

This morning I locked myself out of my apartment for the 3rd time since we've lived in Temecula. 

I was pretty frantic. I had over slept my alarm, I was almost late for work, and I barely had time to brush my teeth.

As I was running to my car I realized I didn't have my keys.....

I called the "after-office hours" number and waited for George to come and rescue me. 

In the mean time I did my hair and make-up in the reflection of the club house windows. 

George came!

I told him not to worry, we were moving and he wouldn't have to let me into my apartment ever again.... he wasn't convinced. There are still plenty more days in a month. 

As I drove to work I decided to call Kyle and tell him what happened. This was his response:

"Third times a charm babe, what were you wearing this time?"

I may have once locked myself out with ONLY a small robe on. I had to sneak through the backdoor of the club house and hide until they were done with an appointment, then say "psst" until someone came and found me. Then we sneaked back to the apartment and I was safe.

Kyle told me that he wouldn't be all that surprised if he had to get me from jail one day, for being inappropriately clothed in public. 

NOT much of a ringing endorsement, but Kyle did say he doesn't think I would ever do something like that intentionally .... that kinda helps I guess.

life these days

I think that Kyle and I have been doing something every night for the past 2 weeks. 

It's been a blast. For the most part we are with people from church, especially fellow high school staffers. 

We recently had a staff meeting where our pastor came and shared with us some wisdom on how to best serve our students, what our goals should be, and his prayer for us. 

Here are a couple of questions and answers we discussed:

When working with students consider the 3 W's:

-Want to

-Willing

-Worship

Romans 6:17 "But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed."

Additional Wisdom:

-Be gracious

-Protect Families & Students with your speech

- Depend on the Lord!

-Be Genuine

-Communicate with parents

-Be above reproach 

-Keep your commitments

Pray Pray Pray!

*We are looking for students to glorify God and be gospel focused, not for moral conformity!

It is such a blessing to have a pastor that encourages our ministry and gives us wisdom and prayer!

Sewing Machine

I was talking to a friend of mine and told her how much I want a sewing machine...

She looked at me and said: "do you want mine"

YES!

It's on lone, but she doesn't sew, so I don't have a deadline to give it back by.. which means.... I get to sew sew sew to my hearts content!

I've already started pinning some things I want to try

Home

Well I got home yesterday afternoon.. It was hard to leave Idaho, but I missed Kyle so much! It was wonderful to see him. He picked me up in the middle of his work day, so I had to travel around San Diego with him, but I loved it. It was nice to just be sitting next to him.

I also missed our church family! We went to youth group last night. What a blast! Our church has been a blessing beyond words! It was fun to see my small group girls and talk with the other staffers.

I will post some pictures from my trip soon. I wish I had taken more (isn't that what I always say?) I am now starting the countdown until my mom and little sister come to visit in about a month!

Idaho Update/ Abigail guest blogger (age 9)

I have enjoyed my time in Idaho immensely! I could stay for another month if Kyle was here with me. I made a little "bucket list" of things I wanted to do while I was home; I think I've accomplished everything on it. 

Right now I am in an apron with my little sister next to me (eagerly waiting to guest blog). We have spent the morning making homemade strawberry jam and jumping on the trampoline... doesn't get much better than that!

Without further ado... here is Abigail

Hello everyone we are re-modeling our play room so all the toys are out; and we are also going through old pictures, and when you add that we spent part of the morning making strawberry jam you get a messy home.But that is okay because we can always clean it up.I am so glad that Bekki has come to visit us here

in Idaho, we have just been hanging out and having family time. My friend Sam who lives across the street has been over a few times and has helped us with Elijah and Vanessa and Amelia my two nieces and nephew.Witch brings me back to what have we done all week.So on Thursday Bekki came and we ate a 

family dinner and on Friday day we went over to Jessicas house and Bekki spent some time with Grandma.

 On Friday night we hung out and Becky went to a movie with some friends. Saturday was the day we had a lot of family time and on Sunday we had church and after we went to get frozen yogurt and then my sister Jessica came over for a sister movie night.On Monday we had family time and my friend Sam came over to play and help with the kids.Who knows what we will do for the rest of Bekkis vacation but I am sure we will have fun. Thank you all for reading this. Have a nice day and a great summer. Goodbye.

(As you can tell, lots of family time.. which has been WONDERFUL!)