Beautiful Weather!

The weather has been beautiful this week. It is a very nice change of pace. We have been playing outside daily; basketball and frisbee with the dog. We went to park day and actually enjoyed sitting outside without freezing. We have been filling our days lately with friends, reading, games, science, computer games, basketball, and of course being outside. Isaac is playing 8 and under basketball and have won 3 tournament games so far. They played thursday night against a team they lost to in the season but beat them in the tournament. Hopefully they will win saturday at
11:00. If they win they play at 12:30 for the championship. Isaac has improved greatly this year. We are proud of him.

Last saturday we had 2 basketball games, Russ singing at the Seneca street ministry, and going to Della Ventura's for dinner for my mothers birthday party. We said goodbye to our good friends from Point to Hope ministries. Rose and Mary went home to Augusta, Ute went home to Ohio, and Nancy went home to Alaska. We have enjoyed our time in ministry with them and look forward to August when they will be back in the area. It was a very good and busy day.

Valentine's Day was Russ and my 24th wedding anniversary. We celebrated on Sunday just hanging out together. We went for a drive in the afternoon and found a beautiful river at the end of a very long road. It was a perfect day!

Chemistry and Basketball!

We had a great time last thursday with friends mixing chemicals! How could you not have fun mixing chemicals. Six boys, 3 moms, and about 12 household chemicals. We all had a ball experiencing the reactions of different things. The biggest hit was the cabbage juice indicator that you put in the different concoctions to see which colors they changed to.

Isaac and Cade have really enjoyed basketball this year. They both have improved a lot since the season started.

Following Blindly!

Russ and I went to an incredible conference this weekend in Augusta, GA. The conference was put together by Point to Hope Ministries. It was titled "The Year of Great Faith"! Russ spoke for one of the workshops and sang the special music each evening. The most incredible part about the whole weekend was God speaking directly and specifically to Russ and myself. But the message is for everyone! The main thing God tried to get across to us is that He loves us! He chooses us! And He has a great plan for us! He only asks for two things in return. One, that we love Him more than we love ourselves. And two, that we obey Him. Whatever He asks of us, we need to do it! Also, God is not going to give us the big picture right now. He is only leading us one step at a time and He wants to see if we are going to obey Him day in and day out in the big things and the little things. So here we go! One step at a time, one day at a time, one obedient act at a time, following blindly a God who would rather die for us than live without us!
http://pointtohope.org/

Snow!

Best snow I have seen since the eighties!