Bethany's Blog

Christmas and Anniversary

2008-12-25T14:57:00.012-07:00

Check out this sunset!

This Christmas was definitely a different one. It was good though. It actually was overcast instead of sunny which was nice. Christmas Eve we went to Old Town Albuquerque. It's a lot like Santa Fe with all the little shops and whatnot.

All the luminarias. These are huge out here. I don't think I'd ever really heard of them before. Everyone puts them out for Christmas Even.

A church where there was a live nativity scene.

The friaris singing. They were reading the Christmas story as it happened. For example, they read about the Wise men and then sang We Three Kings. There aren't any pictures of the nativity because it was too crowded to see much.

Matt and I with his mom, sister Faith and her husband Kourtney.

This tree was huge...except it actually isn't a tree. It's a bunch of trees put together to make one!

Christmas morning!

Then yesterday was Matt and I's 2nd Anniversary!
We took a train to Santa Fe.
The Lady of Guadalupe church (I think there's supposed to be an "Our" before Lady but whatever). Personally, I think it's kind of creepy. I don't know the story behind her, but the guy coming from the ground, pulling up her dress...what's up with that? Also, in front of her, where you can't see, they had a tiny statue of Jesus on the cross. Hmm......

Another church, probably with 'St.' or 'Our' at the beginning of the name, but I can't remember. It's really nice though!
And this is what is inside that mysterious named church: The Mysterious Staircase. It has no middle beam or any sort of support to it. Apparently the "sisters" back in the day needed a staircase that wouldn't take up room for seating. So they prayed. Then some carpenter showed up and built this. I guess architects can't really figure it out. It sure is pretty!
Then we went to this River of Lights back in Albuquerque. Since we didn't get a picture of the train we rode, I figured this would work.

Fall continues...

2008-11-20T12:41:00.004-07:00

Let's do some comparing...

My backyard November 16, 2005.
Crystal Falls, MI

My backyard November 21, 2008.
Albuquerque, NM

I'll tell ya what, I could really get used to the warm weather here! This week it's been in the upper 60's and lower 70's. Nice. Today is a bit cooler. And this summer was hot. But I love fall, and fall has lasted for like forever here! It's great.
For sure a brown Thanksgiving for us! I know you're jealous Mom. But I do wish we were home with family for Thanksgiving! I think we're going to be going some friends house. It'll be good.

Carlsbad Caverns and Mexico Mission Trip

2008-09-27T13:22:00.000-06:00

Last week Matt's mom came out to visit. We weren't able to do too much because we were all so busy. But we were able to go to Carlsbad Caverns!

These pictures totally don't do it justice. It was pretty much impossible to get a good picture in there. It's a huge cave and just really amazing.

These are called like the Giants because well, they're HUGE!The fam with one of those giant thing behind us.See the drop?One of the few that are actually still growing. If you look close you can see that it's wet.

These are called a lions tail. Can you guess why?This is just to show how huge the cave is (and this is just one part!). See the people?

uh....

So then this past weekend was our first mission trip to Jaurez, Mexico. It was an awesome trip. I went to Jaurez on my first mission trip with Teen Mania when I was 12 so it was cool to go back, even though I don't remember much. We stayed at a compound of a church there. It was suprisingly really nice. I didn't get any real good shots of it, but both the church and the compound stand out because they're nice and painted real bright colors.

Our van on the way down.

The view from the balacony.The ever faithful watchdog. This is the diningroom area in the compound.

All the ladies.

Saturday morning we split up into smaller groups. My group painted a school, Matt's group mixed and poured cement for someone in the church's shower, and other groups tarred a roof and did some electrical work.

The kids came over and wanted to help, so we put em to work!

This little girl was so cute. She was going and talking to everyone and then she made a heart on the sidewalk next to me.

This seemed to be pretty normal....

The whole gang at the church.

Saturday evening the church was having a futball (soccer) and volleyball tournament. So we went and played and just hung out with the kids. It was really awesome. This is my team.

Matt playing futball. Of course all us Americans pale in comparison to those Mexicans at this game.

Ben's fan club.

The church. It was a really neat building.

This is from the balcony of the church overlooking the volleyball court and soccer field.

Amanda, Lilee and I. Lilee was the coolest girl. She didn't speak English but it was awesome just trying to talk to her. She is 20 and is in college for biology and wants to do something in genetics. I was amazed! She is a Christian and sings for the worship team at the church too. At one point she was asking us girls if we had boyfriends and then we asked her and she said no but she wanted one and then she poiinted up and said something along the lines of "God knows." I was so encouraged just fellowshipping with believers of another country. It's stilly, but I realize now that I didn't view them as the same as us, but they are! Joking around with her and stuff it really humbled and made me realize that we're really all just children of God. And that's neat.

Some of us girls with Lilee and Lube.

Then Sunday morning for church service we helped out. I helped out in the nursery. This little boy got mad at us for not letting him leave. Isn't he cute!

By Sunday afternoon, this is what we all looked like!

And a beautiful New mexico sunset.

Also, Matt and I found out that he can speak Spanish! He can't like speak fluently at all, but enough to get by that's for sure! By the end of Saturday night people were calling him over to help them understand what someone was saying! And the crazy thing is he only took one year his freshman year and got like a D in the class. Guess he's just good at it or something, or maybe it was the Lord. :-D Either way it was awesome, cause like I said, I dont' think he even realized he could speak it that well. The last kids we talked to Saturday night were these two emo girls (Yeah! they have emo girls in Mexico! I was amazed at least) and one of their boyfriends. they were sitting there listening to screamo music, and they even could say screamo when Matt asked about what bands they like (Underoath being one of them!) It was just awesome talking to them. The guy when asked if he goes to church there he said "No, I just listen to music." Does that sound familiar? To me it does, and as I said, it really was a lesson on how there really is very little if any difference between the youth down there and up here.

School of Ministry

2008-09-02T16:26:00.005-06:00

I am determined to post a blog on here that is not simply pictures. Here I go.

School has started. Woot! It's been great so far. A bit overwhelming at first. We were given homework in every class the first day of class. That's probably normal, but I wouldn't know.
My favorite class of course is the one taught by my bro-in-law Kourtney. ;-)

The week before last, we went on a retreat at Lone Tree Ranch (and boy was it that!). It was totally out in the middle of nowhere. But it was beautiful! Basically it was a time for all of us to get to know each other. Everyone in our class is great. There is only one other married couple, we expected more. They're actually younger than us too! Which of course, seems to never be the case.

I'm really looking forward to this year. I know it's a great opportunity and I hope I take advantage of it! It will be a challenge to not let it all just become "schoolwork." I want to see God work through it and grow and go deeper! I'm praying that will be the case, for Matt and I.

The whole gang.

p.s. I did end up having an interview at the church's bookstore last week. I haven't heard anything yet, so pray!!

Skate

2008-08-09T22:17:00.005-06:00

Today at the skate park we had some pro skaters come out and the band Oh Sleeper. First there was a skate competition. There are quite a few lil' skaters that are pretty good, and some older ones too I guess. But to spare you having to look at them all one by one, here's a collage.

One of the kids that is pretty young, and obviously fairly good!
This is Josh Harmoney, the pro skater.Josh gave a message. Let me tell you, this guy is on fire for the Lord. We got to have dinner with him the night before and he was like, so fired up. It was really encouraging and convicting at the same time.
Oh Sleeper...not sleeping.
Kourtney got really into the band. See his shoe?
Matt hard at "work" at the skate park.
Matt skatin while the band played.

Matt and Josh.
Dude, that's gotta be heavy! (and I don't mean the baby!)

Colorado

2008-07-29T20:58:00.000-06:00

This past thursday was Matt's birthday and Faith had some time off. So we went to Colorado. Matt has family in Denver that I had never met, including his Grandpa.

This is on the way up, still in NM. Yeah, hot.
Matt's Grandpa took us into the mountains where he lived for a time. This is the view from his cabin, until it burned down.A storm was a brewin.The men. Grandpa Rossi, Kourtney and Matt.Then the guys decided to climb up the hill. Including Matt's Grandpa! And it was no easy climb. Faith and I then decided to join.Well worth the climb!It was raining the whole time...in case you can't tell.Very large rock, and me.

Red Rocks. We couldn't go into the ampitheatre, there was a wedding or something going on.This is Frisco, CO. 9 miles from Breckenridge. Matt and I spent the next day in the mountains. It was amazing. The town is the the right. A lot of these pictures are similar, but it's so hard to choose! It was a really neat little town. It even had a disc golf course! So we had to play.And what better place to play than here? Wow!
Breckenridge, CO
Uhhh....not sure about him. Very strange. He was like, hopping along the street.

Casa Bonita restaurant in Denver. It is a very crazy restaurant.
Sunday we all went on a bike ride from the Sanderlin's (that's Matt's fam) home to downtown Denver. Like 20 miles!
For the heck of it, from L to R: Conner, Kourtney, Matt, Bethany, Faith, Grandpa Rossi, Terri, Bruce, Kara, Colleen.

More ABQ photos!

2008-07-21T15:26:00.000-06:00

Our home!

Living room. Dining room is to the top right.Dining room. Kitchen to the right.
Kitchen. Door leads to garage.Hallway to bedrooms and bathroom.Us in our bedroom.
Our backyard, with trees and grass! That is pretty exciting, seriously.A roadrunner in our backyard! It didn't say "beep beep" Bummer.
The cafe and bookstore at the church.

The baptismal.

The baptismal to the right and the amphitheater to the left. The cafe and bookstore are off in the back on the right.

The skatepark.

Sunday in the Park, everyone enjoying the band The Glorious Unseen.

Albuquerque!

2008-07-18T10:49:00.000-06:00

It was a long drive, but we made it!

It really wasn't the prettiest drive. Texas was the worst by far. But at the edge of Texas beginning of NM, it got real pretty. And then it got flat and deserty again.
There are a LOT of pictures. Just a forewarning.

Here we are in IN. You can't tell how packed our car was, but trust me, it was jam packed.

Oklahoma.

It was Matt, not me!So this is kinda strange. It's some Cadillac's sticking up out of the ground in TX. there were a lot of windmill farms. Mostly though, they weren't moving. These ones were, but the next like 3 farms we saw, not a one of the windmills were moving. haOh yes, red dirt!Welcome to New Mexico!This is what made the drive so long!the first view of mountains!

Ok so Faith and Kourtney took us up on the mountain last night. This is the east side. The west side is Albuquerque.

We could see it raining in places and then lightening in the very far distance. It was really cool.

Pictures don't do it justice. It was so awesome.

Otherwise, it is very hot here. It's more humid than normal cuz we're in monsoon season. But it still isn't as humid as Indiana (hallelujah!) It's amazing what being 5,000' above sea level can do. the sun is SO bright. I feel like the clouds are so much closer!

see what I mean?

I didn't take this picture, though wish I had. But it's cool cuz you can see the mountains from almost anywhere you go here. It's pretty neat.

Next, I'll try to take some pictures of our house and the church.

Cornerstone

2008-07-06T14:46:00.002-06:00

This last week was the Cornerstone Festival. The whole fam was there the whole time. Matt and I went for the day on saturday.
I've always wanted to go. And it is a very cool place. But I guess since being married or something, music is what it used to be to me. So I knew like, hardly any of the bands that were there. And a lot of the ones I did know, played before we got there. It was still a good time and we did get to see one band we really like!

I took this picture of...er...I mean for Josh. For obvious reasons.This is one of many generator stages. This seemed to be on of the bigger ones. The guy with the beard is also playing at one. Basically they were for unsigned bands that were trying to get noticed. All these stages were real close together. Like to the right of this one, was a road, and then another stage. At one point, when there were a bunch of people at this stage (such as in the pic) the band from the other stage was facing this crowd and playing! quite funny. Someone called the generator stage area "Chainsaw alley." haI think this is my favorite picture. Everyone just wants to be noticed!Joel doing what Joel does best.
And Hosanna doing what Hosanna does best: biting her nails and talking! (below)
I think this was Matt and I's favorite show/band (Their name is Luminate). We just walked into this tent and saw them. They're really good. Kinda reminded us of Phil Whickham. And Matt, Hosanna and I at the main stage.Joel with some friends playing some strange foot game. He played it for forever, so apparently it's pretty fun.This is the main stage. The night before was David Crowder. sniff sniff.

This is Hosanna dancing. I missed the real funny part when she was rocking it out, head banging and all.
This is Haste the Day. A band that Matt likes a lot...or at least did.

ha! Only Hosanna.

It was a nice trip to see my fam before we leave. Eight more days!!

Oh and there were some funny shirts there. This was one of Matt and I's favorite.Front

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Hannah's Graduation

2008-05-28T10:46:00.000-06:00

Well she did it! Hannah made it through school and indeed graduated.

This is Hannah watching all of our lovely songs to her. I'm pretty sure she was thrilled...so much so that she showed pretty much everyone, including people at JPUSA. I guess it's worth the humilition to make her happy.

I tried to put just these two pictures together but I couldn't. So this is Hosanna posing for her Grandma, and the other is her posing for me. Can you guess which is which?
Ok I know Mom and Hannah don't look the greatest in this picture, but hey, they're obviously not the important ones now are they? And that person looks just great!
Hannah in her room at JPUSA. I wanted to take more pics but...I didn't.

Madison

2008-05-12T10:08:00.000-06:00

This past weekend Matt and I along with his mother and grandmother, went to Madison, Indiana. A cute little town along the Ohio river. It's a town of only about 12,000 and it's downtown has been kept real historic. There was a movie about it called Madison with Jim Cavizel (Jesus in The Passion). It's a pretty good movie and you see a lot about the town.
anwho...here's some pictures.

An overview look of Madison. Across that bridge of course is Kentucky.

Here is Matt and I at the cave that's in the movie. It actually is a tunnel. We only went a little ways because we didn't have a flashlight and it gets creepy. Ok so this is pretty right? It is 80something feet. Wow. Big drop. Then that night it rained and poured (it was that storm system that brought all those tornado's to Georgia and whatnot). So as we're driving out we decided to take a look at the falls figuring it'd be cool with all the rain.....Wow! What a difference! Very cool.
And here's another big falls. This is why the state park is called "Clifty Falls." This is where we saw some guys from a search party. Turns out there is a 26 year old guy who has been missing for almost two weeks. Terrible! As we were leaving there were a TON of people getting to go ready to search. Sounds like he came to the park a lot. I hope they find him!

Luke Menard-American Idol

2008-04-04T10:28:00.000-06:00

Well as I had mentioned before, Luke Menard who made it to the top 8 guys on Amerian Idol is from Crawfordsville, here where Matt and I live (oh and of course he goes to our church too, when he's in town). The whole time he was on, he was in the paper constantly and there were signs up all around town. Here are some of those signs.

Then this past Thursday, they had a "rally" for Luke at the high school. There were a LO Tof people. More than I thought would even be there. The mayor proclaimed it "Luke Menard Day." Finally at end Luke spoke. He still is under contract so he isn't aloud to sing. Bummer. But they did play his songs that he performed (of course they didn't show what Simon said!). Remember the first song Luke did and he said he did it to show how comfortable he was on stage? Well now I understand better because he really is very comfortable on stage. He was funny and stuff. He said that the producers told him that town Crawfordsville size are the kind that will push you far. And he also said when he was sent some emails of pictures of the signs around town, he kinda poked around at the other contestants to see if their hometowns were doing anything like Crawfordsville was. And nope. None of the others were! So that was pretty cool.

Luke with his wife and some of his family. (He has 65 cousins on ONE side of his family!)
Lukes super cute wife.Luke being swarmed at the end.

So all pretty exciting for this nice small town. Kinda silly, but fun and exciting all the same. I also watch American Idol because of him. I watched it season 3 and 4 and havne't since. But since Luke's been on, I have.

Go David Archuletta! He is so gonna win.

Two family-fun filled weekends

2008-04-02T16:26:00.000-06:00

So here I am again trying to update. It's not always an easy task.

Yes, some of my fam did come down last weekend. It was super great to see them all. Zuri was 3 months older than last time I saw her and 3 months in baby time is a looong time. So it was great to see her and her smile!

See what I mean? Look at that smile!
Everyone enjoyed DDR. Including Hosanna (but I won't put any pics of that in to save time and space!)

Ok so onto this past weekend. Matt's cousin in Arkansas got married. It was a beautiful wedding. I didn't get a picture of it but down the asile were a ton of candles on each side with flower petals sprinkled. There also was a huge canopy over the stage. Very pretty.
Matt and I at the wedding.
Now the big game here was Guitar Hero. Even Matt's Grandma got into it and did really well!Matt's sister Faith (left) and his cousin Amanda. And of course Brayden.

Life

2008-02-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

Since it's been a while since I've updated, and that post actually happened two weeks before I posted it, I figured I'd share a little of our life the past month and a half.

-We went snowboarding with Matt's family from Arkansas
-Worked (I know exciting)
-Decided to move to New Mexico in July
-Bought $200 worth of stuff from CVS for $30
-Volunteer at out church's book store every Saturday
(ok our life isn't very exciting)

Snowboarding was a lot of fun although frustrating at times. I had never really been snowboarding, so at least half of the day was spent on the bunny hill. Thankfully, I have a very patient husband. And now I'm pretty sure I have a very bruised tail-bone due to falling.

I took this because it cracks me up that we were on this snowy hill when all around was totally brown. I guess it's normal for these Hoosier folks, but not for a yooper.
And here's the fam. Plus an extra sista in Christ on the left.

Oh and yes, that is correct. We are moving to New Mexico in July. Basically Kourtney (Matt's sisters husband) is in Albuquerque at the Calvary Chapel's Shepard School there. That is for men who feel called to be a pastor. He talked to us about the School of Ministry that they have there. We prayed about it, and decided that's what we wanna do. So we are saving, and moving in that direction. I believe it is similar to what Uncle Ken went to in Cali....?
Here's the link to the school's page.
So please be praying for us that God will open the doors if this where He wants us.
Kourtney is planning on planting a church in Boulder, CO. We are "planning" on being involved in that after the school of ministry. But that is the future. We want to leave the door open to whatever the Lord may have in store for us.

p.s. For those of you who are American Idol fans (and those of you aren't should become a fan at least for this season) I'm going to tell you who you should vote for. No, you do not have a choice.
Yep. This guy. Luke Menard. Why? Because he is from Crawfordsville! (Yes, that's where we live) He made it to the top 24! So you may begin voting either tuesday or wednesday.

Trip to Marquette

2008-01-14T15:54:00.001-07:00

Well I may be a bit late on posting this, but I wanted to anyway.

We did go to the U.P.
Went to my Dad’s wedding of course and then spent a few days at my Mom’s.
We really didn’t do much while at her place. Just sat around hanging out.

Then on the last night we went bowling, the next day I got to see my favorite wrestler wrestle, and then went tubing. It was a grand ol’ time.

Mom and Joel bowling together.

Look at that stud. Go F.P.! Oops…I mean….

He did a great job even though he lost. Especially since he was wrestling someone like 20lbs heavier than him.

There wasn’t as much snow as in Marquette. Thus, the nasty mud. Those are of course all the ice shanties off in the distance on Lake Michigan.

Hannah and Renae.

Hannah and I. Oh and Renae of course.

Everyone hooking up together.

Matt is afraid.

Here is a video of that event.

Joel and Zach.

The end.

P.S. This took me like a week to post. Sorry. So I know it's already long, but Grace had this on her xanga and I thought it'd be fun to put on here.
This is who I should vote for.

86% Fred Thompson
85% Mitt Romney
77% John McCain
72% Tom Tancredo
69% Mike Huckabee
59% Ron Paul
54% Rudy Giuliani
36% Bill Richardson
32% Joe Biden
27% Hillary Clinton
27% John Edwards
26% Barack Obama
25% Chris Dodd
16% Mike Gravel
13% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

I must say, I'm not surprised at all at these results. Matt would be proud :-)

1st Anniversary

2007-12-30T14:14:00.000-07:00

Christmas went well. It was nice to spend it with Matt’s family.

But now that’s not what I wanted to post about.

One year ago today, I became a wife.

It’s really crazy to think that it’s been that long.

Before we got married, time seemed to drag on…

now it flies by!

I would definitely say it has been the best year of my life.
I completely love being married and can’t imagine not being married.
It does help of course to have the best husband in the world. Seriously.
I am so very thankful and undeserving of the man God gave me.
I’ve heard it said that the first year is the hardest. That has not been true for us at all.
We’ve even been told by people that we are good advocates for marriage!

This year has been one of growth and joy.
And I’m very thankful for the marriage we have.
So happy 1^st Anniversary babe!

I love you more now than I did than and I pray it’ll only continue to grow for the next 50+ years!

An update!

2007-12-03T18:26:00.000-07:00

Hey look I'm updating! Now everyone can stop complaining about having to read about the pastors conference constantly.

Seeing as the only people who read this are family, and family that I was with during Thanksgiving, I thought it kind of silly to post pictures of Thanksgiving. But then I decided, what the heck? So I shall. But first, some of our life before Thanksgiving.

This is Matt's family. Well some of them. The ones that live close. Every year they go to Spring Mill State Park in southern Indiana. So this year, I got to go too.

This is us outside of a very large cave that's there. It was cool, but kinda creepy too.

This is Matt and David, doing what boys do best.And a very exciting game of Risk. Oh boy.

Ok, Thanksgiving.

Hosanna drove with us on the way to Howell. And she decided to make gloves out of her car seat.My Mammy and sisters. And Zuri! (Thanks Aunt Karen)

The Matt's of the "family"...all looking at the other cameras. Aren't they cute in their similar shirts?

The whole family!

Go Trojans! We won the state championship for the first time since 76. Woot.

Matt cheering at the game. Mom rocking Zuri.

Well, that's all I got.
Now it's Christmas time already. We went shopping for Christmas decorations today (I know it's kinda late). This is our first Christmas being married so we really had nothing. I'm excited to get to decorate a tree and all that.
There is snow on the ground here! In one night it snowed 3-4" and that was a record for the snowiest start to December in 11 years. Ha! Wow. I'm hoping I brought the snow from the U.P. down here like Matt brought the lack of snow to the U.P. last year.

This is probably my update for the year. Enjoy.

P.S. Does anyone know how to put a picture in your blog without it going in at the very top of the entry and then having to drag it all the way down to where you want it? That is very annoying to have to do. I can't imagine you should have to do that constantly. If so, xanga is better.

Pastors Conference

2007-10-12T17:10:00.000-06:00

So we made it to the pastors conference! And there was much rejoicing.
I was really glad both Matt and I were able to go, even though he didn't get to stay until the end. It was just good to fellowship with people, mainly my family.

Of course, then there was drama.
When is there NOT drama with my family?
But things are ok now. And I have to agree with Grace that it was really good to see my Dad happy. I don't think I've seen him like that in a couple years.
Oh yeah, he's engaged.
January 1st.

We got to meet Zuri! That was wonderful. She's a cutie that's for sure. My Dad thinks she looks like me, which of course is nice for me, but really, I think she just looks like Grace and since Grace and I look alike, it all blends. Of course, one person while we were there didn't know Grace and I were sisters. But another was like "You guys look sooo much alike." So....ya know.
Pictures!

This is Hosanna. Of course. This is her as we are about to give her our gift. She was very excited about her present, and before even opening it proceeded to tell us all about when she was "two!!" and got all kinds of presents. Very cute.
This of course is her present. She wasn't all that excited about at first and grabbed the bag and looked in it and said "I wanna open the other one." Uhh...there wasn't another one. She got over that quickly when she saw her cup had "Cindewella" on it.
Don't you just love her double chin she makes when smiling?

Hannah and Hosanna playing the wonderful game of carpetball!
This is Zuri! She's even looking at the camera!

So as you can see, we spent a lot of time with Hosanna. I thought we would more with Zuri.(I know, I only have one picture of her on here because our cameras batteries ran out!) But I guess I forgot that she IS a baby and wants her mother often so she can eat and simply, because she wants her mother. Plus, Hosanna is super cute right now, talking like crazy. And Matt really enjoyed her. And I think Hosanna enjoyed him.

2007-09-28T20:13:00.000-06:00

So here I am with a new blog.
Why?
I don't know. But yet, here I am.
I guess I'm sick of xanga and don't talk to anyone on it anyway, so I figured I'd start a blogspot.

I'll start out by doing what the rest of my family has done this week.
This is Zuri-Shaddi. Isn't she cute? Of course she is. She's my neice!
Here's both my neices. Aww! What a wonderful big sister.

Thus, I hate being away from my family. It's always hard, but harder now than before for obvious reasons. When Hosanna was born I was totally there (ok in the waiting room, as there as I could be). And now I'm not even close! It's just sad.

So let's move back to the U.P. right?
Wrong. Or right?
We don't know. We don't know where we're supposed to be except here for now. But "for now" could turn into 3 years! I don't want to be here for three years! But if God doesn't call us somewhere, then what are we to do but stay here?
And while Faith and Kourtney want us to move out wherever they end up (Colorado!), we can't just go because we want to.
I don't know why I think about this all the time, but I do. Probably especially because of wishing I was near my family. Yes.

Anyway...
We are for sure going to the conference! I didn't go last year so I am very excited to go this year. And Matt has never been before (even though he's lived 3 hours away his whole life!). Of course I'm praying that I'll get to see baby Zuri then also.
And who knows? Maybe God will speak.

p.s. anyone know how to customize your own layout? Or to find more than just the few they give you? Even when I try to change colors on my layout it doesn't seem to work.