Easter weekend

Just having fun with my camera at the beach

A tree at Kings park

Sorry it's been so long since the last post. We have been very busy lately, unfortunately it hasn't been with anything too exciting. We just had a very busy Easter weekend. The services were amazing. Jeremy put in a lot of work setting up a new stage and preparing for everything. The music was great. Every week the worship seems to get better and better. Over at the children's ministry we forgot it was Easter (oops) and I had to prepare and Easter lesson for the kids in about 1 1/2 days. For the very short amount of prep time I had it actually went very well and a lot of kids showed up. We had an Easter egg hunt and learned about why we celebrate Easter. One of the kids also got baptized on Easter. I think she is only 8 (by far the youngest person I have seen get baptized) and she made the decision all on her own, so we brought the kids over to watch that as well. Since Jer worked so much this week he got two extra days off so we finally got to spend some much needed time together. We made a trip out to Kings Park and walked around the gardens, went to the beach and also made a trip out to the huge IKEA. I was a very good, relaxing long weekend.

We are starting to get very excited about visitors from home coming to visit. My cousin comes in the beginning of May and then Jason Kristin and Landon (Jeremy's brother and his family) come for a week at the end of May. Next my mom is is coming in June and the Jeremys parents and younger brother Jon come in July. We are also a couple friends are coming out twords the end of the year but we aren't sure of exact dates yet. I am very blessed to be able to take a lot of time off while we have visitors so that I can sped as much time as possible with them. I''m sure once people start coming to visit I wont be as homesick and the rest of the year will fly by (at least I'm hoping it will help with the homesickness). I wish we weren't so far away and that everyone could come visit us!

It has been getting much cooler here lately. When we first got here it was always in the high 30's or low 40's. Now it has gone down to the mid 20's which almost feel cold compared to before. When the sun goes down I have to go and put on a sweater and pants. So there isn't much more beach time left before winter!