A few updates...

So many things going on!!!

I met with the Communications Pastor from church yesterday about helping out and volunteering on the Communications team. I am so excited to get more involved!!! It was great sharing thoughts and ideas, and I am very much looking forward to spending more time with her and the team! It just further confirmed my desire to be able to "work" at church! I think those people are so blessed to get to spend all day, every day in such an awesome place.... I aspire to get there myself, one day! Also...as far as connections go, I'm also meeting with another one of the Pastors from church on Monday to talk about a new "project." I am anxious to know what it is, but again...very excited to get more involved!

I am being baptized on Sunday at the 9:30am service! This is going to be such an amazing and refreshing experience for me! A wonderful woman that I have quickly grown close to at the church will be baptizing me, and I am super excited that she is going to share in this with me! I am being baptized again as a symbol of renewal...a "fresh start" in this journey with Jesus Christ!

My grandfather has been through quite a series of tests and appointments this week, and they have decided that radiation is the best course of action for him to fight the prostate cancer. They think that it will be the least invasive, and take the smallest toll on him of all the options. We know it's not going to be a cakewalk, but it's the lesser of the three evils. He meets with the radiologist next Wednesday to go over the course of treatment (8 weeks worth), and we will go from there. We will be talking with my parents on Sunday when we go to visit about how we are all going to make it work. Who's going to handle what responsibilities when Grandpa is weak and unable to keep their household running. It's times like this when I don't like being an only child!!!

I know many of you are aware of the struggles we've been having with Addyson over the past year and a half or so. Well, after just a few counseling sessions, I am happy to report that we have decided not to go back. We have been doing much better...we've even had 2 time outs this week that DIDN'T result in a fit. WOW.... miracles really DO happen! (I don't think the changes we've been making in ourselves has hurt, either!) :)

That's about it for now.... I'll keep you posted!

Oh!!! I almost forgot! We signed Addyson up for her very first VBS!


I'll set you as a seal upon my heart, as a seal upon my arm. For there is love that is as strong as death...jealousy demanding as the grave. And many waters cannot quench this love. You won't relent until you have it all. My heart is yours. Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me, until you I are one. --Misty Edwards "You Won't Relent"