Splendor

Mikey and I had such a great time on our cruise! We had a couple days at sea, where we just laid out by the pool and read. The other days we got off the ship and went on some adventures. We loved Cabo and Puerta Vallerta. Hopefully sometime we will be able to go back to those places. Some of the books we read were: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Crazy Love, and Heaven is for Real, A Different Side of Me. I would recommend to anyone that if you haven't read Heaven is for Real, go and get it now! It is an amazing story of a four year old boy.

Motivation

I am just about to finish my school year. I now have my CLEAR California Credential. No more BTSA! Mikey is just about to finish his school year ! (2 days) I created a collage for him to look at while he studies.....but he seems to study best outside the house. June is going to be WONDERFUL!!!!!

Medical School Update

Well Mikey is just about finished with his second year of medical school. He has been studying like crazy for all his finals. In a little under a month he will take Step 1 of the medical boards. During his break from school (1 week) we will be taking a small cruise to Mexico! (the same ship that caught on fire last year.....we got a good deal :) ) He starts his third year on June 13th with a six week rotation in Psychiatrics. The Lord has certainly been blessing Mikey in his studies and giving him the strength to finish the year well.

Keep your head in the game!!!

Why Do You Look For The Living Among The Dead? He is not here....

HE HAS RISEN!!

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday. My dad preached a great sermon and we had a beautiful worship service. After church we went home to an amazing Easter meal, cooked by my mom, of course!

God knew what he was doing.....

NIV Version

²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[a] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

The Message Version

^26-28Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

^29-30God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

Summer Time and the Living is Easy

Well that is not really the case here.....but Mikey did start the BBQ last weekend....and it reached 95 degrees INSIDE our apartment!! I love hot weather!!!!

Balloons and Streamers

I look really excited here...Mikey decorated our house!!

More excitement! An explosive ice cream pie!!!

Great Family Birthday dinner!!

(missing...Jonathan, Lesley, Baby Girl, Matthew)

Another year gone by....

Highlights of my 25th year....

Living on Taylor street with great neighbors (hi Katie!)

Boarding a plane to Africa on our one year wedding anniversary!!

Running around Paris with Mikey

Mexico trip with the family

Girls Bible Study

Leading Jr. with Mikey

Living close to my Parents

Christmas in Colorado

Tennessee St. Apartment (love it!)

Driving to Arizona with Suite C

Seeing Katelyn and Lisa

Spending time with Sister Sarah

Being married to Mikey