Cleaning Party 'n Pizza

This past semester, I've enjoyed being involved with a young ladies Bible study. We used the Inductive Bible Study method - focused on the book of Jonah.

Our service project for the final night was cleaning the house of a family with three small children ages 3, 1, and 6 weeks. The mother's Birthday was Saturday - we sent them out on a

date. Between the 7 girls we watched the kids and cleaned for 2 hours.

Adam (3 yrs old) enjoyed vaccuming himself. Erin enjoyed holding baby Issac.

We found a large spider while cleaning that we killed with a video case (JFYI - that picture was NOT posed of Bethany freaking out!)

Pictured to the right is the Bible study leader of the group....Ok, let me explain! Her job was to knock down the cobwebs (!) and she took it seriously.

Below: We had a Pizza party after wards! Yum!!! The girls are incredible and it was tons of fun to get to know them and study together.

Just the girls

Yesterday morning, my sister Anna drove down from NE. Most of the day we babysat 4 little girls (Condra family). We had a blast. As seen in the picture, they tested out my brand NEW sidewalk chalk on our patio. We read books, had a picnic, braided hair, etc.

He is RISEN!

Happy Easter!
We spent the day in Lindsborg, KS with extended family and friends. After lunch and the Easter Egg Candy hunt (a tradition that Aunt Shirley ensures will happen each year) for the kids we attended the Messiah put on by Bethany College. We had plenty of time for fun and games and visiting.

Also, pictured below are the snow covered tulips at Grma Frantz' house. The storm that came through just prior to Easter left 5 inches of snow atop the flowers.

Allyn playing Skittles with Noah and Lanie.

Emily helping Riley pick up her candy after the Candy Hunt.

Scrapbook'n

Last week, while on the final leg of recovering from a bad cold (that was the kind that lasted 4 weeks!) I enjoyed scrapbooking NCHEA 06. It was a ton of fun. A couple weeks ago, I had met with a Creative Memory Consultant and asked her a bunch of questions - how to's. etc. Anna Weddle got me onto power layouts (shown in the picture - LOL - it covered our living room for 2 days!!!). After picking up stuff at Hobby Lobby during the 1/2 price Scrapbooking sale - I was anxious to start. Next, I'd like to do our dating/engagement album and then our wedding. I enjoy not only the memories, but also it really has makes me stop in awe at God's faithfulness through every season of life.