Judah the Allstar Soccer Player!

Judah mightily kicks the ball back into play

Saturday held a crazy amount of activities for us and it all started with Judah's first soccer game! I was so happy to have the saturday off so i could make it to at least one of his games. He is such a natural! Saturday was freakishly cold and windy with little sun after weekdays of temps in the 80's! the poor kids were so cold! they had so much fun tho.

aggressively going after the ball

dont get in Judah's way!

It was such an awesome time! go here to see more pictures and here for video!!!

He has this cute stance and fast feet movement when he's getting ready to go after the ball.

Cruise

Tania and I got back Sunday afternoon from our cruise. We had an amazing time!! We got to just relax and have such a great time, but we also got to try out a lot of new things that we have never tried before. We ate like 7 meals a day which included room service every night :) Watched the different performances that the cruise put on every night. We tried Bingo for the first time and won on our first game! Learned a country line dance. Played some slots... I lost ten bucks, Tania won a few bucks. That's just a tad bit, but I don't want this to go on too long.  Hopefully Tania will blog a bit later on this week!

Here's a pic of the boat while docked in the Bahama's.

New ink, surprise picture paper, and time...

So today after working what seemed like forever at fernhill, I picked up ink for our printer so I could print some doccuments for our cruise next week. When I get home I discover I get 50 4x6 picture paper for free with the black color duo I got! Since I haven't gotten any wedding pics developed I decided to print a few. Thinking it would be a poor quality job I started with one an to my surprise it was better quality then when I get it developed at the store! Then I went crazy and I only have ten left!
Since I had free time tonight I decided to finally use my new desk from IKEA that has been sitting for months. I wiped out my scrapbooking supplies and the wedding theme stuff Kari got me last Christmas. I had fun! I had to keep the pages simpler than I like BC I need more pics in different sizes and I was getting impatient! But you can see what it looks like before an after I'm done! It took me a half an hour to choose what photo I wanted to use for the cover then didn't even attention to start the page! I'm too tired going to bed! Only two more days of tech support then I start my new job!!!! Yay!

My Vegetable Garden

I am so happy to see the awesome start to our new vegetable garden its been 3 weeks everything has started to sprout with the exception of the bell peppers...



Next week I will be tilling the spot in the backyard where I will be planting. I decided to go with a 6 inch raised box garden 3'x6'. Kevin offered to cut the wood boards for me that we found as scrap at the Fernhill house. I simply cannot wait!

Happy Easter!

He has Risen! Thank you God for giving us your son who died for our sins and we celebrate also our risen savior! This morning Kevin and I had our own praise service this morning as unfortunately our church has decided to no longer exist. It came as a shock since it seemed we were preparing for a rebirth as a group but I suppose God had something else in mind. We are going to start visiting churches next week and pray that God lead us to the place where we can fit well and use our gifts in the ministry, I know i would love to do Missions and we both would love to lead youth as well. Your prayers for the Lords direction would be appreciated.
Later in the afternoon we went to Aunt Judy and Uncle Rich's house for a barbecue! It was a blast filled with adult children Easter egg hunt, amazing food, and a mean game of badmitten! Oh yes and there is pictures- visit Nette's blog for those! The food was amazing, kat made a pasta salad and strawberry shortcake, uncle Rich cooked the burgers and dogs, Aunt Judy had her famous mac and cheese, and i brought a veggie pizza. YUM!
Judah got to hunt for eggs that us older kids hid... he did a great job and uncle Tom was his competition! he had a good time. Then Judah and Aunt Judy hid the eggs for us older ones! we even lined up in the kitchen youngest to oldest like old times and dashed out the door, Nette of course won bc she was out the door first(:P) we had a fun time and when we finished we gave Judah back his eggs.
Then For the crazy game of badmitten, we all had the trash talk going on and all equally playing pitifully, Aunt Judy got the motion shots of us as we played to capture the more "dazzling" poses as we stumbled toward the birdie!
Later on we played 4 square in the back which was more copetative then i remember bc people were starting to get nasty! lol
We had an awesome day but missed mom and Josiah it was not the same without them...

Home & Garden Show

Kevin went into work early today so he would get off early and we could have a date night! He picked me up and went to chick-fil-a for dinner yum! Then we went to the annual home and garden show at the Expo. It was fun to see all the plants and trees that were a part of the displays and it really felt like spring in there. I got lots of ideas for the pond i want...! Kevin hinted at buying a robot lawn mower that cut the grass all by itself but I said we would have to wait on that one!

Kevin in front of one of the displays

We stopped at one vendor and bought seed packets to start our vegetable garden this spring and tulip bulbs to plant in the front beds. I simply cant wait to start! This is my first time so im reading up on it a bit online and have to find the right spot in the yard so Maya doesn't make a mess of it. The garden so far will have roma and "bigboy" tomatoes, beans, cucumber, broccoli, lettuce,carrots, and bell peppers! we also have a friend who is going to help us can some of the vegetables this fall.

I also couldn't resist these cute turtles to compliment the garden

Im hoping to post every Friday since that is my day off so check back!

P.S. Be in prayer on Tuesday for me, I have an interview with a different department within Verizon that should give me better hours and less stress too! I hope it goes well!

we have renters!!!

Well Kevin and i have found ourselves spending every spare moment now at the Fernhill house because (praise God!) we have a couple who want to rent our house at the end of April!!!! We really like them, they used to go to our church when Kevin was a teen and they understand we are learning the whole property management thing and are excited to see us succeed. They are expecting to rent for a year or two depending on if God calls them to another ministry sooner than later. They are about mom and dads age and super nice! Yay God for finding us a great first tennant!
I am spending my days off over there painting mostly and then take home a box of stuff to try to clean it out a bit. Kevin bless his heart goes there after work every night for an hour or so and half the day on saturday and spends the rest of the time taking care of the legal stuff too and also trying to keep up with repairs at our house (ie. our tub drain got clogged and then pipe busted and he fixed it all before guests arrived!) i am ever greatfull and amazed at all he can do! needless to say we are ready to finish the Fernhill project! Thank you for all the prayers and keep them coming!!
Kevin and i enjoyed our weekend we had friends Jimmie and Lauren from out of town visit and spend the night. They brought there little girl who is nearly 1 and walking! She is such a cutie! we had a good time talking and catching up. then saturday we went to Lisa and Stephens house and had dinner and played games. They are expecting their first baby girl in 4 weeks so i had fun picking out fun girl outfits and stuffed animals that i brought since i missed her shower. They are so excited!
Since all of our friends are having or had thier first baby Kevin and i poke at the idea of growing our family but we are enjoying each other and will get our baby fix from our friends for now.

Hope you all are doing well! im off to bed!!