Can you believe that it's almost May & I have thought about sitting down and writing a bit most of the past month...but I seem to keep getting distracted by the kids (which is a good distraction!).
But we have been pretty busy for the past month. Ryan & I had the opportunity to travel up to Redmond, WA for the
NW Ministry Conference. This was an AWESOME time to meet with youth pators, parents & youth themselves to share with them about the opportunities through Teen Missions. Ryan was even given the opportunity to share at two different times about the bennifits of short term missions. He really enjoyed this opportunity. We anticipate that he will probably do more presenting at other upcoming conferences. We were also excited to bring Abby with us to this conference. It was her first conference where she stayed with me through the whole conference & I think she did really well. It wasn't until the last 3 hrs that she told us she was DONE!!
This is us, with Abby, at the NW Ministry Conference.
On the family life side of things, Ryan is driving to Nevada City, CA today to look for a location for his office. We are probably going to be transfered down there (about 4 1/2 hrs away) in the middle of May. Because of the Stimulus Package there are more Federal construction jobs (actually more jobs than they have empolyees to manage them) so we will be heading out again to a new location. We are actually very excited about this transfer for many reasons. Including, we will be closer to our Church family in Mariposa (only 4 hrs away), much closer to "the big city" of Sacramento (about an hour away) and I will have more opportunities to get involved in activities with Micah (i.e. Swimming, play grounds & preschool). Please pray for us as we head down there as a family on Thursday to look for a residence.
In the relm of future promotions activities our whole family is headed to the Bay Area for the
California Christian Home Educators' conference. This is my 3rd year in attendance & we often have a great turnout from families interested in getting involved in short term missions.
here's some family memories from the last month:
Abby is getting closer & closer to rolling over every day. She already has two teeth, but is not too interested in eating solids :-)
We had our family's (the Johnson's) Annual Motorcycle trip in Stonyford, CA. Micah had a blast hanging out with his cousins & uncles. It was hard to get him off the bikes!! This is him & his cousin Ella:
