End of March

as it gets closer to the end of March 2015, there are a lot of fun things starting to get rolling. Last weekend Joe and I went to Roseburg to his nephews wedding ( John and Paige Forrester). It is always nice to see all the new little ones in his family.
This weekend is the NW Ministry conference in Seattle. I am going up Friday morning and coming home Saturday night.   Training is always good for me.  I need to learn how to manage my ministry from different people. Then. Next week is Kaytee and Konnors spring break and I promised Kaytee I would take her shopping for her birthday. Then Palm Sunday the children will be doing a walk through in costume and waving palms. Easter Sunday we hold a large egg hunt at the church and then I have all my kids over for dinner, egg hunt and hot tub. I hope to have fish in my pond for Eli to see. Then it's Bellas birthday. I hope to get her a buggy for her dolls. Then things get going for our Grand Prix at Awanas and the Awana store after that. It is a busy time. We do need to get bark dust for our yard and sawdust for the community garden soon too. Busy busy. Joe is busy too. Not much help these days. I'm hireing help. We are having solar panels put in this week and we will be taking down the big fir tree in our back yard. Glad to see that messy tree go.

Gravelle wedding/Montana trip

Wednesday afternoon I boarded the Empire builder for an overnight train trip to Kalispell. I was able to occupy two seats so the trip was fairly comfortable. Not a lot of real sleep but I did rest and listened to all of Acts on my Bible recorder thing. I've been staying at Dads and it's very nice here. Very clean and comfortable except I don't like his driving. I took his pickup and drove to Nunies to see her place. It's very cute and spacious and just right for her.  She is lucky to have Dad for her support group. He helped her find just the perfect place to be by herself and feel safe. The wedding was super simple. The only flowers were her bouquet.  I'm glad I came and met Sarah and Nunies grandsons Braxton and Isaiah.  They are sweet babies and Nunie is a loving Grandma. Patti and Nunies and I hung out today and went to an antique store. Cool stuff there. I'm ready to go home but not looking as forward to the train ride.