Catching Up

I have now been very absent from this blog for the past month or more. The short story is, life has given us quite a lemon and making lemonade is turning out to be a very long, slow process. (More to come about the lemon in my next post.)

My 13 in 2013 goals have not gone away completely, but I've certainly changed my focus a bit. The goals were good and they were healthy, but I have taken up a couple new hobbies and tried to focus in different areas. Ultimately, I feel led by God to pursue a couple opportunities and I don't want to let this blog or some goals I set months ago get in the way of that. So, here's what's been going on with us recently:

• Kory preached at all 4 Easter services at church and did an awesome job, as always. You can watch his sermon here, if you're interested. http://www.redeemersfellowship.com/index.cfm?i=14728&mid=18&g=44607
• My 6 month rotation as a lead worker has become a permanent position, so I'm really excited about that! I love this new job and enjoy coming to work pretty much every day, which is a huge change because I was experiencing major burnout about this time last year.
• We sold my little red car in April to a college student who was in our youth group in Myrtle Creek. I was sad to see it go but really happy to be down to 2 cars and also to see Karlie get her first car ever. She was so cute and excited!
• I've gotten back into running and I'm almost finished with Couch to 5k again. Kory and I are running a 5k in June with our friends, Edgar and Florence. Sky is my running partner 3 times a week and I've loved having him to push me to go a little bit faster. 
• My garden is planted and doing well. I am growing strawberries, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, green beans, and watermelon this year. Of course, that is assuming I can keep the cats out of my garden. They think I've created one giant litter box for them...great. So far I have eaten a couple strawberries and they are quite delicious!
• Things have been really busy for us lately with the end of the school year approaching. Kory preached this past Sunday again, then we had youth group Sunday night, went hiking with some students on Monday, Wednesday we had our 8th grade mixer, tonight is a band concert, tomorrow is a different band concert, Saturday is a graduation party, Sunday morning we're honoring our graduates during the church service, and we're hosting a lunch for our graduating seniors and their families at our house for lunch on Sunday. Things should be a little bit calmer next week before we run our 5k on Saturday morning, head to a wedding Saturday afternoon and then have graduation on Sunday right after church. I know I don't get a summer break but I am excited for things to slow down a bit once summer starts!