The Weekend...

HA! It saved a draft.... so here it is!

Weekends are getting shorter and shorter the older and older I get. For almost the past year, I've been off on Mondays (which I LOVE!). I love my Mondays. Even with Mondays off, the weekends seem to fly by!

Speaking of "flying by", Summer Session has officially ended. We had some of the most amazing students take part this year. I see our future, and I am so impressed! Mr. Ferris and I had the privilege of taking on the 2nd and 3rd year students (as I previously mentioned). We decided for our final exam to split the room into two groups giving them each one point from each of the 5 doctrines taught that they would have to verbally defend with scripture to back them up. TOUGH TOPICS! No notes, only the bible and a blank piece of paper. The funniest part was all of the guys and most of the girls said they didn't study because they thought someone else would. Ohhhhh! We allowed them one trade if they thought it was too hard. We allowed them about 20 minutes to prepare their answers. I loved it! The boys immediately dug in and really prepared their answers with scripture to back each one. I was blown away at the depth of their answers. The girls did really well too. I am sad it is over, but so excited with anticipation of seeing what they do with all that they learned this summer. Every student in the class really put their heart into it (except for the studying part - ha!).


Yesterday (sorry - no pictures yet), Miley was dedicated at the 12pm service. What a special day. As we stood for worship, I looked around only to have my heart completely warmed. Jesse's parents, his sister/bro-in-law, Micki, Ryan, Lori (Ryan's mom) and of course, Jesse, Renee & Miley were all there worshipping together. A weird thought ran through my head at that moment: my entire family in one setting worshipping together. It is strange to think that now we are moving into a new season of life with the girls where in-laws and boyfriend's families are involved. I still don't feel old enough for all of that.

The icing on the cake today was I had sent my iPod in for repairs last week. As I predicted, there was a hardware issue, and I got a NEW iPod replacement! WooHoo!! I cannot wait to load it up with music, podcasts, and stuff....speaking of that, I have to go.