Weekend update

Are those pictures cute? Grace with her teams mates Rachel and Danielle. Had to share these first....

So I was able to head back to Washington last weekend with Brooke and Kris for Columbia Community Churches ( our church back in Kennewick) Women's Retreat in Spokane. We left late Thursday night and got in to Spokane about midnight. Friday afternoon was all about shopping. It was so great to be back and at a mall. We did a bunch of shopping and ended up eating at a great Italian place for dinner. Then it was up to Newport to the retreat. What an awesome weekend. It was so much fun seeing everyone again and catching back up. I was able to spend a good amount of time with my friend Karen. I sure had really missed her. We had some wonderful worship with our churches women's band "Beauty Within" and had a great speaker who really spoke right to me. We were done by Sunday at noon so we headed back to Spokane to a different mall to do even more shopping. We ate lunch at P.F. Chang's and then went to a martini bar for a drink and dessert. After our friend Andee who picked us up and was dragged everywhere by us took us to our hotel near the airport. We caught an early flight out on Monday morning and made it back home by about 10:00 that night. Looking back a feel so blessed to have been able to go back and have that time with our church family but I also realized even more that this is where God wants me and I can't wait to see what He will be doing.

Matt and the girls had a fantastic weekend. Friday Kaitlyn went skiing with her school. All the 6, 7, and 8 grade students went up to a local ski resort. Kaitlyn told me she was "shredding up the snow". She had a great time. Sunday Grace had a hockey game and Kaitlyn went to 4H. Then Sunday was another hockey game. I think Matt was just as tired as I was getting those girls all to their activities. They didn't have time to miss me.

Next week is March break so the girls will have the week off of school and my dad is flying in on Thursday, which we are all getting excited about. My security paperwork has gone through so now I just have to go through the required training then I can get my badge and start working. That won't happen until the 26th but it will be good to have it all done.

That's about it for now.