Spring is here

Well it is officially spring and I am so excited. We are seeing much warmer weather less snow on the ground and it is time to start prepping the yard and garden for growing and blossoming.
In a few weeks it will be time to get my seedlings into the ground and start working outside more. I have been looking toward spring and more sunshine for a while now. This has been a tough winter with all I have had going on and I always feel better when I can get outside and soak up some sun and get a little dirty. Ahhh spring. I love it.

Onto other things. We had our winter retreat to start planning camp and we got so much done. The girls have decided that our theme will be "Arise and show your strength in virt'you' " They have some fun ideas to incorporate virtue into camp and with it being the new young women value we thought it would be important to focus on it. It is so much fun to spend time with these young women. They are so full of energy, crazy, silly, goofy fun. We laughed all night long and it got so silly. The girls are a totoal crack up. I feel like I get to know their personalities in a different way when we are in a different environment than a tuesday night activity or church on sunday. They are so smart and creative. I learn so much from them. They also made it to the championship basketball game for our area and in that game we had two girls sprain their ankles within a couple of minutes of each other. All this time I have been in this calling with no injuries to anyone and we have two seperate incidents in 3 minutes. Fortunatley they are up and walking around 24hrs later so nothing serious. One of them has an upcoming gymnastics meet and might not be able to compete. Now we are gearing up for our futsal season. This is one of their favorite sports. For those of you who are not familiar with futsal it is indoor soccer.

Matthew is getting ready to start baseball season. He is pretty happy about that. He will be on the same team he has been on for the last 3 years. His coach is great and really knows how to teach baseball and work with kids. It is always fun. He is also getting ready to turn 10! It is just around the corner. It happened so fast. He is now officially as tall as I am. He wears a shoe size that I swim in and I no longer buy his clothes in the boys department I have to go to the young mens or mens department. Still as sweet as ever and oh so cute.

Big Matt and I are both doing well. not a whole lot to report. He has been having a bunch of tests like his sleep test and blood work and a few other things. He had an EKG and they thought he had a few mild episodes so he was sent to have a stress test and his heart is very healthy and strong. What a relief. It scared me to think there might be a problem. I am such a worry wart, Iam always preparing myself for the worst case scenario. I guess that makes me a pessimist. I better work on that.

I love all your blogs and am so glad I have found a way to keep up with what is going on in your lives. Until next time Be well and HAPPY SPRING!