Beth Moore, Swimming and Jazz....

So I can't believe how busy Ricky and I have gotten over the year and half of living in St. Joseph.
It is totally amazing to me that being taken away from my comfort zone in Memphis, that I have become more outgoing, and confident. I guess for the shear fact that you more or less have to be when you are in a new environment and you do not know a soul. Ricky and I do more things here than we ever did in Memphis. Extra activities that is. I am just so blessed that we are on this adventure in our lives here in St. Joseph, and can't wait to see where God takes us next.

This weekend was busy for me. I went to a Women's Ministry Retreat with our church Friday night through Saturday morning. We did a Beth Moore "retreat in a box". The study we did was "Loving Well". It was really good...we watched a video on it, and she was hilarious! We did the retreat at a local hotel here and we stayed a night. I roomed with some ladies from my Sunday School class. It was a lot of fun getting to know them a little better. Saturday the retreat ended at noon and I was exhuasted because we stayed up late chatting the night before. Thinking I was going to get a good nap when I got home, I was excited.

When I got home and went outside the weather was gorgeous. It was warm but there was a breeze and no humidity. I suggested to Ricky that we need to take Seminole swimming so after lunch we headed to the swimming hole :) Seminole had a blast! We also planned later that night to go to a Jazz Festival downtown. We went last year and had fun visiting with everyone from Ricky's work. Well on the way back from the swimming hole some of a good friends called us and said that they had just purchased a hutch from Target but couldn't fit in their car. Luckily we were really close and stopped by to put it in our car. It was a sight to see because poor Seminole had to lay on the floorboard in the back and didn't have much room because the hutch took up the entire back of the car. So we went to there house and stayed a good while, having fun chatting and of course saying quotes from our new favorite movie "Kungfu Panda!!" (side note: everyone must go see this movie, it is sooooooo funny!!) From leaving there house we came home freshened up, went to dinner and then to the Jazz Festival and didn't get home until late that night. So much for my Saturday afternoon nap!! :) But it was worth it, we had a great day!

I leave you with some picture of Seminole swimming!