Relaxed and Ready to Start the Week!

We had a wonderful time at our marriage retreat in Amish Country with our church. It was a great time of not only relaxing and spending time with my husband, but also spending some quality some with other couples from our church as well. We got home on Saturday just in time to get ready to host our first Bible study in our new house. We have started a young couples Bible Study on Saturday nights and the first book we are working on is Love and Respect by . Nathan and I did this book about 3 years ago with another group from our church. We really enjoyed it and have both said how much it changed our marriage so we wanted other couples to benefit form it like we did. Nathan and I are very excited to be hosting our first small group in our house. We knew from the time we first looked at our house that if we got it for the bid we wanted...this house was definitely God given and to be used for ministry. Part of that is using the over 4000 sq feet for small groups and young couple fellowship. So last Saturday was the first small group Bible study of what I am sure will be many over the next years to come! I think at this point we have 9 couples signed up so obviously we did hire our babysitter Ashley to sit for all the kids upstairs each week while the parents have our discussions downstairs. When doing any type of study or class for young couples, babysitting is a must...unless you want 1 or both parent missing most of each session while dealing with their kids. Thank you Ashley for being willing to help us out!!!

This week started out very smooth or at least smoother than expected for a busy Monday! The day started out with ADT setting up our security system and trying to teach us (me) how to use it. I'm afraid the local police department is going to get tired of the false alarms coming from the butter cream house on the corner??? So between me forgetting that I set the alarm and the girls tripping the motion detector or opening a door....we'll see how the week goes!