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Huddle Highlights

PWC hosted a regional Wesleyan Children's ministry training event on Saturday and I felt very happy when it was all done. It was everything we hoped it would be. A few highlights:

• Pastor Karl was tremendous. His messages on relating to kids and the basics of children's ministry were so timely. He really inspired and challenged so many of us!
• Teamwork. I was so proud of our staff. they all pulled together and made this event happen. It was so nice to have a team backing me up.
• Great workshops. I heard lots of good buzz about all our break-out speakers.
• Excellent lunch. Great job to Greg Beecher and Memories!
• Good district response. When all was said and done there were 22 churches represented and 135 attendees.
• The vendor area was tremendous for a conference of this size.
• Personally it was really cool for our family to hang out with Pastor Karl. He consulted for us on Sunday morning and gave us some good feedback. We were a little upset he ate Tanner's snake Slidey though! :(

First mow

Blake is now assuming the responsibility of mowing a seciotn of our yard! 10 years old and he is growing up so fast.

Legoland

No we did not travel the world! These are Lego miniatures. Our last day in California was spent at Legoland. Blake and Tanner have always dreamed of going there and we never thought it was going to happened, but God opened a way. We are such a Lego family! It started with Blake and has just trickled out to the rest of us.

Playing around the farm

As I mentioned earlier Grandma Bonnie's parents live on farm (or ranch?) in northern California. It is a very pretty area and we enjoyed one day just playing around the farm. Jumping on the tramp, feeding the cows, catching snakes, picking kumquats, meeting new family and a campfire to end the day. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Tractor Man

I loved driving the tractor at the farm while the kids fed the cows. I felt in my element!

The wedding

We had such a great time in California and did so many things I need to break them up as I think of them and write about them. First of the wedding. We all love Bonnie my dad's new wife. All the kids think she's great too. They were supposed to get married in her parent's yard. They live on a farm and have very nice gazebo ( we all like her parents a lot too). Anyway it was raining so we moved the wedding into their barn. It was too cool. The kids loved it. Family sang all the songs. Bonnie's daughter Samantha and her niece Kim sang worship songs to open it up. Then several grand kids sang Amazing Grace as Bonnie came down the "aisle". Patsy sang Be Exalted during the Salt ceremony and and my sisters Becky and Rachel and brother-in-law Joe sang a song I can't remember and then Forever Grateful during communion. Bonnie's daughter is ordained and did the Salt ceremony and my brother-in-law Matt who is a chaplain officiated the communion. I was privledged to do the ceremony and then mess up the wedding license! Also -my dad was quick to the draw and said I do a little early. I guess he was anxious.
We didn't get too many good pictures from the wedding due to Patsy signing and little hay particles shining off the flash. We will wait for the official ones from Joe and post some later. Anyway we have a couple of pics to post.

Giant Redwoods

From our recent trip to California - this video was taken in a Giant Reedwoods park in California. All these kids are cousins and are homeschooled! What a fun way to learn science!

The Martin family easter egg hunt

I love how helpful Blake and Tanner are. It was a little cool - in the 50s, but so mich nicer than Illinois!

Church Easter Egg Hunt

This is our indoor hunt for kids ages three and under. It was fun to have three kids in this hunt!