May Update

May has been a very busy month for Ben and I. We have been very involved with activities at our church. Two groups we are most involved with at our church are the college and career group and the 1st-5th grade student (primarily the 4th and 5th graders). Ben started a group called the Explorers and we have been meeting for the past year and a half twice a month on Saturday afternoons. In our next blog entry we will be sure to include some recent pictures that we have taken with them. The point of that group is to invest in them and to teach them teamwork and leadership skills. On Saturdays we hang out with them and play games that teach one of those skills and we work on a project for the Sunday morning children's church time. There are 5 kids currently in our group and we love hanging out with them. We are going to miss them when we leave for Indianapolis. We also are involved with the College and Career group at our church and right now Ben and I are planning to lead the group on a retreat May 30th-June 1st. Planning retreats are very big projects, but it is going to be a blast. We also will post pictures of that event when it is finished.

I (Christina) have not found a job yet, but have some leads on jobs. Ben and I went to Indianapolis a couple of weekends ago to turn in Resumes and to get an idea of what kinds of jobs are over there. For the most part it was a productive time, but searching for a job long distance is a challenge. While we were there though we got to see our new house that is being built and it is making great progress. It seems as though they will have it completed in time for our move at the end of June. For right now we have completed our paperwork and it is definitely a relief. We are having fun planning for our new home!

As for this upcoming Memorial weekend we are very excited to being going away with 3 other families to Door County Wisconsin to a beautiful camping park called Penisula State park. We plan to relax and enjoy the great outdoors with hiking, bike riding, campfires and more. We will tell more about that upon our return. We are just glad to be getting away to have fun together and to spend some time with 3 families that we have grown close to over our time at our church. It will be great to make these memories before leaving.

Well... we will write more later. That about summarizes what the month of May has been like for us. Busy... but GREAT!!