the past three months...

Yesterday, as we were driving to Grand Junction, we realized that we have already been here longer than we were here the first time, in the the summer of 04. That summer the Lord changed our lives. He gave us both a desire to serve together one day and planted the "Lake City seed" in our hearts. How incredible to look back at that summer and see how the Lord allowed that seed to bloom! We have seen the Lord provide a place for us to live, a 4-wheel drive vehicle, a home church, incredible friends, and a ministry that He has already blessed so much.

We absolutely love our routine we've established since we have been here. Every Monday the kids have off of school, so we try to meet with them one-on-one for coffee and/or go to the ski hill here in Lake City for a couple of hours. Then that night have our separate highschool guys/gals Bible studies. Tuesday we go to the school to have lunch with the kids and have our junior high meeting that night. Wednesday nights are our highschool meetings and we alternate every week having the meeting at someone's house-"hang night" or at the fellowship hall- "club night". Thursday is our self proclaimed day off and date night, but we still try to make it to the school to have lunch. Seth gets up at 6am on Thursdays to go to the community Men's Bible study. Friday nights we go to "teen center" which is an event organized by the city. They open the armory from 7pm-10pm and provide chaperones so the kids can hang out, play video games, watch a movie, play b-ball... Saturday is random, but usually busy with kids stuff. Sunday we attend Grace Fellowship and try to take whatever kids are willing to go. then have our traditional mexican food fix for lunch at Blue Iguana...mmmm. We might hit up the ski hill again that afternoon and possibly get in a nice nap =) Sun night Crystal attends the community Women's Bible study and then joins Seth at teen center afterwards.

There it is! Just in case you were wondering what in the world we do during the week.

We are looking forward to Betty and Bosley joining us here. After surviving the harshest part of the winter we have no doubt that they will do great. The greatest part about Lake City is EVERYONE has a dog, and they take them everywhere with them. The bank even has a big box full of doggie biscuits for the customer who brings the dog in to do some banking. Most defintely our kind of town =)

Please continue to pray that we would be able to find a permanent living situation in the next couple of months. As you can imagine, the housing market here is quite expensive and we aren't really in a position to buy something. We are currently looking into a caretaking situation which would be rent free and accomodate our dogs and furniture. Praise be to God! We know He already has something waiting for us, He just hasn't revealed it yet =)