First Day of Kindergarten

I cannot believe Luke has gone to kindergarten. How crazy is that. He is so excited. He has a wonderful teacher. She is so sweet. I had prayed for a great teacher, and God answered my prayer. This has been a big step. Yesterday I cried so much. I prayed that Luke would not me be sad and today I did not shed a tear. We had a big weekend leading up to the big day. We had Luke's best friend Reece's birthday and then last night our street had an ice cream party to celebrate school starting. How many kids can get on one trampoline, really. We have a great neighborhood. I hope everyone has a great first week.

Any advice for a 2 year old?

Two questions...

1. How do you get a 2 year old to look at the camera? Courtney this one if for you, Korley always takes great pictures.

2. What do you do with a strong willed 2 year old? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

So we had a very busy weekend and this week looks even wilder. We started off Thursday night by going to kindergarten orientation. No, I did not cry, but was trying really hard. Luke saw so many friends and was running circles. He bought spirit wear and has been very proud to wear his Eagle shirts. Friday, Scott's parents came to town, so we went to dinner with them. Saturday we went to Rainforest Cafe for Adi's birthday. Sunday we went to church with the G's because Adi was baptized. Talk about amazing, her dad was able to baptize her. It was the sweetest thing ever. We went to lunch and swimming, to follow up the night with an outing to the Roughriders game. Scott and I had just been saying we had not gone and some friends of ours invited us to go. I had plans for the night, but went to the game and girls picked me up at the game. Luke was asked to go on the field to play a game. He had to race to get his shoes, put them on, tie them, and run back. To bad we are horrible parents and have not taught him to tie his shoes. They were actually supposed to be 6, but they let Luke play since he is almost 6. Well when I left our strong will Jake wanted to drink Dr. Pepper. Scott tried to grab the cup and there went the DP, all over Scott. We had fun though. We are going to have fun all week with my last week of 2 kids at home. If you hear someone crying next Monday, it will probably be me.

Mission Trip San Diego

Scott and I just returned home from our mission trip. We had an amazing time. We worked our tails off, but any breaks we had we found new things to see in San Diego. I don't know if any of you have ever been to San Diego, but it is beautiful!! We will definitely be going on vacation there some time. So back to the trip. We went with our church Prestonwood North to help a church plant. This church plant is a little different in that there is not a local nearby church supporting them. The churches supporting them are from around the country. San Diego is not majority christian. In fact if 1% of San Diego county showed up for church on Sunday there would not be enough seats. I definitely realized I live in a bubble. So here is how our trip went.

Arrival on Thursday: Lunch, check in hotel, stuff envelopes, knocked on 200 doors. Now when I mean knock on 200 doors, I mean climb hills. There are so many hills there.

Friday: Morning time we knocked on 400 doors, lunch, run by the beach, evening we knocked on 600 more doors and mad 250 phone calls This time there were doors slammed in faces, someone threatened to sick their big dog on a girl, and a dog came through a screen door at someone else.

Saturday: Kids camp all day. We had a muslim little girl ask Jesus to come into her heart. Pretty amazing!!! Saturday night was our free night, we were suprised and taken to the Cowboys game, left early to see a little of San Diego

Sunday: Church, lunch, church outreach swim party. A lady who had never been to church and whose mom is Jehovah's Witness asked me many questions. I asked her if she had ever accepted Christ, she said she thinks, but she wanted to pray anyways. She has many questions and I am keeping in contact with her. When she left, she introduced the children's pastor to her girls as their new church teacher. Again, she had never been to church.

Monday: Pack up and head home.

Our main job was to do anything and everything this church needed. They have no building yet, so everything is done out of their home. They right now host a ton of community events so that getting people to come will be easier and then the next step is church. They tried at first just inviting people to church, that did not work, so they are doing it this way. The neighborhoods we canvassed were mainly asian and indian. It was amazing to see these people saying they were interested in coming to church. You can check out the church website and crosschurchsandiego.com.

San Diego Mission Trip Day 1 and 2

Check out Matt's blog at carolinegracedavis.blogspot.com to see the progress of our mission trip. We are about to head out for Day 3. Be praying for us.

Beth