Good Times

Matthew finished his last Seminary class last Tuesday. It's been a good week since then with a mix of productivity and fun. Emily still has to go to work but has been able to get in on some of the fun as well. Here is a brief review of what we've been up to.

Wednesday - Matthew celebrated academic freedom with breakfast with friends followed by a couple of hour playing Nintendo Wii before hitting the Internet again to resume the job search.

Thursday - Matthew sent out 14 new resumes and had a phone interview with a church in Indiana. In the evening we both enjoyed good times with friends and good food at our friend Mike Pace's birthday party.

Emily and our friend Virginia Thomas hamming it up during a game of shuffle board at Saturday's Masters Class Retreat at Canby Grove.

Friday - Matthew finally crashed and spent most of the day resting in some capacity. We enjoyed a quiet evening at home and went to bed early.

Our friends Erin Searight, Luke Thomas, Ford Jordan & Virginia Thomas at Masters Retreat

Saturday - After getting some chores done in the morning we headed off to the Multnomah Master's class retreat where we ate large amounts of good food and had good relaxing fellowship with many of our friends from school. We enjoyed visiting and playing mini-golf, Foosball, shuffle board, etc. The day was capped off with a time of singing around a campfire.

Sunday - Yesterday we enjoyed a rare Sunday with no afternoon or evening scheduled activities. We took a long afternoon nap, had time to visit and pray together, Emily cut Matthew's hair and we got to call out mothers. Our neighbors the Thomases also hosted us for dinner feeding us yummy homemade pizza.

We're looking forward to the coming week as well. Matthew's parents will be visiting from California (arriving Tuesday evening). We are looking forward to spending time with them and to Matthew's ordination interview (Tuesday), Graduation (Friday), and our Dr. and Ultrasound appointment (Monday) among other things. Check back next week for more updates.