Student Life Paintball

For our last big monthly event with our kids, we took them on a much-loved event in Louisiana--paintballing! We left the church at 7 in the morning and didn't return until 5pm. They were exhausted at the end of the day (and had some great battle wounds) and had a fantastic time.

Selling Our House

So, many of you know we bought a house back in May of '07, and since we're moving to Indiana, we get to sell it! Fortunately, we live on a desirable side of town and are selling the house in a desirable price range, so we should be all right. We're trying to sell the house on our own, so I created a little website for people to learn more about our house. Since Benny and I live so far away from y'all, and most of you will never get to see our home in Ruston...here's the link to our house so you can see it!

http://www.arcadiadr.blogspot.com/

Easter Weekend: Hot Springs, AR

Easter weekend, Benny and I went up to Hot Springs to meet up with the Ambuehls and the Schulers. We played some putt-putt, did a little hiking, played games, and the girls enjoyed the mineral baths (while the boys enjoyed March Madness, of course.) It was such a WONDERFUL weekend with good friends!


Benny and I putt-putting.



Ben, Jared, and Benny.



Silly boys....



Jared, Benny, Ben, Heather, me, and Christi.

Playing Shampoo.

Sheryl's Baby Shower

Friday night, I helped host a baby shower for one of the girls I work with. Her name is Sheryl, she's due April 10th, and she's having a little girl. I'm honored to say that she's picked me to be her labor nurse! (We have a deal that if she goes into labor when I'm not working, the other nurses will call me.)


Me and Sheryl.

Toni, Jennifer, and Sheryl.

Jennifer (pictured with Toni and Sheryl above) his insanely creative...especially when it comes to decorating cakes. She actually works at a local cake shop on some of her days off. She makes all of the cakes for our showers, including this really fun one! I've got to figure out a way for her to make cakes for me when we live in Indiana...

A New Adventure...

Well, "The Ruston Bennys" are going to have to come up with a new blogpage name...we'll be leaving Ruston, LA in June. We're pretty certain that we'll be moving back up north to Anderson, IN (as long as some final details fall into place). Benny will be returning to school to obtain a physical education/health teaching certification as well as assistant coaching the soccer team at Anderson University. He really has a passion for coaching high school soccer and after much prayer and thought, we've decided that being in the school setting will provide the best opportunity for him to grow and develop a program. (And, may I say, he's A PHENOMINAL coach...he knows the game SO well, and he does such an incredible job investing in the lives of the guys.) While Benny's in school, I'll continue working as a Labor and Delivery/Postpartum/Nursery nurse...hopefully as a "travel" nurse or contract nurse in the communities and cities close to Anderson.

We sure would appreciate your prayers as the final details of moving our lives to Indiana are finalized!


Last week, we drove up to Indiana so that Benny could meet with some of the Education folks/look at apartments. Here are some pics from the long drive:




Benny expressing how we really feel about long car rides. :)

Baptism

A couple of weeks ago, our church held a baptism service. One of my small group girls, Brienna, was baptized! She's a sophomore in high school, and we were able to start hanging out when she as in 8th grade. Last winter, she became a Christian, and decided to be baptized. These are some pictures of her special day!


Brienna and me.


Brienna with one of our pastors, Skin. (James Skinner).


My friend Ellie's daughter, Aubrey. I love her curly hair!! (It reminds me of yours, Liz!)

The Amazing Race

Back in January, we did "The Amazing Race" with our kids. We combined a few ideas of events we'd seen/heard of before...Basically, the kids were divided into teams and had a list of places/things to take pictures of around town. At different times, a pig or a duck would show up at the different locations, and if the kids could chase and tag the character and get them in their picture, they got extra points. It ended up being a really fun and hilarious evening!





My team, posing like the "Lady of the Mist" fountain on Louisiana Tech's campus.





One of the boy teams, obviously after having captured the pig.




Another boy team, with "an elderly couple."



Emily, Allison, me and Katelyn, with "a dog and a cat." (We sure are creative, aren't we?}

Emily, Katelyn, Allison, and Sarah with "the camel of Ruston." Notice the way they creatively spelled out "C-A-M-E-L" with their hands. (Our team got second place)