Let's try this again....

Opi obviously won't win blogger of the year award, because it has now been about three years since I last posted. But being that it isn't a contest, and I do have a desire to do this, I'm going to try again. So please bear with me if my next post is in 2020, because I am not making any promises... That being said, A very happy early new year's to you (last side note: I am not doing this as a resolution, or at least if I am, I am subconsciously doing so)! So a quick recap of what's happened in the last three years. We had a baby, Emery. He's now nineteen mos., Adelaide will be four on the twentieth. I am no longer doing daycare out of our home because we sold it. Ben's in his second year of Seminary, and an associate pastor at Stavanger Lutheran Church. We are living at Hillcrest where We both serve on the Residence Life staff. Many changes happen in three years, especially when there are kids, school and ministry involved. It's funny how God works. He takes the plans we have and turns them inside out, not necessarily because our plans were bad (some of them are), but because His plan is so much better. He has showed this to our family time and time again. He has been so patient, so faithful. We are so blessed by the abundance of people he has placed in our lives, and by the things we do not need but that He has given to us as well. We are excited as God's plan for us continues to unfold.