For an update on the friends I mentioned in my last post you can check out these blogs:
Thank you for your prayers. I know they really appreciate them and have felt the power of people praying over them.
I love spring weather so much! This is my first time to actually have a garden, and I know nothing about gardening, but my grandmother is amazing, so I hope I inherited some of her genes. (I completely missed out on her cooking genes, but I want to learn how to make her delicious Japanese dishes.) I've spent a few days digging up grass and weeds from the existing garden. It's amazing how deep down you have to dig to get up the roots of just a little bit of grass on top of the ground. My mom got some flowers and delivered them to my house, so I've spent the last couple of nights planting those. Right now they seem so small in the garden, but I'm excited to see what they grow into.
Brandon had his 27th birthday on Friday. They had baseball games scheduled on Friday and it poured, so he got to spend the day taking the tarp on and off the field about 5 times. He was so tired when he got home that we decided to just go out to eat and come back home and watch West Wing on DVD. It was a nice, relaxing evening. We enjoyed going out to eat together and realized it's been a long time since we've gotten to do that. He stays so busy in the spring with baseball. Fortunately, I love going to the games (especially now that it's warmer) and watching the team play, but it also makes me appreciate the time when we can just go on a date together.
I'm still liking my job at Abilene High. It is going by so quickly. I have great students this year; I don't know how next year's group could be better. A nice thing about teaching freshmen is that I'll still see them around school next year. I taught some of these students last year in 8th grade, so I imagine they're tired of me after 2 years and are ready to move on.
I'm looking forward to going to my grandparents' house at Lake Brownwood this weekend for Easter. It's always so good to get together with all the cousins and family. I used to cry when we would have to leave, and sometimes (especially in the summer), my parents would let me go home with my cousin Chris and spend a week with them.
I hope you all have a great Easter holiday and enjoy some time outside!
