Another month has slipped away so quickly! From the way I blog it must seem that I'm either super busy or I don't enjoy it. I can tell you the truth of the matter is we are "super busy". In the past month we've made it back to California from Ecuador. We are living once again in our beautiful lodge in Bass lake. Spring break has already gone and passed. I spent my first few days of spring break and my friend Sammy's house in LA. About the middle of the week I took a train to a town just outside of San Fransisco. Where I stayed with my second cousin and his wife. Both places I felt very warmly welcomed and comfortable with lots of food at my disposal. =)
This is picture is of me and Michael at one of his neighbour's houses. His neighbour has a collection of home made aluminum figures in his front yard.
We've ran into a few small scheduling problems in the first few weeks back. The first week we were home we had a major snow storm. Devastating our electricity in Base lake. These pictures are from the week of beautiful but devastating snow that kept our living fun and unique for a week. 
Luckily, after the second day of no electricity, Tom who lives about 20 minutes away, invited us over to his house. We stayed with his family for the rest of the week and weekend. On the weekend the Smith's had to go into Fresno. I tagged along to hang out with Ryan their 15 yearold son. Me and Ryan spent four hours at restaurant called Papa Johns. Lets just say, it's all you can eat pizza and ice cream including numerous T.V.'s segwade to sports channels. Enough said right? Last week was also a little differently scheduled. We only had class for two days early in the week and then had the rest of the week off. Tom and his family decided to travel to Malibu so we didn't have to much class going on. But there was still alot to do with due papers and readings. This week we're finally starting to settle into a schedule again. There's been lots of studying and hard work going on in Bass Lake. We have a bunch of papers due again in a week before we leave on our two and a half week outdoor excursion. Here's me and Bekah at our finest, enjoying the outdoors and deep in study.
This week we've been studying, reading and living a life of Spiritual Disciplines. Currently we are reading a book by Dallas Willard entitled "The Spirit of Disciplines". Our week has been contemplating how our inward life of disciplines really effects our outward living. As Christians we are in pursuit of the Kingdom of God to become more Christlike in God's eyes. These disciplines are not ways of showing others that we follow God but ways to direct our inward spirt to our outward reality. Let's be like Christ, believing and acting with our whole bodies in complete surrenderence to Jesus Christ.
