Sunday Fun

So remember how I told you here about getting to entertain the little 8 year old the other night while the guys worked on their cars? Well Jack received a text from his mom the next day that read: "Henry (the little boy) was asking when he could come back over and play with Becky. It seems he had a fantastic time." Hahahaha! Love it! We DID have a fun time playing Wii and the XBox. We ended up going over to their house on Sunday for dinner (awesome homemade pizza), some bowl game and playoff game watching and a little Apples to Apples playing. I even got a hug from Henry before leaving (and from Donald, his 10 year old brother) which was fun.

Sunday was a fun filled day for us. We headed up to church to go to the new Sunday school class that was starting. It's an 8 week session called "Discovering God's Way of Handling Money" by Crown Financial. We took a Crown Financial class our first year of marriage and really learned a lot from it but we definitely knew we needed a bit of a refresher course in order to really put our money and how we handle it in the right perspective. Looking forward to going through this class for the next couple of months. We also enjoyed another great lesson from Pastor Mark at our church that morning talking about Christ's transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-13. We were reminded to listen to the words of Jesus, to marvel at his humiliation (being that Jesus suffered and died as a man, yet fully God, and completed his mission not by supernatural power but as a man) and to set our hope on the future glory of Christ when he is revealed from heaven. Read that passage...it's a good one.

After church we headed out to lunch with some new friends we've made there, Kimi and Jeremy. Jeremy hails from Alabama and Kimi from Texas so we bonded over our "outsider-ness" and our feeling that NM is just a "different kind of place with different kind of people" :). They invited us to try a new (to us) place in Los Alamos called The Coffee Booth where we enjoyed cafe type food. It was yummy and the company was even better. We had some good laughs and got to know each other better. Definitely enjoy the instant connection we feel with them and look forward to getting to know them better! Kimi and I have a connection that we both speak Spanish (because she lived in Colombia for 2 years) and Jack and Jeremy are interested in learning it more. Jeremy spent 2 years in India, which is awesome, and we look forward to hearing stories from their times of ministry in those two countries.

After lunch Jack and I headed out to go for a hike (we decided we didn't want to drive back down to the Fe just to turn around to head back up to LA for dinner at his boss' place) near the Valle Caldera. We decided to do the Coyote Call Trail hike which is a 3 mile loop trail.  We knew there would be snow up there (we were at almost 9000 feet) and found ourselves trekking through, at times, snow up to our knees (I think we might invest in some snowshoes, would have been easier and probably more fun) but we still had a pretty good time. We only made it a mile in before Jack started not feeling so good (he's still recovering from a stomach bug he had last week) so we took some pictures, enjoyed the scenery and turned around to head back to the car. We headed over to the Poston's for dinner and hanging out which was enjoyable then I drove us home because Jack's head starting hurting him pretty good. Overall it was an enjoyable and fun Sunday. Looking forward to the fact that Jack has 4 day weeks the next 3 weeks in a row and we'll be off hiking with our new friends, snowboarding and hanging out!

Still enjoying the reading plan. One week down! Probably better than I've done on this thing in a long time! Praying for perseverance, excitement and enjoyment of the reading plan! How are you doing on your reading plan (if you're doing it)? How about with any new year's resolutions?!

L-R, T-B: The trail head. Part of the trail, you can see the snow shoe tracks. The caldera. Some sort of animal tracks. The caldera, again. The snow crystals. Caldera. Becky and Jack :)