On Spring Break, Memories I Did Make

April has been an exciting month so far! I started the month with my Spring Break week. It was definitely a blessing to take a break from lesson planning and grading and spend some extra time with people I love! I began my break by meeting up with two of my friends in Mansfield for a couple of days. Katie and Courtney are childhood friends from my church growing up. We've been able to take a trip together every year since my freshman year of high school. The past few years have been camping trips with our husbands, so we decided it was time for a girls' weekend. After Mansfield, I headed to Findlay to meet up with two college friends, Steph and Elissa. It was just what I needed on my spring break as we spent two days hanging out and relaxing together.

The rest of my Spring Break was spent at home hanging out with Josh, attending Goss' Holy Week services, doing some spring cleaning, and getting caught up on some school work. Our church also has a sunrise Easter service that the youth are in charge of, so we made a movie with several students from our youth group and Josh preached the sermon for the service. We celebrated Easter with Josh's family on Friday, and headed to West Jeff to celebrate Easter with my family after church on Sunday. And we were able to spend some extra time with our niece and nephew too! We wish we were able to see them more often! It seems like they change every time we see them.


Josh and I also spent this past weekend in Pittsburgh. On Friday we went to see Michael Jackson's Cirque du Soleil show! It was amazing! When we arrived at the show, we realized our seats were in the fourth to the last row. Then right before the show, an usher came and asked us if we would like to change seats. He moved us to the second row! On Saturday we walked around a part of Pittsburgh called Squirrel Hill, made an Ikea run, and stopped to see some friends in Youngstown.



It is hard to believe that the middle of April is already here! Our summer adventures are quickly approaching. We will be participating in Project Shine (a week-long mission trip to Akron), taking a Caribbean cruise, hiking in Hocking Hills, and going on a mission trip to Haiti! It will be a full, exciting summer!