Weekend Update

Yep, we leave for Seattle tomorrow. We'll be there for 23 hours and 50 minutes. It is our 100 year celebration for Farmers Insurance in the Life Insurance field. To get an automatic bid, we had to issue 100 policies in 2009. The rest of the agents and district managers were chosen to go based on raffle tickets earned. Our office was 1 of 30 out of about 15,000 agents that got the automatic bid. Some of our friends protected their families by purchasing life insurance last year... Thanks for protecting your family but also helping our office! The recognition will be nice tomorrow night at the event, but "Heart" might just be the best thing as they play a 2 hour concert for Farmers. I'll let you know how that goes!

Jamie and I were discussing lots of possibilities on how for us to proceed with dedicating Nathan to the Lord. We've always done this with all our kids and Nathan is growing up real fast. I've invited my Dad to pray over Nathan as we'll have a celebration for the dedication. Based on all the circumstances, this was our favorite choice.

I've got a new staff person coming on board at the office. I like the guy as he has a great personality, very motivated, learns fast, listens well. He is a team player and gets along well with everyone. He'll be doing some training over the next few months and getting licensed and writing some policies as he gets ready for the real deal on May 1st. I've sort of always felt that the staff that became part of the office were part of God's plan. This new person seems to be the right fit at the right time as Matt is "hearing some voices" to join the CHP. That is a funny story I hope Matt blogs about before I do.

I wanted to give another plug for the "Erase the Dark" Art and Film Festival at The Stirring on Friday March 19th. Tricia Kibler is going to be displaying some of her art and all the raised money is going to help a school with the most hardship in Redding, Cypress Elementary School. Last year The Stirring was able to purchase brand new shoes for each student! Come support Tricia... it'll be an awesome experience! http://www.thestirring.org/erase/

SF Giants are now 3-0 with the start of Spring Training! Awesome!

Hillsong United is going to be back on the West Coast this Fall. They are touring the East Coast in April. I've also come to LOVE a band Jesus Culture. We are really lucky as they are based in Redding and out of Bethal Church. Worship Music really excites me... We have been really enjoying the worship experience with The Stirring team at the 5:00 PM service. We've been so incredibly busy these days and the time of the service has been perfect for our family... in fact our flight gets back from Seattle at 4:35 PM on Sunday with 25 minutes to spare to attend church. We have not forgotten about our friends and family at Bridge... it just hasn't worked out recently for us, but we hope to see you soon!