The Dyrud's Great Adventure

On Memorial Day, we took the day off and went to the park with John, Megan and Joshua Circo. We put the kids in the swings and they had a great time! I took this picture to prove that Justice's hair doesn't alway stand straight up :) Although I think it's pretty cute that it does stand up most of the time. For those who have not yet heard, we officially made a decision to go to language school in September! Rodney and I both have a peace about this decision and now we are starting to think about what to sell, what to pack for Canada and Africa and what to leave in the States while we're gone. It's going to be a lot of work to keep working on raising ministry funds and getting our apartment packed up, but we're just taking things a little bit at a time.

A lot has happened in the last two weeks, so I thought I'd update you on our busy lives. We celebrated Mother's Day with my (Tammi) family and had a great time with the grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Rodney and I went to Magic Mountain for two days to celebrate our wedding anniversary early. I got motion sickness both days so I didn't do very many rides, but we had fun being together and it was great knowing that Justice was being well taken care of by my parents. We had a speaking engagement for a womens luncheon up in Redlands on the 15th and then on the 19th we went to my grandparents house for lunch and Justice had his first experience in the swimming pool (which he loved!) This is Justice at the end of a long day of swimming; all tired out :) We also made our decision about language school; some of you know that we were looking into the possibility of going to Canada for French language school in August 2009 instead of January 2010, but after much praye...

Well, it's been a while since we sent out an update, so here's the latest. Rodney's aunt Wanette and Grandma Marjory came out to visit from Nebraska for a few days. Rodney was sick while they were here, but we still had a good time together. Justice is getting close to crawling and he has his first top tooth coming in. I (Tammi) got some early Mother's Day flowers from my guys and we are excited to spend Sunday with my family. For those of you who have not seen our 20 minute MAF presentation, we have it posted on You-Tube. I've included the links, since the presenation is broken into two parts. Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPuFg_4SHg Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLiOHIuXrwQ Part 2