Trip to North Carolina

During the first week of June, Josh and I went down to North Carolina to celebrate his youngest sister, Mandi, High School Graduation. We were able to attend her high school ceremony, which she was the salutatorian, and help with her graduation party. We then went down to the Outer Banks and stayed at a beach house on Emerald Isle. We had a great time with Josh's family and enjoyed the beach, some sand volleyball, kayaking on the sound and attempting to surf. :)

We went to an aquarium that had about every kind of salt and fresh water animal.

Josh got a little to close to the alligator.

We got to spend time with our little nephew Holden!!

We made an Elephant in the sand

We went to an aquarium which had salt and fresh water sea animals. We even got to touch sting rays!! (I didn't like that so much!)

We had a family triathalon where Mandi, Amanda (Mandi's friend) and I raced Josh, Robin and David (his parents) in a bike, kayak, and swim competition. It was a lot of fun and a close competition!!
Josh, Mandi and Brooke (his oldest sister) at Mandi's Graduation Ceremony
Josh and I trying out surfing

Trip to Texas

Hello
Well Josh and I are now counting down two months before we move to Texas. Time is flying and we are trying to make every minute count. God has been so faithful and has made the details of preparing to move seem so easy. :) Just last week Josh and I took a trip down to Dallas to visit Dallas Theological Seminary, where he will be attending in the fall. We were able to visit the campus, see where we are going to live, and hang out with some amazing family members. The campus is in downtown Dallas, walking distance from skyscrapers, so the living environment will be completely different than what were used to. Fortunately in our free time Josh and I were able to scout out a few parks where we will be able to do some mountain biking and hiking. I had a couple job interviews at Baylor Hospital. Thanks to God's goodness, I was offered both jobs that I interviewed for and I ended up picking a Medical Cardiac Telemetry floor.

We also are very fortunate to have family members in Fort Worth, TX (less than an hour away). This past week Josh's Aunt Jill and Uncle Paul graciously opened their home up to us to stay a couple nights. We were able to swim in their pool and ride their horses with their daughter Cristan. We felt like we got a good taste of Southern hospitality!!

Josh's Uncle Terry and Aunt Nina who drove from Tyler TX to visit us

Riding Cristan's Horses

On May 1st, we had a new little girl join the family. (Don't worry she isn't mine) My sister Katie had a baby girl that they named Lyla Ann Wagner.

Baby Lyla in her first hour

Wagner Family

Lyla when she is 3 weeks old

Violet and Lyla

One Year Anniversay

Well Josh and I have made it one whole year together already!! We just celebrated our one year anniversary on March 17. To celebrate our anniversary we decided to go north to Niagara Falls. We stayed on the Canadian side and enjoyed a relaxing weekend viewing the falls right outside our hotel. Here our a few pics of our trip.

A Rainbow from the sun light and the mist

Falls light show

Watching a 3-D Movie

Guinness Book of World Records Museum
World's heaviest person

Josh sitting in the world's tallest man's chair

Our first Year

Well Josh and I will have been married for 1 year on March 17th. God has brought us so far and has blessed us with a wonderful first year of marriage. There are many changes coming up in our lives, so we thought it would be nice to have a way to keep everyone updated.
For the past three years Josh has been a youth pastor at Woodville Grace Brethren Church. He has led Jr. High and Sr. High and has seen his group not only grow in numbers, but in their faith in Jesus.
I ,Jenny, am now a nurse working at Med Central Hospital on a Med Surg Telemetry floor. I have definitely been challenged my first year with the amount of information to learn, but have really enjoyed learning and absolutely love being a nurse.
A few months ago, God put on Josh's heart that He wants him to go back to school and get his master's in theology. We prayed about where God wants us to go and slowly he put on our hearts Dallas Theological Seminary. We continued praying, applied, were accepted, and now we are planning on leaving August 1st, 2008. Our first challenge God has given us was to sell our home. The market here in Mansfield, OH is terrible, so we knew for our house to sell it would be a work of God. We spent the whole month of January painting and fixing up the house. We listed February 1st and by God's grace our house sold within three weeks. We feel this was another way that God confirmed to us that Dallas, TX is where he wants us in the fall.
These next few months we plan on living in a double that my mom owns and finishing up strong with the youth group and my job at the hospital. We hope to update you all on this process, so you can be as encouraged as we are with the blessing the Lord has given us.

Here are a few pics of the house in case you were never able to see it

Our Bedroom

Dining Room

Guest Bedroom

Kid's Room (Don't worry we don't have kids we staged it for selling )

Kitchen

Living Room