October

We have not been good at posting but life is very busy...

Mid October we went on the Fall Retreat with the high school group. The theme was "PURE" not just sexual purity but holiness. It was fabulous. It was at Winema near Pacific City. Three girls got baptized in the ocean and one girl gave her heart to the Lord. Her family is Buddhist and mom left the family here to go back to China, as in never coming back. Her friends in high school were the witness and then she started asking questions...When she gave her testimony Saturday night she said it was no big deal, "Ya, except that the angels in Heaven are having a huge party!!!" said my friend Paula. The slide you see is a slip'n'slide into an oatmeal pit! Hilarious...we also went to the Tillamook Cheese Factory. My cabin had some great talks and they were fabulous in helping the others out with their faith, tough questions, various verses to look at for answer, etc.

We also went to Seattle for Randy's friend's wedding. We stayed with some great friends up there which was so fun! Saturday afternoon we hopped the ferry to go to the wedding at 5pm little did we know we had the time wrong and it started at 2pm! So we turned around and rode the ferry again. We ended up going to PF Chang's for a date night since our friends were out with their friends...We determined we HATE the big city traffic, etc. We had a blast with our friends though. They have puppies, Leisha's jealous!!!


We celebrated Leisha's dad's 29th birthday! ;) He got a new book by Rob Bell and some chocolate and such. My brother brought his girlfriend, Laura. She's fabulous and fits right into the craziness that is the Randall/Vogl family! She understands Jason with that right there, she's a keeper ;) Haha, no she's very nice and funny. All Leisha's living grandparents were there to celebrate and play "Apples to Apples" where Randy won BOTH ROUNDS!!!!

September

Leisha started seeing her kids finally and is excited to be working at the Spanish preschool again and then this year Wednesday afternoons she's at Oregon School for the Deaf.

Randy's job is going great and just started a class to get his license to be an official tax preparer.

We started officially working with the high schoolers at church and LOVE IT! Brian and Paula are awesome pastors and it's excited to hear and share their passion for these kids. Randy's praying about leading a guys small group and Leisha is just starting this week as leading the worship team. She's not directly leading worship but helping raise up the leadership already there, students, and mentoring them as well as overseeing the practices, etc.

Leisha ran a half marathon middle of the month. It was very difficult since it was a trail run, the last 7 miles were uphill and the trail was marked 2 miles longer than an actual half (15.1ish miles instead of 13.1); but she finished and is looking forward to running another half marathon in January. Though this time she's thinking it'll be a road run.





One of our favorite things to do together is photography so one Saturday we went all around Salem taking pictures with different settings and lighting. Here are some of our favorite pictures.