Easter - Mormance Style

Sometimes people ask me (Sharon) "What was it like marrying into the Mormance family?"

My first answer is usually, "Well, it was really intimidated marrying into a family where everyone is an amazing cook." But I love how the Mormances love to have fun! Here are just a few photos from our Easter gathering to give you a glimpse into what I mean:
These next two photos of Matt and his sister Shelley make me laugh:

Can you see the family resemblance? :-)

Happy Birthday Sis!

My parents came down on the 9th to celebrate my sister's birthday (ok and maybe to visit their new little granddaughter too).

Besides my wonderful husband, these are the people that I love the most:

As you can see in the photo, Lynn is holding Eliana.

My favorite part of the whole evening came when the waitress stopped by, looked at the two of them and asked, "How old is she?"

Lynn, still in birthday mode, was just beginning to say "I'm thir. . ." as I said "She is 7 weeks old."

Ha! Hanging out with Lynn always makes me laugh.

She thanked me later for answering before she did.

Livin it up with the little lady

I had the chance to do my first overnight babysitting job last night with my own Eliana, it was great. Sharon had the chance to go to a women's conference in town led by Beth Moore. This was an amazing opportunity that Sharon had been waiting a long time for.
So I got to take of my girl by taking care of my little girl Friday evening till Saturday afternoon.
Now, I have to admit it wasn't very hard. Eliana was great, she took it easy on her dad. I also got to hang out with a buddy last night who was watching his kids so his wife could go hear Beth speak.

I got some great girls.

Size of SLO

Many have wanted to know facts and figures about Slovenia. Here are a few interesting ones...

First, for those who are a bit geographically challenged, Slovenia is in Europe not Africa.
Here is a map of Europe with SLO highlighted in dark green.

The population of the country is 2,053,355
The population of Ljubljana, the capital where we'll live, is 275,000
Ljubljana is about the same latitude as Astoria Oregon
57% of the people are catholic and about .01% are protestant and 10% Athiest.

Since a photo is worth a thousand words I'll keep this short and just let you see just how BIG the country of Slovenia is in comparison to the State of Oregon.



Thanks to Johnny Stevens for creating this JPG.

The Culprit Revealed

Last night we had Kathy Codanti over for dinner. She got back a couple months ago from spending a year over in Slovenia as an intern. It was a good evening hearing all that God did in and through her during her time in SLO. It was also good to ask all kinds of questions about Slovenia, the people, and the culture, especially since we haven't visited there yet.

One thing that we discovered was particularly interesting. It seems that Kathy was the one who suggested to the leaders of Josiah Venture in Slovenia that they should contact Sharon and me to come there and start a University ministry. We have a lot to thank her for.

So it was fun to hang out, catch up, and hear how God is working behind the scenes and to hear part of "the rest of the story."

It was also another good reminder of the specific needs in Slovenia and to be honest, we can't wait to go and help fill some of those needs.