Tristin has arrived! And finally an update from us! :) Sorry it’s been so long since our last update. A lot has been going on :) as you can see with the picture above us ;). Tristin Lion Roque arrived right on his due date Dec 15, 2017 at 5:28pm! Labor was only 2 1/2 hrs and amazing and was done right at home with midwives. God was so present and everything went so smoothly. Tristin means BOLD and Valiant! My mom came all the way from Hawaii for 3 weeks and helped out SO much! I cried when she left :). There’s no one like your mom!  Also Luke's sister Becky came and we all got to celebrate the birth of our new son and have some family around for Christmas! So fun! In January my dad came to visit as well to see Tristin and Josiah and us of course ;). It's been amazing being close enough for family to come and visit now that we live back in the states for a bit. Josiah turned TWO! It was so much fun celebrating Josiah's second year birthday Jan 8th with some new friends we've made here in Redding. His favorite movie lately has been Finding Nemo so we did a theme party for him. So much fun!

What's the latest with the show? We've been working with a guy here at Bethel who God hooked us up with. He's one of the Bethel pastors who is in charge of a lot of the artistic stuff that happens here. He's done 20 years of theatre and is good with storyline writing so we've been meeting with him every other week working on the storyline for our show. To be honest it's been a daunting task trying to come up with a good storyline. I mean we had a rough draft but now that we are going into detail and thinking of every little thing we need for each scene it takes a LOT OF TIME! But we are being faithful to keep slugging away haha. We are in the pioneer stages of this thing so everything feels slow but we know God is in it. Coolest story lately: Luke and I both felt that we were supposed to do a promo video for our show. But we didn’t know how to film it ourselves or how to go about it.Two days later this guy called up Luke out of nowhere and said, “We should have coffee together. I remember you from being at Reality church years ago. I’m up here in Redding for a few days and would love to see you.” Luke wasn’t sure what the coffee date was about but he said sure.As they were hanging out the guy said the Holy Spirit told him he was supposed to do a video for us!!! And he had NO IDEA about us needing one or even about us doing this show. We were floored. So we prepped the script and he came over Saturday and we filmed the video! God continues to blow us away how He keeps opening doors for this show and how he keeps spurring it forward. We just got back the edited version and are praying about what to do with it next. Keep us in prayer as we figure out what God is saying in all this.  Well that's it from us for now! Just enjoying baby snuggles in the meantime! Can't believe God gave us two kids already!! How did that happen? Miracles! Jesus! Okay love you all!!  Bethany, Luke, Josiah and Tristin!