Question for me??? Sure!!!
You asked and here are your answers. You may or may not like them.
First tooth peeking through a week and a half ago. 
Questions from Robbin
How did you and Shay meet?
How can I shorten our love story in a few sentences. Shay and I met at the local community college. He was working at the computer lab where I applied for a job. We ended working together during the same shift. We started to hang out together. He was the quiet keep to himself dude and I was the outgoing bubbly gal who just got back from my summer mission’s trip to Thailand. When we started hanging out, it wasn’t because I was at all interested in having more than a friendship with Shay. He wasn’t a Christian and so our values were different and it just want going to work. He then came to an International Christian Fellowship I attended in Escondido. There he became more interested in what it meant to follow Jesus. I then left for Moody…a bible college in the heart of Chicago. While I was gone, the Lord drew Shay to saving faith to accept Jesus as his personal Savior. Then I came home that first Christmas from college and we realized there were feelings of more than just friends. We were engaged the following year in 2001 and then married in Hilo, Hawaii in 2002. That’s the “short” version. If you want to long version…we need food and drinks and a few hours to sit down and talk about it. Thanks for the question Robbin.
Questions from Mel and Jennifer
Why homeschooling? Wow, two women asked me this same question! I couldn’t believe it! Ok, so why home schooling? You may think, maybe you were pressured to do this? You follow a group of mom friends that are all going to home school? Actually if any pressure was given, it would be with our public school system. Even some of our friends who are working in the public school system say how awful it is these days. That even high school students don’t know who the vice president of the United States is. But not all of our friends are home schooling. Home schooling is not for everyone. I myself was hesitant to jump into this stage of life. I didn’t think I could do it. I was really scared but after talking to those who have been homeschooling for a few years now and the fact that Shay is so supportive, we jumped right in. Remember again I was close to having our lil guy Oliver when we started. I thought I was crazy to head this direction, but we sure learned a lot! Yes, even me…I was re-learning all about historical events, grammar (I will forever be learning grammar), Math, Science and Bible. With that said, we will take homeschooling year by year. There are so many benefits. We get the one on one time with our kids. The kids best friends are their siblings. We don’t have to stay up all night to do homework. We get everything done before lunch time. Again we are still in kindergarten. And we are learning as we go, from the moment we wake up in the morning till we get to bed at night. In everything we do it can all relate to something we have learned. Oh yeah, and we like the fact that we can take our vacation when everyone else are still in school session.
Women in ministry? So my questions… are we not ministering to our own children? Are we not ministering to women around us in all that we do? At least we should be. Now if you are ministering is getting in the way of your calling as a wife or as a mother to your children, then I would say you need to look back to the Bible in what it has to say about our positions as women. I don’t think that overstepping men leaders in the church is Biblically correct. I think that the Lord has called us to minister to young people and to other women. So sure woman can minister. 
Ministry Degree is outdated or not?
I guess I never really thought about it till now. I know many say that it’s better to get a secular degree like engineering or teaching that paves a way to at least getting a job in the “real world” and then pursue a ministry degree later. I know that in some countries, they won’t let you in unless you have some kind of technical or functional job to offer that will benefit their country. My answer…hmmm…well you don’t need a ministry degree to do ministry. I don’t think the Apostle Paul had a ministry degree.
Questions from Cheloy in the Philippines
You graduated with a Biblical Studies Degree?
I did graduate with a Bible degree from college but I didn’t begin my college career pursuing that degree. I actually wanted to get a TESOL degree…Teaching English to Speakers of Other languages. I thought I was going to be a missionary overseas in a country where I could use teaching English in some rural area. Now, being a missionary overseas could be somewhere in the future, but currently as Greg Koukl, “Bloom where you are planted”.
How was it like going to Bible college?
It was the hardest and most wonderful time of my college career. I loved being with other people who were there learning more of God’s word. I had amazing professors who wanted to teach me of who God is and who I am as a child of God. I loved that my profs were personable and challenged me academically and in my personal walk with the Lord. I also made a few good friends while I was there. And a few I still keep in touch with. But it was hard…lots of papers, lots of books to read. We would say things like “Don’t my profs know I have other classes that I need to read books and write papers for?”
What was the most interesting thing I learned while I was there?
Don’t assume that all Caucasians can’t speak Tagalog. And sometimes they speak Tagalog better than you. But seriously, my favorite class was Systematic Theology I, II, and III.
With all those questions about college and degrees, here I am. I’m a sinner, saved by Grace, always and forever loved by the Lord despites all my faults and flaws, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend and yes even a photographer.
Thanks for reading friends.
