Winter Blast

Since I am horrible at updating this blog, I am going to talk about what happened two weekends ago. We had the chance to take the 6th graders from church, out for Winter Blaze. We drove a few hours down to the Kalamazoo (which isnt too far from Hell) region. Yours truly lead the beautiful chorus of angels in singing on the way. The singing didn't go as well as last year's White Out but the kids in the group were younger and excited. Anyways, we got there safely right in time for a pizza party and then late night tubing.

My darlings, (the girls) all were amazing to spend time with this weekend. I was so glad to be able to kick back and relax with them. I love those girlies, but boy they are sure talkative. I am not even talking about during the day, at night they were talking in their sleep. It was stinking hilarious! : )

I have been to a total of three camps for the winter Lake Ann, CoBeAc, and Bair Lake. By far, Bair Lake has the best hill. You would jump on a tube and found yourself speeding down the hill without speeds up in the 100's...well maybe not but hey it felt like it. The hill was easy to climb back up which is nice. I love Lake Ann's hills...despite the 3rd one on the right giving me a pretty nasty concussion but they are hard to climb. Anywhoo, we had tons of fun with the hills and the kids. We had a very large tube that we attempted to put ten kids including myself on. The hill went down a few feet and then flipped over. I flew forward doing a flip that started on my neck so I could rush the arthritis that is building there. I fell to the ground on my back. I lied there with my neck and back hurting when I heard someone saying one of my girl's were hurt. I got up and ran to her side. She had tears streaming down her cheeks as she said she hit her head on the ice. Though I dont have the memory or witnesses to prove it, that is how I got my concussion at Lake Ann. After a little love and care though, Elizabeth was okay. We proceeded to have an incredible time tubing through out the weekend. Note: soccer punching yourself in the stomach is not the way to enjoy tubing to its full extent.

We sat under the amazing teachings of Kevin. All through his internship I have heard great things about his style being really awesome but I had not the chance to sit under him until this past weekend. I am surely glad I had the chance. He challenaged me if not the kids.

I believe the trip went very well despite a few drama issues that Miss Rachel had to come down on. After this trip, my love for my little darlings just increased. I love them so much! : )