Home Happenings
Thought we would update you on what we have been doing around our house the last few days. Jesse has a few days of vacation this week and so we thought we would take the opportunity to do some more fun stuff on our house. (ok, so I thought it would be fun and I admit I have been slave driving him around) 
We started with tearing up some carpet in our living room which is the space that we have been using for the office area. We then moved over to another area in our living room that has hard wood floor and we pulled all of that up to lay back down in the desk area. Here are a few pictures that will hopefully show what we are doing better then explain what we are doing.
Jesse pulling up the carpet in the office area of the living room.
Me pulling out all the staples from the carpet.
The other end of our living room where we are taking the hard wood floor from.
After 5 hours of tedious demolition we have picked up the hard wood in order to re-lay it back over in the office area.
So the next step is to re-lay the hardwood. After that is finish we just picked up some new carpet to lay down where the hard wood used to be and the remainder of our living room. We are very excited for these changes. It is so fun to be able to work on the house. Feel free to stop by and see it! We’ll update with more pictures as we continue to complete the rest of the living room project.
Geocaching Class
Recently I had the privilege, along with my friends Sam and Herbie, of teaching four classes over three days on the hobby/sport of Geocaching. Camp was hosting several different school groups on the grounds for Outdoor Education and they requested that we provide some instruction and experience in this new sport.
If you are unfamiliar with what Geocaching is, let me give you a real quick explanation. It is basically a hi-tech treasure hunt. People have hidden canisters or containers all over the world and have posted the coordinates on the web. You can get the coordinates, plot them in a GPS and then go search! We hid several different types of geocaches all over Camp’s property. Since the idea is to hide a container so that people wouldn’t find it unless they were looking for it, one of our hides was half of a sewer pipe that was partially dug into the ground on the drainfield! We thought it was pretty clever!
After a bit of explanation, we broke the class into two groups, headed out into the woods, and had a blast locating the caches. We had asked the students to be thinking about parables, or lessons about life and leadership that could be learned from Geocaching.
We need to trust that the GPS is accurate and will get us to where we are supposed to be. Just like the Bible...!
It was easy to not follow the leader, even though they had the GPS and were following the directions on it. I may need to follow those more closely that are in leadership.
Did you notice how the GPS would point us in a particular direction but sometimes we couldn’t get there without some “detours”. Its that way in life too. Sometimes we can look ahead and see where we want to be, but God may have us go a different direction to get there, instead of just a straight and easy shot.
It was really neat to see these kids make the connection between a fun activity in the outdoors and spiritual lessons that the Lord might be trying to teach them.
Explaining some of the details for our next cache
Showing how the GPS works
Signing the log book after a find
Whistlestop Marathon
This past weekend Lauren ad I got up bright and early (5:00am to be exact) with Hannah, Katelyn and Grandma Schutt. We drove to Ashland, WI where Hannah did a 13 mile marathon. The weather was beautiful and we sure had a lot of fun. We were all very proud of Hannah since she came in 72 out of 857 women. Pretty impressive, though she wasn’t jumping at the idea of doing another one any time soon!
Hannah rounding the last corner before the finish line. She is the one in all black furthest to the right.
Me, Gramma, Lauren, Hannah and Katelyn
