Happy Thanksgiving!

This thanksgiving has already been a trip to remember.  We started out going to visit my family in Escanaba MI!  It has been awhile since I have been there and it was great to visit with my grandma and sisters family.  One of the nights we were able to spend together making cutout cookies.  And let me tell you they were good…

Later that trip my sister and her husband went out geocaching with Jesse and I.

As we were making our way to MN before Thanksgiving to spend some time with Jesse’s family, we stopped at Piers Gorge.  This is a beautiful spot past Norway, MI with lots of waterfalls and rapids.

Thanksgiving is always a great time to stop and reflect on all that the Lord has done for us.  One of the traditions Jesse’s family has is that everyone goes around the table before we eat and shares something we are thankful for.  It is amazing how good God is to us!  Praise His name.

Our trip in MN could not be complete without taking the family in Sandstone out geocaching.  We were able to find 10 today and had lots of fun along the way!  Jesse and I even found our 150th cache.

Board Retreat Weekend

This past weekend at camp was a lot of fun.  Once a year camp puts on a retreat for all the board of directors.  It is a great time to get to know all of them and spend some time enjoying one another’s company.  On Saturday afternoon the CFS wives and the Board wives all got together for a chance to fellowship.  One of the staff wives gave a great devotional on pottery.  As she was making a pot on the wheel she reminded us how God so gently and lovingly crafts us.  It is quite a process to get a lump of clay to look like a beautiful, useful object.  It was encouraging to hear the correlation to how God spends so much time shaping me! 

On Sunday the board of directors took the whole staff to a water park near Wausau for an appreciation party.  It was so much fun.  The first time either Jesse or I have been to a water park.  They had 3 giant waterslides that we took advantage of quite a bit.  Don’t worry I checked it out with my midwife before going and she said it was o.k.!  I wish we had taken a picture but one of the waterslides, which many of us named the toilet bowl, was so much fun.  It would shoot you out into this giant bowl where you would go around in a circle a few times before sliding into the end of the slide.  It was alot of fun!

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Last night we celebrated Jesse’s birthday with a very fun surprise party.  Since he really likes to geocache I hit his presents in the woods and gave him the coordinates to go find them.  There are 2 other guys that closely share the same birthday so we sent all three of them out looking for their gifts at the same time.  The final coordinates led them all to a surprise party!

I am so thankful to be blessed with an amazing husband.  He just turned 26 and I look forward to spending many more years with him in the future!  I love you Jess!