Our Weekend

It's Tuesday and I feel like I'm finally coming out of the fog of the weekend!  We went camping with several families from our homeschool co-op, High Country, and had a really good time...minus all the "incidents" :)...  there were bee stings, snakes, concussions, multiple car jumps due to dead batteries, sleepless nights with infants and even some pre-schoolers...and the list goes on!

It really was fun though, we were able to sit up at night and chat after the children went to bed and get to know each other a bit better; that some of us are cold, no matter what the temp., and that we all enjoy the outdoors and so we started talking about other trips we can take.  I so appreciate the group's patience with each other, the grace that abounded with our children, and that God loves us and looks out for us, even in the small stuff.

Our car, in particular, died twice.  On Saturday, as we were preparing to leave for the Civil War Encampment down in Parker, the car wouldn't start.  We got a jump from our friends and were on our way...stopped the car to get gas and also in Parker at the encampment, and had no problems...figured one of the kids must have left an interior light on overnight.  Well, Sunday morning, it was dead again, and I do mean DEAD....it took over 30 minutes to bring it back to life and so we WERE NOT turning it off...we came straight home and dropped off all the stuff and the kids, and Indy took the car right over to Autozone.  Now, we had talked on the way home, that we couldn't remember where we got the battery; but, knew it was less than two years ago.  The car had died on our ski trip to Keystone in Jan of '09 (SNOFEST, the military ski weekend).  The people at Autozone immediately recognized the battery as theirs and tested it, said it was bad, and gave us a new one!!!!!  No charge!!!  Can you believe it?  I was floored....  Thank you Lord!

Matthew 6:26   Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not worth much more than they?


Here are just a few pictures from our weekend....

Sissi and her new dance teacher, Bethany...she has class on Friday afternoons from 3:30-4:30

Sissi and big brother (still undecided on psuedonym...either Krypto or Spaceman Spiff, any votes???) with President Lincoln.  He gave them pennies, with his picture on them ;), who needs re-election buttons when you can hand out pennies?

A cooking demonstration at the Civil War Encampment on Saturday

By the "beach" at the camping place on Sunday morning

Gwangi (look up the old movie, and this nickname will make so much more sense) with his rocks!

My big boy, up in the tree...what a great location for some family fun!