A fun week :)

Hello friends and family!!

This week was pretty eventful.

Kel and Dan on the "Giant's Ladder"

     Kelly went up to the city of Big Bear, which is a little over three hours north of us. He went with his supervisor, Dan, to do some high-ropes training. The elevation is about 7,000ft... a little over 3,000ft higher than where we are (notice the snow).  Kelly told me that he could definitely feel the difference in elevation- he was huffing and puffing doing some of the activities (blame it on the elevation- not the fact that we know we need to get back into shape). Participants were taught multiple things during this two day training. Things like learning how to tie different types of knots in rope, how to perform safe belay techniques, how to rescue someone on a high ropes course if they are injured, etc. Kelly knew how to do the majority of the things he was "being trained on" because he learned it all while working at Timber-lee. Dan, however, learned something new: he learned that Kelly knows how to do all of this stuff! Kelly and I knew that he knew how to tie knots, perform different belay techniques, and rescue someone from a high ropes course, but before the trip, Dan never knew how "capable" Kelly was.  This trip was a good thing. :) Hopefully Kelly will be able to have more freedom in his job instead of people telling him what to do/how to do things.

Haley working

Kelly working

     Friday/Saturday/Sunday was our first Women's Conference Weekend.  About 250 women came to Pine Valley for a women's retreat. Normally, our camp is an outfitter- where church groups rent our facilities- most groups bring their own "speaker" or pastor, and do their own music. However, this weekend was different because as a camp, we hosted the retreat. We had a speaker and band come up for the weekend and we put together all the different activities for the ladies.  Staff men were supposed to be "invisible", hence the title of the event: "women's conference".  Kel, since he is the Rec. Manager, was still in charge of high ropes and paintball.  He was also asked to be in charge of Power Point for all of the chapel sessions (because he is better at it than any of our staff ladies- it's okay to chuckle).  I was able to do some decorating in the dining hall, help with high ropes, go on a 4 mile hike in the national forest (where we live!), and help out staff if they needed something. We now have our 2nd women's conference tomorrow! It is supposed to be rainy and much colder than last weekend. Pretty gross, right?

     Our week was complete when we found out that my aunt and uncle were in San Diego for a work conference!  Kelly and I drove an hour down the hill and met up with them for lunch.  It was absolutely fantastic!!!!  Although they weren't down here specifically to visit us, I give them the honor of being our first visitors. My only complaint is that we didn't think to have a picture taken of the four of us!!! Next time, Sue and Terry!

Oh. And I buzzed Kelly's hair.

     While Kel and I were down in the area that day, we went to Ikea and got a dresser. Yay!  We also went to the beach on Coronado Island for a few short minutes to look at the pretty ocean. And had free Chick-fil-A for dinner. :)

*If you would like to read about how I won free Chick-fil-A for a year, there will be another blog post specifically about that coming later today.*

Prayer requests:
*Still looking for a church - Kel and I were busy last Sunday and will be busy this Sunday because of the conferences... so we will continue our search Sun. the 17th.
*Kelly specifically- dealing with the busyness of camp, while staying focused on the Lord and our marriage.