I am moving my blog over to the blogger platform. I have found weebly to be extremely difficult to work with and my dear friends in Uganda can't access it. I have cut and paste this entire blog over there, so I hope to see you there!
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Timothy and Katelyn started at Covenant College yesterday. I'm so incredibly thankful that God has made the way for them to go. I appreciate the Christ centered approach to academics that Covenant takes and their emphasis on Christian community. Timothy and Katelyn were invited to be a part of the international students/third culture kids orientation which we were thankful for. Saying goodbye was hard. We've had so much loss and the kids are so incredibly close to each other that it's not easy. But we're counting down the days til we see them again!
Since Timothy and Katelyn are about to leave for college, we decided to take one last family vacation together. We went to Tennessee and camped for a week (primative tent camping!) on the banks of the Ocoee River right near the Tanasi trail system. We had so much fun. I thought that by the end of the week, we'd all be more than ready to go home, but other than the fact that we had completely run out of clean clothes, we totally weren't. We went biking, hiking, floating down the river, and rafting. We came home filled up on s'mores and precious memories. Here's the photo dump (The pictures are posted in gallery form, so you can click on them to expand them): The mountain biking trails were great. There were lots of places the littles could bike around. And more challenging trails for the big kids. The first time the big kids and I went out, we were on the Tanasi trails. They were pretty tough, especially going up. It was a 1000ft. elevation gain in a little over three miles and the trails were rooty and rocky with some shelf trail that you just don't look down. haha... We had to get off a few times to push our bikes through, but most of it was doable and the down hill was great fun. The second major ride we did was less elevation gain, but most of it was a narrow shelf trail. It was faster and very flowy though, so it was pretty fun. The only hitch was that the kids didn't hear me say that it was an out and back, so when we were nearing the turn around, and I said that we were almost to the end of the trail, they were happy until I said, "So now we turn around and go back!" mwahaha! One day we did a hike to Benton Falls. It was such a beautiful day and a beautiful trail. We also had fun climbing up the rocks to the top falls and playing in the water. Perhaps my favorite thing from the week was being right next to the river. I hung my hammock over the edge and spent quite a few hours reading and thinking and praying there. It was peaceful and refreshing. We also had great fun floating down the river. We could walk to one end of the campground, jump in and float down to the other end. It was great fun as long as we made sure to swim to the side in time...lol... I'm so blessed by these kids and was so happy to get to spend a week with them! (and a week with no cell service...bonus!) God has been so gracious to us!
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Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19 Archives
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