Update 3

This week has DEFINITELY gone by faster than the last! I can't believe how quickly the days go by. Our third staff member (Michelle) arrived last Monday, so that was a huge help as we prepared for the big group that arrived Sunday evening. Last Wednesday night the Lake City youth came out to David and Rosie's to have s'mores around a camp fire and listen to their testimonies. We were all impressed with how intentively they listened.

The biggest event of last week was probably the TNT dance party party at Camp Redcloud (TNT is the high school "work crew" of Redcloud). It's open to anyone who wants to go and since Seth and Crystal were taking some of the youth, we decided to join in on the fun. Everyone dresses silly and we all dance it up until the music stops.

The big group staying with us this week are a lot of old Camp Peniel folks (including some of David and Rosie's kids) and their young families. I've really enjoyed having the little kids around. :) Royce, Michelle and I are babysitting them while the parents go out to dinner Wednesday night.

We find ourselves continuously amazed by God's beauty and creativity in the nature that surrounds us. Even though it's been cloudy and looked like rain all week, the scenery never seems to get old. We're trying to savor every moment of being here, especially the cooler weather.

The only pictures I managed to take this week were of the dance party... enjoy!

Jule' and I sporting beautimous wigs.
Seth (a.k.a. Beehaw) was the D.J. for the evening.

My husband has gone retro.

WOOHOO!

I was a blondish-gray Seniorita and Crystal was a onsey-wearing Prom Queen!

Update 2

Wow, our first full week at the Inn went by so quickly! We’ve made multiple new friends (both visitors and locals), washed a lot of dishes, changed a lot of bed sheets, learned new dance moves in our dance class, and seen many sweet guests come and go. It’s been such a fun week. Royce and I went on our first mountain bike ride the other day. We rode around the entire lake that the Inn sits on… its 6 miles. And may I just say that a 6 mile bike ride in the mountains is NOTHING like a 6 mile bike ride in Texas!!! I haven’t been that worn out in a long time. Of course my stud of a husband did fine, but I definitely walked my bike up a few of the steep hills. :)

One of our favorite parts of this past week was a devotion David did with our guests one morning after breakfast. He talked about how everyone experiences storms in life that keep us from focusing on our daily walk with Him. We thought it was neat that he chose the word “storm” because it was an actual storm that turned our little world upside down right before we left for Colorado. We both felt that God knew what He was doing when He laid it on our hearts to work at the Inn over a year ago. David continued his devotion by sharing part of Matthew 6:30 where Jesus says, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” We decided to make this verse our theme for the summer because while we are here to work this summer, we are also feeling so refreshed by being here. It was a perfect time in our lives for us to come to a quiet place and rest. How great is our God and our perfect is His timing!!

Some pictures of our recent adventures…

Yahtzee is our game for the summer... I don't think a day has gone by that we haven't played. Can't wait for you to play with us in a few weeks, Dad!

My new bike/early birthday present from Royce! It definitely made those steep hills a lot easier than they could've been!

After dance lessons Monday night.

With David and Rosie at the dance hall.

A day trip to Montrose with Crink! It's 2 hours away and also holds the location for the nearest Starbucks! (Thank you for the gift card Gram and Pop!)

We've arrived...

Lake City is amazing!!!!! We left Salado at 7:45 Friday night and arrived in Lake City at 11am Saturday morning. We actually pulled in right as Seth and Crystal were running a 10K so we passed them on the road! We decided to wait for them at the finish line, and then afterward we all went to lunch before Royce and I headed out to the Inn. David and Rosie (the owners of the Inn) let us take a nice long nap to catch up on our complete lack of sleep from driving through the night (we both got about 3 hours each). Then that evening they took us to eat and invited Seth and Crystal along. We were glad we were able to spend some good time with them because they left early Sunday morning for a mission trip and won't be back until this Saturday night.

We had our first 3 couples arrive at the Inn Sunday evening. It's been a great trial run for us because we'll be completely full in two weeks (10 rooms/30ish people)! Most of our days will look something like this... breakfast, devotions with the guests, clean up, clean any of the dirty rooms, water plants, sweep the porch, mop the floors if needed, etc.... and we should typically have most afternoons and evenings off. The town offers a lot of activities during the summer... on Monday nights they do $5 dancing lessons! Last night they taught us East Coast Swing! It was so much fun and Royce caught on really quickly. ;) They also have Bingo every Wednesday night in town and David is the caller! We're looking forward to that experience as well.

A few pics from the last few days...

Family photo with Sammy before we left Salado.

Don't be jealous, but this is our view from the front porch at the Inn.

Hanging out at the park in town yesterday afternoon. It was a high of 60 degrees. Perfect.

Come visit us if you can!

And so it begins...

So this is my attempt at making our first blog. It's pretty boring right now, but I'll spiff it up eventually.