Ricketts Glen!

We visited Ricketts Glen for a day during our "Staycation" this year.   

Thursday, June 28, 2012

A long and beautiful hike!

Farewell To The Hunting Cabin!

This Summer we made our last visit to the Hunting Cabin! On August 12th 2011 we set out on a great adventure to say farewell to the Hunting Cabin. We stayed there for the weekend then headed home. Here are some pictures of our time! Enjoy!

                                     

Geoff's off duty post...

I'm off duty for this year. After two 12 hour shifts and one 6 hour shift we have almost 100% of the groups safely tucked in here at Creation 2011. Now I get a chance to look at pix and post some. Some of these are mine, some are Karla's and some are Sarah's.

Dad enjoying the view from the deck.

Joy and Vinson camping "Indi's" as Vinson calls them.

Me, (Geoff) Margaret, and Joanie directing campers at "the bottom of the hill".

This is the line we faced for many hours...

Sarah heading out to help Vinson and Joy camp people.

Proof for my mom that I AM using sunscreen... Love you mom!

Erin being creative with canvas...

Mom enjoying the view...

My wonderful wife, reading a good book and relaxing. Thanks dear, I love you!

More Creation Photos

Here's another round of photos, taken Wednesday and today. These are just ones I've taken (on multiple cameras), but my parents have many more.

Lecrae opened for Creation Wednesday on the main stage.

My little sister is a supervisor - see the radio for proof. :)

Grandma, Mom, Joanie Brown, Margaret, and I made a grocery store run to bring a gallon of ice cream out to the crew working Individual Camping in H field on Wednesday night - special request made by Joy. :)

Front Gate.

Joanie & Margaret working the bottom of the hill for Group Camping (Dad supervises).

Thursday morning reading material.

I went out with Vinson and Joy in K field for a dose of Individual Camping. Much dust. Few cars.

Lecrae preached a solid gospel message at the fringe stage. It was great to see so many people there.

Creation 2011 - Tuesday

Our whole family is out here at Mt. Union for the Creation festival. Here are some shots I took yesterday, Tuesday. I came up with my mom and grandparents after work on Monday.

We will have many more photos coming.

 View from the Lookout - main stage on right

 Margaret, Joy, and Joanie Brown at the lookout.

 Making paper

Erin, Joanie, and I did some painting/splattering

Dayspring 7th Grade Creation Trip 2011

7^th grade at my school went on a field trip. It’s called the Creation Trip. First we went to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh (which is based on evolution), and then we went to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. And we kind of like compared them to each other. And we stayed in two hotels. It was rally fun. The one had a swimming pool and a hot tub, but the pool was hotter then the hot tub. And the swimming pool was so hot you could see the steam on it! I think it wasn’t supposed to be like that! J It was fun anyway! Then on the way home we stopped at the Flight 93 Memorial. It was really tiring! We were in the bus for most of the time. It was so fun!

Get-Away

The ladies from my parents' and the Minichs' caregroup had a retreat at a cabin, about 2 hours west of us, Friday night until early evening Saturday. We took advantage of the second weekend night when my parents, sisters, some of the Minichs (Mike & Sue, and Kiera), and I spent Saturday evening through this afternoon out there as well. I cannot tell you how much I appreciated some time to get away and rest. Being disconnected for even such a short time was a wonderful blessing to just stop and do not much of anything but enjoy the goodness of God in the moment. I only wish it could have been longer. Although I am right back to the start of another week, I am nonetheless still thankful for the bright spot of this short "vacation". It was a little treasured nugget of time, filled with rest, contentment, peace, joy, and enjoyment in simply being with some of the people I love most. Both of my parents took the below shots.

Dad captured our reaction to a spider.

Mom was very interested in showing us some frogs she had seen, but we saw frog eggs instead. *ick* Not my idea of a lovely shot, but I think my parents were slightly engrossed (key-note from that word: "gross").