Sky Ranch & Thanksgiving

SKY RANCH

We went to Sky Ranch, which is a Christian camp in Van, TX, as youth sponsors with our youth group. It was AMAZING! We (as in Eli & me) had never been there before. We had 17 kids go and 4 adults go. We had a Thanksgiving dinner at church and then the kids sang at our 6:30pm worship service on Sunday night. After the service, we loaded up and left. Eli drove our Tahoe with the trailer and Sean, the youth minister, drove the church van. We had 4 girls and 1 boy in our truck….so we called our vehicle the “PARTY CAR”! We sang and goofed off the whole way. So fun! We got down there and couldn’t find the way in because the sign feel down. Sean kept turning around and making Eli turn around with a trailer hooked up….finally Eli just pulled over and waited for Sean to pass us again and tell us to turn around. Then all of a sudden, we here screaming and gasping coming from the back row of seats…..there was a guy walking up to Eli’s windows. This was a scene right out of a scary movie….and the one boy that we had in our car was telling us everything that would happen next in a scary movie! The guy asked if we were lost and we said yes and told him we were looking for Sky Ranch. He said, “Well, follow me; I know right where it is!” So….do we follow this stranger that we don’t know down these country roads, where there are NO lights, NO other cars on the road, NO one to find our dead bodies……YES, we followed him….with 4 screaming 11 year old girls! He took us right to the entrance!! We called him our angel in the mustang! He was driving a Mustang. We told to watch out for the church van and tell them how to get there…..little did we know that Sean had found it by now and was sitting there waiting on us!

Monday morning was our fun packed day! We rode horses and went on a Cattle Drive, we went down a zip line, which scared me to death, we paintballed, we did a rope course, swung on a pendulum, jumped on a jumping pillow……ok well I didn’t do all of that. By noon, I was pooped out! I am getting too old! It was a BLAST though. Just watching these kids made me happy! We had a great group of kids. Believe it or not…..they get along really good. After dinner that night we went down behind our cabins to a bonfire to have a bible study and eat smores! It was so dark out there. There were no light on, I had to use my phone as a flashlight to see where I was walking! One of the boys wanted to play his guitar and sing Days of Elijah…..so Eli took him back up to the cabin to get his guitar. They were walking down to the bonfire and there are stairs made out of wood. Eli step on a step and there was a tree stump in the step and it broke so his foot went down in a hole. When they finally made it to the bonfire, Eli’s ankle looked like a baseball was attached to the side of it! The fire wouldn’t stay lit either! Eli and I headed back to cabins before everyone else. Sean found him some ice and found an EMT to come look at it. Well…..a week later….it is still swollen and bruised and he is still in pain! I finally convinced him to go to the doctor. We are going this afternoon. I pray that it isn’t broke!!!

Tuesday morning we woke up and headed home! The guys went to hook the trailer back up to our Tahoe to fine that the lock on the trailer hitch had popped off somewhere on the highway (probably went we had to keep turning around)! So they hooked up the trailer and found a way to make it all stay together. We got back to the church and all the kids started getting their stuff out and we realized that the trailer was never “screwed” on! It is a miracle we made it back with that trailer!

Eli & I had so much fun and can’t wait to do it again next year! These kids are amazing!

THANKSGIVING!

We went to my aunt’s house in Lewisville on Thanksgiving. Everyone was there except my sister and my mom, but that’s because we didn’t invite my mom! It was fun like always. The 3 F’s….food, family & football! What more could you ask for? I wish Heather would have been there, but that’s what happens when you get married. She will be with on Christmas!

Eli mom and brother came down from Arkansas. They got here Wednesday night and stayed until Sunday morning! I love his family. I am so glad too. I would hate to be one of those women that can’t stand their husbands family. It is truly a blessing that we all love each other. They are great. While his mom and middle brother were here his younger brother that lives in Plano came and stayed with us too! We were like one big family. It was great to see everyone together again. They are going to try and come down for Christmas too. I hope they can. Christmas is always at my house and I say the more the merrier! We had about 40 people at our house a couple of years ago. I love Christmas!

My wrist is hurting, so I calling it quits for now! Thanks for reading. God Bless.