Our Vacation

This week William, myself and my parents took off for some R&R. Our first three days this week we drove up to Haliburton. My Aunt and Uncle have had a camp site there since I was born and I hadn't been back since I was 13, so I was very excited to spend some time there again. The highlight, of course, was the swing knot that goes out over the water. Pictures to follow. We also ate some Bass for dinner which was really good. We went canoing and did lots of swimming. The weather was beautiful.

Our second adventure took us South to Sarnia. There, we stayed with some good friends, did some sight seeing, shopping and swimming in their pool and at the beach. Again the weather was gorgeous.

We had a great week off and are looking forward to our youth group kick-off this Sept. 10.

Beach (Lake Hurion)

Bridge to USA

Steve and Jess

Jess and I

Jess, Steve, and Marilyn

Daddy and I

Mom, Jess, and Marilyn

Fish and Chips on the water

Canoing

Camp Site (Will and I's tent)

Uncle Mike, Aunt Sharon, William, Melanie

Mom and I

Dad and I

Kaylie

Uncle Mike and his lucky catch

This is one special dog!!!

Camp Fire

All of us at Breakfast

These houses were built by my cousin Aaron

Me the giant (ha ha)

Beautiful view

Dad on the swing knot

Rush Day Camp Week 2

We have just finished another week of RUSH, with about half the number of kids we had our first week, so it was quite a different camp, but everything went smoothly. Well almost everything!!! We all went swimming the last hour we were camping up north and William decided to run into Georgian Bay after the kids and he hit some sort of a hole and rolled over on his left ankle. He is on crutches for two weeks with pulled ligaments! Hopefully he'll be done getting hurt for a long time now!

All in all we had a great week with 9 kids. It was quiet and relaxed and we were able to get to know each one on a deeper lever because of the smaller numbers. Again here are some more pictures.

Just hangin'

Am I doing this right?

Mountain Biking

Fender (Will) and Squirt (Jenn)

My parents came down for the long weekend and we took a drive to the dry lift at Big Chute in Severn. It's pretty neat how it all works. Here are some pictures.

The old dry lift

Boats being lifted out of the water on the new one

The mechanics of it all!

Me and Dad

Me and Mom

RUSH Day Camp

This week we had three different Jr. High Camps running. The one Will and I were helping to lead was called Rush. Our days starts early with staff devotions and prayer time and the then the kids arrive around 9am. We then have some games, worship, speaking and small groups. After lunch our team, this week, went tree top trekking, mountain biking and over night camping at Awenda Provincial Park. The park was beautiful and hardly any bugs, it was a blast. We had 19 kids and 5 adults this week in our RUSH camp.

Here are some more pictures.

Will leading youth worship

Tree top trekking

Will's mountain bike boo boo
Will's metal pedal came in contact with his shin

OUCH!
No stitches needed thank goodness

Jr. Sr. High youth night

Every Wednesday the Jr and Sr High's go to someones house, from our church, and we do a pool party and BBQ. Here are some pics of last week's youth night.

At the Cottage

Our summer is in full swing now starting with a fun College and Career getaway at the Boden's cottage and as well 7 full weeks of kids day camp at the church.

We had a great weekend at the cottage with about 5 others. We went skiing, swimming, cliff jumping, tubing and well just relaxed and enjoyed the hot summer sunny days. Here are some pictures of our weekend.

Alicia and Kelly enjoying a swim

Cliff jumping

Will skiing

Will trying to float. Think you have enough noodles Will?

Mel Slalaming

Kelly on the tube just before she wiped out!

Ontario Bound

It has been just over a month ago that we landed in Barrie now and we love it here. We are living in town close to everything, including the water just downtown. We celebrated Canada a few days ago with a huge 15 minute display of awesome fireworks and then a long walk by the water waiting for traffic to go away. We got home a midnight!

William is doing well in his new position as Associate Pastor of Youth and Worship. He has his hands full, but he's staying above water. Learning names is a challenge for us both. Everyone knows us, but we don't know them! But slowly we are making the connections as time goes on.

I am doing my own Graphic Design business from home as well as helping out at the church with Day Camp this summer.

Time is flying by, but we've enjoyed the move and the people are very friendly and welcoming. We're getting to know the town pretty good. We love to take drives to places we've never been and just check out new areas. We're looking forward to maybe doing some camping again this summer if the weather stops being so rainy and overcast all the time.