If Home Is Where Your Heart Is. . . .

So, I woke up early this morning because it is CHRISTMAS at Camp Kivu! I was so excited to surprise the leadership team! Every year Andy and I give them thank you gifts and this year we waited until Christmas morning to bust them out. I wen home and got some of my Christmas decorations and wrapping paper. I wrapped them all and put them under the tree. I brought my CocoaMotion (hot chocolate maker) from home and all kids of yummy hot chocolate! I was SO excited for this big surprise for our fantastic team! But much to MY surprise, when I got upstairs to our leadership office, instead, this is what I found on my desk! My girls are so kind and thoughtful and just such great friends! They had one box "for my home" filled with paper towels and laundry soap and hand soap and other goodies (they have been spending their time off at my house this summer). And they had another box "for my trip" filled with candy and drinks and snacks and DVDs (for the kids). I am ...

Maggie made it to camp and she is in the same cabin with one of her best friends from when we lived in Branson. . .and they are bunk-mates! Yea for Maggie & Emmy!!!

Lesley did another great hair do for Gabby! Thanks, Les!

Look at these ADORABLE pinatas that I am sending to the girls at camp! I am SO EXCITED about them! (Ashlynn and Kathryn are my cousin's kids.) They are filled with fun camp treats and I cannot wait for the girls to get them! If you want to order you own, go to Posh Pinata (click on name to go to site).

Okay, so this word picture came to me the other day as I was driving. I thought it was a pretty special word picture, but when I told Andy about it, he didn't see it as very special. . .you can be the judge (in fairness to Andy, at the end I'll tell you what part he didn't like about it). I feel like our marriage/relationship finally hit the fine wine stage (I do realize that we may have like 60 more years together, but fine wine gets even better with time). I feel like we started as grape juice. . .and grape juice is really yummy and sweet. . .nothing at all wrong with grape juice!! Skip forward almost 2 decades of knowing each other (the fermenting process) when everything isn't always sweet and I feel like now we have become fine wine. I feel like we have reached this safe and comfortable place and it is a very good place. I feel like this is a real place and a open place and a fun place. I feel like all of the imaginary people will be asking for the inaginary ...