Couple's Retreat

We had such a nice time at the camp this weekend. We went for our church's couple's retreat. Of course, we brought our kids along, so, for us, it was a sort-of family/couple's retreat.

The weather was magical, the food was great (steak on Friday night!), the Gilliams were super-as usual, and the preaching was just what I needed. Dr. David Carr from Midwestern was our speaker.

We actually did get to spend a lot of time together as a couple, due to the fact that our kids and the Gilliam's kids are pretty much inseperable when they are together. They played, and we hung out-it was ideal!

One of our "assignments" was to see how many different types of leaves we could collect, so we went for a little walk in the woods. Leave it to Jason to be the only one who can go for a walk on a 100+ acre campsite, and end up on someone elses' land! He was never lost, mind you, and we were only 15 minutes late for lunch! After all of that walking, we lost the leaf project: Pastor and Mrs. Debbie had all of their leaves labelled. Pretty impressive. And-Jim and Glenda had stuff like lettuce and decorator plastic fall leaves from off of the tables in their collection.

After lunch, we rode in the Geo. Jason drove-blindfolded. I told him where to go. For some reason, I kept pointing. "Go THIS way!!" Ha! I'm an idiot! We drove through an obstacle course-it was so funny. Jason couldn't even tell if he was moving or not-weird, huh?

On the way home, we went to Rockford. Every fall, Rockford has their outdoor farm market. We got blackberries the size of cherries-oh. my. word. Yummy is all I can say. We ate at Arnie's-the converted old mill, and it was delicious. After that we got an icecream, which Eric promptly decided to wear. Rockford is such a charming town-if you ever get the chance, go spend a weekend there.

We are back home, back to school, back to regular old real life: Meatloaf for dinner, and long division. Regular old real life is really not so bad. Even my meatloaf is pretty good!