What a weekend!

Every year our church's youth group goes to a weekend event called Freeze Out. Andrew is a small group leader with our youth group, so he has gone on a number of these weekends. As it always takes place near the end of January, he was told last year, by our youth pastor, that he could not go. With our wedding only a few weeks away, he figured we had a lot to do, and I think he thought that Andrew wouldn't be much help at that point in time anyway!

So, since he couldn't go last year, I told him that I would go along this year. 

What a fun weekend. We stayed at Lake Ann Camp near Traverse City. It is a beautiful camp. There were a lot of snowy weather activities: tubing, snowshoeing, hockey, and a lot of snowball fights. A number of the girls (and a couple of the smaller middle school boys) got thrown into the snowbank for throwing snowballs. 

There was worship time with Heartsong, a group from Cedarville University in Ohio, and Ken Rudolph was there to teach us. It was an amazing learning experience for all of us. 

In the girls cabin, we did have a little issue Friday night when the plumbing had a problem and started backing up into our bathroom. We had a number of people there that night trying to fix it. Lights out is at midnight, but it wasn't until well after 1am before they finally left. We didn't get much sleep that night, and they still had to call someone in the next morning to fix the problem!

I was hoping to have more pictures to show you, but facebook is acting up and I am not able to see all the ones that my friend said she posted. So, for now, Enjoy the selfies. Two of them are my co-leaders, and the rest are our youth group girls. What an amazing group of girls!

We had a fun filled weekend, but I think we were all happy to get home and sleep in our own beds. Those camp mattresses are really hard! I still don't think I have caught up on my sleep.