Thursday, February 14, 2008

Baptist Retreat

Ella and Caden were dying to make something, this was over christmas break. I just had to take a picture of her with her fruit pie and recipe. I hadn't gone grocery shopping in a while and this was literally all the fruit we had. Ella didn't like the final result. The grapefruit was just too overpowering. She had me eat all the grapefruit, even then its juice made everything else taste funny. She did a great job and had a fun time making it. Phoenix Baptist has an annual retreat the first weekend in February and families get to come too. We had so much fun up there with everyone. About 20 min. before we left our house to come up Taylor fell off a chair onto tile climbing onto the counter to get "piece" of candy. So he fell on his face and got a huge fat lip, three little teeth marks on the underside of his lip. The picture doesn't do it justice for how bad it was. His pacifier was lopsided the whole time, but he still did great, and loved playing in the snow.
I hung out with some of the kids and did crafts and stuff while all the adults played some games.
Jeremy just finished paintballing. he faired ok , but his hat took a beating from a couple of paintballs. He came and found us playing afterwards.
Marty had all the kids wrapped up in a story about the "children of the light." They LOVED the story. Ella was really worried that rocks and pebbles were going to start sneaking up her. She had to make sure with Marty that it wan't a true story. As soon as they got their glow sticks all fears were forgotten. Caden kept talking about how nice Marty was.

My computer is taking forever to upload the last few images, I am ready to post so I may have to add the other pics later. More of the retreat. We had so much fun playing and getting to know everyone a little better. Thankyou Phoenix Baptist for such a fun time.

6 comments:

Adam Jensen said...

So good to hear from you! I am glad you guys had so much fun. We loved ours as well, where did they have it? In flagg?

The Mathews Family said...

Our "retreat" is coming up this weekend and I'm boycotting the whole thing. I'm so mad because it is completely inconsiderate of those of us with children. They're heading up about 75 miles north for a "medievil times" dinner at 8:30 PM and then 9:00 the next morning at Sea World which is 40 miles south of here and - NO KIDS ALLOWED! Can you believe it? Anyway, glad your was fun and the pics are cute ;) FUN SNOW!!

Jill said...

It was up in Prescott area, Kinda lucky to have had snow, it was melting fast when we got there. Jenny I here what you are saying about families not invited, I feel really lucky that this is such a family friendly program. Good luck this weekend.

Jonathan & Rachel said...

It was fun to hang out with you guys! I love the pie-looks yummy!!

Peck Family said...

JILL!
HAD SO MUCH FUN HANGING THE OTHER DAY.

Dina said...

I really hope Phoenix Baptist is Jeremy's employer and not your new religion...ha. We miss you! Can I stalk you until you move back??