Busy, Busy, Busy!

The last 6 weeks have been crazy! We started out in the middle of July with Ironman. We had several mission teams (including Rolling Hills) here and it was quite a job to juggle all of our duties. In the past when we have come up here, our total focus has been on the mission trip, but with our kids and church family here it was interesting.

After everyone left I had a surprise party for Jeff (40 years old) and began finishing up our plans for Vacation Bible Camp. We call it camp because it is more of a day camp as it runs from 9:00-3:00. It is a long day! The pastor's wife and I directed and we got a very late start. I told Kim that we needed to write a book. We had everything happen from people calling the week before to say that they couldn't do music to people calling the week of to say they couldn't come to lead their group to station leaders calling at 9:15 to say that they had overslept to helpers leaving because of back pain. It was quite a week! The cool thing about it is that every time we had a problem, God came through. He more than supplied our needs. I kept saying "Well, at least no one has gotten hurt". That was until Thursday afternoon. We were headed down the sidewalk on a hike when a Russian student here for the summer came flying down the sidewalk and hit one of our leaders and then one of our kids. The biker fell into the street. We had 2 ambulances there and it was quite a scene. All 3 people involved are fine- our worker didn't have to go to the hospital, our camper went and was quickly released (she was at VBC the next day) and miraculously, the biker survived. She was life flighted to Burlington, VT. in critical condition, but came home after 5 days. The doctor said she was lucky- we know prayer works.

Three days after VBC my parents came up for the first time. We had a great visit and got to do a lot of things that we haven't been able to do before. We did a lot of history things and Olympic sports things. The village that we live in has a neat history as it was a tuberculosis cure village in the early 1900's (lots of famous people came for "the cure")and of course Lake Placid has all of the Olympic things. In addition to that it is beautiful up here. Just riding around is enjoyable. They left on Wednesday and now we are getting the kids ready to start school this coming Wednesday.

It has been a great 6 weeks, but I am looking forward to a little down time.

The picture is a view of Saranac Lake from the top of Baker Mountain. It is hard to see- sorry.