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| After 9 weeks of AGENDA events we had a wonderful break in Upper Peninsula Michigan helping in our friends' sugarbush. |
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| Kicked off our time with a jam session, where it became quite apparent that Cass needed new strings. They were kindly replaced (all of them) and the strumming and singing continued! |
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| 18 of us all piled in for a happy trip to incredible Bond Falls! |
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| Absolutely beautiful and so peaceful. |
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| Hmmm. A picture's worth 1000 words? |
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| Sisters having a lovely chat. |
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| Brothers. Still have too much energy! |
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| A most lovely spot for a date with 16 other people! |
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| Tallest to smallest. Way too cute. |
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| World Famous Mac N' Cheese |
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| Worth the trip and the border crossing (ha) just to smell this cooking: three sticks of butter, bacon, half+half, heavy whipping cream, cheese, cheese, cheese, panko and pasta. The return to our leafy green smoothies was abrupt. And painful. :) |
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| Yummy food + hard working hungry boys. Perfect! |
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| Sweetness abounds. |
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| Wild rounds of "Ruckus" and "Catan" after a busy day. |
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| Very fun...marshmallows, fire, sticks, s'mores. Love it!! |
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| Family devotions each morning. So blessed to share time in God's Word. |
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| Snow! Yahoo! |
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| Keeping track of the family businesses. Love the walkie-talkie. :) |
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| Crosby and Bethany. Way too much fun. |
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| Out in the sugarbush. Harvest ended because of the warm weather just before we got there. 7500 taps to remove. Quite the family project!! |
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| 260 beautiful acres of this!! |
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| And...a snake. Thankfully the snakes in UP are safe so Christian adopted this one for the picture. |
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| One shift of tap pullers heading home. Sweaty, dirty and happy after 7 hours out in the bush. |
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| Where the sap gets boiled. |
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| Some of the syrup heading to maple sugar. |
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| Bottles ready to be filled! |
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| The other team: bottling newly harvested maple syrup. |
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| If you need the world's best Maple Syrup, go to: PaulFamilySugarbush |
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| Maple Sugar |
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| Soooooo delicious!! |
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| Maple Barbecue Rub and Seasoning Salt, Maple Sugar and Maple Coated Pecans. YUM! |
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| Lina and Cass took photos for their family band. Bowers boys got be cool musicians for one brief moment. |
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| Frisbee. Sweat, run, yell, threaten, score. Such a loving game. :) Incredibly beautiful in the middle of nowhere!! |
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| Sweetness! |
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| You know you're loved when...folks wash your dirty bus!! |
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| Climbing around ice covered steps is no small thing. Happy everyone made it down. And back! Most grateful for the Lord's goodness to us through these very adventurous friends! |
3 comments:
Looks awesome y'all!!! Hopefully Mr. "Agenda Guy" stayed on the bridge?!:) And the maple syrup and sugar is makin' my mouth water:) Love the tallest-smallest picture...we should do that when y'all come on over! {that way, I won't have to be the last one in the line, lol!}
Wonderful pictures and adventure!!
Oh my..I just LOVE this! Favorite post ever.
Gotta love those sugarbush people. And their mac and cheese.
and their yummy maple products. and their sweet selves. and y'all.
that's one party I would've loved to attend! =)
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