180 Days Down the Road...

One of our favorite Coloradans took us up the mountain for an event and we added hitchhiking  with 13 boxes of supplies to our life skills when the transmission went out! 
Terrific event, and we caught a ride home with new friends who loved transporting our 
AGENDA speaker and his stuff!

Oh, the JOYS of road life! :)

Amazing event at "The Barn" in Evergreen, CO.

Favorite part of this event was.....wildlife in the yard!

Thankful our bad hair days don't usually get THIS bad!

On occasion AGENDA meetings even come complete with a herd of buffalo!

Love this quote Daddy shares:
"The chief danger of the 20th Century will
be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ,
forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration,
politics without God, and Heaven without hell."
General William Booth

Top selling point by Chapman:
"It's great for the grandkids!"

Carver reciting Bible Bee verses for our Colorado friends.
Love our jam sessions, bass lessons, cooking fabulous new things and GREAT conversations here. 
And wading through their in-house library!

Our ever hungry boys set up shop in the parking lot to make waffle iron grilled cheese 
sandwiches. Still no bus A/C, outside temp over 110! Sanctifying. To say the least!

Caver attempting original forms of exercise.
We presume this is a pull-up of some sort?!

Our favorite speaker. One more time. :)

Theme song for this trip:
"Stand up, stand up for Jesus, stand in His strength alone; the arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own. Put on the Gospel armor....each piece put on with prayer;
where duty calls or danger, be never wanting there!"

Book table...all set up and ready to roll.

Blessed, blessed by a quick visit with these friends.
Inspired by the way they stand up for Jesus in everything! 

So love it when other families pass the hymnals and we all sing together!

Found this nice school desk for Carver on our way to hike Red Mountain. :)

Soaking up amazing views before we got lost and climbed to the top of the WRONG mountain!

So beautiful and peaceful!

Rearranging the mountainside. The rest of us were figuring out how to NOT get lost on the way back. 
Thankfully Daddy knew this mountain well and hiked up to save us. 

Crosby decided to lay down on the trail and met an extended family of ants. Praise the Lord we got them all out of her HAIR (!) and she was still smiling. Mostly. :)  

Daddy and Mother celebrating their 27th Anniversary with a marvelous hike near Pikes Peak....

...and a visit to the church they got married in...

 ....and to the Broadmoor for an out of the bus Anniversary dinner at the same table where Daddy proposed 27 years ago!

Back to reality?! On our way to Kansas.

Love it when we recruit all the big readers at once!

Years ago we named our bus "The Endurance" thinking of Ernest Shackleton's 
adventure. Considering renaming it " The Fiery Furnace"or "The Sauna". 
Our hardworking thermostat stayed at over 100 for days. And we did, too. :)

Gigantic winds pulled a huge side awning loose while we were driving and we praise the Lord for protecting us and every other driver on the road!

Reorganizing session #464. Names and stories shall be withheld to
protect the guilty. 

Keeping outfits ready to go is an ongoing project. We only left one cowboy boot behind so far and thankfully it wasn't Daddy's. :)

YAY!

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6

Fellowship time!

Bible Bee time outside. Carolina has been such a great example in encouraging and helping Chapman along with his study and memorization!

Gelato time, too! 

Another testimony of God's protection! While driving late one night a semi driver with serious road rage tried to run us off the road. This hub cap is our reminder. 
We praise the Lord for saving our lives!

"What do you think this thing runs on? Coal?" :) 

Late night driving and coloring time. Sometimes we end up long on miles and short on time. 
This was our KS to MI in a day.

Meanwhile, back at the farm (except it's not ours!), Charlie had a wonderful week of sweating and working on projects in IA. A few of his pics are below.

Occasionally if the bus does't fit somewhere, we get the fun of walking to our meetings.
Feedback abounds (ha!) when the big boys herd us across the streets and Carver steers the dolly. 

We all love listening to Daddy share the inspiring stories he has collected!

As we get older, we find there are lots of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to picking the right song. 
But...we praise the Lord for allowing us to serve Him in this way!