Visiting "The Springs"

This past weekend Jack and I enjoyed a quick visit to Colorado Springs, CO to catch up with our friends J*K, see a Rockies game and help out with a Cares Ministry outreach event. What a sweet time of catching up and enjoying our friends. We are thankful for them and thankful that we can continue staying close even though we live 4hrs apart. J is working hard on his seminary classes while K just got a new job with Compassion International. She is super excited about working with that great organization and it's been so great to see the Lord's provision for them as they took the step of faith to move to The Springs. We had a blast driving up to Denver on Friday night and after finally getting to the stadium we were able to enjoy the Rockies game. Too bad they had a "AAA line-up" as Jack kept mentioning and they didn't play their 2 star players but that's ok...it was fun to sit up there, relax, and watch a game with a gorgeous view! After the game we headed through downtown Denver and walked to a nearby restaurant for a late dinner. It was fun being back in a city that was actually awake, open and hopping past 8pm! Santa Fe tends to shut down around 8pm...anyways, we enjoyed a fun dinner and headed back to The Springs late that night. Kimi and I were thankful the guys were awake so we laid the seats down in the back of the Flex and stretched out for a nice snooze on the way home.

View from our seats

The sunset was fun to watch from there

Skyline from the stadium

Heading home, Jack has a new accessory :)

Saturday we woke up and started getting things ready for the outreach to their apartment community. We had brought corn-hole with us, J and J headed to the store to run some errands and bough ladder ball and K and I were busy getting drinks and whatnot set up for the outreach. Buffalo Wild Wings came a brought 300 wings to help with the outreach (for free!!) and we provided chips and drinks. We set up around 12 and the people started coming. We played lots of games, threw the football, met lots of neighbors and had a spicy wing challenge. Over all we think about 45-50 people showed up which was a good turn out and K*J were able to make lots of new connections with their neighbors. We are excited for them to pour into the lives of the people in their apartment complex. After we packed up everything and cleaned up we headed to a restaurant for a super early dinner called The Elephant Bar. There were SO many selections! We had a great time eating, catching up, and watching some college football (aaah, love this time of year!). Then we headed back to the apt, packed up, sat around chit-chatting some more and then Jack and I headed home late that night.

The festivities in full swing

The two challengers!

WINNER!!

He needed a drink right after it was over :)

Sunday Jack taught our Sunday school class since our leader was out of town (I think on some big hunting trip) and he did a great job. We are working through a study on the book of Mark and we had lots of really good/deep discussion with the people in the class. We then headed out for some lunch with our friend, Dixon, then headed to the Postons' house (one of Jack's bosses) to hang out, watch some football and catch up. Then the 3 guys went to the Lab to do some work while Barb Poston and I hung out. It was nice to catch up and go for a short walk together. That afternoon Jack and I headed back to church because we've started working with the youth group (started about a month ago) and had a blast running obstacle/relay courses (we did the ultimate fun one where you spin around a bat then have to run back to your team...needless to say there were numerous falls, crooked paths and a lot of laughter...too bad I didn't have the camera with me) and then spending some time in the Word with the kids. We are so thankful for our church family, friends and the ministries we are able to be involved in. It was a full and fun weekend. The next couple of weeks are going to be full as well with work and getting ready for our house guests coming the first week of October! Looking forward to enjoying the Balloon Fiesta 2011!! :)