Thanksgiving and Colorado!

I had such a busy couple of weeks. I was able to go home to Traverse City for Thanksgiving which is always such a blessing. (see picture of my Dad with the Thanksgiving day Turkey!) I had a blast just hanging out with my family, eating good food, playing great games (world domination by me in Risk!!) and early morning shopping!! It was so nice being home but felt super short! The day after Thanksgiving I drove back to Chicago and then got in a car with Lauren and Bree from Camp Manitoqua to go to the CCCA National Conference in Colorado Springs, CO! We drove through the night to Keystone where we met up with my boss Nathan and family. We were blessed to get complimentary night skiing lift tickets so I was able to ski in Colorado for the first time in my life...what an awesome experience!! The runs are so long, it was great! (We then went to Colorado Springs for the conference. It was a great conference and I enjoyed all of the workshops I attended and the speakers I heard. We even had a chance to go and see the Garden of the Gods see picture, from top: Nathan, Bree, Me, Lauren). Colorado is so beautiful. I felt so blessed to be able to spend this time with Nathan, Bree and Lauren too! They, with me, have made up the program team at Camp Manitoqua for the last 2+ years. I will miss working with them very much and have loved being on such a fun team. Camp has been a great experience in general for me. I know that God will continue to use all the things I've learned there in whatever I have coming up.

As of now, I'm starting pack mode and saying a lot of goodbyes...