March 2024

March 2024
Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Monday, July 22, 2019

KWA 2019 - Turkey Run State Park - Part 1

by Jewel
 
Favorite stop. Coolest store I've ever been in.
 
 
We got to the Inn at about 3:30 or 4:00 and started setting up in the pavilion. After supper was over we got out the snowcone machine.


We took a walk to the suspension bridge as well. It was pretty cool.
 

 
Some of the other cousins had a great game of volleyball with three random people...


while others of us had a great game of Basketball/Keep Away. It was a lot of fun. Although there aren't any pictures of it, as this was going on there was also people at the indoor pool. Actually, the swimming was going on throughout the entire weekend. Those of us pictured below swam in the later part of the evening, until the pool closed at eleven o'clock.
 

A big group of us floated the Sugar Creek on Saturday morning. We went to a place where we signed all the paper work, and then we loaded the buses, and the buses took us to the place were we got on the river. They also provided us with tubes and canoes and kayaks.
 







 
A lot of the young families didn't go with us, but there were several places where they could walk down to the river, and then we pulled up on the sand bar to say hi.
 
 


 
Sarah and I hung back with Duane and Alissa's girls for awhile, and then all of us moved up into the rest of the group.



A bunch of us cousins made a big circle of tubes by hanging on to each others' tubes. We had great plans of opening around people and "swallowing" them, but it never worked out. 




 
 
 

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