A post from Justin (8)

Dear 3rd grade,

I like it here and I don't like it. I don't like it here because I miss you guys A LOT! I like it because there's two big water slides at the camp's pool and the camp is huge. They've got a coffee shop, a game room, a snack bar, and a club room.

The school's great too. Instead of having one big building they have different buildings for different things, and only one of each grade, but the one thing I like that it doesn't have is you!

Your friend,

Justin

A Day in the Life

For those who have worked with me before..I would often say..Hey I learned something new..time to go home. Well I go home about every 5 minutes here (or figuratively) although our house is now about a 45 second golf cart ride from the office. So here is an example day.

Leave the house and drive the property ..just to see it. Construction trucks start coming in around 7 a.m. Detail out parts of my day until the rest of the staff arrive for a morning devotion and any announcements. Email is here as much as anywhere..although it started as a Satellite connection in the canyon. Intern applications for the summer are reviewed. Construction plans are discussed. Meetings with corporate. (sound familar) Menus for food service are learned. Frisbee designs for the summer passed around. A quick run home for lunch with Amy. Sewer sepage smell is researched, water truck zips by as our well is not strong enough..yet, fill my pockets with trash from the ground as I walk around, stop by the wood shop and see what got created, dig golf cart out of snow to drive to go visit various folks on property, sign invoices, sign invoices, discuss staffing needs, (to be continued)

Continuing to transition

Life continues to feel right in making this big change, but God's hand is necessarily present as leaving our community has been tough. The boys are making friends which is great but only time and His hand can only fill the vaccum of the Colorado clan. Amy is working out the Smiley family infrastructure as I am working out the Lost Canyon one....from IT Security Infrastructure of Ping, Power, Pipe, and Passionate Prevention to where Ping is now motorola radios to stay connected, power is the man upstairs, pipe relates to sewer and water (the top 2 prayer requests here) and passionate prevention is more safety related (don't smack your head while on the zip line). Oh and framing is not a mainframe term but the backbone of our new construction...fun cool new buildings. God is good and in the details and present in the blessings and hardships. So Be it!