Camp

The more I live here in Colorado the more I am in love with the beauty the Lord displays in Nature. Also here specifically at CCR I feel more and more at home with the staff and community.

I think it takes me a while to adjust to a new place and truly feel accepted and loved. Some of it has to do with my own insecurity and some of it is just the fact the major change in location takes time to really feel comfortable. It is the end of March, and the snow is melting. We still have a month left that Winter Park Resort will be open and I can go snow boarding. However I believe this coming sunday may be my last day on the Mountain for awhile. The snow is hard and slushy, and Icy. Seeing as I have had an incredible season I have nothing to complain about however, I have become a slight snow snob. Though next year when I most likely will not be in the west I think my upper class snow attitude will diminish when I only come to CO twice a year to do some boarding. We shall see.

The friendships I have in this world are some of the best. I was saving this post for when Tim Barnes sent me photos of his and David Perks trip out here however he has yet to edit them and get back to me. So I will say what is in my head and heart.

The Lord really has put key players in my life that have influenced the way I interact with people, the way I love people, and the way I love God. I believe two of these players are Tim Barnes and David Perks. I worked with these fellas for two years up at Young Life's Saranac Village in the Adirondack mountains. We grew in friendship over those two summers. Then have had to many incredible adventures and dumb stories together. Many more were made over there trip to visit good ol' Fraser CO. One such dumb adventure was when we decided it would be fun to snow shoe up Sheep mountain which is the mountain on the back side of camp. The trip up wasn't exiting but down we decided to run in our snowshoes down and take pictures. Hilarity ensued because at some point all of us took a headlong tumble into about 3-5 feet of powder. Im sure one can imagine.

But these are the kind of friends that no matter how much you talk, see each other, or how close you live, are always as close to you as a brother. You cant stop laughing and you can always be open about how Christ is moving in your life. I dont know exactly how to say it. They are the kind of people you want to be around. So I hope that the Lord has placed a person or persons like this in your own life.

Its been awhile

So updating in the month of February did not happen. Life was so busy with friends, work, and just general chaos. It probably was the the best and most exhausting month of my life here at Crooked Creek Ranch.


It was a month full of visitors. First week I had my friend Anna out to go skiing and she brought her friend Liz. It was a blast to see her and get to know Liz. Then the next week two of my best friends came up. Tim Barnes and David Perks. I will write a longer post on there visit as soon as Tim gets back to me with some pictures. He took them all on his camera. Then the day those to jokers left my Cousin Dan came in. So I snowboarded a good deal in the month of Feb and it was all a blast. However hosting people can be super tiring. I wouldnt have had it any other way though.

February had a group in just about every weekend and a lot of mid week groups. Some that have never rented the camp out before. Those groups can be difficult because they just don't really know how to utilize the camp yet and theres just a lot of running around to get them set up correctly. I did a good deal of picture taking and hiking this last month as well.

Snow showing in the rockies is just incredible. One the invention to disperse wait so you dont sink into 4 feet of snow. Its incredible. I have just been having to much fun running around with friends up sheep mountain to see the view of camp and the valley I get to live in.

Its definitely a blessing. Colorado. I find my self thanking Christ on a regular basis for bringing me out here. Last week all the interns went to an Avalanche Game in Denver and before we went we visited boulder CO. As we walked around the streets and just enjoyed the 60 degree weather (a 35 degree difference of Fraser only 40 miles apart across the mountains.)
I thought about that College town and how many times I wished that God had called me somewhere crazy when I was in college. Then I remember How I have been called out here this year to live somewhere crazy in a crazy situation! It was awesome.

Also the view outside our intern house just has displayed Gods glory so often. During the day or at night its been unreal. I wish that Blogspot could capture the beauty of what I have seen. I mean one day I was walking back from working out and the color of the sky was outragous. It was this beautiful read and the depth and beauty of the clouds was unimaginable. In the five minutes it took me to walk home it appear and was gone as the sun set. I couldnt believe what I saw and I know perhaps I make zero sense in this paragraph but imagine the most beautiful red and it being in 100 different shades spread across the dusk sky. And it was there for an instant and gone. Just a wink really. That was what it was like. The sky up there wasnt to shabby either.

               

I took both of these also out of our kitchen window. I wasn't sure which shot I preferred as similar as they both are. Opinions are always appreciated! Just a little haze on the mountains.

God is doing big things here at Crooked Creek and big things in our community. The men and woman that I intern with here are moving into march and we all know it is going to be our hardest month. Because the job is not getting any different and can be redundant.  Plus summer is looming and summer is going to be too much fun seeing God work in HUGE ways in the lives of Kids that will be coming here each week for 11 weeks. So It is late and I could keep rambling but I really just wanted to show some photos from the month and make a post because it has been too long. 

Here is our lil neighbor.