Only at Laura's wedding. . .

would the following event happen. . .

Laura Got MARRIED!

Not much to say about this.

It was a beautiful, fun, meaningful, and unique wedding.

I am so happy for you little sister.
(The Rehersal . . . It rained a little)

The Bachelorette Party

(the only boy allowed)

The BIG Day.

(one classy bride)

(a warning to all future brides - EAT!)

(In my personal opinion the coolest couple at the wedding)

(Ok, they may have been the coolest couple . . . )

(Jay did it)

(Wow, we looked a lot better before we danced for a couple hours)

(How we felt at midnight when the party wasn't over and we realized we had to be up at 5:30am for work:(

Enjoy!

Summer Catch Up - Our jobs

Jay and I were blessed to work for SpringHill Camps this summer. We were able to be part of sharing the Gospel with over 4,800 campers through the Day Camp program. Here are some highlights from our Urban week that we did in Downtown Detroit.

This particular week was not without its own particular set of difficulties. We worked in one of the most deserted and down-hearted neighborhoods I have ever seen, but the kids were so grateful.

We were centered in Carstens Elementary School. The picture below was my office in the basement gym. We knew the week was going to be rough when summer school at this un-air-conditioned building was closed due to the heat index being so high. But Day Camp went on.

Relief came when the Detroit Fire Department stopped by to help cool us down:)

Because of the threat of theft in the location of the school, we had to remove all of our portable activities every night. In the removing of our wall one night, the portable climbing wall decided it wanted to ride inside of the Expedition that was pulling it.

Another night we were tearing down the giant metal poles of the zipline in the lightning storm, to make it inside just in time to see the office/storage room flooding.

On our final night we lost the keys to the Budget truck that was hauling the majority of the equipment, so for a night we had to abandon it in a church parking lot.

But all of these disasters were not enough to prevent God from moving. Here is Jay leading a campfire song at our closing rally where we were able to hear from the kid's mouths how God worked in their lives during the week.

This last picture has no purpose, and the explanation would take to long, so all I will say is this happened on a weekly basis:

More later!

Summer Catch up - Vol. 1

Ok, here is the recap I promised. Let's take it back a couple of months and reminisce. . .


For Jay and I work ended in Nebraska. For Jay that meant Track concluding along with teaching. He had a couple of his athletes go to states and he was able to honor his team at an athletic banquet.

For me, I had to say good-bye to my little friends at work. Months later, I am still thinking about them and praying for their new school year.

Once work was done, Jay had to stay in Nebraska to help finish up his work at Parkview and that left me to drive this

across the country to Michigan. Yeah, I know. I am pretty cool.

I then headed up to Evart to meet my husband to begin training. We were a little late and had to jump right in since our staff had shown up a couple of days before.

(I know this picture doesn't really show it, but we worked very hard for those couple of weeks)

On top of our jobs, this was also the summer of Laura. My baby sister got married this summer, and showers and wedding prep helped to fill my days off.

Our first week of camp was in Fort Wayne (aka "Fort Fun") Indiana. The week was remarkably without incident until the last day. Because of transportation logistics, we ended up putting a trailer hitch on our Vibe to haul our Eurobungy. On our way back from Ft. Fun, we ended up in the middle of tornado warning/severe thunderstorm figuring out how to hook up the bungy to the car.

We were drenched, cold and ready to be home.

Well, I think that concludes the month of June. More stories, pictures and videos to come:)

What a summer!

Oh my goodness, it has been a long time since I have updated this thing and as soon as I find my camera cord in our mountain of unpacked belongings, pictures will be seen.

The summer began in a weekend. Packing up a truck and driving it across country by myself, with only Chango for company. Within 48 hours we were at camp. Training was in full swing and Jay and I jumped into our new jobs like little kids jumping into a pool on a hot summer afternoon.

Within two weeks of that we were on the road again, this time with a climbing wall, eurobungy, large white trailor and 30-odd staff in tow. We have been to 8 different sites to run our day camp and have been a part of some 1,776 campers hearing the Gospel of Christ this summer.

In the midst of camper craziness my baby sister got married, we moved into a large (and with our current schedule, unmanagable) home, sprung Chango from the shelter ( a couple of times:( and served God with all our hearts.

And . . .



We are exhausted.

We have next week off, and I, for one, am planning on sleeping A LOT. Then we begin new jobs (again) with Springhill working year round. The jobs are such that we will stay in the Detroit Metro area and continue to work for Day Camps. We have started the home hunt and are eagerly anticipating finding a church home and community in the area.

Thank you to everyone who has kept us in their prayers this summer, and like I said, pics will come soon.

I don't like the "stache"

In response to my husband's blog, I am not a fan of "el mustachio". I encourage everyone else who might comment on his blog or see him in person, to speak negatively about it.

On a slightly bigger note: we are at camp! We leave for our first site in Fort Wayne (a.k.a. Ft. Fun), Indiana in the morning. I don't entirely know what we are jumping into with this endeavor, so please pray.

A little catching up

Oh my, I missed all of March and April on this blog. Well, that is probably a pretty good indication of how busy we have been. So here is a brief recap of some goings-on in the Taylor household.

First, in March we went on Spring Break (Woohoo!) to Florida with my family. All of my family. Minus Matt.

(The World's largest cruise ship)

(Oh my father. . . )

(A little sun, or lack there of)

(On the beach with Mr. Miles.)

The next adventure we went on was to Norfolk to visit the parent's Taylor over Easter. I think this pic speaks for itself.

And finally we just returned from a full weekend that was spent in a two bedroom cabin with the whole Taylor/Davy clan (minus Mel and Daisy). To clarify, that is 8 fully grown adults, two children under 2, and one Mexican immigrant dog in one two bedroom cabin. Space was tight, but fun was had by all.

Although not much sleeping was had at night, much rest occurred during the day on Saturday. Two highlights of the trip were celebrating Addie's second birthday Friday night and going to the zoo in Omaha today.

("How old are you, Addison?)

(A family hike by the river)

(A day at the zoo)