Party on the weekend!

This weekend was our adopt-a-counselor family night. Our family grew by three at the beginning of the summer when we "adopted" three counselors for the summer. Every year we are assigned counselors by random drawing of names and every year I find that God has blessed us with wonderful "kids."

Anyway, we went in with the Fersters, Jon-Michael, and Nick for our meal and called it a block party. We had BBQ ribs and plenty of fixin's to go with them. Matt made homemade ice cream -always a big treat- and I made three milks cake (Pastel Tres Leches). Abbie helped in a big way to clean the house and Carina and Naomi picked two hundred strawberries -yes, they counted- for topping the pieces of cake.

Conversation was lively and certainly interesting for the evening. We talked about cows, college, motorcycles, missionaries, explosions and chickens to name a few topics. Of course with a combined seven children ages 11 and under(4 of ours and 3 of Fersters), there was a generous peppering of, "_______ don't do that," "______ put down that stick," "_______ get back from the fire," "Ellie, come back," and "Where is Ellie?"

I guess I wanted to write about the evening because it was fun but also because the adopt-a-counselor thing is such a huge blessing/opportunity for us. We are given the opportunity to build into the lives of adults who are on the threshold of serving God as an adult individual. To me, this is an incredibly important and exciting ministry.