Thursday, August 9, 2018

Deep Creek Lake

Somewhere on top of the list of things that we are grateful for are our friends.  We are truly blessed to be surrounded by these families who serve the Lord whole heartedly and desire to train up their children under the instruction of God's word. I couldn't imagine doing life without them.  This past week we went to Deep Creek with 2 of those families, the Kauflins and the Averills. Devon & Kristine have know us since before we got engaged and although they left us for a while, we were thrilled when they returned for Devon to pastor our church.  We have been so grateful for their friendship and just the living example they are in our life. (We even followed the boy, girl, boy, girl pattern in the family :) We officially met Brandon & Annie at our park about 8 yeas ago, and then realized they went to the same church! Noah and Nathan quickly became the best of friends and when Chloe and Karina arrived our families have been sometimes inseparable.  Our families have grown together through church, sports teams and community activities. It has been a blast but as we've grown life gets busier and different schedules makes it hard to get together so we carved out a few days and headed to the Lake for a wonderful time...

We rented a boat and ALL took turns tubing. Surprisingly Chloe wasn't a fan, but perhaps she was deterred when she saw 2 of her buddies flip over the first time. 
Yes, that's Gracie!
Another day went for a hike at Swallow Falls and the kids enjoyed some time playing in the creek...
Hoping for many more memories with them all...