Been Too Long!

Hi everyone,

First off, let me apologize for my lack of posts over the last several weeks. I really don't have a good excuse for it, as I feel that it is one of my jobs to communicate to the world what is taking place at Penn Ave./OKC Compassion. So much has happened since I posted last, so I'll try and pick up where I left off. Amy, Sam and I just returned from a week of vacation in Estes Park, Colorado. It was our first vacation with Sam...and nobody warned us that it would be different than ever before! We had a great time with Cory, Vanessa and Ava Stipp...some friends from KC. But, it wasn't what you would call a restful vacation. But that's OK. We had some funny and expensive moments while on the trip. First off, we got a foot of snow in Estes the night that the Stipps made the trip. Did I mention that our condo was halfway up a mountain? They drive a van. The van didn't do so well. It got stuck about 1oo yards from the condo at 1:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Cory then decided to carry their luggage up the side of the mountain to the condo and he was wearing a headlamp. A true mountain man...it was hilarious! It wasn't all on Cory, though. I decided that it would be a good idea to run directly into a curb at about 20 miles an hour. Blew it out and found out when I returned home that I needed to replace both hubs because my bearings on both sides were damaged. Not good. That cost about 700 dollars. Keep those donations coming! Hopefully I won't have to use them on tire and car repair too often! Amy was kind of enough to let me attempt skiing for the very first time. Now that was fun! But very tiring. I could easily see how a person could die on the side of a mountain. Cory is much better than me! We had a good time and got to be with some good friends. It really was a lot of fun. We are thankful for the folks who allowed us to go and stay in the condo at a very reduced rate :). Thanks for vacation God! I'll post again soon!