May 7th Update

We are well into spring here at Victory! We finished up AWANA clubs at church last month with a party and the grand prix car race. Here Evie works on the cars we carved.
We have moved from guest services season into hosting Outdoor Ed groups for schools for the next couple of weeks. After that, our leadership staff for the summer starts coming in, then we'll be into orientation and summer camps! Evie is getting to attend camp this summer for the short week and she is beyond excited! I'm excited for her too, because summer camp was always the extreme highlight of my summer as a little girl and I love it when my kids get to experience the same things that brought me joy!

We had a lot of very weird weather in April...hailstorm after hailstorm moved over us the last couple weeks of the month, with bright sunshine in between, and some snow too in the mix! The skies couldn't seem to make up their mind. In this picture we got a quarter inch of hail that froze into a bumpy sheet of ice! Strange! May has been much milder with temps in the 50s and even up into the 60s some days.

Messy faces and happy smiles! Grady is saying 2 or 3 new words a day and speaking small sentences, and surprising us with some very funny things he has to say. Evie is getting restless with school and is very ready to finish! We'll see if we can finish the 1st grade strong in the next 2 weeks! :) Norah is excited to be a preschooler in the fall and is very proud of her own school workbook that we got her. She has started the first few pages already because she just can't wait! 

As you can see, it's not green yet here, but the moose are out looking for food anyway! This odd combination of a mama and yearling and a young bull were moseying through our yard the other night. Soon we hope we see some tiny ones running around. Calving season is almost here!


Here are some ways you can be praying right now:Praises:
-We have had several male counselors apply for the summer! We have come very close to having to run camp for only girls so this is a huge praise! We still need 2 or 3 more so thank God for providing these and join us in asking him for more! :)
-My health seems to finally be on the upswing. It has been a long and confusing journey and I know God is not finished yet. Thank Him for a beginning of healing!

Prayer Requests:
-For the program staff as they finish writing curriculum that will become the Bible studies the campers and counselors go over together each day. Pray for God-inspired writing and teaching that provokes the camper's minds to think about who God is, and their relationship to Him.
-For the entire camp in general as we head into the hectic, amazing, crazy, wonderfully tough summer season. It is not for the faint of heart. We love it and the awesome works God does in that time, but it does put stress on families especially, so pray that each family will get the much-needed time together this summer, while also being able to serve the campers and staff as we need to.