Women's Retreat 2010

This past weekend I did something I have never done before. I went to a Women's Retreat in Elkhart Lake with one of my best friends Becky Seabaugh. The retreat is through our church as well as several other Lutheran churches in our area.

What a great experience. The resort we stayed at was BEAUTIFUL. We stayed at the Osthoff Resort. It was very relaxing. Every night Becky and I retreated to the hot tub after our day of bible study and group sessions. It was very nice. We also took a walk around the resort and took pictures of course as well as just hung out in our room with peace and quiet! Took some time to reflect as well as to read, which is something unheard of at home. :-)

We walked away with the relization that we need to take more time for the little things. Cleaning the house, and worrying about what needs to get done next, all day everyday is silly. Our kids are only going to be little once and our life is only so long. Make it the best that it can be! Don't sweat the small stuff. We should be reflecting daily and taking time for the little things in life that are important. To many times a day I am telling Kamryn to just wait so I can get this or that done, when all she wants is some mommy time. In reality I need to stop what I'm doing and listen to her. And give her that time, because one day hopefully not anytime soon, she won't want me. I won't be "cool" to hang out with. lol

We arrived at the retreat Friday night and were back home Sunday afternoon, which doesn't seem like a long time, but Saturday night Becky and I both really missed our kids. On Friday when we left for the retreat we were excited to get a break, but at the same time we missed them the very next night!

We plan on going back again next year and hopefully my sister will join us.


Our kitchen


Our living room


Our fireplace, it didn't heat, but it looked nice!


Becky and myself


Just a view of this resort. Doesn't do justice to how big and beautiful it truly is!


Entrance into the Osthoff Resort


Our Good Shepherd group


Place settings on Friday night

Happy Birthday Grandma Z weekend!

This weekend once again we went back to Mayville for Grandma Zastrow's birthday. We also spent time with Grandma and Grandpa Puls of course. :-)

Not really much to write about. I think the pictures tell you that we had fun this weekend! As well as some pictures of Funset Blvd that we went to Thursday night. Kamryn was a bit young for most of it, but she still had fun.

Tomorrow we are going to visit another daycare. One that I have had my eye on for a long time, but it was just too expensive. Somehow, someway God works in mysterious ways and has made it possible for us! The daycare is willing to work with us and another family to make it possible to go part-time which this daycare usually doesn't take part-time families. Also, this daycare takes infants, which our current daycare only takes 2 and up. Our current daycare is fine, but with the possiblity of us having another baby we need to keep in mind that when we have another baby Kamryn would need to get pulled out of her current daycare to attend the same daycare as her brother/sister for convenience purposes. So we would rather pull Kamryn now and have her get adjusted to her new daycare now instead of a year from now. Which in our opinion would be harder! I am very excited, but this almost seems to good to be true. So we are going into this cautiously!

So anyways, on with the pictures! OH!! Please everyone (in WI) drive carefully this week as we prepare for what sounds like one more snowstorm before Spring!


Sawyer is getting so big!


PaPa Chubby playing the elephant game! Kamryn's new favorite!


PaPa Zastrow giving Kamryn a ride in a BOX!


Loved the balls at Funset Blvd!


Kids will be kids! They got along very well today surprisingly!


Grandma Zastrow's cake that Aunt Nell made!


Aunt Nell reading the kids a book or TWO! :-)