Vacation! Yippee! Yeah! Hoorah!

So, we recently decided that we should take a mini-vacation before the summer work begins, which will really consume our time until our camps and camp follow-up activities are done around the end of August. We've greatly anticipated these events, and the coming of our 3 summer-interns, but we know the exhaustion that will come with all of the work and joy that will be these next 3 months. So, we quickly found a cabin in the mountains near-by for a 4 day weekend and we took off! We loved it there. It was isolated, beautiful, peaceful, and refreshing mentally, spiritually, and physically. We took around 200 pictures, so I'll let some of those do the talking for me:) Jakub had a great time meeting new creatures, sitting by the river, walking in the woods, chewing on some bark, grilling outside with Daddy, trying new foods, playing with and being spoiled by us:). We had a lovely time and arrived home safely, relaxed, and just in time to greet our 3 interns and a lovely little stomach flu. Josh and I have been ill all week like nothing we've encountered in a long time. I can't even talk about it, I'll just say we're beginning to get better now and we're so thankful that, once again, God has kept Jakub safe and strong despite the creepy germs we were breathing on him all week. Come on, even if you were terribly sick could you stop kissing this face? :)

And look at those eyes! He should always wear a hooded, blue coat, right? :) They are just one of the reasons we still can't stop looking at him, kissing on him, etc.



And then there's that smile...



Here's the cottage where we stayed. It had several small apartments inside. We rented one called "The Sunflower." You guessed the decoration theme. It was so cute and cozy and we loved it.



Here's the fire pit in the back yard for grilling or having bonfires. We didn't use it, but we did use some of the wood to burn in our wood stove. Yes, it's still cold enough here, especially in the mountains, to need warmth in the home:) We had fun going to sleep with the fire burning at night.



Here's the back porch with the grill and some seating. We did grill out and Jakub also enjoyed sitting in his stroller or on the bumbo seat and watching the trees and nature around him. Or watching Daddy play with fire:)



This was one of the most beautiful and fattest chickens I had ever seen. It was just out roaming free in the backyard around us.




There were snails everywhere near the river, so we had fun showing those to Jakub. We don't run in to these much in the city:)




Here's the river, which was also in the backyard, just down a small hill. You could hear it from our cottage and it was wonderful. We miss being near water and having the sound of rushing water coming through the windows was awesome. God's creation is awesome!


On to the inside...

So, that's it. Small, but cute, and had a fully equipped kitchen so we enjoyed our stay there very much.

More of Jakub and other vacation happenings... enjoy! :)










Wow. A lot of pictures. Hope you enjoyed them! I have more to come soon, including videos! :)