Some Pictures!!

Here is the group photo we took before we left for Honeyrock the last weekend in January. The retreat was a lot of fun and provided us with many great opportunities for fellowship, worship and learning. As a group, we spent time playing broomball, tubing, playing games inside, snow shoeing, cross country skiing and having a pizza party! Kyle and Kenny lead sessions on the church and spiritual gifts. John Dregne and Jeff Isenor brought their guitars along which allowed us to spend some time singing hymns and other spiritual songs at each session. Thanks to Kyle, our college groups' new favorite song is "The Sands of Time are Sinking." Those who went on the retreat are going to be teaching this song to our congregation on Sunday in our worship service.

On Friday night Kyle and I the privilege of helping our friend Sarah Ruiter celebrate her birthday. It was a great time of fellowship with some of our close friends from church. We are incredibly thankful for the friends we have made in La Crosse. It's so nice to have couple friends! Before we were married it seemed that we were always referring to people as Kyle's friends or Rachel's friends. It's nice to have a group of couples that we both enjoy spending time with.
After dinner we played some pool and I think that the ladies completed one game in the time it took the guys to play four. Oh well, at least we had fun doing it :)Overall, we are doing very well. I am really enjoying not having classes anymore, and Kyle only has to make it through one more semester here at UWL. It's nice to have a some more spare time even though lately I've just spent it sleeping :) Well that's all for now! Wow I posted two days in a row this week! I will try to keep it up ;)