Pinic on an Iceberg!

Look, I have made it to the Glacier. I love the SUNSHINE!

On Wednesday April 4th I went snowshoeing across Mendenhall Lake to Mendenhall Glacier. I went with my friends (former Echo Ranch Staff) Mishele and Chance Rhein. The Rhein family recently moved to Northern California, but Chance needed to return for 3rd grade home school testing. After we got out to the face of the Glacier we found a nice iceberg and had a picnic. Above you can see Chance and Mishele enjoying their meal with the glacier as a back drop.

Mishele and I are having a good time snowshoeing across the lake. We also enjoyed a snowball fight with Chance. It is possible to run on snow shoes! It was a wonderful day of adventure!

Tuesday Night Youth Group

This week at youth group I was in charge of the game. So I subjected the teens to "The Tarp Game." I used my sweet Echo Ranch skills to teach some team building concepts. Look at how good they are at flipping the tarp without using their hands. So fun.

Another fun part of youth group is our small group time. Here we are discussing things like cannonicity of the Bible. I know "light stuff." But the kids are excited to learn how we know the Bible is really God's word and how the early church decided what was to be included in the Bible.

Sunshine Time!!

This month I had the opportunity to go to Cabo San Lucas in Baja Mexico. It is on the very tip of the Baja peninsula, which is below the Tropic of Cancer! It is where the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean meet. It was nice & sunny with 80 degree weather. I went with my good friend Crystal and her mom (also a friend) Debbie. We had a great time. It was wonderful to get a little vitamin D from the sunshine. Below is a picture of Crystal and I on a "glass bottom boat tour." The glass bottom was a joke. It was some plexi glass and you couldn't really see anything. We did have fun though going around "Land's End" to see the Pacific Ocean.

We enjoyed getting out of Cabo and seeing some of the local towns like Toto Santos and La Paz. We were beach combing fools looking for sweet shells and such.

The coolest thing I had the opportunity to do was go para sailing. It was so sweet to be high above the the rock formations at "Land's End." It was so fun and it felt like I was in a giant rocking chair high above the sea. So cool and relaxing.

Update of the Last 2 Months

Well it has been a while...in fact it has been a ridiculous amount of time!! Almost two complete months. So I will give a brief update on the happenings of Bonnie's life:

I was able to be in Ohio for Christmas with the family. What a fun time. Especially for my nephew Julian. He was slightly overwhelmed at everything, but he had a great time.

As a gift for my parents, specifically my Mom, we (the kids) decided that we would re-do a room. It was sort of like "While You Were Out," except we sent my Mom to work...no where fancy. We painted and decorated the stairway, the room at the top of the stairs, and a hallway. Yikes...that might have been a bit more than we bargained for. Then we found old windows from the house (it is well over 100 years old) and thought that we should hang them (which still needs to be done) and use them as picture frames. So we had my brother Caleb's friend named Caleb take some sweet shots of the family.

This is my favorite picture of the 4 of us kids: Ann, Steve, Bonnie and we are holding Caleb. What a goof ball.

My family also had some sweet bonding time in Chicago. We enjoyed time in the Museum of Science and Industry. There we saw a Christmas tree from each country. That was a lot of Christmas Trees. We also had some good BBQ at the BeBop Cafe. Tasty!

Check out this crazy crew!

When I was home I was also able to be at my Grandma Stemen's 80th birthday on January 3rd. Pretty sweet to have such a good, long life. Grandma figured she only turns 80 once so she was going to have some fried ice cream for dessert! And she even shared!

One of the last things I did when I was "Down South" was go to Michigan for the annual Echo Ranch Reunion. What a great time. There were 28 people in the farm house of Mike Zook, a former camp counselor. Good times and great memories. I am excited to see who of this crew will return to work at Echo Ranch in 2007.

Since I have been back in Juneau, I have been busy working on various things for the camp...like emailing possible counselors, sending out emails to campers, sending out prayer letters, hanging out with teens, doing a girls Bible study, and planning for the summer of 2007 at Echo Ranch Bible Camp!! Sorry it took so long for me to update you!