New Life Ranch

Every year our church goes on a Labor Day retreat to New Life Ranch. It is about 2 hours outside of Tulsa, in Colocord, Oklahoma. We have went three times. Every time we love it. This was the first year Dalton and Avery were able to come along and it made it even better.

We got in about 8:30pm on Friday. Just in time for square dancing! The kids danced a little then went and ran around with all the other kids, while Matt and I talked with some friends. On Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast and set out for a full day of activities. We did wacky relay races, canoeing, kayaking, blobbing, swimming, archery, horseback riding, skits, and we got to sleep in a cabinet(cabin) as Mallory called it.

The theme for the weekend was "Going Retro", because our church is celebrating its 30th anniversary in October. Everyone was to come to dinner dressed up in their 70's or 80's outfits for Saturdays dinner. We all dressed up in 70's outfits we wore for the parade this July. After dinner there were skits in the chapel. Our family was asked to help out, so we ended up performing two skits in front of the whole camp....the kids did great and loved it! To close out the night we had a campfire and hayride.

Sunday we had a small church service in the chapel and then went out to the creek for baptisms. After the baptisms we ate lunch and packed up to go home. The kids didn't want to leave and continue informing us they want to live at New Life Ranch.

We can't wait until next year!

(more pictures of our weekend on Flickr)