Monday, February 12, 2007

Beeson Marriage Retreat

Rather than ask our children to welcome a stranger into our house for the weekend Beeson marriage retreat, we traveled to southern Indiana to meet my sister's family and send Meghan, Anna, and Cora to stay with them.Anna wanted to have use of the camera while we were traveling.
So did Cora.
We met Connie, Deon, Olivia, and Gideon at a KFC in Scottsburg.It was frrrrrrreeezing in southern Indiana. Below you can see Meghan and Connie. Connie is my sister . . . she's the one on the right (could they be related?).Then Cindy and I zoomed back to Lexington for the marriage retreat. The newly weds, Susanna and Nolan were there to teach us everything we need to know.Pierson Layer let Susanna know what it's like to hang around a cute baby.Jim was digging deep into the topic of marriage.Below you can see the Scholls and Kate Layer juggling marriage retreat with newborns.
Matt found that Ian did better if he had a "play pen" in the corner.
It was a nice chance to visit with the Buchers and the Muses who ate at our table.Afterward the Muses and Cindy and I took a short walk to area just outside Rupp Arena to take in the pregame vibe as the big, bad Gators rolled into town to avenge decades of losses to the Kentucky Wildcats.People came from all over the universe to cheer for Kentucky.Even ESPN's GameDay crew was there to hype the game. The crowd was raucous and ready.Travis (who is from Oklahoma) was listening to the GameDay reports on the Oklahoma State vs. Texas Tech game that went to double overtime. Cindy was the one who convinced us to take the walk down to the GameDay set. Here she is with Ginny Muse.The Wildcat fans were very nice. The boys in Blue didn't throw anything at me when I dared to cheer for the Gators (Cindy, on the other hand, wanted very much to throw things at me). Here is the video of me trying to bring some orange into this sea of blue. By the way, the Gators won!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My poor boys :(

Anonymous said...

I love your coat Anna!!!