Jason Son of Jerome

So the other day we spent all day with Green's school doing a fun school retreat.  The theme of the retreat was "Follow Me" based on Matthew 16:24, Matthew 19:21, Matthew 4:19, Matthew 9:9, John 1:43-45 and John 13:12-14 .  We started off with some worship and then the rest of the day was filled with fun team challenges based on this theme.  Kristy and I had the challenge called "The Mine Field".  Now with this challenge each team of students were split into groups of two.  One student was blindfolded ( really well no cheating allowed! ) and the other student acted as a guide through the mine field.  The only rule was the the student guiding the other student could not touch the blindfolded student.  If the blindfolded student touched a mine they not only did they lose a limb but they had to start over.  It was so interesting watching these kids try to figure out the best way to help their blindfolded partner get through the mine field.  ...

So a couple weekends ago we decided as a family to go to the place where I proposed to Kristy and show Greenlee where it all went down... That place was Lover's Leap at Natural Bridge here in Kentucky.  For those of you that know me I am "indoorsy" as Jim Gaffigan says.  So I was hoping when I proposed over 11 years ago that I would never have to go back there again... like ever.  But Greenlee really wanted to go see where I proposed and where her Mommy said yes.  It also doesn't hurt that Kristy will climb a mountain at the drop of a hat.  So we took off for the day and went to Natural Bridge. When we got there it was really muddy.  In fact there were numerous times we had to get off the trail ( which led to tons of bug bites for me ) in order to stay clear of the mud.  There was one time in particular where Kristy went through and then she was trying to explain to our 6 year old daughter how to navigate best through the mud.  At one point I ...