This pretty much sums up the weekend. :)

The theme of the retreat was "Simply Trusting."

Katie, the leader of our women's ministry, added so many little touches! We had these bags waiting for us on our tables with little notepads inside.

They had these little candles on every table. Incredibly cute and a wonderful source of warmth for our chilly-selves.

They gave us candy. The Riesens disappeared quite quickly. The Reese's were not far behind. Chocolate is not safe around us.

They also put flowers on each table! These were sitting just inches in front of me all weekend and I thought they were fake. They were giving them away at the end of the weekend and I thought it was quite strange to be giving out fake flowers that they could just use again next year. They weren't. They were giving away real flowers. As soon as I touched their petals, I confirmed they were the real thing and picked one out to take home. It's living happily in our living room at the moment.

We each made name tags. This is a picture of Beth's name in a heart. Coincidentally, I *heart* Beth.

Katie is an absolutely wonderful and hilarious Christian woman. I'm pretty sure she was showing off her shoes here. She had a black and a brown pair of that exact shoe. I loved her shoes. I'd like a pair of black ones.

If you've never played Fishbowl before, you really should. Everybody playing writes down a few names of famous people/cartoons, puts them into a bowl, and breaks into two teams. Then in the first round, one person at a time gets up, alternating back and forth between teams, and can speak and act to get their team to guess what they're describing. In the second round, you can only say one word. In the third round, you can only act. The papers are recycled every round, so if you're paying attention, you can just say all of the names you remember to guess what they're trying to describe.
This is our lovely pastor's wife, Jessica, acting out Larry the Cucumber. Larry the Cucumber was in the bowl twice. So was Bob the Tomato. Every time anyone hinted at anything vegetable, I'd blurt out, "LarrytheCucumberBobtheTomato!" as fast as I could. I love this game.

This is Aubrey as Chuck Norris. You don't want to mess with her. She's one fierce New Yorker.

I have no clue what Adrienne is acting out, but it's probably either Michael Jackson or Snoopy. They're more similar than you'd think.

Janice led a LOT of worship this weekend! What's even more impressive is that she wrote a lot of the songs that she sang! It was a pretty awesome experience.

I really wish I had a camera that could take pictures really fast, because there was so much action this weekend that my camera would just miss, because of the shutter speed! This is Katie dancing to "Getting to Know You" from the King and I. She's very graceful.

What's better than one person dancing to a song from one of your favorite musicals?
Two people dancing to a song from one of your favorite musicals...while singing along.

"Getting to Know You" was part of our girlfriend time, which involved getting more cute knick knacks and taking a learning styles/multiple intelligences test. Apparently, I am mostly musical, then intrapersonal, logical/math, interpersonal, visual/spatial, linguistic, and finally kinesthetic. Kinesthetic was my lowest score! That really surprised me.

Janice got Beth up there to sing, too! Bethers has a beautiful voice.

This would be a shot that my mother would describe as "artsy fartsy." I like playing with perspectives.

Another look at our table. You know what's funny? I didn't know that our church's women's ministry was called "Women of Grace" until I went on the retreat. It's actually more sad than funny.

Aubrey, Beth, and I! Those are two wonderfully outspoken women right there. I pretty much love them to pieces.

See? Women of Grace. It's a wonderful name now that I know about it! Isn't it a beautiful quilt, too?

We had communion while we were up there. Katie and Janice were also anointing and praying over those that wanted to partake. It was a pretty amazing time with God.

See the snow on the mountains? It made me miss Colorado. That's not saying much, because most things make me miss Colorado.

It was definitely nice to have trees around, though. They're much nicer to look at than cacti. I think they're less intimidating.

I wish I would have taken a picture of our room. The rooms weren't bad at all. They were heated and they had their own bathrooms, but the beds were awful! Unless we were medicated, none of us got good rest, but it was still an awesome weekend of worship and fellowship. It was really nice to get to know some of the women at church better. :)