Lion's Ridge Sherpas

Good friends of ours, Ryan and Mindy Connelly, run an adventure expediton /camp here in Bozeman.
Lion's Ridge has existed for about 5 years and has been totally a labor of love, in pursuit of a vision to see lives forever changed.

"Eyes to see. Hands to serve. Hearts to love." Through adventure and the education of the wilderness of Montana, Ryan teaches and trains people, of all ages, to: See that there is more to life, and find the beauty of a moment. Serve with their physical strength by helping one another and giving themselves fully to that service. Love with a heart that is grateful, blessed and full because of the time spent seeing and serving.

Last night Ryan & Mindy sent out a Sherpa call. A sherpa is 'one who walks with another to help shoulder the load, and often to help stay a course'. We gathered in Lee & Debbie's new home, for 2 hours to hear about what happened in those who had come to take part in those life changing adventures over the summer. We nibbled on Debbie's wonderful hors d'oeuvres as we listened to how we could be Lion's Ridge Sherpas.
We left having new sight, wanting to serve, with full, blessed, and grateful hearts.

Sweet Moments

J and I and Minda braved the snow & headed to The Daily for a reprieve from the house.  I love when all of the world is white, but I am surrounded by color!

Jen and I were finally able to sit and chat and sip and laugh, and cry and nibble at Sola this week. Love this woman, so blessed she is in my life!

I also got to be a part of blessing Naomi on her special day. Peter arranged a day of pampering and friends for her! We met at MacKenzie for lunch...

And then dessert!!! Look at that Mile-high slice of sumptuiousness! We gabbed the afternoon away. 

These ladies are so amazing! All of them are new mamas, entering into, and dealing with the stages I have finished, and doing an incredible job (we missed you Becca). 

Minda's New Man

We got FEET of snow today! FEET not inches, not centimeters... Feet!!! Minda made good use of the very wet, heavy white stuff! She rolled herself a man!

What a cutie! (He sorta reminds me of Hudson)

And so it begins...

October has come in like a lion! For 2.5 days we have endured high winds and storm warnings.

Needless to say, we have stayed inside as much as possible. The frigid days have made us want to cozify, so this month's menu is almost all soups!

Buckles is a trooper! He has a shelter, and is fed well, he had to come out and get some apples from me though. That winter undercoat is coming in!

This morning I was up at 2:30. Who knows why, but this was the scene I awoke to!

Cassia doesn't have to work today, there is leftover soup and a fire will be roaring in the fireplace soon.
Hello Winter, & welcome.

Ladies' Day Out!

Gallatin Gateway Inn

Mindy's Bday

At Wild Joe's!

Twister and shout

Gabe and Shauna and Mindy and Ryan came over for an evening of games!

september snows

Baby Dedication - HD!

We attended Alliance on Sunday to be with Doug and Kaitlin as they dedicated Hudson William to the Lord!

Then we all got together to watch the Seahawks get their butts beat sorly by Da Bears... At least the first half of the day was happy.

Side trip

We drove to Washington this weekend to be with Joel and Courtney for a day or 2 and talk 'Wedding'!

We stopped in Odessa real quick to have a sausage at Deutschesfest. I hadn't been back since I was pregnant with Tofer.

We had lunch with Joel and Courtney at the new fresh market deli in Moses on Saturday!

Tangible Kingdom Team

(minus Kalen)
Learning, growing, ministering, living life - together!

Gather Round

Muffin & soup night at Lion's Ridge!

Campfire, s'mores, friends, stories

and Cocoa!