Cabin, Church, Family, and Chores.

Headed home to our favorite spot – Selah Acres! (Yes, Lorree’s driving the rig – you go girl!) Our little cabin in the Colorado mountains is always so welcoming – we love it! We’re going to have four weeks to enjoy the quiet, the wildlife, the beauty, and all the adventure to go with it. We’ve had so much anticipation for this moment… Welcome Home Johnsons!

This is going to be a very busy four weeks! Hang on here we go…..

We didn’t stay home for long – on the road again! We travel a lot of miles while at home lol!

Lorree met up with our friend Ruth Cozad in Colorado Springs to help with a JP Salad-in-a-jar party. While she was there Dennis was able to bring our flat trailer up to Nick & Rachel’s to load some stuff going to the cabin and got a warm welcome from Mary – so sweet! A few days later we had our “new” truck in for it’s 60K mile servicing. So.Many.Wonderful.Miles!

Meanwhile back at the ranch….CHORES! Lorree grabbed the John Deere and tackled mowing the road, the backyard, side yard, front yard, any yard she could find – she had FUN! (I’ll probably never get to mow again!) We worked together and walked the 25 acre fence line repairing broken fence wire and replacing a few posts. We really do kinda like this life!

July 4th get together with the Colorado Families! So good to give and get our hugs!

Grandkids – are so much fun! We ran them ragged this time! (I think…?) It seems that while at the cabin… at Selah Acres – everyone just lets their spirits soar and finds peace at the same time. God is here for sure!

Being available, helping our kids and walking strong in the Lord with our grandkids is a BIG priority for us. We cherish the times we have to walk and live life together with our family!

One of the highlights of living here for Dennis is attending a men’s Bible study “just-down-the-road”. These men are authentic believers who have studied the Word and live it out day to day. What a blessing and inspiration to have these mentors in his life! We meet just south of Eleven Mile Reservoir at Dave’s original cabin – now converted into a work/Bible shop.

Our new church home, Four Mile Community Church (again…just-down-the-road from us) celebrated July 4th with a festive and spirit filled remembrance and honor to our Christian founding fathers of this great nation. Pastor Steve even dressed up as an original 1776’r. We love our new church family!

And for the actual July 4 weekend, we traveled to Fort Morgan to bring an old fashioned cook-out/BBQ to Mom and Kay. We had a great time visiting, reminiscing, and eating some great burgers with all the fixins’s! Check out them socks on Mom! She’s always celebrating life to the fullest with her Jesus! Amen!

We did spend some days at the cabin getting a bit of rest and work done…. but life calls!

Isaac’s team won! So fun to spend an afternoon watching a great baseball game and to celebrate a great win. Way to go Isaac! So glad we were here to enjoy this.

Our first Papa-Nana Camp with Isaac and Kaylee! 3 days 2 nights of adventures!

First day/evening was a warm up time: hot tub, zip line, tractor, and just talking. Then we went fishing in the morning! Shucks! We caught nothing ‘cept some lake weeds (oh yeah, Kaylee caught a dead fish with a stick and proudly showed it around to everyone LOL!). It was a beautiful day, great fun, and nobody complained.

So many memories! These kids know how to keep us moving! They taught us some new games and we taught them a few. Papa put them to work hauling dead branches with the John Deere, they built a fort in the trees, had a little target practice, more hot tubbing, a pizza with movie night, more talking, and of course s’mores at the campfire! One morning, Isaac even helped cook breakfast for all of us – YUM!

Oh, and Kaylee kept our cabin filled with fresh wild flowers every day!

Is our respite already over?? We’ve had a great few weeks at the cabin and it surely is a Selah Acres Place – to pause, reflect, and consider what’s ahead.

We spent our last few days finalizing our next big trip. Some minor touch ups and repairs inside the RV, two new tires and lastly Dennis repacked/greased the wheel hubs… because we’re headed to Maine!

What adventures lie before us? God is good – all the time! Let’s GO!