God is an Artist

Ah fall, you are so beautiful.  Definitely my favorite season!  I love that it's the start of cool, crisp air...seeing the leaves change, hot apple cider (ok, that's not necessarily nature but you can drink it while sitting out in nature! :) haha).  Yes, fall....I love you or rather, that God created you!  I love looking at all the trees that change color and can't help but think how they are so perfectly scattered creating such a beautiful picture.  And then I think about how God created all of it - the beautiful yellows, oranges, reds....gorgeous.  God is definitely an artist....I mean come on, look around :). 

Kaleb and I just got back from our conference in Colorado this past Thursday night and man, did we get blessed with some amazing weather while there!  I was SO excited for cool weather, some even snowy weather, and being surrounded by mountains.  We Poth's love our nature :).  Having great weather and such a scenic drive definitely topped the conference off!  We couldn't have asked for a better time for this conference - not just because of the weather ;).  But it couldn't have been better timing because of the things we learned there (funny how God does that, huh? :) ).  The conference was 3 days long and took place in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado.  We enjoyed a very encouraging and fruitful time there!  Our meetings were mostly focused on financial stewardship.  It was great to hear from and be encouraged by leadership as well as meet with some of them one on one. They helped to offer great advice and gave us tools to use on our own.  It was a great way to get a break together and meet other staff as well that are right there with us in support raising mode.  All in all, a very motivating and fruitful time!  Thank you to those of you that kept us in your prayers!  We appreciate you!

And now, I leave you with some pictures (surprise, surprise ;)) ....

ah, the colors of fall!

near Durango, Colorado where we stayed overnight on our way to the conference.  No, didn't camp this time - it was a tad to chilly for that ;)

Kaleb has a color accent mode on his camera and uses it quite well, if I might say so ;).  LOVE this pic he took!

Kaleb with our faithful ole Blue Steel (our Subaru :) ).  Kaleb is always so sweet to stop for me when we see some good scenery pics to take :).  We were about the only people on the road this day so it was pretty fun!

So pretty much all the pictures I took were outside the car window....I mean, otherwise we would have never made it to our destination I would have wanted to stop so much, haha.  But this pic was taken during one of our stops.  There was a trail to this waterfall that looked awesome - unfortunately the trail was closed due to snow, but maybe next time ;).

someone likes to have snowball fights ;)

ahhhh SNOW! :)

if you know us at all, you know there will ALWAYS be Red Bull on a road trip :)

we hit some drastic weather changes during some parts of the drive

many elk were there to greet us in Estes Park....very many!

I don't think this one was too happy we were there ;)

check out that handsome man!

YAY for fall!