Welcome back!!
We hope you all had an awesome October!!
Ours started out with yet another trip to Colorado! But this time, Anna, Ashley, and I got to go!!
We butchered our last batch of broilers of the year, went to bed, woke up at 12AM, and hit the road! We got into Colorado later that morning (feel free to call us crazy, you wouldn't be the first ;).
During October we also made a trip to Kentucky with our Grandma on our Mom's side, and a group from her Church to see the Ark Encounter!! We were blessed to get to also visit The National WW1 Museum and Memorial in KC, go on a Riverboat ride down the Ohio River, go through the Creation Museum that’s also in Kentucky, visit the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, go through the National Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, OH, tour the Concordia Seminary, and visit the Churchill Museum in Florence, MO!
Well, Shall we begin?
Anna, Ashley and I Colorado bound!!
So long Missouri!
Ashley got annoyed by mine and Anna's craziness real fast
We made it!!
Here we are on the top of Lookout Mountain watching a storm come in!!
Now that is beauty!!
You’ve heard of taking a selfie,
but have you heard of taking a picture of a selfie while the selfie takes a picture of you?!
Backseat shenanigans by us ;)
In Estes Park for their Annual Elk Fest.
It was pretty crowded but overall it was a fun day!
Anna, Grandma, and Ashley
Anna getting all the beautiful angles of Fall in Estes
Okay, Colorado, I see you.
Was my camera stuck out the window while these pictures were being taken? Yes, yes indeed.
Anna, me, Grandma Pat, and Ashley <3
On our way to a dear friend’s Wedding up in Estes Park!!
Look at these colors!!
We were blessed to have the privilege of getting to help out with some of the wedding prep!!
Here we are arranging flowers for the tables!
Right before the wedding started
Anna, Ashley, Maddy, me, Andrea, and Gabby!
And they’re hitched!!
Congratulations, Wesley and Mary Mersch!!
Ashley, Andrea, and Rachel
All beautiful gals from the inside out!
Richelle and Maddy
A picture with the new Bride!! <3
Gabby, Anna, Maddy, and me
Anna and Ashley headed back to Missouri while I was able to stay back for two more weeks!!
Here Maddy and I are shopping around for her Bridesmaids dress that she would need in a couple months!
It was a great joy (especially with these awesome gals) getting to help the Thenhaus family
pack up their house before they headed to their new home in Arkansas.
Most of the group who came to help them move that day!
The Thenhaus’s goodbye party at Church.
It was hard for me to grieve the Thenhaus’s move like everyone else, for now they’re only 2 1/2 hours away from our place!!
So blessed to know all these gals who have been a big part of my life! <3
At the Boehler’s!!
Thanks for being weird right alongside me, Megan!
Emily, me, and Megan
Most of the squad!!
Missed getting to see you, Addy and Micah! <3
Out celebrating Gabby’s Birthday with a trip to Starbucks!
So blessed to have you all in my life! <3
Thanks for treating me to my first College Volleyball game, Boehler’s!! ‘Twas a blast!!
*WARNING!!! There are a ton of pictures ahead, it will most likely take you awhile (that is, if you even make it that far ;) to get to the bottom!!!*
The amazing bus that got us to all our locations + gave us the luxury of movies for the long bus rides!
The greeting I got from these people in Kansas City. XD
After going three weeks without seeing most of them, it was great to be reunited with my peeps!
Our very first location to tour - The National WW1 Museum and Memorial
It honestly amazed me how many different types of machinery they would have had to know how to use.
An artificial right arm from a Lieutenant in WW1.
Decorations made from bullet shells that were fired during the war.
<3
Guns that were used during WW1
A display of soldiers at combat and the reality of what a dirty and gruesome job it was.
What a medical car looked like back then
The same model bomb that was used during WW1
and why we should be very grateful for those that gave their lives.
Artifacts left behind from the War.
The view over Kansas City
It's really a cute little Restaurant!
>Kentucky bound!!<
At a rest stop.
9 thousand poppy flowers in memory of those who gave their life.
1 flower = 1,000 dead US soldiers.
The tower on top of the WW1 Museum and Memorial
>St, Louise bound where we’ll check into our Hotel for the night<
One hour in and this kid is out!
Peyton and and I got to be roommates during the trip!
I loved it, but early morning selfies got annoying for her, I think. XD
~The Next Morning~
Trying to cross a busy street without a crosswalk to our destination: "The Hen House," (which you can see in the picture) for breakfast!
This is when you find out who wants breakfast badly.
Havi and Isaiah have to make every picture interesting.
I spy Peyton
The napping bus, where everyone is sleeping
The next morning and on our way to see the Ark Encounter for the first time!!
He got his fill of bus naps!
The moment everyone has been anticipating!!
First sighting of the Ark!
There it is!!
And we're here!!
Gotta get a group picture of course!!
Ta-da!
And into the Ark we go!!
Joe and Isaiah
What some of the creatures on the Ark *possibly* looked like!
Me, Grandma, and Katherine
Since we all kind of spread out and went through the Ark at different paces,
most of us got pictures in front of the door at different times, so we weren't able to get one big picture all together in front of the door.
Havi and Norah
Joe and Ashley
I loved how they paralleled the door on Noah’s Ark to the door of salvation through Jesus Christ
"I am the door, Whoever enters through Me will be saved."
One of my favorite parts on the Ark was where they confronted the danger of portraying Noah's Ark as a fairytale story. And the Ark as a little boat with animals crammed inside.
I was amazed at how many different books there are that portray Noah's ark as "A cute fairytale story."
Click on this picture and give it a read! It's quite interesting.
The Ark is a little more than half of the Titanic!! Wowza!!
All the information on board was pretty amazing!!
It answered so many questions I had had for awhile.
The kind of "cages" they may have kept the reptiles in
What the living quarters may have looked like
The size of the pillars are amazing!!
*notice the faint cross on the door*
We got a chance to meet up with the Lang's, and go through most of the Ark with them!
Watching a play on the screen, but with real people on the stage. Sounds strange but it was really neat!
Isaiah and Katherine
This is creepy how real this looks.
Not everyday you get to play on a playground and have the Ark as your view!
Norah and Mary
You know that feeling when you stand on the top of a whale and feel accomplishment?
The petting zoo at the Ark
Isaiah and Katherine
Norah
Joe and Isaiah
An amazing day, for sure!
The next morning:
~The Creation Museum~
My favorite picture of Mr. Searcy!
Grandma, Anna, Isaiah, Ashley, and Sarah
Anna, me, and Norah
Isaiah knows no stranger!
Loved how they did Evolutionist worldview vs. Creationist worldview!
Watching "In Six Days."
A quick 3D video of what it may have looked like when God created the earth!
We became the "Selfie Queens" as Mr. Searcy called us.
I guess we earned that title!
Beautiful captures by Anna!
Grandma <3
Ashley, Mom, and Grandma
Three generations!
We always find the playgrounds!
Looking at all the kinds of fish they have in the pond
Headed back to the Hotel before we go out for dinner
The bus at night
We raided the back of the bus!
Celebrating Katherine's 7th Birthday since it was during the trip
A little party with some people from our group down in the Lobby
Katherine opening her gifts from Grandma!
And then a game of cards to top off the night!
What everyone looked like by the end of the night
Cincinnati, Ohio bound!
<3
There it is!!
~National Underground Railroad Freedom Center~
Cincinnati is pretty cool!
A view of the Ohio River from a balcony on the Underground Railroad Museum
We stayed on the balcony for awhile if you couldn't tell by how many pictures we took of the view ;p
Anna and Norah continuing the "Selfie Queen" legacy.
An actual Cabin from slave days that was used as a cage to hold slaves
Continuing to continue the legacy
Joe riding an electric scooter! A lot of firsts happened on this trip.
A walk through Cincinnati
While almost everyone else from our group ate lunch at a fancy restaurant across the street from the Museum, we went to Subway (which was superb!) for lunch.
#largefamily"problems"
Anna, you are beyond awesome. Haha XD
While everyone waited to load up on the bus,
Anna and I made a dash for the bridge (the same one we could see from the Underground Railroad Museum).
When a stranger spontaneously offers to take a picture of you in Cincinnati, because they can tell by the amount of pictures you're taking that you're a tourist.
But just to continue our legacy of being Selfie Queens... ;p
Oh! It's Isaiah!
Mom, Joe, Katherine, and Isaiah came a little later
Views from the bus!
Later that night:
Now ON the Ohio River, and enjoying this gorgeous sunset before we have dinner on the riverboat
Talk about beauty!
Me and Sandy <3
She was also on my trip to Greece, so getting to see her was awesome!
In the dinning room of the riverboat
When you get caught vibing to the music during dinner
A night on a Riverboat is pretty sweet!
If you saw two little kids running around
with glowing swords during the boat ride, that was most likely my siblings.
A picture with Grandma! <3
Do we even look related? Nah, definitely not.
Also the bridge Anna and I were on
Me and Norah
The three amigos!
What a night! Cold and windy but SO amazing!!
The Hotel Lobby's were our gathering place almost every night for a game of cards!
Here we are at the Louisville Slugger Museum
Worlds biggest bat, weighing in at 68,000 lbs and 120 ft. tall
That's a big bat!
Going through the factory where the bats are made!
The Museum or "Hall of Fame" for amazing baseball players.
I guess I came very unprepared, because I had no clue who any of these people were
Joe went around squeezing their noses. Don't ask, just please don't ask.
Isaiah
Katherine
Joe
A gentleman from our group
Havi
Katherine and Mr. Searcy
Getting to hold Baseball Legends actual bats.
Didn't know who they were or why they were so amazing but it was still really cool!
Holding Babe Ruth's bat (the one person I DID know of)!
Everyone getting a turn!
In the ball Pitt
I think that's the biggest baseball glove I have ever seen!
So, what do my siblings do? XD
Why not? There was no sign that said not to!
Thanks for the tip
Oh the patience Mr. Searcy had with Katherine! These pictures show just how much.
That's a lot of baseball players signatures!!
It's Ashley in the background for me, haha XD
Louiseville
Taking a stroll down Louisville street trying to find a good place to have lunch!
I guess we looked starved because on our
search a man who was sitting at a table told us about a pizza shop that sells really good pizzas
And we found it!
Turned out almost everyone else from our trip also went there for lunch!
I'm so amazing (not) XD
And Isaiah takes another nap on the bus
Here we are at at the Concordia College in St. Louise, MO
The buildings at the campus are sure neat
A statue of Lutheran
A panorama of the campus from the "inside" of the buildings
By the end of the trip these two were best buddies <3
From the inside of one of the buildings
Norah, Queen of the staircase
Check out that ceiling!!
The entrance to Luther's Tower
And in we go!
Using Joe to show how tight the staircase was all the way up! No fat people allowed!!
And up, and up we go! If you get claustrophobic too bad.
At the top!
We asked to go up to the very top (up that little staircase) but we were denied access :(
One of the bells they had up there
The view from Luther Tower
And down, down, down we go
Joe and Joe
They also became buddies on the trip!
Can I take a moment to take in this ceiling again?
A very steep hill! Looks like fun to sled down until you see the building
The Church in the school
Anna set the mood by playing "River Flows In You" on their Grand Piano
~The Churchill Museum~
"A nation that forgets its past has no future."
The best group we could have gone with. What a trip!
Huge shoutout to the Ford's who watched our stuffed animal, Kooper while we were away, and to Dad for keeping things running on the farm!! This trip would have been impossible without you! <3
If you made it this far, you're amazing!! See you all next time!!
Thank you all so much for stopping by!
~The Coulter Family
"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow that and the way is hard that leads to life and those who find it are few."
Mathew 7:12-14
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