DAD VISITED!

So, dad came to visit this weekend!! Ahh it was so amazing and I feel like it was a dream. He got here on Thursday around 7:15, right in the middle of the picnic. After a bite to eat and introducing him to families and volunteers, I took him to the Towers Overlook where there is honestly the most beautiful view of mountains I've ever seen. It really feels like you are in the middle of Jurassic Park or Land Before Time or something and a pterodactyl is just going to swoop over your head out of nowhere! We took a sweet father daughter pic, as you can see. Later that night he sat in on our staff meeting and typed up the hardware list, and I think he really got a feel for how much detail goes into every meeting and how much planning each project actually takes. It was so fun having him there and after the meeting Spencer told me "It's scary how much you're like your dad". Sounds about right.

Friday morning I took him to hardware right when it opened at 7:30am, and after getting all of the inside misc. stuff we went into the lumber yard, I think he really loved it. It's pretty cool getting to start your day off with the lumber guys cracking jokes and loading up hardware, even though it doesn't sound relaxing it totally is and gives you some time to yourself. After all of the volunteers were out of here I took him to 4 homes, the first being one where we're building a knee-wall and installing trusses above it (see pic). I love this project because I've talked the group leader's through it and I've seen the progression of it, and it's really coming to life. Seeing it finished is going to be one of the coolest things, especially because her ceilings are in such bad condition that she really can't go through another winter without a proper roof. After that I took him to a hollow (pronounced holler) with 3 trailers we're working on, and we stopped at Dollar General beforehand to pick up lots of toys. We brought them to the kids there, and one boy Elijah LOVED the bat and frisbee we gave him. It was obvious that he'd never played baseball before so my dad stayed for about an hour and taught him the correct way to stand, hold the bat, and it was just the coolest thing watching him make a bond with the boy so quickly! Corny. I'll stop.

We had the share circle, a huge evening gathering where we all share a "God" moment of the week, and mine is too long to say so I won't. My dad's was really cute and everyone loves him :)

Saturday I woke up and did my work orders and nonsense and was done by noon so we explored downtown Haysi and I took him to the ropeswing!! It was the coolest thing ever, I had never done it before and it was really high and ughh it was just such a rush going off of it! It's a ropeswing that goes inbetween two cliffs and a railroad track is running right above it. To the right there are some rapids that we rode through on our butts and it was so much fun! I wish I could put into words how cool that place is but I just can't. So I'm sorry. But it's magical.

We went to Me Finca for dinner and met up with some Dickinson County staffers and then they came over for a slumber party! Fun stuff. He left Sunday morning around 5am.. yikes! Overall it was one of the best weekends I've had here and it was just super cool to be able to share this with someone back home. It's hard to put into words what I do and so I'm really glad that he got to see me in action! Plus we've kind of been going on a faith journey at the same time together which is also really cool to have that kind of relationship with him.

I'll stop being corny now. Enjoy the pics!