CORTNEY'S CORNER

I had been leading Young Life at Lloyd Memorial High School in Erlanger, KY for the past four and a half years. I was the varsity cheerleading coach there for the past three years. On a normal week, I was up at the school six days a week. And I loved it. I've met some of my best friends there. Once Dan and I got married, he started leading at Lloyd too (he had lead at two schools previous to Lloyd). I figured we would stay at Lloyd for forever. I started looking at houses in Erlanger, accepted the coaching job for another year and thought nothing would change anytime soon.  We went to Great Wolf Lodge in January of 2014 for a leader weekend. The person in charge of Area Development in the Buckeye Region talked during one of the large group seminars. He spoke about a place called Chillicothe, Ohio. I couldn't understand what he was saying. Chilly coffee? Chilled clothie? Apparently this town didn't have Young Life but a committee had been formed basically out of thin air a...

Dan and I were fortunate enough to be able to go to Texas a few weekends ago to celebrate our anniversary! This vacation was a little bit different from our normal ones, because we actually had this planned out a few weeks before. We found a great deal on a sweet Hilton and off we went! We flew in on a Friday around noon. We checked in to our hotel and headed to a local burger place called Good Friend, that our good friend, Sarah, had recommended. It was tasty! Then we hung around downtown Dallas and checked out the art museum for a little bit. We drove into Fort Worth, which is right next to Dallas, early on Friday evening. We stopped downtown to check out this SWEET water garden. Look at these fountains! And you could climb down into them. It was awesome and I wanted to spend the rest of my life here. Then we drove a little outside of downtown to get to the Fort Worth Stockyards. Dan really likes cowboys but I was a bit hesitant about going to the stockyar...