37 churches, 9 states and 4 countries

That's what was represented at High School Girl's Camp 2010.  As usual, it was pretty stinkin amazing.  The overall theme was "Good News!!" about the good news of Jesus being risen.  We have Nothing to fear, Nothing to prove and Nothing to hide.  Being the inadequate picture taker that I am, I of course don't have too many to show.  But I do have a few:)  The Good News theme was a newspaper theme and each cabin was a different section of the newspaper.  Such as the Heavenly Homes and Gardens, Fulfilling Food, Peaceful Politics, Risen Obituaries, Master's Money and so on and so forth.  We were the Spiritual Sports.  I thought it was very appropriate seeing as how one day I'm going to be an Olympic gymnast;)  Decorations were easy.  Sports equipment put on display and jerseys draped over the bunks took care of it.  We did, however, have some pretty awesome goody bags thanks to Party City sports themed birthday party section!  Those feet that you see are unfortunately the only picture I got of my co-counselor, Abby.  We did have a good time though and I enjoyed getting to know her better.

One cool think we did was a balloon launch.  We decorated index cards with verses about the good news of Jesus and sent them into the air.  Hopefully the people who find them will either be encouraged or even want to know more of the good news.

Okay, I didn't get a whole group picture.  There were 11 people in our cabin, including me and Abby.  Between the 11 of us we came from 10 different churches.  We had Taylor, Kaleigh, Leah, Keelin, Andrea, Latoya, Whitney, Hannah and Megan.

I'm not too fond of this picture of myself but I sure didn't want to leave her out!

The two that were gallavanting around and I had to chase down to get their picture:)

Already looking forward to next year!

Oldies

I was looking through some old pictures and decided to post a few that never got posted, most likely because I didn't have my own computer at the time.  It's always fun to look at my old pictures and take a trip down memory lane.  So even though these probably won't mean to you what they mean to me, I will do it anyway. 
The first one was taken a few years ago when some of the people who had came to our Tennessee Fellowship weekend over Memorial Day stayed an extra couple days to reshingle the church.  They only had a couple days to get things done and even though it poured down rain probably 75% of those two days, the worked hard and got it all done.  At one point it sounded like they were going to come through the roof and when I ran out to get a look this is what I saw.  With that long line up of men working together, it took no more than a minute to get that big section of shingles off.  I know you can't tell in the picture but was really cool to watch.

This was awhile back when Jean Shilove, one of my Hatian brothers, had the chance to come visit us for the summer.  I took him to my aunt and uncles to swim and he loved laying in the water. 

This was from Mexico over Thanksgiving of '08.  One night after supper me, Erin and Kristi were bored and took a series of pictures between the three of us.  I think this picture might be my favorite one from the whole trip.

I will spare you the whole series of pictures that we took but this one just makes me laugh.  We didn't plan it to turn out this way, but the way Kristi is hiding behind Erin it makes it look like Erin has one head and two bodies.  We laughed for a long time over this one:)

Welp, that's it for now.  Some of my oldies.

Denver Weekend

I was able to spend this weekend out in Denver.  Matthew Moore (from Athens) was getting married and my cousin Jared lives out there and mentions every now and then that I should come visit.  So it was the perfect excuse to make the trip.  I flew out Thursday night from Nashville.  Mark and Bekah happened to be on my flight which was fun.  I failed at getting a picture of the three of us at the airport:(  Jared picked me up and took me to the girl's house I would be staying at.  Friday morning my friend Abel, who I haven't seen in like eight years, picked me up and we went to lunch.  It was good catching up with him.

He dropped me back off at Jared's and then we (me and J.) went up into the mountains a little bit.  After trying one road, only to discover it was closed (when we were almost at the top) we went back down and tried a different road.  This one was successful but becuase we had spent so much time driving up and down the other one, we weren't able to go quite as high as we wanted.  But it was still really pretty and we were able to get out and hike for a half hour or so.  Well, I would call it hiking.  Jared probably thought it was way to easy to be considered hiking but it was good enough for me.

I also failed at getting a good picture of me and Jared.  This is about the best I got.  It's kind of hideous but it will have to do.

After driving around for more than four hours, we made it back into the city and met up with some others where we went to a folkish/bluegrassish concert then out for ice cream.  Usually if someone else takes a picture with my camera it turns out blury because they don't let it focus first.  That's the case here but since she was a complete stranger and had already taken two pictures I decided not to be too picky.

Saturday we grilled out and played volleyball all afternoon then went back to Dan and Tess's for pizza and games.  I only got one picture of that evening but the one I got makes me smile.  Someone had the idea to play pick up sticks with Tess's huge decorative bamboo things.  It was nearly impossible so we traded those for her skewer sticks.  During the game an impromptu singing with just five of us ensued (great word, huh?).  That game/singing turned out to be one of my favorite parts of the weekend.

Sunday obviously was the wedding and though it was the main reason I went out, I forgot to take my camera along so I have no pictures of the bride/groom/reception.  I was bummed about that.  I'll just say that the service was good, the dress was beautiful and the cake was amazing.  That pretty much sums it up:)

Jared then so very willingly took me back to the airport.  Jared, if you read this, thank you so much for driving me all over.  You're so cool:)  My flight was delayed an hour but it was all right because there was a couple at the wedding that I met up with at the airport and was able to talk to for awhile.  We landed at midnight and I got home at 2:15 this morning.  It was a long and full weekend but it was really really good.

Memorial Day Weekend

We had our annual Tennessee Fellowship weekend here when people come down and we sing, fellowship, sing, eat, sing, fellowship, sing, eat, sing.....  oh and throw some volleyball in there too.  I had a great time with everyone and we always feel really blessed by the people who make an effort to come.  Did I get any picture?  Of course not!  I at least took my camera along which is a step in the right direction.  We have a small auction to start off the weekend on Saturday.  I came out with a new bocce ball set and some of Miss Louise's cinnamon rolls.  Those rolls are good.  All of her baked goodies brought about 20% of the total auction money!  I was sitting there and Cassie came up and said she forgot her wallet and could I please buy her stuff.  I said sure, no problem.  A few minutes later, my own dad came up and did the same thing!  It get's a little pricey when you're paying for two extra tickets!
Today at work I got stung by a wasp.  Yes, I'm a wimp.  Yes, I'm milking this for all it's worth.  But it Hurts!  It happened eight hours ago and it's still sore.  Poor me.
Thursday night I'm flying out to Denver for Matthew and Kristy's wedding.  It should be fun:)
Welp, I'm tired and really have no excuse for still being up.