Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Student Life Camp

Family picture!

Another picture of us. All the girls had their hair done there. It was fun!

A random bear at the mall in Branson that we wanted a picture with

Eating lunch

Oh, yeah. We saw David Crowder. He was cool!

Slightly blurry, but we saw Leeland too! They were awesome.


Some pictures of camp. We went to Branson, MO with the rest of the youth. Mom and Dad went as chaperons. It was really fun! We left earlier then all the rest of the group and stayed at the Hastings' for a while. Then we joined the rest of the group at the hotel we stayed at. Kristian Stanfill led the worship, and Francis Chan taught. He was the best ever. You have to look into listening to him sometime. Or read his book: Crazy Love. It's really good. But we had fun. We also went Silver Dollar City, and one of the malls in Branson. We all learned so much. I learned about control. Give it to God. All of it. I'm so glad I went. The whole family. It was fun going as a family. Wait, I forgot to add that later I'll add pictures of the MAZI Ball on here. I'll explain all about later when I blog it. And we had 7 chicks hatch. I'll add some pictures of them later too.

Hagestings! :)

What happened to our tire on the way to the Hastings

Playing Go Fish!

Erica playing Guitar Praise. It's better then Guitar Hero. She was really good!

A little blurry, but Stephen opening up his REALLY late birthday present

Still blurry, but smiling

Andrew's

Group picture, plus Dad :)

Us being silly


Before I did Student Life, I couldn't pass up putting pictures of my best friends on here! We stopped there for 2 days before going to camp. I love going there! :)) We always have so much fun. Their church is so nice, and playing games with them all the time is a blast.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Denver part 3 and last


This part of the memorial had a place for the relatives to say something about each person that was there

This part had different qoutes

It was freezing!! But absolutely beautiful!!

I'm almost positive that it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! And I'm not being sarcastic.

I'm telling you, it was stunning and magnificent!

Garden of the Gods, it was so much fun!

We had so much fun there! And we got kicked out! :) hahahahaha


Columbine High School quickly put life in perspective. It was sobering. And I'm very glad I went. If you're ever around, you should go. It definitely made my thinking wheels start turning. Pike's Peak was absolutely wonderful. It was kind of disappointing in the part that it was a 3 hour round trip, and we were only there for 20 minutes, but it was wonderful. Beautiful. You have to go. I'm telling you. I've told you to go to a billion places, but I wasn't kidding about any of them! And Garden of the Gods was fun! A lot of us climbed part of the rocks. We really thought we could, because there was a path leading to it, and we saw other people doing it. We got super de duper high. It was, what's a new word, incredible... fantastic. Don't you love Roget's Thesaurus? Well, we got really high, and the view was astonishing. Then some staff from there told us that only professionals could climb the rock. So we left. But it was the most fun I had had in a long time. So that's about it. There you go. I'll try to update the Student Life pictures soon. But whenever I say that, I don't ever do anything for a while. I'm trying though.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

More Denver pics

Music time at my group on Tuesday in Denver

A cute little boy named Cooper being silly during music time

playing red light, green light

Red rover
Mom and Erica's group

Madi after getting his face painted. He was really excited! Can you tell?

Rebekah, my bestest friend... and also one of the cutest! :)

If you can, click on it and make it bigger and see why we were all praying. It's on the cardboard sitting on the fence.


So here are some more pictures from Tuesday and Wednesday in Denver. Wednesday's concert was really powerful! So there you go. I'm listening to the Wicked soundtrack. It's awesome!! :) You should go listen to it. But more importantly, you should go see it!!!!!!!!! It's totally amazing! :) I love it! But I'm going to post some more Denver pictures. Then I'll show y'all some pictures of StudentLife pictures. We went to Branson, MO. It was really awesome, and everybody learned lots. Hopefully, lives will be changed for forever.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Mission Denver Part 1

View from the plane

I love looking at clouds, don't you?

Beautiful! I love Colorado!

Singing Sunday morning at Arapahoe Road Baptist Church

Amazing Grace

Music time!

"Leaning on the Lord's Side"

Everyone wins!! :)


Here is the first of several posts for our trip to Denver. We (Mom, Erica, and I) went there with our youth choir for a week in late June/early July. It was lots of fun! We did Bible Clubs (mini vbs) in the mornings at 3 different parks, and we did block parties and sang in the evenings. On Thursday we went to 2 different homeless shelters. These are just pictures of Sunday and Monday. The pictures of music is Erica's location. All 70 of us split up into 3 different groups for 3 different parks, and I was in a different place than Mom and Erica. And "Everyone Wins" is at the block party at their park. Sorry if that's confusing. Denver was the best ever! :)

Friday, July 10, 2009

Having Fun












Old pictures from June of us riding Cleo and having fun! I love it when we all go out as a family and just sit out there and talk. It's one of my favorite things in the whole wide world.

Erica's graduation party

Erica's wonderful new camera!

Her cute, delicious cake
Friends!


gifts from the Hastings!



Well, these are kinda late, but I haven't been blogging for a while. It'll take quite a few blogs to catch y'all up to date. But these are pictures of Erica's graduation party. It was really fun. A great big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who helped us celebrate Erica's success. We ate for a little while. Then a whole bunch of us went out to the pasture and rode Cleo and chased chicks. We really enjoyed it. Erica is going to Lamar this fall. I don't know what else there is to say. I'll probably keep blogging for a while.