Hey guys! I apologize for it being way too long since i last posted! Back in early May, we went on a trip to NC for my sister's graduation! It was so much fun! We got to visit lots of family and friends, not to mention celebrate lots of special events!

Me and my sister Mollie

 We were there for a little over a week, but it felt like we were there for two days! One of the days we were there, i got to see my bestest friend, Greta! <3 It was over a year since we last saw each other and we had so much to catch up on.

Top left: Hiking by a pond, Top right: My sister Hannah, Greta and me, Bottom left: me and Greta strawberry pickin'! :)

 

Can you tell we had fun!? :) Those were some of the highlights of out trip, but on another note, our family got a new puppy two weeks ago...his name is Moray :)

A week after we got back from NC, me and my sister went on our church's camp trip.  It was soo much fun!! For worship, the band Rush of Fools played for us and they were really awesome.  We were on a mountain so it was a gorgeous view the whole week!

Wes, the lead sing of Rush of Fools

Top left: Me and one of the band members, Bottom corner, the gorgeous view from the campus! <3

~~Rebecca~~

I'm Still Here

Hey everyone! Yes...i am still here! i just got back from a long trip and haven't really had a chance to blog yet.  We went to North Carolina for my sister Emily's graduation from college! I will post in more detail and add some pictures later but just wanted to give you an update! Until tomorrow (when i will hopefully have more time to blog) i'll leave you with a quick music video that i love! (it's called Hurricane by Natalie Grant)

~~Rebecca

Random Stuff

Hey Ya'll! Oh my goodness...i have not posted in so long! I really don't have any excuses besides that i just didn't feel like blogging. bahaha :) Anyway, a few weeks ago me, my mom and sister drove to New Jersey to visit all of our family there.  It was really fun, and the week went by wayyyyyy too fast. There was one other reason we drove up there.....we surprised my older sister Emily with a bridal shower! :) It was so. much. fun!!  She didn't even know that we were driving up there, she just thought she was going up for her spring break.  Enjoy the pictures! :)

Emily being surprised :)

The lovely venue :)

The stuff to dip in the fondue

The yummy finger-food

On the way home from New Jersey, we stopped in Nashville and went to the Parthenon.

The goddess Athena. It was so huge!

Birthday Weekend Stuff

Hello friends! Sooo....it (again) has been soooooooo long since I last posted. However, I knew when this weekend was approaching, that I would have much to blog about. 

Well, first of all.  We kicked off the weekend by staying up Friday night, to watch the Psych Slumber Party, and that was sooooooooooooooo much fun! Although, I did fall asleep about two hours into it...(haha)...it was still awesome!!

On Saturday, we slept in a little, and then in the afternoon we went bowling...yes...i bowled a score of 23 :( hahah!

On Saturday night, we were supposed to have a surprise birthday party for my sister Hannah, but the cat got out of the bag a little early.  Even know she knew about the party, she didn't know who was coming, or what games we were playing :) We had a BLAST!! For the games, we played our own version of minute to win it, and it was hilarious! :)

There were a few SO  many pictures from her party, so i'm only gonna post some of them. Like i said above, we played 'minute to win it' games.  We drew out a score board on our wipe-away board and everyone was assigned a colored team. The games were soooooooooo funny to watch (and play)!!!
Enjoy the pics!! :)

The food table

Let the games begin!

The talented throwers

Trying to dodge the ping pong balls

The point of this ^^^ game was to pull strings over your ears, which would raise a 'candy elevator' and you had to bring the candy up to your mouth

 

 

 

 

It was quite entertaining...ahah :)

Well, that was our awesomely fun, but busy birthday weekend!!

P.S. - If you want to see the exact way to play each game go to http://www.nbc.com/minute-to-win-it/how-to/

Hit's Deep Concert!

Last week we went to the TobyMac Hit's Deep Concert, and let me just say, that that was the BEST concert I have ever been to! We heard, TobyMac, Mandisa, Brandon Heath, Britt Nicole, Chris August, Jamie Grace, and Group 1 Crew! It was so amazing to hear all of them perform, and what was ever cooler, was that during the intermission, we got to meet, Mandisa, and Brandon Heath!

It was so funny, when I came up to Mandisa, she said "Well, now aren't you adorable."

Another bonus, was that we also got to meet Klove's JD Chandler!

Piano Festival!

Hello Friends! I hope each of you are doing AMAZING! Last weekend I played (piano) at a Monster Mash. (aka, Halloweenish, fair type of thing)  it was sooooooo fun! It was all outside, but it was a little bit cold that day, and windy, so after a while, I was ready to go! Anyway, I played as soon as we got there, and i think it went pretty well...

Me playing...

Me with my awesome teacher ^^^

 

 

After I was finished playing, my mom wanted to take Dante on a little hayride...

He LOVED it, but mostly, he just wanted to roll around in the hay. haha :)

Well, this weekend (November 3rd) I played in more of a competition, at our local music store.  It went really good too, and I came home with a ribbon, and music pin :) Sorry, no pics from that one!

Have a wonderful week!

Jump Rope Pep-Rally

Today our MHEA (our home school group) jump rope team, performed at a pep-rally, for all the sports, to kick off the new year.  Our sport went last, since we were going to take longer, and ya'll, it was just SO. MUCH. FUN! The best part was seeing all the kids (young and old) just having fun jumping.  We chose TobyMac's song, "Me Without You" because it has such a good beat, and it's overall a fun song to listen to and dance to! Below are some pictures and a video!

Everybody took turns jumping

From left to right: Hannah, me, our coach, assistant coach (A.K.A my mother) Chris and Michelle.  This is not our whole team, a lot of kids couldn't be there but we still had a great time!

All of us in front of our display table.

It was such a great, fun night, but boy, was it tiring! (and such good exercise) Hope you enjoyed reading it!

Church Retreat!

For the church retreat, we went to this gorgeous camp called "The Grove at Red oak Lake" and it was so pretty! That week we had been having weather in the high 90's and 100's, but the weekend of the retreat, it cooled down to around 85-90 degrees!  We were all so thankful! We got there around 10:00 am and that was just when the devotion was starting.  (The youth went to a different workshop than all the adult did.)  Our speaker was really good and we had it on the pavilion.

During the devotion

After the devotion/workshop we headed to the dining hall for lunch, (which for a camp was pretty tasty :-) Then once we ate lunch we had 3 hours of "free time" to spend.  We first went down to the lake and let Dante go swimming, in which he got a lot of "crazies" out! haha.  There was a enormous water slide, a lake to go canoeing on, a swimming pool, and lots of trails to walk on.

The cabins.

The water slides.

 We just walked around and explored the campsite a little bit, and before too long, it was already time to walk back to our second workshop.  Again, we headed to the pavilion, and after that to dinner, which was really yummy!  After dinner we went to the auditorium for our third workshop, which was combined, and we had a worship service too. We had the privilege of hearing Dr. Seal preach as our guest speaker, and his son taught the youth workshops.

The auditorium.

Dr. Seal preaching.

The praise team!

The last and final day (Sunday) we just had morning service, which was our fourth and last workshop, and it was so good!  Afterwards, we got a group shot of (most) everyone in their tee-shirts!

They even gave Dante a shirt :-)

It was such a fun retreat with church friends!