Quick Update

Hey guys! This summer has gotten away from me way too quickly, and now I'm starting school again.  I wanted to do a quick update and share some highlights from my summer! :)

• I went to a week-long piano camp, and enjoyed all the extra help from the wonderful teachers that taught us all!  It was super fun, and I definitely want to do it again next year! :) 
   
                                                         (Sorry for the bad lighting.)

My two Aunts visited us for a week and it was so much fun! Their visit included midnight pool parties, hot fudge sundaes and plenty of girly movies :)  

In July, our church had it's annual growth retreat.   We had a really good speaker, and it was a fun time to fellowship and worship. One night i got to play piano with the worship team and that was a blast! :)  (To read about last year's growth retreat click here. )

Our speaker, Eric. and me .......^^^

In the beginning of August, we went to NC to give my sister a bridal shower! :) It was one of the biggest highlights of my summer!! The theme was sort of Italy, so there was yummy pastries and bread and cheese and gelato! (<--Did i spell that right?)

'Love' in Italian <3

The table/centerpieces

Some of the yummy food....

And lastly, I've had a few piano competitions/performances the past couple weeks.

All ready! :)

Well, that was pretty much my summer.  School started about a month ago for us.  How has your summer been?

~~Rebecca~~

Hey everyone! I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter! (I know, i haven't posted in a while).  I have just been enjoying this lovely weather we have been having! Only problem iiiissss.....pollen. I. Hate. Pollen. 'nuff said. haha I started taking tennis lessons a few weeks ago, (i'm terrible) but we have been rained out for the past two weeks :(

 Last week, after church, me and a couple other youth went to serve lunch for an inner city church.  We had some time to kill before going so we hung around outside.

Skipping...haha

The car ride :)

<3 Rebecca <3

P.S - BTW, Francesca Battistelli has a new single out called "Strangely Dim" and if you have not heard it yet, click HERE to see 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!