Fall Photos

Helloooo :)  About two weeks ago i was taking some photos for fall but it took me a while to edit all of them so i'm just now getting around to posting them.  If you'd like to see some cute pictures from last Fall click here! Anyways here are the ones that came out the best.

Love this one <3

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! 

Winter Ice

Hey there!! How are ya'll doing this week? A few weeks ago, we had a mini ice storm, and when the front steps melted enough for me to walk on them, i went out and took some lovely (or what i think are lovely, haha) photos :) It was enough ice to cancel class, (I take one class at a co-op) but not quite enough to have some fun in it :( It was more like a slippery ice, then actual snow.  ENJOY!

Sorry all of the pics are icicles, but that's all there really was. haha :)

Mountain Trip: Day 2 & 3!

This is a pretty long post, so grab some tea, and take a seat :)

Hello friends! How are ya'll doing this week? Sorry, I have been procrastinating and have not posted day 2 and 3, but I see now, I have left some of my readers hanging, so I must write it now, before all of the Christmas busyness begins. With that being said, day 2! Well, the mysterious day 2, was actually Thanksgiving.  We had plans to go up to Grandfather Mountain, but a certain member of our family misread the fine print in the brochure and, as it turns out, Grandfather Mountain is closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. (Future reference for any of you, who were planning on going) haha :)

We drove up there in the morning, so after we found out we could not go up, we found another trail nearby, and went hiking for a few hours...

 

 

When we reached the top, there was a BEAUTIFUL view!!

Dad just fooling around.

After we finished hiking, we went back to the hotel, and hung around for a while until it was time for Thanksgiving dinner.  Let me just say that Thanksgiving dinner was WAY better than I expected a hotel meal to be. They had so many choices and the best dessert - I was so full when we were done! Since we were all  so full, we decided to drive into the town, and walk around all the shops and stores.  Being 8pm, all the stores were deserted, of course, but it was fun to look in all the shop windows anyway.

This was in one of the shop windows, and I thought it was really cool :)

Well, that was day 2, now lets go on to day 3 :)

We woke up early, ate breakfast, and went Black Friday shopping! It wasn't your typical, Mall, Walmart, and Target run, but it was still so fun to walk around all those cute stores! One of the shops we went in, was a fudge shop, and it was soooo yummy! After we were done shopping, we went to the hotel, ate lunch, and headed to Grandfather Mountain. I'm not a fan of riding around in the mountains (too many turns and twists) but, that was the only way up.

As we neared the top, it quickly became scarier, and scarier, because it was so high. (I'm not a fan of heights)  When we finally reached the top, it was SO WINDY! Oh my gosh, I don't think I have ever experienced anything so windy before. It nearly knocked me over as I was trying to walk.  When we got out of the car, we immediately went up to the mile-high swinging bridge. Because it was so windy, the bridge was swinging, and I was so ready to get off. But my mom made me walk all the way to the the end, and now, I am glad I did, but at the time, I was so cold!

After we went across the bridge, we went to the little zoo area and saw the bears, cougars, and otters.  It was so funny because as we approached the otter area, (they had a glass wall around them) as soon as they spotted Dante, they came right over and started pawing at the glass :)

After that, we were pretty exhausted, so went back to the hotel, and sat in the lovely parlor, and chatted for awhile :)

Hope joyed that post - stay tuned, day 4 & 5, coming soon!

Mountain Trip: Day 1!

Hello friends! How has your week been? Today I'm gonna do a post on our trip to the mountains for Thanksgiving! We left on Wednesday to go to the North Carolina mountains, and we had a BLAST! The car ride there, was pretty boring, but we watched a few movies, and that was fun...

Okay, funny story behind the next sequence of pictures.   ALL. DAY. I was trying to get a picture of me and my mom, and we literally tried all day. Every picture we tried to take, there was just something wrong with it...you'll see what I mean.....

I guess that one (the largest one) will just have to do...haha, oh well :)

Anyways, we were lost for a while, (and being lost in the mountains at night, on a road that is straight down one side, straight up the other side, and super curvy is not fun) but thanks to my mother's GPS we were able to find the hotel, by 8:00 pm, and we had dinner at this amazing restaurant! After dinner, well first I should explain that this inn we were staying at, was like you stepped back in time! When you walked in, it had this GORGEOUS piano (you know me, and how I love pianos, haha :)) and a beautiful parlor. But it really is so hard to explain, so take a look at the pics...

Anyways, after dinner, we all went and sat in the parlor and chatted for a while. :)

 Well, come back soon, and see what we did for Thanksgiving!

Photo Shoot!

Last week, we had (more) gorgeous weather, and what with the leaves and everything, it was the perfect stage for a photo shoot! Dante is such a ham, and was pretty happy to have us following him  around, taking his picture! haha!

Then there were some funny, goofy pics...

"Yeah right, i'm not dropping this leaf..."

heheh, the sun was in his eyes!

Funny story behind this one...we were trying to get a picture of him and drop leaves behind him, but he just caught them in his mouth, and that is what happened. hehe!

Well, i'm sorry, but I uh, couldn't help NOT squeezing in a couple of scenery pics...

Well, that's it! Have a wonderful week!

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!