Monday, August 3, 2009

Student Prayer Advance 2009

Well...we had an amazing weekend this past week at the student prayer advance. This year it was in Bradley, WV. A lot closer than last year in NC!! But there were 4 of us that went, Olivia, Amy, Dad, and I. We had a great time and already can't wait to go back next year! So here's some pictures of what went on.


Cafeteria first day for dinner, we discovered that when we moved the water pitcher around we were able to create a man on the table. It was very humorous.

Here he is!! I don't remember what we named him though..

Some people eating. The girls got to go first on the first night, because we sang a song that night and then on friday the guys went first cause they were singing.

Yep homeschoolers don't know what cafeteria plates/trays are. :D haha..

My wonderful daddy <3 Who also happened to let me drive to WV and back and on the way home from Deep Creek. :D

We were at Appalachian Bible College and they have a motto "...Because Life is for Service" Very good..and went right along with what we were learning. The speakers referred to it several times.

This is Rhee, she's very nice. I've worked with her at the Mens Prayer advance before. She's from Georgia.

This is Sara...we kinda met this year...outside. I was just waiting outside for the rest of the group to get caught up with me so we could go eat, and she walked up to me said "Hi I'm Sara...can't I eat with you?" I was like sure! So she ate with us every meal after that too..haha.. She is from VA and said she actually goes to church with the Vaughans. The family that owns/runs Christ Life Minstries and hosts all the Prayer Advances.

This is the guys choir singing a song that was too high for them. :P

There were quite a few of them.

Some of the guys from GA, and IL

The Calvary Singers from Calvary Baptist Church in Smyrna, GA. They're there every year and they sing for us. Its great!


This year along with the group of singers they also had a guys quartet that they said they started in January. They sang some really good songs.

There were two speakers, Brian Schaffer, and Mark Hopkins. They were both really good and had really good messages. One night after a session Dad and I got to talk to Mr. Schaffer and he was telling us how he worked as an evangelist for Neighborhood Bible Time and how he was homeschooled. It was neat to hear his story.

Well thats all the pictures that I have. I know I didn't take alot and I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the rooms we stayed in. Since it was at a college we stayed in dorm rooms. The dorm Amy Oliva and I stayed in had just been built and they said probably 0-2 people have stayed in the rooms before. So it was really clean. The bathrooms were really clean too! Although..the first night we ran out of paper towels..but that was cause there were no tissues or anything in the room and sometimes the half night of prayer gets emotional. So everyone on the bottom floor were grabbing the papertowels. But when those were gone we could always go to the toilet paper. :D It was nice too because the dorms we stayed in had A/C and all the other buildings didn't. So God had that all planned out that we wouldn't die while we were there. :D
But Amy and Oliva roomed together and I stayed in a room with a girl from another church, her name was Hannah, she was really nice and friendly. But we didn't get to talk much so I didn't get to find out much about her other than she had a sister in the room down the hall. So that was the weekend..I'll blog later about deep creek. :D I can't believe how fast this year is going and that its already August!! This is crazy! I love my laptop too because I took a total of 10 seconds to upload 5 pictures that wern't shrunk. Its amazing. And this internet signal from across the street is great too!! Well better get to work!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

4th of July..:)

Well..the time has come. The world is ending. Global Warming has Failed. Sarah Palin Resigned. And We Did Not See Fireworks On the 4th Of July. :(
But..there is still hope for those old left over sparklers that were found in a random place at the right time. :)
So here they are.

Blogger isn't liking me. grr..
SMORES!!!




Is that a glare from the sparkler??!!


I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

And to the Republic for which it stands

One Nation Under God

Indivisible

With Liberty and Justice

For All

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

more deep creek..photos

Steve caught his first fish last weekend!!
One of the biggest fish ever..

I just thought this was such a beautiful flower! I love the color! and the veins! and the whole flower!! So I picked it..haha..and pressed it.And this is my new favorite picture...it looked better on teh camera.. oh well

And I am now brave enough to take my camera when me and amy go canoeing. So this is the house on the one end..thats humongous! And thats a one of the indians that live there.

My new flipflops...they're very comfy..

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Ruby's 4!!

Ruby Ann turned 4 on June 8th.
And though it wasn't the same having a birthday without Kara, she sent presents anyways. :)
The Birthday Girl

Eating cake

yeah these pictures are all in reverse order. :P

Her cake was a princess crown cupcake cake.

It was my first cupcake cake and it was super easy!! I hope from now on everyone wants cupcakes instead of fancy cakes. :D

Monday, June 15, 2009

Deep creek on 6-6-09






Dad, Emma and Stephen in the canoe


The end of the one end of the lake


another thing I don't like about how they redid this...you can't rotate pictures!!! ugh.. well this is a sideways flower. :D


Ruby going for a walk..err..ride.

Emma and Stephen were giving away free lemonade and they made $20...free ha.

Amy

Selling Lemonade

Dad and Uncle Pauls boats.
More selling lemonade..I think this is a repete!

Dad and Ruby going canoeing..it was very windy and the waves were high that day!