No, no, incase you're wondering about my title here, we did not have snow at my house ;-)
Typical, for Clarkston.
It was the name of this thing that my friend Taylor and I went to this weekend up in Republic, Washington.
It was called The Blizzard and it was a weekend church camp.
When Mrs. Strottmann gave my mom the information about it, she said that it would be about a 6 hour trip from Moscow... My mom figured "That's huge, it must be a 6 hour round trip." Well, turns out that it was a six hour trip! But hey, I enjoy long car trips. Turns out the place we were going to is a church up on a snow-covered mountain in Republic, Washington.
We got there around 6:30 (if I remember right) and we showed up in the middle of a Bible trivia game that was set to be similar to "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire". I was on the pink team, Taylor was on green, and this guy named Tim whom I got to know over our dinner stop at a fast food restaurant was on the red team. There were also three other teams: blue, purple, and orange. After that game there was a sermon by this guy named Dennis. He was a very good pastor. He taught about making choices to serve God and obeying our parents. After that there were more games.
The one I liked the most was where we were racing to see waht team's players could all each eat a stick of liccorice without using their hands. It was a challenge, but I turned out to be one of the top fastest people on my team for that game. Then once that and the other games were over we had a snack and then went to bed around 12:30 AM.
Then wakeup call was 6:45 AM. So we got dressed, had breakfast, then went out to play broom hockey, which was fun, despite the fact that my team lost every single round. It was very beautiful out there! A wonderful veiw of the mountain valley and so much snow!!
Then when we were done out there we went inside for another seromon, then had lucnh, and found out what places our teams came in for points (we were scored on all games, plus were able to do extra things to earn bonus points). Taylor's team came in first and (not much of a suprise to me here) my team was last. Then we got to find out what church's group won the Blizzard Cup (which was this big trophy thing that was full of candy...and came with a whole table full of it besides that!). Taylor's group didn't win, but oh well. They're not the biggest church group who was there, so the chances were smaller of that.
All and all, it was a really great trip! Thank God I survived the trip home though... I mean really, between Taylor's constant camera flashes (she's OBSESSED with taking photos...she just got a digital camera for her birthday) and the fact that we drove through a big snow storm all the way home. It was pretty bad...I counted and we passed 6 cars that had gone off the road and one that was fliped and lying on it's side. *sigh of relief* The Lord sure kept us safe on that one...!
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
*Gasp* She's ANCHIENT!
Gosh, I was just looking and I've been so preocupied that I never wrote anything on here about my birthday!
It really was the best birthday I've ever had. A little different, yes, but I liked it quite a lot :-)
And I feel like writing this post differently, so I shall launch into story mode or whatever you wish to call it...So without further adue, well...you know what I'm writing about so just go down and read! If you want to, that is. ;-)
"Names & Numbers- your five-star phone book!" sings the radio ad... *yawn* Oh, man, time to get up already? Sarah thinks to herself as she reaches up to turn off her clock radio. 8:00 AM the clock reads. One hour and 15 minutes until the red van would pull up and take her away from her home for 3 hours of leaf raking. *sigh* Well, I guess I had better be getting up here...
She makes her way downstairs and looks around. Mom & dad in bed and Nathaniel watching his cartoons... typical, for a Saturday morning. What wasn't typical was the fact that she'd gotten up at 8:00. Normally for her Saturday = stay in bed until 9:00 or 9:30. Oh well, some times you must make sacrifices.
A little more than an hour later she was riding up in that red van with her friends Luke, Hannah & Kaitelyn, on their way to Calvary Chapel's new church building to help clean the yard up a bit.
Ah, yes, another youth group volunteer activity. Helping out and being with friends at the same time, quite a nice combination, really.
At the end of the morning, they all together had raked 44 bags of leaves. Plus they had free doughnuts as well :-) Yummmm.
That afternoon, after shoveling down her food as fast as she was capeable of, Sarah waited for her friends Taylor & Kitana to arrive. What better way to spend the afternoon of your birthday than with two of your best buds?
She didn't have to wait very long for soon as she had finished the doorbell rang.
The afternoon was great, taking goofy photos of eachother (even when they weren't meant to be goofy!), watching music videos, eating cake & ice cream...and oh! Did I meantion preasents? Ah, yes, quite fun!
That evening after her friends had gone home and dinner had been eaten, one might think that the fun was over, but noooooo... Even to Sarah's suprise, it wasn't!
RIIIING! RIIIING! There goes the phone..... "Hello?" soon as she spoke into the phone, she heard, "Happy birthday to you! Happy bithday to you! Happy bithday dear Sarah! Happy birthday to you!...that's number 4!"
Oh, yes... when her and the youth group were raking leaves they decided that they would sing her happy birthday 15 times over. Well, they only made it to three... well, make that 4, now!
The phone continiued to ring throughout the evening and each time it was people from youth group singing "Happy Birthday!" It was hilarious... So they got their 15 happy birthday songs in, and Sarah got the most memorable birthday ever... :-)
It really was the best birthday I've ever had. A little different, yes, but I liked it quite a lot :-)
And I feel like writing this post differently, so I shall launch into story mode or whatever you wish to call it...So without further adue, well...you know what I'm writing about so just go down and read! If you want to, that is. ;-)
"Names & Numbers- your five-star phone book!" sings the radio ad... *yawn* Oh, man, time to get up already? Sarah thinks to herself as she reaches up to turn off her clock radio. 8:00 AM the clock reads. One hour and 15 minutes until the red van would pull up and take her away from her home for 3 hours of leaf raking. *sigh* Well, I guess I had better be getting up here...
She makes her way downstairs and looks around. Mom & dad in bed and Nathaniel watching his cartoons... typical, for a Saturday morning. What wasn't typical was the fact that she'd gotten up at 8:00. Normally for her Saturday = stay in bed until 9:00 or 9:30. Oh well, some times you must make sacrifices.
A little more than an hour later she was riding up in that red van with her friends Luke, Hannah & Kaitelyn, on their way to Calvary Chapel's new church building to help clean the yard up a bit.
Ah, yes, another youth group volunteer activity. Helping out and being with friends at the same time, quite a nice combination, really.
At the end of the morning, they all together had raked 44 bags of leaves. Plus they had free doughnuts as well :-) Yummmm.
That afternoon, after shoveling down her food as fast as she was capeable of, Sarah waited for her friends Taylor & Kitana to arrive. What better way to spend the afternoon of your birthday than with two of your best buds?
She didn't have to wait very long for soon as she had finished the doorbell rang.
The afternoon was great, taking goofy photos of eachother (even when they weren't meant to be goofy!), watching music videos, eating cake & ice cream...and oh! Did I meantion preasents? Ah, yes, quite fun!
That evening after her friends had gone home and dinner had been eaten, one might think that the fun was over, but noooooo... Even to Sarah's suprise, it wasn't!
RIIIING! RIIIING! There goes the phone..... "Hello?" soon as she spoke into the phone, she heard, "Happy birthday to you! Happy bithday to you! Happy bithday dear Sarah! Happy birthday to you!...that's number 4!"
Oh, yes... when her and the youth group were raking leaves they decided that they would sing her happy birthday 15 times over. Well, they only made it to three... well, make that 4, now!
The phone continiued to ring throughout the evening and each time it was people from youth group singing "Happy Birthday!" It was hilarious... So they got their 15 happy birthday songs in, and Sarah got the most memorable birthday ever... :-)
Friday, January 4, 2008
It's 2008 already!?
I keep telling myself that I should really make a blog post soon....and I get distracted and never do!
Well, here I am, FINALLY writing my new post! Yes, I didn't do the Christmas one... nor did I make a New Year's post as I had hoped either. Time just really gets away from me some times.
The whole year 2007 was like that for me. There were so many things that I kept meaning to do that I put off.... and then suddenly *WHAM!* 2008 hits me in the face and leaves me wondering "Where in the world did this past year go!?"... Then this thought comes to me and it says this past year went into the past. DUH! Where else could it go?
It's crazy how fast time can go. I was told by some one that my high school years would be the fastest ever, and so far I agree that they are completely right. As the saying goes, "so much to do, so little time!" How true that is!
You know what the craziest thing of all is? I'm turning 15 tomorrow. 15! Man. I can hardly believe it. My 14th birthday doesn't seem like that long ago...nor does my 13th. Oh, or that awesome slumber party that I had on my 12th....ah, that was great. And I keep sitting here thinking about the fact that I'll be 16 one year from tomorrow. Amazing.
Did you ever think about the fact that we are always waiting for something? There always seems to be something where some one says "Oh I can't wait for ____!" Even as I'm writing this I'm thinking how I can hardly wait to eat that cake that I just took out of the oven. Some how we always seem think of something about the present that we're not quite satisfied with. There's something that we wish would happen that seems to take forever, or something that we wish wouldn't happen that comes at us at a seemingly fierce rate. But once we're in heaven... we'll live forever. Time won't matter anymore because life is eternal and since everything will be perfect we will never sit and think "Oh I wish tomorrow would hurry up and get here!" How cool is that!?
Well, here I am, FINALLY writing my new post! Yes, I didn't do the Christmas one... nor did I make a New Year's post as I had hoped either. Time just really gets away from me some times.
The whole year 2007 was like that for me. There were so many things that I kept meaning to do that I put off.... and then suddenly *WHAM!* 2008 hits me in the face and leaves me wondering "Where in the world did this past year go!?"... Then this thought comes to me and it says this past year went into the past. DUH! Where else could it go?
It's crazy how fast time can go. I was told by some one that my high school years would be the fastest ever, and so far I agree that they are completely right. As the saying goes, "so much to do, so little time!" How true that is!
You know what the craziest thing of all is? I'm turning 15 tomorrow. 15! Man. I can hardly believe it. My 14th birthday doesn't seem like that long ago...nor does my 13th. Oh, or that awesome slumber party that I had on my 12th....ah, that was great. And I keep sitting here thinking about the fact that I'll be 16 one year from tomorrow. Amazing.
Did you ever think about the fact that we are always waiting for something? There always seems to be something where some one says "Oh I can't wait for ____!" Even as I'm writing this I'm thinking how I can hardly wait to eat that cake that I just took out of the oven. Some how we always seem think of something about the present that we're not quite satisfied with. There's something that we wish would happen that seems to take forever, or something that we wish wouldn't happen that comes at us at a seemingly fierce rate. But once we're in heaven... we'll live forever. Time won't matter anymore because life is eternal and since everything will be perfect we will never sit and think "Oh I wish tomorrow would hurry up and get here!" How cool is that!?
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