one more picture from fall break :)

I just had to put this picture on here..I love it! It was taken at Cupcakes and the cupcakes were delicious!

Fall Break!

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

McKinley and I are ready to go to the airport!

The flight I wanted to get on at one in the afternoon was overbooked by one person that morning so I was expecting to have to wait at the airport until seven for the next flight.  Fortunately, there was one seat open so I got on!

I landed in Minnesota around 2:30 and my mom was waiting at the gate for me :) and Hunter obviously couldn't go through security so he was waiting elsewhere in the airport. When we finally got to Hunter we saw that he was talking to an older guy and was handing him something. We approached them and learned that the guy was an undercover cop and was running a background check on Hunter. Apparently Hunter looked suspicious since  he had been waiting for my mom and I for awhile. It only took a few minutes and then we could leave...Hunter was pretty freaked out by it but I found it to be rather hilarious :)

I got to drive right away; I was so excited...Hunter was scared I was going to kill us. I am still a pro though. We went right to my grandparent's house and played marbles and ate lasagna. My aunt Joan came to see me too!

When we got home Hunter and I watched Thor. If you haven't seen it I suggest you do.

 

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Today was a pretty chill day. My dad made me breakfast and my mom and I went shopping :) I also spent time with Hunter playing basketball, wrestling, and jumping on the trampoline! Later that night the Schultz kids came down to see me and we jumped on the trampoline again :) It was fun to see my favorite little kids and catch up with them. I have missed them!

 We are pretty cute :)

Friday, October 14th, 2011


I started off today by going to Keaveny's to see all of my co-workers which was a lot of fun talking to them!


Then I went to Northwestern college to see all of my friends there :)

I hung out with Kelly and she showed me around campus, we talked a lot, and played video games :) Brieanne, Lexi, Kelly, and I went to a cupcake place to eat (obviously) cupcakes and talk and laugh a lot. 

After that, I went to Caribou with my cousin Lynsi and talked with her for about 2 hours, catching each other up on what has been going on in our lives. I went to a different Caribou after that, one closer to Northwestern, where Amber was working. Brieanne, Lexi, and I hung out there for a bit while Amber was working.

Amber, Brieanne, me, and Lexi :)

Amber got off of work around midnight and her and I spent the next couple of hours just talking about everything and finally went to bed around 5 in the morning I think :)

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Kelly, Will, and I played tennis in the afternoon. At night I had a bonfire and Shannon, Kaitie, and Kelly came over!

Kelly, Kaitie, me, and Shannon!

I was SOOOOO happy to be home! I didn't realize how much I missed Minnesota and everyone in it until I was actually home and seeing them all. It was so great seeing everyone and catching up on everything :) Only 4 more weeks until Thanksgiving!

Cincinnati Zoo!

haha :)

On Saturday October 1st I went to the zoo with Madison, Greg, and Jeremiah! It was a lot of fun...I hadn't been to a zoo in years so I was really excited :) 

sweet picture. too bad mr. giraffe isn't looking at us.

The owl was probably my favorite. It doesn't even look real it's so beautiful!

We also went like ten minutes away to Kentucky because I was the only one who had never been there before. Fun day :)

Hiking!

First off, here are a couple more pictures from Printy Wars :)

 At our unit meeting last week, we made music videos and my group did a video to "I'll Make a Man out of You" from Mulan obviously. It was quite fun!

Last Saturday we went hiking with some of the guys in our brother unit, which was an adventure.

 Here is a picture of all of us 

Docks hate our unit. This is the second time in one month that we have almost sunk a dock. My feet didn't get wet though :)

We hiked for a couple of hours before heading to a park to grill our burgers and eat all of our delicious food.

The one thing we forgot to bring were plates. So we saran-wrapped the tables and ate off of those!

Lions, and Tigers, and Bears...oh my!

Picture a parking lot full of screaming girls in various costumes dancing and doing other crazy activities. This is basically what Printy Wars is all about.

Our unit did the Wizard of Oz theme and we got 2nd place for costumes! We went all out. Pretty legit. (I couldn't find the picture of all of us so here are a couple of pictures of most of us)

 You can't see our wings. But we had them.

At 9:30 all of the girls in Printy were in the parking lot dressed in different costumes. We danced, sang, and did a bunch of crazy activities that involved shaving cream, fruit loops, syrup, sponges, an orange, and soda.

Our brother units were encouraged to come cheer us on and dress up-our brothers came as the yellow brick road. 


It was a fun time, although screaming girls is one of my least favorite things on the planet.

Barefoot Thursday

This summer, Cedarville sent everyone in the entire freshman class a book called True Religion by Palmer Chinchen. In his book, Palmer talked about how his church had a 'barefoot Sunday' where he encouraged his entire congregation to wear their favorite shoes to church, leave them at the altar, and then go barefoot the rest of the day. The purpose was obviously to raise shoes, which they then gave to people in Africa. Over 1 billion people in the entire world do not own a single pair of shoes, and that is a very sad fact.

Someone in our freshman class had the idea of us having our own 'barefoot' day here at Cedarville to collect shoes. And when Palmer came and spoke at our school on Thursday, that is exactly what we did! Although it was rainy and cold, a lot of us spent the day walking around without shoes. We even raised over 3,000 pairs for Palmer to take to Liberia with him next summer!

Palmer speaking

People praying over the shoes for the people who would be receiving them

God is working in amazing ways here! I am so proud to be a part of this school :)

Check out this link for a video about what went on:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/pages/video.html?video=/videos/2011/09/08/cedarville-students-go-barefoot.xml

The Kitchen Sink 2

Here is a picture of us 4 that I didn't put up before :)