Thursday we celebrated Thanksgiving at the Clarks. The evening was filled with good food and drink, chess, wii, and much laughter! Mom and Aunt Karen Uncle Mark Tasty! Pink Lemonade..... :) Eric Grandma trying out the wii!
Friday Caleb called me and asked if I wanted to head up to the moutains. I looked at the forcast, "partly sunny", that was better then anything we had had in two weeks so we went for it. It ended up being an amazing day.
The mountains were beautiful! God truly is the best artist around! Caleb At the top
Saturday I got to go sailing for a little while with Titus Wenger and Jake Bumstead at Firwood. The wind was a little slack, but we still had a fun time on the Hobie Cat.
My Jesus. Family. Friends. Sun. Pictures. Road Trips. Africa. Sunsets. Water. Cars. My Church. Schooling. Tea. The Ocean. Conversations. The Sun. Mountains. A Bed. Worship. Food. Bikes. Music. Shoes. Books. Parents. Thanksgiving. Phones. Travel. Power. A Healthy Body. The Bible. Siblings. The Rain. Sailboats. Adventures. My Pillow. Music. Silence. And much much more....
Oh how I hate to say no! Whether its saying no to an adventurer, activity, or friend I always find it hard to say "no"!
Two days ago I came up with the great idea that I could spend Tuesday night (last night) in Park Butte fire lookout with some friends. I called them up and after some convincing and switching of schedules we were set. Zach Swanson, Chris Ludeman, and I left yesterday directly after school so we could hopefully finish the short three mile hike before sundown. Due to the elevation of the trail head and the fact of the recent snow, I knew we would hit some snow on the fifteen mile access road. What we didn't realize was that the snow was at elevations a LOT lower then we thought! It was low enough to close the road five miles from the trail head we had hoped to park at....our three mile hike became an eight mile hike and it was already 4pm.
We set out, knowing that it wouldnt be the wisest choice to try to make it all the way to the cabin. After two miles of hiking; we decided to make a group decision, do we continue? Yes(expecting more snow, and probably not getting to the cabin until 10pm); or No(wiser, but way lamer)!
None of us wanting to face the fact that it wouldnt be that good of an idea to continue. "No" was our conclusion! Each of us was slightly ticked at the whole situation as we turned around, but after a few minutes of silence we decided to each say something we are thankful for following the alphabet from A to Z.
We made it back to the car safely and had a fun time hanging out at Chris' for the evening. However, all the more I realize how much I dont like saying "No" to things!
Why did I think this was worthy enough for a blog post? Recently I have seen how this concept of saying "no" applies to all parts of my christian life! Both to saying "no" to sins AND to saying "No" to some "godly" activities! Countless times I have great opportunities to serve or fill my time with "godly" things, but more and more I have seen how many people are too busy in the rat-race of life doing "godly" things! They eventually dont even have enough down time to spend a few minutes a day alown with God and grow in a relationship with him.
Some Pics from the trip.
A sign on the way there.
Zach was very excited about the sign!
Getting ready to start our hike.
Dont give me that look!
On out way home. Donuts always make things better!
I love taking pictures however I struggle to find good ways to share my photos with others. This is a way I will be able to get some of my pictures, which I haven't printed or uploaded to fb, out for others to see! Hope you enjoy the upcoming posts.
Last week my sister and I went to watch the Lynden Lions Football team defeat Blackhills. A friend of mine from Box-T, Ben VanderHoek, is one of the Lions leading defensive players; he played great game and the team won 14-7. They went on to defeat Sequim this week and now they are playing in State semifinals next week in Seattle! Below are some pictures taken from last week's game.
Ben receiving
Getting in on some action!
Nolan Gudde
Celebration!
"Not this way, Bub!" -Ben(ok, well he didnt really say that but....)
Caleb and I made it up for a little early season snowmobiling on Veterans Day. Although we never made it into the alpine, the fresh snow was beautiful!
The set up
Ready to hit the trail
Nice Caleb! (this was a PAIN to get unstuck...thankfully some other snowmobilers passed us and helped us lift it out!
Zach and I had planned to go sailing after school last week, but since there was no wind we decided to go down to Chuckanut. He took me to this amazing beach I had never been to on the south side.
An idea has been floating in my head for a while about making a collage that would look something like what is above. Until just recently I couldn't work up the patience to make such a picture using Gimp(gimp is a photo editing software which allows you to do in-depth photo tweaking similar to Apple's Photoshop). Just recently however, I was introduced by a friend to picnik.com which is a light, easy online editing site. The pictures in the collage below were all edited with picnik.com and put together using Gimp. Hope you enjoy!(open in new tab for better resolution)
