Off to College

My next post will be from Houghton College!

Nannying today: it was bittersweet...on our little walks there are these sweet old ladies that always say hello...and today one of them did and I thought how it was sad because it was the last time I could say hello to her....and the last time I'll get that "baby-smile" :)



So we had a family evening of fun together:

Her true character coming out :)





Oh, Ill miss the lake

skiing!

Mom's going for it

Kayt and I went tubing!

yours truly

butterfly girl

Good Morning! Saturday morning Kayt had gone out for a walk and came back really depressed. It was the last week of camp and everyone was saying their goodbyes.....
A while later she came to me all excited....She had gone out and picked the usually forbidden camp flowers...(since there is no one else to really enjoy them, we have free reign). Here is her beautiful bouquet.

So the Saturday we cooked.

And cooked

And cooked

Shopping turned out to be rather non-existent (15min:) Jord and Dad's flight got delayed till 10pm so we got back around....1am (whew)

It sounded like a total blast: bears, elk, amazing views, cliffs, guissers...etc

Sunday, the sermon was on Vision. Having a vision big enough for God. And we had a picnic afterwards, where they had a surprise announcement about a mission trip in early May to Syria...unfortunately it's going to be during my finals week...but I can always sponsor someone.

And hand-me downs!

And then Kayt got super brave and we sorted through her thousands of clothes (minor victory for me:)

Yours truly

butterfly girl

Chocolate chip pancakes!

Babysat the neighbors for the last time last night :( They were so sweet...talking about what they would bring to college and asking what I was going to. And of course you can't miss the bubble blowing contests: (usually try to avoid these due to the mess...but hey there's no fun like messy fun :)


I'll definitely miss them...probably see them next on Christmas break.

Oh, what a wonderful morning...nice long workout...came back to find Hannah making more pancakes from left-over mix. What a treat! There are days when little sisters are just siblings and then there are days when they're just lovely.

One of my latest projects: making cards to send out the college contact info-my goal is to finish them today and send them out:
Oh, and I can promise more pictures! Kayt and I shop again and then we pick Jord and Dad up today! Yaaay!

Yours truly,

Butterfly girl

Let the chaos begin

Whew!
So I work the full 5 days this week. Sat. we pick up Dad and Jord (can't wait to see pics!) And Sunday there's a church picnic. Then working Mon and Tue (the day before I leave for college.) Yikes! So be prepared for few pictures and updates in the upcoming days....But as much as I a tired right now, I do enjoy the craziness.


Yours truly

Butterfly girl

My week in pictures

Monday: the family comes! With boxes and boxes of amazing peaches! Traaaaadition! (The ones from the grocery store up here have become increasingly dry and tasteless.) They'll be camping at Fish Creek for the week.

Believe it or not, I can actually use a grill. Do I fight using it tooth and nail? Yes. Was I forced to under pain of not having super? Yes. Will I smile for the camera to prove I did it? Yes.

And now for the canning process....peeling, peeling, peeling.

So during the peeling I couldn't resist reaching over and sliming Kayt's arm with the peach gunk on my hands...we decided to have a peach peel fight afterwards.

During which I of course forgot to take any pictures. We swam out to "seagull rock" afterwards.

Hanging out at the campground

Play with me!

Yaay for bubbles

Working on the "I'm off on the college adventure" cards

Loving on Ashes :)

You'll be next

mmmmmm....good

Wednesday Kayt and I got dropped off in Plattsburgh, while Mom took Dad and Jord to the airport. Second round of college shopping. I am continually impressed by Kayt's patients with me. Some favorite finds:

luggage! A year ago I would have been scandalized by the pinkness





A new pair of jeans...finally

Sweet bath tote

classy-for $4.00!

nice long make-your-bed-into-a-couch pillow

Still working on scrap booking-less than a year behind now-just last night I finished the time in Liberia!

For my college comfort box: Nothing like a few good verses, dark chocolate and a chick flick to cheer me when I'm feeling down :)

Yours truly,

butterfly girl

Quote of the Day: "Their DNA chooses JESUS"-vision poem

Innocene: collectors edition!

Ok, so I know I'm a week behind, but the pics of all my latest adventures happen in be in my camera which happens to be in the car with mom, who happens to be at Fish Creek.

So I thought I'd suffice for now with a poem that has finally come to completion in my mind. I started it my junior year in high school...I couldn't get beyond that one line (the last in the following poem) or really return to the context from which my subconscious had seemingly thrust that line. So I found it...and it was because of my Babylon experiences years after that first line. It feels rather enlightening :) Ok, here it is:

Innocence: collectors edition!
It flies away
Through the bloody metal shards
Of scars
And then suddenly another glimpse
Dewy wings breaking out of a chrysalis
You want to hold them down with your fingers
So it wont fly away
Again
But that will only result in
Not living
The whispers of butterfly wings
Pinned in a collectors box