home again

and here are the things i missed the most: trees and air conditioning. i sure didn't miss the humidity!!

so on the first flight yesterday, i sat beside jess: a girl that was on staff with me. i'm glad we had the same flight cause it made it a little easier to leave COS airport. i have two pages left in mere christianity that i need to finish before we leave for hilton head... not sure what book i'm going to read next. either abolition of man or love the lord with all your mind.

when i got to the airport, my sister and taylor had signs to welcome me :) and they had written all over the car. it said "welcome home! finally" then we went to p.f. changs and it was delicous. i had the chicken lettuce wraps. yum :) and clay, brian, and mckenzie came to say hello. then on the way home we listened to the new elevation cd twice.

the plan for the rest of the summer: hilton head for a week. i get back to ltown next sunday. then chill with friends till the 29th or something close and go to New York City. ironic STORY kinda made me feel a little famous. which is weird. then get back to ltown around aug 2nd or 3rd and then school mid august!! which i am excited about cause i am a nerd.

i don't know if i'll continue blogging or not. i might just do it for therapy. but i'll prolly start another one so this one stays for summit. might need it next year :)

sweetest small group :)

they blogged.

sweets in large doses

yesterday i made: over 200 rice krispie bars for the picnic, over 200 cookies for the staff auction, and watermelon limeade with the leftover watermelon from the picnic. it all was delicious.

i can't believe graduation is tonight!!! so strange to think that 24 hours from now i'll be in an airport... ugh. but i'm ready to go home. i'm sad that people have left or are leaving me. i think i would rather be the first to leave so i only say goodbye once.

oh what a day...

so i slept late again. got up, took a shower, and went to work. tonight we made spaghetti and meatballs. it wasn't as good as my mom's... but that doesn't mean it wasn't good :) i made french bread sticks FROM SCRATCH for the first time!! with real yeast and everything. it was quite exciting. and i made nine pans of lemon bars... but they didn't have enough lemon in them ugh. still good though.

the students tonight ate SOOO MUCH. we ran out of noodles halfway thorough which is annoying because we made TONS and i'm not in charge of the kitchen so i couldn't have foreseen it and fixed it. one day... lol. but we finally finished and cleaned the kitchen and i was done around 6:30ish. so i washed my face and then got on the computer... talked to andy and wished him happy birthday :) then talked to my dad about all sorts of things... including school this fall which i am PUMPED ABOUT! i'm such a dork.

instead of staff small groups tonight, all the girls went to mrs. honken's house and had girly food: chocolate covered strawberries and cherries, all types of fruity sorbet and gelatto, cheesecake bites, etc. it was really sad when i walked down the steps to her house cause it reminded me of opening when we would eat lunch and dinner at her house... i got pretty emotional. then after a while we started talking about our first impressions of other staffers... it was hilarious. apparently... i appear 24, smart, sweet, and that i have it all together. LOL. i must seem older than i am, because every session someone asks me, "have you finished your degree yet?" i'm like.. no not yet... have a while to go. as for the smart and sweet thing...

before i had gone to the girl thing... i started watching the newspring service from this past sunday... oh my goodness... i thought, "no they didn't. but, yes. they did." i laughed soooo hard. and immediately started texting people asking if they had seen it.

then tonight the students watched the abortion video... the ones that stayed late for the optional part three of the video got a surprise afterward: COOKIES AND MILK! yay. they weren't mrs. fields cookies, but they were still good. i'm gonna get that recipe too.

i also got a three page letter today from taylor... lol i love her. and her letters. thanks :)

suprise day off!!

so i thought tomorrow was my day off... but it turns out... ITS TODAY! yay. so now that i have realized this, i don't know what to do. i have been working on my schedule for school this fall... i now think i am going to minor in business administration. cause i talked to kevin bywater yesterday about oxford and stuff. he said that if he could do it all over again he would double major and get at least two minors.... so i don't know what i would double major in but i do think if i'm going to choose actuarial science as my emphasis, business administration can't be a bad minor. that is a lot of big words all in a row.

i made ten gallons of sweet tea last night and coffee cake with the left over topping from the pumpkin pie we had for thanksgiving dinner last night. it is amazing how fast it all disappears. i left the cake out for nightwatch cause they let me stay in the kitchen a little past 11 sometimes if i'm waiting on water to boil for tea. it turned out pretty good... another thing i can make at home now. i'm really going to wish i had a kitchen this year at school... i'm just going to have to use someone else's.

i'm currently listening to old school amy grant cause that song Baby, Baby came on the radio the other day on the way to sports time and it was fun. i'm going to have to get her christmas cd this fall cause it is the one we used to listen to when i was little.

i'm really hyper all of a sudden but i still don't want to do anything cause now i know i don't have to. it is kinda chilly outside today and not very sunny so i don't want to go to the pool. some girls are going to go downtown but i don't know if i want to spend money either. ugh what a tough life :)

Independance Day

what a day!! i woke up around 10 and read some and then went to work at noon. then i spent FIVE HOURS in the salad pit slicing fruit and then making watermelonade. i'm pretty sure that fruit salad was worth hundreds of dollars... it had strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, green and purple grapes, and this melon called santa claus... no i'm not kidding. we also had brisket, potato salad, pasta salad, and deviled eggs. i mean we made 300 deviled eggs! that is a lot of eggs. i made sweet tea and then the watermelonade which was DELISH! i'm totally making it when i get home... it is made of real watermelon and fresh lemon juice... yum. it was gone in a flash! it is amazing how you can spend hours in the kitchen and it is gone in 30 minutes. and then for dessert we had strawberry shortcake. the cake was made of like sweet biscuits with orange rind in them... so good.

so after dinner was worship and after worship the staff choir sang Battle Hymn of the Republic acapella. WE GOT A STANDING O FROM THE STUDENTS! it was so weird and made me miss performing a lot. i'm really excited about singing for graduation also.

then i read some more. when it got dark outside, everyone went outside the front of the hotel and watched fireworks. the city of manitou springs fire department does fireworks off a mountain next to the town for everyone and they were really good fireworks!! one was orange and purple :) after the fireworks we had all the students go through the kitchen cause we had brownies and ice cream for them. and a girl on staff got glowsticks so we raved all over the hotel... it was funny. so all in all... it was a really good day. best independance day ever!

last picture day

i've been having weird nightmares lately... i think it is because i have this foreboding fear of leaving summit and the wonderful people that i love here. but i am ready to go home and spend time with my family and friends whom i also love.

today was the last picture day so it was the last time i will get on the roof :( but enough being sad. here are some pics from the summit photographers :)

Garden of the Gods!
Choir during Graduation


Slicing bread in the kitchen lol
Staff Small Group! not the best picture of me but i still wanted you to know what everyone else looked like lol
me introducing myself. that's right i'm in the front.