Wednesday, February 17, 2016

sometimes i end up in florida...

in case you didn't know i am from a smallish town in texas thats called amarillo. yes there are lots of songs about my town and if you have been to my town its probably on your drive to colorado. anyways, i moved to corpus christi texas two years ago for college. just to let you know texas is HUGE my drive home is roughly ten hours and i only stop once in a town called eden. so its the end of my sophomore years first semester so its going to be winter break. i knew i didn't want to spend all my time in amarillo but i didn't have a plan of when i wanted to go home. one day i woke up super early and i thought well if i started driving now i could be half way home by the time my friends wake up so i left. i didn't tell my parents i was coming home my attempt to surprise them it worked as i pulled up my dad and sister were leaving. my mom was slightly freaking out when she saw me that was kinda cool to watch. then i asked my mom if we could look at flights to florida, my cousin was graduating and commissioning in to the airfare the next week. we got online and looked i had found a 69$ flight to tampa florida on southwest that left from dallas the next morning. if you don't travel much let me tell you this NEVER HAPPENS. you never get flights for this price ever. my mom called her best friend who was going to dallas the next morning and asked if she could take me to the airport and she said yes. so we booked it and i was off on my next adventure!! i unpacked my things and repacked them (if it was my choice this is how i would live my life). i was only in amarillo for 13 hours and i had driven 10 to get there, 5 to the dallas airport, 3 1/2 hour flight, and a 1 hour drive to lake wood ranch which is where my cousin lives. my flight to go back to amarillo was in two weeks and only 129$ which also is super cheap! lets just say it was a great christmas gift!
 meet tanner he is my cousin 
 meet gran gran! 
 the pyramid we accomplished 
 they are a creative family we were adding on to this statue 
 this is what my ten hour drive looks like (very exciting)

 tanner at lunch on the beach after we picked gran gran up
 austin's graduation UCF (this was 1 of the 8 ceremonies)
 me at drum circle at siesta keys beach (these were my people)

austin at commissioning into the air force so proud of you!! 

Friday, February 12, 2016

i sometimes end up bringing 22 friends home (sorry mom)

so if you have read my past few blogs you would know I'm involved in younglife. every year they go on a trip from corpus christi tx to a camp called wilderness about 30 minutes outside of creed colorado.  the purpose of this trip is to get the camp ready for the summer so younglife leaders and there highschoolers could come here and learn about christ and see his beauty. if you have never been to texas well lets just say the state is HUGE. the drive to creed is 16 hours and about 12 or so of that is just in texas. amarillo (which is where I'm from) is 10 hours from corpus a good half way point for this road trip. Joel the dude who was in charge of the trip called me and asked if we could stay at my house. i was all over this my new friends that i had told my parents all about would actually get to see what my life before corpus looked like! i called my mom told her hey I'm coming home in two days and I'm bringing a few friends then we are going to go to colorado for work week. she was very excited but she asked how many people and i hesitated to answer.. just 22.. she flipped started asking all these question where is everyone going to stay we only have two open bathrooms (besides hers) i just said chill we are college kids we will be fine don't worry! she is a major worrier so to help her i left corpus at 4 am to be there by 2pm to set everything up and see her for a little bit before i left again. here are all the people that stayed at my house
we all fit just fine and it went perfectly (told you mom) 


this is kayla and it was her first time to colorado and she had never seen snow!!


 this was in creed (i swear its not a green screen)
 this was us going backpacking and still smiling!!

 we couldn't peak because of the amount of snow then that night we slept through a blizzard and got 6 more inches!




 before the blizzard
the next morning...