8th Grade Dinner

Tori and her friend Andrew

(not her date!)

Last night Tori's 8th grade class

had a dinner as a good-bye.

It was very nice,

and they got all dressed up!

Doesn't she look pretty?

Does anyone recognize this kid??? yes we finally got his hair cut,

but he wasnt happy about it!

sorry about the over exposure...

but atleast you can see how short his hair is.

Graduation Day Has Come and Gone

I can't believe it over...

It seems like just yesterday that we sold our house. In fact, it was this weekend 2 years ago that it sold. Now we are packing up again and moving on to Missouri for the next phase of training. But not before we go to New York and use what bit of energy we have left to try to keep up with the teens at North Baptist for the summer. .

Graduation went by so fast! John was voted as the class speaker and he did a great job, of course he had to throw in a few voices for his fans.


Derek really liked the hat!

It has been an amazing 2 years here, we have made new friends, studied the entire Bible (well John did anyway) and now are saying good bye :( to staff and teachers. The halls are quite and we've helped move most of our friends out. There are only 3 or 4 families left, scattered through out the building, with darkened halls filled with "dorm furniture" it's definitely strange around here. We have been slowly packing up, our walls are bare the attic is empty. We've moved out a couple storage dressers and toy boxes, it's amazing how much more s p a c i o u s it is around here. Once again we are faced with our stuff... move it or chuck it. I tend to lean towards chuck it! We have been so blessed with "STUFF" that it's getting hard to navigate the living spaces. I think that the next place might be a bit smaller so we will have to get creative and down size once again!!

We spent some time with the cousins for Memorial Day, they had a great time. We went to a zoo but they mostly played on the new wooden play set and had some sparkler fun. that is until Abbey burnt her finger.

A recap of the week

We had a fantastic time at camp Wayumi in Jersey Shore, PA Here is a little scrapbook just for fun. We all made it home safely, and are almost all unpacked.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Today the kids come to camp

Today we had classes in the morning and went to the "village" in the afternoon.

This is where we have a reinactment of a tribal village. Two of the staff members dress up like the tribe they went to and they talk and act like they would. They teach us a few sentences and we have to find out 4 different words and write them out like we think they sound. Like what their name is and how to say finger, banana, baske ,etc. It was really cool.

The kids got their right before we were done so they got to come in and see the people. They were really unsure of what was going on. They wouldn't even go near them, let's hope they do better in real life some day!

John's parents brought them and so they stayed for dinner, looked around then headed home. We all were tired afer a long day, so we went up to our room and let the kids watch a movie and John went to play some volleyball. The kids seem to really like it here, it's fun to be outside and be able to run and play! Here is a pic of the mess hall. It's very nice for a camp!

First we HIKE then we EAT...no classes today!

Most everyone went on a 3.5 mile (up hill) hike through Ricketts Glen State Park.
We were supposed to do the hike on Thursday afternoon, but the forecast shows a good chance of rain, so we changed things up a little. Flexibility is KEY on things like this.

They left at 8:30 in the morning and it was COLD!! I (Becki) drove up to the top with lunch and then we went back with John (about a 1hr drive). A few of the adventurous ones walked back down, there were only about 5-10 of them though.

Here is some of the AMAZING scenery.

After a picnic lunch at the top of the trail we drove home to get cleaned up and ready for our class picture then our class "banquet". This was also an hour drive, we went to the Country Cupboard in Lewisburg, PA. My mom and dad came down for dinner and walked around the store, bought some fudge, then we headed back. It was a beautiful day, and kinda cool to have my parents come down and meet some of our friends and staff. We ended our day hanging out with friends playing euchre.