Paradise

If Hawaii is just a taste of the beauty in heaven, then I'm beyond excited. I just got back from a fun-filled, amazing week in Maui with my parents, younger brothers, grandmothers, boyfriend, and family friend, and it was incredible! God's creation constantly leaves me in awe, and I feel so blessed to have the people in my life that I do. Here are some pics. Try to quell your jealousy :)

The whole group

My parent's anniversary dinner -- 29 years! Woohoo!!

Ziplining -- sooo fun!

My brothers and their friend, Patrick, posing with hula dancers after the luau

My dad getting ready to tee off

Our last dinner in Maui :(

Confirmation Retreat

So, I am extra sleepy this week. The time change and the confirmation retreat were a deadly combination. No worries though, because the retreat was amazing and God blessed me through it in so many ways. I get to work with the coolest junior high and high schoolers on the planet. I learn so much from them it's ridiculous. I saw Jesus through each of them in so many ways this weekend. Our theme was "The Body of Christ" and it was so neat to see them come together as one body. By Saturday night I felt as though all the cliques that came up in the bus on retreat had diminished and become one big clique. Everyone loved each other -- genuinely and sincerely. It was so cool to see them apologizing for wrongs they had done and for things they had left undone, and to see them all laughing and crying together. The Body of Christ is such a neat thing and I am feeling especially blessed to be apart of that body today.