Thanksgiving!

        Oh my how the time has past.  We went to Portland and hung out with our friends, ate some voodoo doughnuts, and walked around. On thanksgiving we went to the beach, witch is what we do every year and greatly enjoy it. Theres nothing we love more than eating turkey and walking on the beach, on thanksgiving.  We went to the black friday sale at 12 at night, at the tanglier mall.

Des and me

OCEAN!!!

Are first try at a christmas picture but nanae laughed at us.

This one turned out better!

Past 2 weeks!

Party to party. The past 2 weeks have consisted of party's. On the friday before halloween we went to our friends the Rusts house. Every year they have a big party at there farm were there are Games, Hay rides and eating. We had a blast with our friends. On the Saturday before halloween our church put on a rock opera. I was in it I didnt really say anything, but it was awesome and 4-5 people got saved. One party in the last week we went to was Augusts party, at Scottys play house this place is so fun. If i was 5-10 I would want to have my birthday at scottys play house, it was so fun! Me, destiny and Moriah had as much fun as the kids. 

what has been going on with the Gash family?

Well... mostly school, friends and church.  This week has been very crazy we are having reveal with Steve Bowman. For the past few weeks we've had lots of homework. And hanging out with friends making  pretzels and what not. Oh and almost for got, for our grandfathers birthday we went to a beach house. And when we were there, we got to go on dune buggies  for the first time.  By the way Nanae our host sister from Japan will be staying with us for the rest of the year!

Des,travis,jake and nana maken pretzels 

We got to meet our 5 mouth old cousin Lucy at the beach house. 

Dune Buggies :)

I got arrested! 

Chole and jed at grandmas!

Hey Rainey here! Sorry about our blog laziness. This week we had revival at our church, with John McCarthy. Which was one of my favorite revivals ever. The revival was til wed. then we had our church rally. We where very busy all week. We got to see our relatives the other gash family and the Perez family.Friday night we had a party, that was one of the funnest partys we ever had . Thats mostly whats been going on besides school and hanging out with friends.

15th b-day and Idaho

On Wednesday, I turned 15. I can't believe it, i just got the idea I was 14 then I turn 15. On last Sunday we had a party. We went to Idaho on my birthday with our church. We went to go outreach for the Altringers and the Perezs. That morning my mom bought me donuts. I don't why i was surprised she did that, my mom is so awesome. Outreach was so amazing, we got to witness to tons of people. Like 30 people got saved :) When we were in Idaho my aunt Christal made me a cake (shes awesome). I was so happy to hang out with Bianca, my cousin and a great friend. Actually, i got to see all my cousins.   For some reason it was cold most of the time in Idaho.

me at my party 

The best pic we got of bianca

Jed, he's such a sweet lil guy

at taco bell with alek, olivia, grace, audrey, September 

destiny and a little girl named emily that goes to the perezs church

ps, thank u ellen for the sweet gift.

Gash kids

On Wednesday Destiny and I went to Vancouver to visit the other Gashs, for a couple days. We went to Jon and Jacqui's church that night. On Thursday we went to OMSI. Jacqui had a pass for OMSI but it was free fred meyers weekend or something like that. There was SO many people there. We ate lunch on a bench  and looked around then went back to Vancover. We only had one encounter with a screaming child, on the elevator (that poor mom tried to calm her down). On friday we went to grandma Gash's house where jacqui droped the kids  off for a few days.

glasses made out of bendaroos (waxy stick things you can bend)!

Destiny holding a Australia stick-bug at OMSI.

Sitting in an eagle nest.

Destiny and Annabelle on the way home from OMSI.

Ps. Happy anniversary Jon and Jacqui even thought it was on friday.

Pacific City

On August 3rd, we went to the Pacific City with the McMillian girls ( the three older ones).  Jessica drove us there. At first we didn't really know how to get there. Then Gracie used her mad direction skills to get us there. When we got there we ate at a pizza place. Then we headed to the beach. We played in the water then climbed the huge sand dune, and looked at rocks and caves. There happened to be a seal chillen, right by the water. But, we weren't allowed to go with in 50 feet.  Then we headed home:( But, on the way home we amused ourselfs by eating ice cream and yelling at people we passed, what fun!

Prineville

On Tuesday our family went to go visit our grandma and grandpa Giles, in Prineville.  We drove there on Tuesday. On Wednesday we went to Mitchell, a small town an hour away from Prinville. We ate in Mitchell at the Pine Cafe. Then we saw the painted hills they're so amazing.

 

The Pine Cafe 

The groceries store

The painted hills

On thursday me and my Dad went fishing, we didn't catch any fish. When we got home me and Destiny made pretzels with our grandma.

And the finished product! 

Then on friday we left saying good bye to our grandparents and jasmine the dog (who we took on walks everyday).

Check this out!

Watch our special scrapbook of the summer ; )

Tell me what you think ; )

Seattle

Hi its Rainey! On monday night in Federal Way there was a rally for the northwest churches, we went and stay the night at a holiday inn. Before the rally we went to Pikes Place in Seattle, I have not been to Seattle in years (and i didn't really remember when i did go there). So we looked around we saw the famous pikes place fish and the very first starbucks! Then we went to the rally. The rally was preached by pastor Mitchell, it was awesome. The sermon was about going to the nations. The next day we went to Alki beach with Hannah Smith one of our great friends we walked around and saw everthing,  mom and dad had famous fish and chips. Then we had to come home :(  

By pikes place

I love this sighn

Destiny and Hannah

A bike trip to...

the smith residence. Today we went for a bike ride over to the Smiths house, we ended up staying for about an hour and a half. It was quite entertaining. Taylor is just hilarious, and Cameron is fun to watch. :)

We started out in the Backyard, were it was nice and warm. We filled the water table and Cameron just went to town, and by the end he was pretty much soaked.While he was playing we just sort of watched him.

As you can see Taylor was just kicking back and relazing with her cup. Which she recieved from her grandparents, and they got it at Yellowstone. It was a pretty cool cup because the straw wrapped around the outside.

Next we went upstairs to play in Taylor's room. We had a small Tea Party with Taylor's new tea set.

Cameron could only handle so much of the tea party, so he found other things to do.

Taylor had the time of her life, while Rainey and I were her evil step sisters(upon request, we asked Taylor if we could be her sisters, but she insisted that we be step sisters because step sisters are mean.) This was actually quite a fun game, it started out with her telling us what to do, but than we started coming up with our own stuff. And it was very exhilarating. I have known Taylor since she was a baby, and I don't think i have ever seen her as happy as when Rainey and I were being her evil step sisters. She was laughing so hard, it was so great!

I loved how cute this picture turned out!

BRAIDING OF THE HAIR!

I love braiding hair. Sadly I lost my container with all my little hair-bands in it. But Bianca brought her's, so  I did some braiding.

Bianca:

Annabelle:

Cousins, cousins, and more cousins!

This week we have been spending nearly everyday with our cousins! I love my family dearly, they are so crazy and fun. Yeah some parts get tedious but they are awesome. As we have gotten older we have learned to get along better. It is just fun to hang out, and talk. Here are some pictures of my beautiful cousins:

Rainey and I have had a strong bond with each of the  (other) Gash kids since they were babies. When they were babies we would always hold them, and play with them, and we visit each other often. We love them dearly!










We took our cousins to the park, even though it was still quite hot outside.

I absolutely love this picture of Bianca. She doesn't appreciate me taking pictures of her, but i snuck this  one. (tee hee)





Caleb and Juan are just hilarious. Every time we talk i end up laughing

All three of these kids will be starting high school next year. I can't believe how fast we have grown. You have to admit these guys are pretty cute ;)

Isaiah is shy at first, but inside he is a funny little guy. He is a total gash, and we love him.

My beautiful cousin Marissa, I think she is my cousin I get along with the best. We have so much fun together.







AND JOSIAH, he is just awesome. I get along with him well to. He is hilarious, and I love talking and hanging out with him.

God has blessed me with an awesome family. People say that we are wierd or crazy, but it is hard to describe the bond that we hold with each other. We are all pretty loud, and our parties are pretty sweet.