Serina came to town!

At children's church conference in March, Rainey and I made a wonderful friend named Serina. Last week she was able to come and stay with us. Showing her around was such a blast, and the time went by to fast. We had a lot of fun together. Everyday we kept Serina busy. After we picked her up from the airport we took Serina to voodoo doughnuts...

 

 Day 1: Depot Bay and Whale Watching

Day 2: Pacific City
It was an absolutely beautiful day at Pacific city. We enjoyed climbing around on the rocks, and we got to see two whales swimming around.

Day 3: Hike and McMillians Property

My mom took Serina, Abram(Serinas brother), and Rainey on a hike on a really cool trail in banks. It ended up being pretty long, but they had fun... I think ;) And visiting the McMillians property was so fun. The scenery is breathtakingly beautiful out there.

Day 4: Kayaking and BBQ
We went kayaking on devils lake for an hour. Serina and her brother were like pros out there, but I was pretty JV. It was really fun though, and the weather was beautiful, as you can see in the pictures.

Rainey Graduated

Rainey graduated from high school this year. First she was part of a graduation ceremony at MACA. MACA is the school that she attended her freshman year but then it turned into a part of the regular high school. Two of her friends gave speeches at the ceremony and they showed some of her artwork on a slideshow. 

Her support group for the MACA Ceremony 

Rainey and my Uncle Joe 

Rainey and GMA Gash

 She also walked at the regular Mac High Graduation. We cheered very loudly for her as she walked across the stage...

Rainey and Tiffany 

Audrey, Bianca, Rainey, Moriah, and Grace

The day after she graduated she had a graduation party at our house. We had a lot of different kinds of food including sushi, tamales, fried chicken, and Hawaiian mac salad. Lots of family and friends gathered together to celebrate with us. Kris made a fabulous cake too!!

 CONGRATULATIONS RAINEY! 

You made it!!

Random Pictures of Winter 2014

Between my birthday and our trip to Arizona, many fun things happened, we just have not been keeping up on the blog. I am gonna try to be better about posting more consistently, since I am aware that people actually look at this stuff. ha ha!!

P.S. - If you regularly look at this blog and there is something in particular you would like to hear more about, leave a comment ;)

Sometime in February my family went and spent a night at the beach. It was a beautiful day the next day, sunny and not too much wind!!

Our parents

Deadly waves at any time!! (well we were trying to wave...)

 We have been hosting a biblestudy for girls 9-12 years old at my house. We call it K.I.C. Girls Study, it stands for Keep It Christian. We had a lightsaber war with these awesome homemade lightsabers.

Ellen, Mina, and Ceci are in the front, and Olivia is standing in the background.

 During February we had an awesome snowstorm here in McMinnville. It lasted about 5 days, and we got around 14 inches of snow. We got to miss a couple days of school.

Bird prints in the snow

Down in the Meadow over the bridge

Cameron and Taylor came over on one of days and we built these snowmen together.

Imani can say my name now :)

 Last weekend we had a youth rally revival at the MacStage. Every night Naman Struck shared powerful messages, and we saw many visitors come. Every night some prayed for salvation. On Saturday we hit the streets, sharing our testimony and inviting people to the last two services.

Joe-our fearless leader

 Lastly a blast from the past!!!!

Anna and Chloe in the front, and Me and Rainey in the back