Trip to Medford

We tied pieces of paper with memories of our cousin written on them to balloons

Well we went on a trip last Thursday through saturday, this was an unexpected trip.
Unfortunately it was for a family emergency.
On May 18, 2012 my cousin passed on from this Earth and on to the next.
The sad thing is she was only 20 years old, and had her whole life ahead of her.
What took her life was her addiction to drugs.
For me this really hit home because their are a lot of people around me at school who are dealing with addictions.

And it makes me sad that it is taking these young peoples lives.

Especially since it does not have to be that way. 

Anyway we drove down Thursday after school, and we left saturday afternoon. 

Even though it was a time of sadness, we were still able to enjoy being with our cousins and other family members.

the cousins  (that came)

 On Saturday before we headed home we had the opportunity to ride Doc, my aunts horse. It was pretty cool.

Me and my Aunt Kris

Rainey and Doc

Me and Doc

Moriah Janae Tarvin

 Born February 2nd, 1992 - Died May 18th, 2012 

Moriah will be missed by her family and friends. 

Good Bye Nanae Nagamine

On monday Nanae left  back to Japan. We are going to miss her so much. We have many good memories with her. She came to Oregon in August, she actually came on my birthday. Nanae said funny things, she liked being random. Nanae also had an obsession with baseball, for her birthday present my mom bought tickets to the Seattle Mariners game. If Nanae didn't go to MACA with me and Des we wouldn't have known a lot of people (for those of you who didn't know Nanae was very friendly and liked talking to a lot of people).  Her favorite food was mac and cheese and brownies. Nanae went to church with us and decided to become a Christian, she even got baptized. I hope to visit her in Japan someday. Here are some pictures of her. 

Tiffany,me, audrey, nanae and grace at joff and illys wedding

My cousin took our pictures at the begging of the year

Nanae and Chloe where buddies.

This was when we went dune bugging 

Nanae and her friend Quang before winter formal

Nanaes first Halloween

Nanaes first time roller skating

Me and des fell asleep on the couch so Nanae had a photo shoot 

At easter

Nanae at the Seattle Mariners Game

Nanaes last day in America 

The night before Nanae left (tre gave her his baseball hat)

At the airport right before she left