Merry Christmas and a happy new year!!!

    Two and half weeks ago it was Christmas! Our family always open our presents on christmas eve :) It was really fun, we hung out and ate pizza. The next day it was Christmas, we first went to our grandparents house (my moms mom and step dad). Then we went to Vancouver to the other Gashes, for a Gash Christmas Bash! The next day, my moms dads family came over, for lunch :) Then the next friday it was new years eve. We went to the pioneer place mall in portland with our friends, the Mcmillan's and Moraih Our church had a talent show. Justus played a song on the drums and piano. Nanae played the piano. And Me, mom and Destiny were in skits. Our whole family was involved.  

             Gash Christmas:

josiah 

Alana

joe john able tre

     Sunday after christmas:

Grandpa and lucy

noah and lucy

me rocky des and shandy

 New years:

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