A Fun Day

Last Saturday was a very fun day! In the morning we got together with our friends from church for a beach party. We got there at about 11:00 I think (late as always) and after wadding out in the water and talking for a while we came back to shore and started volley ball, we played three games before we broke for lunch. After lunch we went out in the water to throw the Frisbee back and forth to each other, once we came back to shore some sand castles were built while we were waiting for my brother Robert to come so that we could play some Ultimate Frisbee. (Robert had been working earlier so he had missed out on the before activities) It did not take him long to come and we headed out to an open space of the sand and started the game, we ended up only playing for three points though because by the time that it is 1:45 PM the sand is very very very hot and it was a bit painful to run on it, and kinda hard to throw against the wind. After the Ultimate Frisbee it was time for us to pack up and head home but the fun was not over yet....

....After running about gathering up food and sound systems then driving about an hour we arrived in Rockport at some of our other friends house for a dance party! After saying hello to every one (including our friends we went to the beach with :D) there was dinner and a time of singing, then I and my siblings ran outside to quickly set up the music and once every one was gathered we started in on a long fun night of dancing. It was great because it was a huge group and just about everyone loved dancing and learned all the dances very quickly. My siblings and I taught the Virginia Reel, Gay Gorden, and Posties Jig, and we learned two Jewish dances which were a lot of fun. The dancing lasted form 8:00 to 11:45 and in the end Posties Jig was voted the favorite, we even got to do Posties Jig extreme a couple times. So Saturday was a wonderfully fun and active day, and there are already plans to do another dance in August. :)

Sorry that I did not get pictures I was a bit busy instructing and dancing to really even think about it.

I hope y'all have a great week!

The Texan~

Conference Pictures.

Here are the pictures I promised of the conference, sorry it took me so long to get them up.

My friends that I spent most my time with.

The Chapel

Sitting on the grass talking and enjoying the lovely weather.

The mountains are really pretty up there, this picture does not do them justice.

Here are a few videos of the dancing, they have odd endings though because I had to trim them down to get them to fit on here.

The first one is the Virginia Reel, then the Gothic Reel, and the last is a Square Dance. I wanted to get the Posties Jig on here too, but it would not let me. :(

Johanna with our friends we stayed with after the conference.

These are our friends who were at Trinity Presbyterian Church.

These last two are Jo and I waiting for the guys to get the tire changed on the car, it was really hot and as you can see there is no shade. So since it took a while we ended up crossing the street, slipping through a barbed wire fence and sitting under some trees in a cow pasture. :)

So those are the pictures from our trip. It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to going next year. :)

Reformed Family Bible Conference

June 16th I with half of my family packed up the car and headed out towards Georgia, then to Virgina, for an elven day vacation to go up to the Reformed Family Bible Conference in Bluefield Virgina, which my family has been going to since 2004. We made it to Georgia with only one adventure which was that one of the gas lines sprung a leak and poured out one whole tank of gas. After going to church at Calcedon on Sunday and up to the Georgia mountains on Monday, we packed up Tuesday morning and headed out to Virginia.

We arrived in Bluefield around 2:45 and before long we where laughing and talking with old friends and having a great time! The thyme of the conference this year was on John Calvin. The talks where very good and I am hoping that we will be able to get the DVDs of them so that I can hear them again because there was so much in them I know there is much more for me to learn from them.

In between the morning lectures and the one in the evening there was time of great fellowship, I spent my time with three other girls my age during the conference and I really enjoyed getting to know them as we talked together, we also joined into the games of Ultimate Frisbee, and a little of the Nerf. After the last lecture we would head down to the gym where the dance practise was held every night, then Friday night the Barn Dance was held there too, the dancing was really a lot of fun we learned a new dance called the Posties jig which was so much fun! The Virginia Reel and the Square Dance where the other two that we did the most of and the each of the following we danced once, Salty Dog Rag, Gay Gorden, and a Gothic Reel which we had not done before.

After the conference us girls got to stay with the Carey family and it was so much fun! We arranged flowers together, went on a walk, and of course while doing those things and others we laughed and talked with each other of one subject and then the next. I hope we can do it again some time! :)

Sunday we went to Trinity where we got to talk with more then a few of our friends from the conference, which was a lot of fun. After the fellowship meal we had to say goodbye to everyone and point ourselves towards home, which at first was a hard thing to do but once we were on the road I was ready to be there.

After driving a little over a day with a tire that was no longer fully there and then having another blow out so that we had to have them both replaced, we arrived home at about 9:45 Monday night, where my mom, oldest brother, oldest sister, brother in-law, and nephew where waiting to greet us! :)

This shall conclude my post for now I will try to put up the pictures later.

The Texan~