i miss you...

and i wish i was with you in seattle right. now. !

but i also hope you are all having the most fun ever! i love you all so so so so so so so so so MUCH! an di cannot wait until the next time i get to see each one of you and give you a big hug! LOVE YOUUUUU!


Nov

GET THIS PUHRSE OUTA HERE.....

Hello everyone!

This is Gromit and Banjo!  (via el telephono)

We love Day Camp.

We miss it.

Merry Holidays to you guys.  

In the spirit of the season we want to remind you all of the Christmas theme skit at the end of the summer in which Ollie was Santa, Bro was Mrs. Clause, Tiger Lily was Melvin the bad elf, and Smiles was the nice elf.  

WOOF.  WOW.  What a skit that was.  Santa lost and Melvin took over Christmas.

Here's hoping that your Christmas's look much more hopeful than this skit.

We love you all!

LOVE,

GROM AND BANJ

TURKEY!

happy thanksgiving week!!!!

Everyone reply and tell where you will be spending your t'giving and what your favorite thanksgiving tradition is!!!!!

(I will be in NYC this year, and my favorite tradition is taking a post-meal walk in the brisk autumn air with my family!)

guess what?!

i just got hired for the spring at OSS!!! woo hoo!!! so i'll be moving to mount hermon in january and i am so excited! i am so excited to be working here and with this program and with the people! it is going to be awesome and i really feel that God is going to use me here! i can just feel it! woo! so i am stoked and just thought i would pass on the good news! yay! i love you all! yay!

please pray!

Hi all,

I'm writing with a heavy heart because people I love are hurting. My friends and neighbors the Prices lost their home today. There was a freak explosion and their house caught on fire very suddenly. Will, who is my age, was close to home and ran inside to grab their dog Tucker and his golf clubs. Everything else is gone.

I thank God that the Prices were not home and not hurt, that even though it was windy a forest fire did not start (especially with my house and the Allen's living next door), and that the Prices are in a solid, loving community. They are OK and staying in a Mt. Hermon cabin right now.

Please pray for Jayne, Rich, and Will Price (and also Flip or Barrett who used to work Day Camp- he's older and living in Sweden now). Will was especially shaken up, since he ran inside the burning house. Please pray for the neighbors too, especially Heidi and my sister Sarah who heard the explosion and had to rally help and think about packing up their houses just in case the fire spread.

Love to you all,

Smiles

I"M SORRY!

so i am a total idiot who didn't realize like half of the people that were supposed to be on the blog were not on the blog...this was brought to my attention this weekend (thanks banj :) i am totally and completely grateful)....ANYWAYS...i'm sorry...you should all be invited now...if i missed someone tell me PLEASE. miss you all! love you too!

hmmm, so I thought this was a new blog that i just got invited to, welp thats not the case. i guess ive been missing out. well things are going well at school. staying out of trouble for the most part. getting my work done, it's getting a little rought but it's going well. Im really excited because i get to go home this weekend and suprise kelsey, she doesn't know im coming this weekend. bro is awful for bailing on clutch and i. other than that things are going well. hope all is well people.

Late NIght Infomercial

So I just have to confess to all my Day Camp Friends that at approximately 12:50 am last night I was watching a informercial on tv before I went to bed they were talking about an amazing device called "Contour Abs." I've heard of similar devices like it before but have always wondered if they work so I jumped out of bed and yes... thats right you guessed it I went online right then and ordered the free trial version for $14.95 ha ha oh wow this morning I was like "Wooo I can't believe I did that lol"

So we'll see how AMAZING it really is, I'll be sure to let you all know. Check it out online it looks SWEET and so EASY!

Ha ha I know ridiculous right?!

Hey Everybody!

Its me Bro! My first blog post EVER cool hugh. Well I'm working at Apple in San jose as a specialist at one of their retail stores. I'm lovin it so far! I miss you all very much!

That is all for now, but know that I LOVE ALL OF YOU! Bye Bye

whoa whoa whoa!

hellooooo everyone!!! i was just checking this out and thinking about you all an i want to hear how you are doing!!!! So i'll start!

so i moved back home to chico. yes you knew that already. so the plan was....get into chico state for the spring to finish up...get a job...stay in the area for a year-ish...So i get here and go talk to people at chico state and surprise surprise they are taking NO students AT ALL for the next year...they said i might not even be able to get in NEXT year...so the school door is basically shut for now which doesn't make a lot of sense but doesn't worry me too much either. i mean i'll finish when i finish and that's that. So then I am like "well why should i stay here for a whole year if i'm not going to school?" so last week i spent job shadowing at Mount Hermon OSS...and i'll here by the end of Oct if I got the job...it would start in Jan and would be amAZINg... so i am waiting and praying that if that is where God wants me then the door would be opened! But if i don't get the job there is a pre-school opening here which i will be working at...i met with the director and love her vision for the place and though they are still in the paperwork stage i am looking forward to helping her get the place started whether that is just until the end of Jan or longer...anyways that is how life is going. It is odd to be living at home but good in many ways. Oh yeah and things with Cian are great. He is an encouragment and blessing to be every day and it is awesome! and to be continued....

so now it's your turn...should you ever check this...update. updATE! UPDATE!!

thank you.

I dearly love to laugh

Ok, so many of you are probably swamped with school and life and obviously need to laugh a bit. Here are some new favs of mine... Ok, and does anyone else think that the lead singer in love me tender looks like Spiff a bit... haha. If you have any funny youtube videos you've discovered, by all means please share them too! Love you guys! ( :

1. dramatic reading of a breakup letter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHOL1PcPR8

2. david hasselhoff's Hooked on a Feeling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8

3. Love me tender music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYllzQPQp78

Start of school

Hey DC family, I love and miss you guys so much already and its only mid-september. I move out to start school in three days, so if you guys would please just keep me in your prayers as I start this next significant chapter of my life I would really appreciate it. Even though I've been getting ready to leave for school since I got home from camp its pretty much now just hitting me that I leave so soon and I am starting to get a little bit nervous about everything: maintaining and strengthening my walk, keeping my priorities in line, and of course meeting a new solid group of people to be friends with.
God truly blessed me this summer with the opportunity of working with all of you and I can't wait to see some (hopefully all) of you at new years!

My crazy yet adventurous plan for life...

Hey friends, I had a fantastic summer with many of you. And whoever is in charge of this blog thing, let's please add Coc, Capo, Tiger, and Ollie so we can all stay in touch.

I have decided to do something fun yet slightly crazy with my life, after talking to my family, Gromit, Heidi, Salsa, and many other people... I am moving to Seattle. In a few weeks after Labor Day camp probably. It will be an adventure and I'm still working out smallish details like where I will work and live (at this point, probably with Salsa or one of her awesome friends).

Anyways, please pray for me and if you are a Washington friend, I can't wait to hang out this year...

Love always,

Smiles ( : ( :

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRUNE!

This sassy, sultry, surprising returner to Day Camp is a year older today. Cheers, SPROUT!!

a picture's worth a thousand words...

and this one says "I'm a lobster?...and I'm in a pot?..."
(so i don't know where i am going with this....ummm.....yeah no direction at all)



Happy Birthday Dutch! We love you

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT AND BRO!!!

zero-five.twelve.....................................zero-five.thirteen.

we love you!

BANJ!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BANJO!!!!

(technically yesterday)

We love you SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DC 09... I CANNOT WAIT

i just have to let my emotions ventilate for a minute as i write this blog... i've LOVED my time here at belmont. I moved out of my parents house and into an on-campus dorm with some girls my age. I've also started to enjoy school... my major classes are so interesting and fun, and my minor class, which are all dance classes, are obviously fun and really challenging.

God has reminded me this semester of His power and unconditional love. He has also shown himself in my relationship with Bro which has been humbling and such a blessing.

all this to say, i've had a great semester and a great year overall. I'm just reading to get back to my "mt. hermon home." It truly is the sweetest fellowship i've ever known! (ba-dunk-chink). My friends here are dear to my heart and have been such a blessing to me, but there is something special about Mt. Hermon friends that touch a deep spot in my heart.

I'm just excited to see the returning faces of some of the dearest friends i've ever met.
So show some love, if you're excited about DC 09!

IT"S GIDGETS BIRTHDAY!!!

THE DAY SHE WAS BORN! GIDGET WAS BORN TODAY! YES SHE WAS! BORN! BIRTHED! SHE IS ALIVE! AND SHE WAS BORN ON THIS DAY! AND IT IS HER BIRTHDAY! AND IT IS ST. PATRICKS DAY! AND GIDGET WAS BORN! ON ST. PATRICKS DAY! AND SHE IS ALIVE AND SHE WAS BORN ON ST. PATRICKS DAY!.....you should all tell her how much you love her.

An invitation passed on from Spiffer and Kel...

We want YOU at our Wedding!
Spread the word. We've got 15 slots, but you can fight for seats. Only catch, you gotta let us know you're coming. We'd love you there. No gifts, just come. Text me your camp name to RSVP.
(five-three-zero) three-zero-six-nine-eight-three-zero
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 @ 3:00pm
185 Trout Lake Drive
Sanger, CA 93657
Tri Tip & Chicken BBQ in a backyard on the Kings River. Daff is MC. DC Represent.
-Spiff & Kel



(if any of you are coming and need a place to crash you can stay with me! -Nova)

THIS IS AN INVATATION!

Thumbs Up for Game Nights and Love

a kind of random one but I just though it today at work and figured...why not??? So this saturday night! 7:30 ish....GAME NITE!!!! at me and Gidget's apartment!!!! in Fresno!


So I know lots of you live far away...but Indy, Montana, Dash, Gidget and I (the fresno locals) will be there...Frodo will also be in town...Coach and Clutch are making the drive...so i figured if anyone else just feels like a road trip or can try and hitch a ride with ppl that are traveling this way go for it! come! we will have a blast! and you are more than welcome to fight over our futon or settle for our floor....(i mean, you can spend the nite, if you want)...

I LOOOOVE love lovelove love loVE lOOOOve love you all and would LOVE LV love looove love love love lovelovelove LOOOVEE to see you...so if it works out thats legit! if not, it was worth a try! peace out!

lovelovelove- Novalicious

Jack Pearson

So I don't know about you guys, but sometimes I get Jack stuck in my head.. Just like a certain song, but I don't have him on my ipod or anything so it just bothers me.
Anyways I finally looked at his website today and if you get on there (www.jackpearson.org), and go to recordings then click on a cd you can listen to any and all of his songs!!

Just thought I'd share it with you guys... I miss you all!

RECOMMENDATIONS?

so i kinda like to find out what other people are listening too right now...

EVERYONE respond and tell me what your favorite song, band, or album is right now... not the top 3, but just pick one... it may be hard, but just write down the first thing that comes to mind in terms of what you've been listening to lately.

I'll start:

I am... Sasha Fierce... -Beyoncé





(so freaking good)

HI FRIENDS!

Hi friends! Just wanted to let you know that I miss you guys SO much and I love you a lot! Me, Sals, and Grom have dinner ever Wednesday night now and it makes me wish we were all back at MH. Anyways...I've had some really great convos with some of you lately and they have been the biggest blessing ever!

LOVE YOU ALL! COME TO SEATTLE! My couch is SUPER comfy!

And what the heck?! It's already superbowl time?!! Who ended up dominating fantasy football?!

Out of the loop...

Yep, that's sure what I was... I just found out last week that Heidi's pregnant... Someone make a post next time so we're all caught up!!

But in other news how are all you guys?

warm up the creative juices (eww that sounds kind of gross...sorry guys...)

"enter caption here"

so...this picture is just so good it deserves an amazing caption...i know you are all insanely creative so run with it!