The Real

I helped cook food for The Real Conference in LA. Highlights of the weekend: 

• Bacon filled the kitchen with smoke. 
• We set oil on fire.... twice
• Baked beans spilled all over Melissa Sepe's car... then all over my car. 
• One giant bowl of trail mix. 
• Overflowing chicken pot pie

FUI Ignite Reunion

Every Ignite conference is the joyful reunion of all summer projects. I also had my camera back so I was anxiously taking pictures. Here we have the wonderful Lissah (lee-saw).

Then Amanda.

And Marissa (with Alex in the background). How I miss all of these people.

Some S's

Here we have some S's. Sarah, Sarah, and Sydney. I just like them and this picture. Sarah Henry (on the farthest left) and I are were apart of the awesome cooking crew with a different Sarah (not the one pictured here) for Chapter Camp. This was during our break time. 

15 Pounds of Meat

This is Sarah - vice president of cooking affairs. She is currently cooking about 15 pounds of meat. There was so much fat and grease that it overwhelmed the tray it was supposed to run off into. I thought we are going to have hot oily mess all over the floor. Fortunately we did not.
After that eating the burritos was not quite the same.

President of Cooking Affairs

This was my last two days: shopping for food for Chapter Camp. This is probably only a 1/4 of the food we bought for 60 people for 4 days. It was an intense shopping trip - four carts total, two stores, and lots of coffee.

He is Risen

"No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from his hand.
'Til he returns, or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand."

- In Christ Alone

Self in Snow

So it has become tradition for the first day of the month self portrait and here it is. Wearing shorts near the snow isn't the best idea (ok so it was left over snow and it was only like 70 degrees out).

Omelets

At our last day at camp we had an Omelet station. Normally I would have put our group picture but the Omelet station picture was too awesome to pass up. What kind of camp has an omelet station? Seriously they had the best food ever. It was so amazing.

Spin Wheel of Death

This is officially one of the worst ideas ever. It didn't end disaster but only by the grace of God.

Lady Bugs

Chelsey, Marissa, and I went on a hiking adventure and found hundreds of lady bugs. Apparently there are millions in the area - we didn't find the huge swarms of them so they are still beautiful.

Manuscript

Since I have already two posts about Spring Break Camp I should probably describe what it is. We take a manuscript of a book of the bible (like the one above) and write all over it - marking it with colored pencils and markers and such. We make connections to other Old Testament references, looking for images, connections and overall themes.

The first time you attend SBC you study the first half of the gospel of Mark, the second time you go study the second half of Mark. Then you are left to the hands of fate, or God, to decide what you will study next. Last year it was 1 Corinthians, this it was Amos.
And if you ever studied Amos - he is hardcore that's for sure.

Playing in the Snow

Day Two of Spring Break Camp:
Featuring: Snow!
So there was snow at camp. It provided for a great amount of fun and snow ball fights.

Trespassing

On our way to Spring Break Camp in the Sequoia Mountains - our car decided to take a quick adventure. That meant pulling off the to the side of the road, crawling under a barb wire fence, and crossing into what was most like private territory. Sure we may have been trespassing, but I would consider it exploring.  But we didn't harm anything - just looked around.

And this is what we found so it was worth it.

Background

This is my background to my computer. Catalina Island. Spring Break Camp. God's beauty at work and really there is not much else I need to do as a photographer. I love looking at this every time I turn on my computer.

Freeset

My Urbana bag is awesome for many reasons.

1. It looks cool. I know you are jealous right now.
2. It helps provide freedom for women from the sex trade in India. Bet you didn't know that.
3. Well then check out freesetglobal.com
4. When you buy a Freeset product, you directly particpate in a woman's journey to freedom.
5. Freeset makes more than just bags - t-shirts too.

Urbana 09

Day One

2010

Five. Four. Three. Two. One.

We ring in the new year.

Me and 17,000 of my closet friends.

My family.

Urbana 09. St. Louis. That was last year.

This is 2010. California.

What's next? Who knows but bring it on.