eating mac and cheese while sitting on the mizzen boom...

life is awesome

Wednesday thru Friday morning we were out on our boat. It was an adventure. nuff said.

Friday was... so much fun. I've never laughed so much in one day. =P
two things especially...

we had our first youth group meeting for this year. it was crazy fun. Paulina was there! and Nate forgot all his notes at home. so we really got nothing done. between reminiscing about our confirmation, and making fun of Nate, Paulina and I were busting up the whole night.

and...

SWING!!! ohmy. between Doug and Rachel and Katie and Blake and Sarah and Drew I don't think I went 5 minutes without laughing. I love these guys. =)

So, yeah. To sum everything up, my life is pretty much awesome.

♥ christine

39 kt winds?

Oh yes. Fortunately though, that was only a gust. The wind stayed constant at about 25-30 kts the whole time we were out. It was a little more wind than we've ever had before. Make that a lot more wind. But, it was a good experience. And we are learning to trust our boat, which is also good.

and hehe.... life is awesome. and fun. and full of spontaneity and surprises.


PEACE!
and
LOVE!
and
JESUS!

~Christine

Sailing! (yes, again)

So, Blake came over today, and he, Michael and I went sailing.
We had a really good time, there was a decent amount of wind, and, once we got going, it was really smooth sailing.

Coming home, however, was a different story all together.
It was:

seaweed
and
algae
and
mud
and
wind & current in the worst direction
and
sand
and
2 inches of water
and
no water (pushing the boat over sand)
and
paddling
and
pushing
and
pulling.

To sum up, it was comic. Hilarious, in fact. We had quite an amusing time out there.

I'M STOKED FOR TOMORROW... AND WEDNESDAY... AND FRIDAY!!!

yay for fun plans. =)

Cheers!
Christine

PS- I'm learning The Lovers Waltz on guitar. And Erin is learning it on the piano. Very, very pretty song.

Sailing!

Mom, Michael, Mitchell and I went sailing yesterday... paddled for a bit. We had a good time, and actually, when there was enough wind, we were going at a good clip.

I also made cookies yesterday. yum!

yay!!!

Totally spontaneous... we went sailing this evening. Lots of fun... cept for when we had to pull our 14ft boat thru seaweed. But we had a good time. =)

Sailing!

We are all having a grand time so far on our trip....
I'll be updating periodically here ... so go check it out!


Cheers!

I'm not going to be home 'til July!!

well, not really.

See, I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to go backpacking... arriving home in time for...

Lindsey and Hannah and Jonathan and Katie... and we are all going to the...

Silent Witness in Concert... which will be preceded by a fun afternoon, and lots of pictures!

Saturday will find me frantically packing for...

Sunday; another mime performance and immediately following, we will be leaving for...

North Carolina! We are bringing our boat up to the Chesapeake Bay. Barely arriving home in time for...

Altoona... playing at a mass up there (4hrs away(at a baseball stadium)), sooo excited, but we can't stay for the baseball ball game, because at 5:30 the next morning, I leave for...

South Carolina, for a week long mission trip. This is going to be AWESOME!! I LOVE the people I'm going with... we're gonna have a great week...

Arriving home on the 3rd of July!

I'm STOKED for all of my adventures this month... and looking forward to being able to hang out/ catch up with my friends in July! =)

Cheers!
Christine

PS- this weekend was pretty fantastic too.

I'm home. . .

Safe and sound and slightly sunburnt.
and I'm not totally thrilled to be back. I could've stayed another week.

My favorite part of the trip, probably... (along with seeing the Edwards- Nicole is 13, and Alexis is 12; the dinghy rides- very fast and wild; and The Bean- very yummy) were the Sunfish.

Sunfish, in case you don't know, are small sailboats for one or two people. Alexis and I took one out, and Michael took out another.

(this is not the sunfish we took out. it's just a random pic of one I found online.)
While sailing in the Sunfish was lots of fun... there was an activity far more exciting and fun... capsizing!

Michael capsized once, and Alexis had to jump in to help him right it.
Then, Alexis and I capsized three times, and I was dumped overboard once with her, and then once when I got in the Sunfish by myself (don't ask. :P).

All in all, we had a great time. And there are lots of more fun stories, but I don't feel like typing it all out. So maybe you might get to hear some in person. =)

umm... no school?

no school
no stress
no (more) rain :P
no sister.... kidding, kidding.... =P, <3 ya dearie!


and

today was fun
my life is awesome
my friends are great
we are leaving to go sailing tomorrow!!

yippeeee!!


Cheers!

Summer!!

I started thinking about summer today...I'm so very excited for summer!

Summer is:

mission trip(s)
sailing camp
hanging out with friends
Civil War Re-enacting
planning a camping trip with friends
backpacking
CYMA
sailing
getting my license (July 2nd)
going on a cruise with my cousin, uncle, and grandparents (and driving an ATV!!)


So yeah.
I'm stoked.
Planning my summer is such fun!

Cheers!
Christine