Rocky Mountain High

Hey everyone, 

I just wanted to show you some pictures from the camp that I went to last week. It is called Rocky Mountain High and is located in Spring Canyon, Colorado. My grandparents on my mother's side, being the wonderful and generous people that they are, offered to pay to send me to this camp. Mama went to this camp when she was 22 and thought that it would be something that I would enjoy; she was right!

 This is our group, minus our two girl guides. We took this right before we went rock climbing and repelling. It was very fun. 

 This river was at our base camp. The water was so cold! 35 degrees in fact

 The Rocky Mountains.

This is me and Rick, our devo leader. How weird is it that we got to have a snowball fight in August???

The week I went to RMH was their internationals weeks. So we had one guy (Osamu, on the left) from Japan and another guy (Choe, on the right) from South Korea) It was such a blessing to have them go with us. I learned so many new things about other cultures and how they view God. I also got to learn a little Japanese too. 

On the day that we peaked Mount Yale (14,197 ft) we woke at 4am and hiked the 2.5 miles up in the freezing cold. But the view was absolutely breath-taking. I felt so small and weak in comparison to the mighty mountains that God created. The fresh air and the sound of the wind made me so joyful and I could feel that the presence of the Lord of the universe, was among us.

Still climbing up the peak. 

These are called boulder fields. The path disappears and you just have to climb up these giant boulders and created your own path to the summit. 

The early hours.

Some of us were very strange haha. This is Austin, a rising junior at The Naval Academy in Maryland. He is awesome.

Me and Osamu. He is going to school at the National Defense Academy of Japan.

Me and our guide, Kristine. She is going to be a nurse, like me. 

It rained every night. But the sun did come out every morning to warm us up. 

Rick (left) me, Osamu and Choe (right) all hiking together. Good times.

Dear Grandma and Grandpa, 

I thank you so much for the money that you gave in order for me to go here. I had a wonderful time and grew tremendously in my faith and I learned so much about God's character and what He has done for me. I even got to see mama's name (Sara Anderson, not Bard haha) on a plack in the main RMH hall. I that you again for your generosity. Love, 

Beckah

Graduation Party

For my graduation, I had a party, which turned out pretty well. It was on June 27th, noon to four. It rained the first hour or so, but then it cleared up and was very nice out :) We had badminton, basketball and yummy food :) We had Jimmy Johns (a local sandwich shop) and chips, drinks and cake. Now, everyone by now is, I'm sure, sick of regular graduation cake that everyone has. So, I decided to have a cake made of rice crispy treats (all made with different cereals, like fruit loops, captain crunch and chocolate fruity pebbles) So, I thought it was a good cake :)
Anyways, here are some of the pictures that we took :

 Me and my best friend, Lauren. Yeah, she's pretty cool :)

These are some of my good friends.

This is after that party (I was tired of wearing the dress) From the left: Esther (my loving little sister)  Catherine (Lydia's friend, and mine too) Sarah (also Lydia's and my friend) Lydia (my other sister) and then me on the end.

This is Saniago. He is the (adopted) child of one of the men who went with my mom and I to Bosnia. He is adoarble!

More people.

This is me and Ben's mom and sister. Mrs. Mccombs is such a nice lady! So is Sam, the girl to the right in the Tinker Bell shirt. I love them all and I am so happy they came down here just for my grad party.

This is Emilie and I. She has been a good friend and a rather strict swim coach haha. She proposed to me and I was already dressed for the wedding haha. We have fun...

Here is me, my mom and my dad. I want to thank them so much for the party and the little gift they gave me afterward (an awesome laptop!) Thanks again!
Love
Beckah

Julia Nunes!

I think it's all going to fall through!! I'm going to drive with Sam to a Julia Nunes concert in Ann Arbor (a city about 2 hours away from my house) I'm so excited because Ben and his friend Evan will be joining Sam and I. Oh I cannot wait! It's on June 7th, in case you cared.
Here she is: (by the way, she is not very well known, but she is young...she's only like 21)

Julia Nunes...

On June 7th, Julia Nunes is touring in Ann Arbor, a city around three hours from my house. Ahhhh!! I really want to go see her perform. She is an 'unknown' guitarist and singer. I hope to attend her concert in June with Ben and Sam. I made her a hat at the request of Ben :) Here it is:

There are seven As like you said Ben :)

Prom...

I drove up to Grand Rapids (a city about and hour and fifteen minutes away from my house) to Ben's house to go to his prom with him. Ben is seventeen years old. He is a very cool guy and I enjoy every minute I have had with him. He is a Christian, which is the most wonderful character of his. Anyways...here are some pictures of the prom...(by the way, I had a ton of fun and would do it again in a heart beat)

 This is Danielle and I. Danielle is a good friend of mine. She came over to my house in the morning before I left for Ben's house. She curled my hair and did a great job of it I think.

This is Troy, my other friend from camp. I must say that his is one of my favorite people in the world! He is so silly!

This is Troy and his girlfriend, Rebaka. I had the privilege of meeting her. She is a really cool person too! They match! :)

This is Ben. I think they took this before I came out of the house. Don't ask me what he is doing, cause I have no answer for you. :))

This was yesterday...

Is this not the messiest kitchen ever?!? But don't worry, I cleaned it all up. It was spotless, thanks to Hunter and I by the time Mom, Sam and Lydia returned home. Cleanliness makes me happy :)

       Alright, a little story comes with this here picture. Three days before my mom came home from the trip to Tennessee, I noticed lots of water pooling at the bottom edge of the refrigerator. I dried it up and ten minutes later, there appeared an even bigger puddle of water. I dried that up and proceeded to see what the problem was. I opened up the freezer and beheld a disgusting sight! Every item that was previously frozen, was thawed out and melting rapidly. Blaghh! There was blood everywhere from the good twenty pounds of meat that we stored in it. I called my mom and she told me to move all the meat to the outside fridge. Yes, I had to touch all the melting meat and other unknown substances. Thankfully, Esther was willing to help me in the promise of playing the Wii. Oh boy! Well, in the end, the refrigerator was broken and would cost more to repair than it was worth. So, we bought a new one and this is a picture of it. Look how clean it is! Yay! (I think it was worth touching the meat for a new refrigerator. Might I add that it is stainless steal?)

Well, Sara, Sam and Lydia went to Tennessee for a few days (from Wednesday to Sunday) I have to 'be the mom' this week. Examples of mom duties: cooking, cleaning, and driving everyone everywhere! I enjoyed the cooking. As you can see, Esther and Hunter got it good this weekend.
The first night I went to the grocery and got all the ingredients for bruchetta and fettuccine alfredo. Yummy!

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It turned out rather well.

We ate quite a lot!

The second night I made a concoction of leeks, carrots, onions, garlic, salt, broth, and assorted beans. It was quite good, if I may say so myself. Esther and I were pretending to be cooks and she did well peeling the carrots and eating the unfinished product. Silly girl!

Esther took this picture of me...can you tell??

I forgot to take a picture of the finished soup...sorry
Well there you have it...being a mom is hard!

Starting again...

I'm sorry that we have not been posting lately. I have been busy with lots of things, like school, sports and work. 

Well, here is some of the things that I have been working on since the last time I have posted: