One of the few advantages to having jet lag is being up early to see the sunrise!

I woke up this morning at 4 and was eating downstairs when I looked outside and saw how cool it looked with the sun coming up! So I grabbed our camera and ran outside. It was a great start to the day.






In a couple of hours we leave for English Camp! Be back in a week!

Well, it's been a pretty amazing three weeks in the States. What I thought was going to be a boring trip was in fact a big learning experience for me in many ways. It's helped me understand the American mentality a bit more and has helped me prepare more and more for college next year!

One thing that has been really fun for me has been sharing my music with people. Me and Caleb played a song at two churches, for our family and for a talent show at a family camp we just returned from. It's made me even more aware of the great gift I've been given and has helped me be more focused on what direction I want to go in with it!





Right now we're back in Chicago and Caleb and I will fly home in about 5 hours. Being at the Gull Lake family camp has gotten me really pumped for English Camp! I'll be helping lead the camp by doing translations, helping with evening discussions and leading camp songs/worship for the whole camp. There will be 70 people there!! That's like awesome. And the American team that we're working with is going to be super. I know God's going to bless this week.

also, as i'm sure you've noticed, I have a new picture up on my banner! It's from our last (and best) performance at Gull Lake. You can just barely see my guitar strap! =)

So we're in the States right now!! It's been great being with family again.

We had our family reunion in a place called Telluride - up high in the Colorado mountains. It was soooo cool. Totally makes up for all the family vacations we've had by the beach =) (I don't really like sun!)

One of the coolest things we did was take a "little" hike up to an old mining "ghost town" and then over some mountains back to our condos. All together it was about 8 miles...and we were very tired afterwards!





All four of us (my dad, uncle Steve, cousin Justin and me) made it back safely, although we had very wet shoes.

Now we're all back in Denver for another couple days, and on Thursday our family flies up to Chicago! Then it's off to a camp in Michigan and then Caleb and I are flying early for our Frydlant English Camp!

This week has been pretty crazy getting our affairs in order before flying to the States on friday. There's a lot I could write about, but because of my limited time I'll just share with you some family pictures Greg Strock took on Sunday!