skydiving.....to do or not to do?!

Did I tell you that my crazy cool brother (Thomas, the army dude) and a bunch of his equally crazy cool freinds went skydiving in Augest?!?! This is one of them, (not Thomas, I just thought this pic was kinda fun. :). The sky was really blue, and the chutes were really colorful, (blue, green, turquoise"ish", and pink. The poor guy that got pink!! :) lol) It looked like so much fun, that a freind (who was there watching her brother) and I decided that when I turn 18 were gonna go do it together!! :) The only problem is that I have a little bit until I do turn 18, so I have a while to "back out!!"

This is the plane They went up in. Sorry the back of the tail is chopped off, this is the best photo. :) A

And this is the pink one. Now doesn't that make you want to jump?!?!? It is SOOO colorful!! :)

PLEASE PRAY FOR MY TOWN

My small town could use your prayers right now, people!!!! There is a huge fire near us, and a chance that it will come to us!! Andrew said that we will be put on Standby Evacuation by 8:00 this evening, and if teh final Evacuation was to come, it would come in the middle of the night. Several of our freinds have had to evacuate their homes, and TONS of other have been evacuated. We have some freinds on their way to stay at our house because they were evacuated. We have had helicoptors with water baskest flying over our house all day, and there is a TON of smoke in the air. Your prayers that no homes would be burned would be GREATLY appriciated!!!

Andrew has been out with Search and Rescue all day, and part of yesterday, giving "evacuating notices" for the seriff office.

Thank you for praying!!!!!

Rebecca

P.S. here's a thought, what would you grab if you had to evacuate your home, say in the middle of the night, and had no more than 5 minuets to grab a couple of things besides your family. Leave your answer in the comment section.

More photos and ramblings...

I love the beach, and when you add a light house and a couple of my favorite people in it, I am completly happy!! (I'm not gonna tell you who they are though!! :p)

This is my older brother Andrew. He is kinda the "Cityfied" country boy of the family. He likes the city, and likes dressing like a 'city' boy, but is still a country boy. :)

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I love our clouds!!!!!!!!!! And I have always loved this tree. Whenever we go hiking at this spot I always love to take a couple of photos of this tree. :)

to say that I love rainbows would be an understatement!!! This one was just gorgious!!!!!!

My dad recently bought me a 55-200mm zoom lens for my Canon SLR, and I was so happy to be able to take photos of water spraying up from the moter on my Gandpa's boat!! :)

Water. One of my favorite things to take pictures of.

This is my favorite mountain. To say that small town country girls LOVE their mountains would be an understatement. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this mountain. :) :)

We have hundreds and hundreds of deer around us.

And this is another picture of the lighthouse.

I am sorry that the pictures are not very good quality. I promise that in reality they are, but the blog makes them look poor quality.

that's it for now, I think I am caught up with pictures that I wanted to post, and will have to start taking a bunch of new ones for y'all!!!!

love,

becca

More Pictures!!

I am totally loving this high-speed!!! It makes posting so much easier. and I have decided to post some more pictures. These are in no particular order, just photos that I haven't had the time to post before.

So this is my adorable littlest brother, Caleb. He is 2,  talks so well and cute and is well, just absolutely cute!!!! :)

This is at Newport Oregon, where we went in July.

Thomas and Caleb, waiting for another wave. :D

This is at the beach as well. We were all sitting around the campfire in the rain with a bunch of umbrellas. Seasonded campers I guess.  We've gotten used to the idea that if we are camping, its gonna rain!! lol

Had to show this one. It is a firework. I didn't do anything to it, this is just the way my camera took it. Weird. :)

Well, we went to the ice caves yesterday. I didn't do a whole lot of exploring. After falling 3 times in one minute  and being caught every time by a stranger guy, I decided that it was enough. I didn't end up feeling that embarrassed, the guy fell right after I steadied myself. :) 

Anyway, I should go, my brother is on the phone. (Thomas is at Army Basic, and he's calling home for the second time today. He hasn't gotten to the actual  basic yet, he's at what they call Reception. So he still has his phone until tomorrow. He is really bored. :))

Love ya,

Becca

I am so TOTALLY excited!!!!!

We just got high-speed internet at our house, which means I can now post all the pictures that I have not been able to!!!!!!!!!!!

So, without further ado, I give you...... The pictures!! :)

Ok, so this is me. I am dressed in stuff for a horrid game of Airsoft. That is NOT a real gun, it shoots white plastic b.b.'s :) My reason for saying horrid is, well, I am  REALLY bad at it, and get out first. :)

So, this is a row of buildings in San Francisco. They have the coolest buildings there!!!! I could spend forever taking pictures of buildings, but I really need more practice. I still haven’t figured out the “knack” for it.

I don’t know if any of you have heard of Fisherman’s Warf, but it is a Warf along the Bay, and has all kinds of touristy type shops and restaurants.

This is the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s foggy, so you can’t see really well, but there it is. J I was really disappointed with it.  I figured that it would be this spectacular thing, and it’s just a bridge. lol

And this is another picture of me. J

Ok, so that's it for now, and I will hopefully be seeing much more of ya'll, now that it's easier to post!!!!!!

Love ya,

Becca

lights

Allo ma chere ami!!!!

          Moi desire vous volonte voir le mou de ce ville quelque!!!!

Ahh, French. today in down-town San Francisco I was delighted to hear French being spoken all around me!! But I am sure you are 'dying' to know what my first translated sentence in french is......

          Hello my dear freind!
                   
                    I wish you will see the light of this city sometime!!!!!

Ok, so it's not as great as it sounds in French, but hey, it took me more that 5 minuets to translate it from English into French.

          I have been known to say that I hate the city, and indeed I do (!!!!) but that almost changes when I see the beautiful lights at night. Each light is flickering in the blackness, chasing the shadows away, and representing a person.

          There are the big lights on stores that are open late for the convinious of the working class people that can't shop any other time.

          There are the lights of the cars, bound for heaven knows where, all in a great long line down a crowded freeway.

          There are the smaller lights of houses, where people work, play, sleep and are hanging out with family and freinds.

          The lights in the city almost remind me of the stars back home, and thats a big compliment!! The stars where I come from are bright and beautiful and almost seem to be smiling down on you when you look up at them. And, *smile* you can't count the city lights any more than you could count the starts... :)  

          Amour (love),
                    Becca

Guess What I did all day....

...Slept in past 8:00 for the first time in ages, played piano, (heavenly!!) watched wives and Daughters, (or rather part of it) and went shopping at the mall....

Nope, no complaintes here!!!!!!!!!!!

San Fransisco.....

Hey ya'll,

          I am currently in (or rather in a suburb of) San Fransisco!!!! (visiting some relatives.) I plan on taking some photos (some would be an understatement!!!!*laughs*), and wish that I had some to show you already, but I only arrived yesterday, and have been rather lazy since then.
          Oh, and I am very proud of myself for actually arriving!!!! You see I flew down, and it was the very first time that I have EVER flown by mu self, and even though I have flown a bunch, I still get EXTREMELY nervous when on an airplane. I guess I figure, if God wanted us to fly, he woulda given us some wings his self. :)

          Anyway, I am here, and will post some pictures when I get home. Whether any turn out or not. :)

Love ya,

Becca

Photos

This was the flags at the memorial day service this year. I meant to post them a LONG time ago, but never got around to it... :) Typical me!!

And this is my oldest brother, Thomas, who is leaving for Army basic training in a week and a half. Right now he is with a friend getting ready for his friends wedding. Thomas is the best man. :)

This is outside my town, before it really turned brown. It does turn brown around here!!!!

Introducing…. a new blog!!!!

www.simplemodestfashion.blogspot.com

My very dear friend Bekah started this blog recently to help girls learn how to dress modestly AND fashionably!!!!!!! Cheers for Bekah, 'cause I know how hard it is to feel PRETTY while wearing modest clothing. So, run on over there, she is just gettin' started, so she doesn't have a ton on there yet, but it looks like it'll become one of my favorite sites.

And speaking on modest fashion, here's another site y'all might enjoy lookin' at. www.virtiousgirlhood.com It is a really cute site as well!!