Family ,Friends,& Jesus

<--- The art of slacklining. It's harder than it looks. But its fun :) 


So I need to be posting every week. This is good practice for me,
I need to become a better writer (for my profession of course). So I will try my best to post weekly.
This week is about my easter break :) Since I go to a baptist school I
get to have Thursday through Monday off.

Thursday my friends and I decided to head to Hunington beach.
We brought firewood, towels, a guitar, a slack line and s'mores stuff.
We walked over two miles to go get lunch at TK Burgers.
Once we returned from lunch we decided to start our fire and start singing worship songs.
This, my friends, was the PERFECT afternoon.
Let me paint the scene for you..
Some of my greatest friends, music (guitar and scratchy beach voices), sound of the crashing waves, smell of the fire (I like it ok..), chocolate (my favorite thing in the world), a gorgeous sunset with beautiful and vibrant colors, and Jesus in the midst of our worship.
Here's a picture of what I'm trying to paint, I promise, it is much better in person! 

These are the awesome moments that I await for in heaven..
The moments when we can just spend time in fellowship with one another with Christ as the center. 
These heavenly moments are glimpses of what is to come, without the pain, fear, and hurting of course. 

Another heavenly moment was on Good Friday. My sister, brother and I went to the OC to watch 
one of our favorite Christian Spanish bands "Rojo." Man, oh man, are they filled with the Holy Spirit! 
They sure can bring worship, heaven on earth style. I was crying my eyes out, overwhelmed by the lyrics
of their songs. They encouraged us to pray for the nations, to reach out to those countries that have never 
heard of the love of God. It was such a great way to spend my Good Friday.

We were so close. It was awesome :) 

Last but not least, I want to talk about Easter.. for me as a follower of Christ this day is extremely important. It is the day that broke any wall of separation between mankind and God. Jesus, the son of God, gave himself, and was crucified on the cross for all of our sins. Three days later, Jesus resurrected from the dead, proving that God has all the power and all authority. Victory was proclaimed over all the earth. Satan no longer has a hold on us, Christ does! On Easter we celebrate that victory, my family has a tradition 

of attending my parents church for their sunrise service (which starts at 6). We also got to spend some time 

with my extended family, prior to that. We watched my uncle get baptized, it was a big blessing to be a part of that. 

I know, I write a lot... I want to say more, but for the sake of this post not being a novel I'm going to cut it short. 

I hope your Easter was as blessed as mine was! :) 

Breaking Spring

Ah spring break, the time that college students have to go crazy before their life is turned into a hole of stress and no sleep. Many students party, vacation with family, or just chill.  CBU gives us a week to prepare for this home stretch. It was a much needed break from all the busyness in my life. For my spring break I decided to take the first half of it to spend much needed time with my family, run errands and do any catching on homework. I was VERY productive; I got a hair trim, did my taxes, went to Starbucks, did my comparative religions midterm, hung out with my siblings, caught up on Once Upon a Time and New Girl, and I applied for internships.. So, technically I didn't take a break from the busyness... I brought it home with me. I'm the type of person who isn't good at relaxing.... ha. 
Anyways, so that's the first half.. the second half I got an AWESOME opportunity to spend some time
in Solana Beach, CA at one of my good friend's grandparents' beach house. The house was great!
The company was awesome as well. I love spending time with people, turns out that it's my love
language (quality time). We talked, watched movies, sat by the bonfire, walked along the beach and 
ate (a lot). Here are some of my favorite shots taken by Fletcher Perkins and myself.

Two of my best friends and I, standing on the lifeguard tower on Solana beach, it was a cloudy day, 

at the end of the day I was still as pale as can be ;) 

 My roommate & I

Jessica, myself, & Jackie

 We explored some caves that were along Solana beach. The guys that were with us are photographers,
they were going picture crazy. It was too cold to go in the water or to lay out, so we decided to just explore and take pictures.

Here's a picture of the house were we stayed. It was right on the edge of the cliff. It was great waking up and having my devotional with the beach as my scenery. 

Here's some of the gang (Scott, Jackie, Jess, Evelyn, and Nathan) in front of the house. These people are great :)

Ok, I know. There are a lot of pictures... we took so many. We decided that we would create a hashtag in order to document our trip. If you want to see more the hashtag is #fletcherscove2013sb.