It has been a long time since I have posted.... again but I'm out of school now so maybe I will be able to post more! I just got back from a mission trip on Sunday to West Virginia. It was really fun and very good to emerse myself into my faith wihtout the outside world for a while.
One fun this about the mission trip was that we had "family groups" which were like small bible study groups who we also worked with and spent part of our fun day with. I became really great friends with one of the guys in my group nammed Tanner. One night during family groups I started drawing on Tanner's shoes (with his permission of course) and here's what happened:
I personally am very pround of how they turned out and I think Tanner liked them as well :)
So I am finially of summer break! This is the summer before my senior year so I am excited for it! I hope I will be able to keep this updated as I go. I hope everyone is having a great summer!
I have an apology to make to all my followers. I know it has been a very long time since I blogged. I know some of you out there may be like most of my teachers, accepting no excuses but for those of you that would accept my excuse I think I might have a pretty good one. My junior year has been crazy so far. Crazy but wonderful. Other than school and all my classes I have been busy with my school magazine. I am graphics editor but I also write and design and take pictures. The news season for my church's youth group has also started with the new school year. I love youth and I'm happy to be back in it. I also really like my new small group now that I have moved up to the Junior and Senior girls group. I have also started taking violin lessons from a new teacher who is much more strict. Lastly and most of all I have made my schools fall musical. Nothing huge but I made it into the chorus. It is so much fun but it takes a lot of commitnment. I have rehersal almost every night until at least six.
As for those little moments of freedom I have recieved I have discoverd some new things I would really like to share. First off have any of you heard of a website called tumblr? I love it :) tumblr.com. Secondly I have been reading... a lot. If you are a fan of the Percy Jackson serires you should check out the Cane Chronicles and the Heros of Olympus series both also by Rick Riordan and jsut fyi the second book of the Heros of Olympus sereis: Son of Neptune comes out TOMORROW AND I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! I also just finished the 4th book in the Kingdom Keepers serires this weeked, and I also highly recommend that book.
I am sorry this is kind of a boring post, its mostly a recap of whats been up. Hopefully I'll be able to post more soon. But before I end this post I would like to tell you one thing. Remember my boyfriend Drew? I talked about him quite a bit. Well last Tuesday was me and Drew's one year anniversary :)
Hey, hey, hey! I'm back! It feels great to be back in my own house, in my own bed, and in my own shower. Being an only child in a house where there is one shower for 3 people is a lot different from living with 49 "siblings" and there being 3 showers for 57 people. Though I'm happy to be home my mission trip was fun. We ended up going to Tennessee to do some tornado relief. It was an interesting experience. Here's some pics :)
If you have any questions about my trip you can always e-mail me at daielyhailey@yahoo.com. I'm not exactly sure what to write about my trip so just e-mail me or comment.
So I've decided to do a bucket list for my summer. I was thinking it would be fun to make one and then I thought I might try writing about it too. I'm thinking it might turn out to be a cool summer and I think I might actually be able to finish this story. You see I love to write but I have problems actually finishing stories. I guess I'll just have to see what happens :)
Also this June will be Beach Boys June at the Dailey Hailey to celebrate summer! :) Happy Summer!
HE HAS RISEN!!!
This past weekend was Easter weekend for all of you that were not aware. Easter is a big deal to me. It didn't used to be, until I got into the youth program at my church. That's when the whole idea and my way of viewing Easter changed. Each year my church has an Easter vigil. A vigil is "wakefulnessmaintainedforanyreasonduring the normalhoursforsleeping," according to dictionary.com. Each year on Easter weekend we all show up at the church Friday night (Good Friday.) That night we have a "Good Friday Service of Darkness" which the youth runs. This year we sang some songs and showed some videos. During the last song 12 different youth members got to go blow out 12 of the candles on the alter (I being one of the chosen youth members) until there was only one candle left. From that candle we lit a torch that we took outside to a fire pit in this big grassy area in front of the church in sight of the road. We lit a fire there, our goal for the weekend was to keep the fire burning for the rest of the weekend until Easter morning. For those of you not familiar with the story of Easter, Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and died. He was dead for three days, and rose from the dead on the third day which is the day we celebrate Easter. (Just FYI that's a very watered-down, short, not very good, explanation. I highly recommend you read the actual story in the Bible.) So the point of it all is we are "waiting for Jesus." Its an interesting experience, we all stay at the church, sleep on the couches in the youth room, and everyone sign up for a shift out by the fire. There is always someone out by the fire unless there was a storm warning (which we did have a few of those.) It was lots of fun! Here's some pictures from it:
It was a lot of fun and me, Drew, and Chavis stayed the whole weekend except for a few hours on Saturday night me and Drew left. Me and Drew went to my grandmas house where my dads side of the family was celebrating Easter. Yep, Drew met my family. And I'm happy that Drew still likes me even after meeting my insane family. Over all the weekend was really good, and defiantly an Easter to remember. How was your Easter? What did you do? I'd love to hear from you.
