July is here!

WOW! Time is flying by! I can't believe summer is winding down. Now I wish it could stay forever :) Funny how that works!

I am doing really, really awesome. I am so close to the Lord and really feeling His presence in my life and decisions. I feel pretty busy with life and keeping up with school and friends, but I don't mind the business. I like having things to do :)

Ok, so June has been a full month! I've been working a lot at Starbucks. Last week was Youth Camp which was honestly AMAZING! It was my frist time being a counselor and I really was in love with the role. I felt like I was finally given the role that I had wanted all along but wasn't in the position for: leading others. It was so great to have my friend Corinne there to be co-counselor with. We had an awesome cabin, the best team that I'd ever been on, and an amazingly fun time! God was really working in everyone's hearts and so many lives were changed!

Now that I'm back from Camp I've been working and tomorrow go backpacking with the college group to a place called Fresno Dome! It's seriously sooo beautiful! I will be down there until Sunday and drive straight to San Diego with Ashley. Then we're down there for Dad's ordination (WOO HOO!) until Thursday!

After next Thursday I have three weeks until the fam vacation in San Diego and five total weeks until I'm back at school. Sad sad. But also exciting in the same breath.

Alright, I need to do homework!! Enjoy the pictures :)


I came up to Camp early with Brooke and Evie to help with registration and watch the beautiful girl :) This is the sign as you enter the camp!

This is my friend Kelli who happened to be in my cabin. She's such an awesome girl :)

Mati Jo and me before a rally :)

Me and Taylor!!

Oh this picture just makes me smile :) this is my best friend Sarah whom I love :) She's so great.

Last day at Camp with the girls from my cabin!

Pool day after camp:)
Brooke and Evie! (Who is sporting the Carriage shirt that both Brooke and I wore!)

Pool basketball with the boys from the bad (Adam Cappa Band) who played at camp. They were seriously SO awesome to be with!!! Hilarious people.

Ok, so we took the band on a trip to San Francisco. And it happened to be Gay Pride Day! Ha! So we had a little fun with some pictures :) Here's Buck Rice and Brian from the band posing for us :)

And here's Sam and Adam (from the band as well)

Adam jumping like the iPod ads

Goodbye to my new awesome friends :( They went back home to Indiana and to continue their tour. It acutally was tough having them gone becasue I got used to the noise in the house and constant funny entertainment!

The end :)

Youth Camp

Off to Youth Camp for a week! Pray God reveals himself in awesome ways and that people will be accepting!!!

Love,
Paige

Summer days are drifitn' away...

Hello! It's been a while.

Not too much as happened since I've blogged last! I started my Intro to Business class online and it's going pretty well. Next week I'm going to be a camp counselor! I'm really looking forward to that and finally being completely on the other side of things.

My friend Anna came back from spending 9 months in an orphanage in Haiti and had an amazing time. It was great to be able to hear about her experience!

My days are filled with work, sleep, some homework and family or friends time! I think one of the best parts of summer has been able to be with Evie so much. She's growing and changing daily! I love to be a part of it.

This week I find out if I get accepted into the South Africa program or not for Spring Semester '09, so I'm really anticipating that! I also am considering changing my major to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication Studies with my Biblical Studies minor. So those are the things that are on my mind!

Have wonderful days:)
Paige

My friends Melissa and Megan.


Evie about to crawl!

Cute little pony tale :)

Family Weekend!

This was such a great family weekend! Grandma came Friday morning to surprise Mom and Dad for their Installation Sunday where Dr. Steve Babby came and comissioned them as co-pastors of our church! Dad looked so great in his suit and mom of course looked so pretty.

We were able to do a family lunch on Friday, Vacaville Outlets Friday night, Ham at Barbies on Saturday, dinner and pool on Sunday and pizza on Monday!!! It was great to connect with everyone again :)

I'm off to bed. Especially considering I woke up at 3:30am and I'm about to go to bed at 3am! Ha! Luckly I have tomorrow off of work!!! :)

Love,
Paige

Summer update!

Hello Family and Friends!!

Summer has been a busy one so far! This week has been the first week in a while where I feel like I've been able to really relax. I've been working a lot at Starbucks. I really am liking who I work with so that's made it really fun! Today I had my frist 4:30am opening shift which was hard to wake up for, but I was off at 9:15 so that was a perk!! I am working all early mornings, so naps have become a necessity as I still don't want to go to bed early because I will miss out on the fun!

Lauren and Chris' wedding was so great! The day was full of business and pictures but it was so wonderful :) I was able to give a toast to them at the reception and I appreciated that. They are on a Southern Caribbean cruise right now for their honeymoon. It was a surprise for Lauren, so she was greatly surprised! They started off in Puerto Rico. How fun!

My summer is going to be pretty jammed! I decided to be a counselor at camp this year, and two weeks after that I'll be in San Diego for a week for Dad's ordination!! I'm so proud of him!!! I can't believe how he did it, but he finished! Three more weeks I'll be home after ordination and it will already be San Diego vacation with the fam and then one week and school! Don't know if you followed that whole trail, but it's going to be busy busy!

I'm taking summer school and not quite sure how I'll be able to do it too, but I'm sure it will all work out.

Ok, off to get ready for lunch. Have a wonderful week : )

Hello!

Summer has been great! Filled with adventures... but mostly just hanging out : ) I'm really loving being home!! Here are some pictures to enjoy :)


I know you guys have probably seen hundreds of beautiful, wonderful pictures of Evie! Thought I'd share this funny one :)

We threw Lauren a personal shower in the backyard. SO pretty!!! This picture is of Lauren playing a question game about Chris. When she got one wrong she had to put a marshmellow in her mouth :) The wedding is THIS FRIDAY!!! So, I'm busy with planning and in the excitement of that!!

I got my makeup done and took some pics :)

My friend Kalie's dad works for Southwest and so she flew out for free from Monday to Thursday. I know it had only been two weeks, but it felt like I hadn't seen her in a lifetime! It was so great hanging out. We went up to Tahoe with our friend Holly who lives in Gault (and also in the picture, in the middle) and Chad who lives in Pleasenton, as well as Megan. We had a great time hanging out.

This is Kalie:) (Pronounced Kay-lee) She is wonderful :) And loves to make funny faces.


Love,
Paige

Home Sweet Home!

I'm back in Sacramento!! I think I'm going through detox from seeing some of my friends so much! My good friend Elli is on her way, at this moment, to Israel and Egypt until the 18th, so it's going to be hard not even talking to her!

Everything is still in boxes in my room or the garage. Moving around is so odd! Once I get used to one place I'm packing up.

I'll post some pictures of the last few weeks of school. Enjoy :)
Paige