Hood River Family Campmeeting - June 11-13th, 2010

We finally made it this year to the "Empowered Living Family Campmeeting" outside of Hood River. After so many years of wanting to go, mom and I made it along with my Uncle Kevin, cousins-Sarah, Jonathan, and Hannah. Due to Jared's work and Cherie finishing college, they were left behind much to our dissapointment.

Mom and I had a late take off from Azure Thursday night to drive to Hood River and didn't get crawl into our tent until 2AM. We were so tired, but we made it! The meetings were great and such an encouragment for our everyday Christian life. I felt so blessed to be there. We get so carried away with our everyday lives...we forget to take Jesus with us in every step. Life would be so much easier and better if we could only take the time to have that close relationship with Him! We sat for four meetings with breaks in between for youth Sabbath meal preparation in the kitchen, Family freeze tag, kite flying, Frisbee throwing, walking, visiting, and choir practice in the evening.

The weather was perfect, nice and warm. God really blessed with coming from the rain Washington to the fair weather in Oregon. The sunsets were beautiful casting a pink glow on Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams in the distance. It was a beautiful and rather a quite setting for camping on the edge of town.

Sabbath we sang in the choir for the morning meeting, helped out with kitchen duty for potluck lunch of haystacks, helped out with dish duty afterwards, went for a walk down the country road, nap time in the tent, and sat through some more encouraging meetings.

We had one more Sunday morning before we packed up and left to head back home. Mom and I took our time on our way home to stop along the Columbia Gorge Historical Highway to site see. Of all the times we have driven through the Gorge, we have never had time to stop and see the historical sites, so this was really special for mom and I. We learned alot of the Columbia Gorge history. There is so much history of the Indians that use to live along the gorge. I could not get over all the wildflowers! Bachelor Buttons, California and Red Poppies. It was so colorful and the fields filled with wildflowers looked like waves across the landscape. It was breezy as always in the Gorge. Mom and I had such a fun time in the flowers and taking pictures.

It was such a nice weekend, but mom and I were so happy to get home and see Cherie and Jared again.