Tahoe!!

Last week was amazing!

My family and I went on vacation up north in Lake Tahoe.  My grandparents have a house up there (a beautiful house which is 70 feet from the lake with an amazing view may I add) and they let us use it for the week.  It was so nice to just get away from work and wedding plans and stress.  I was just so worn out before I left and was in desperate need of some serious vaca.  It was great--we went out on the boat (they let us use their boat as well) everyday, well everyday but one and that day we went down the truckee river.  I am such a water girl, i just love it.  It is just so refreshing and renewing and it is truly freeing for me.  So we would go on the boat all day and then we would come home relax/go to town/get ready for dinner, go out and then just hang out as a family and play games and talk and go on walks.  I loved it--a whole lot of nothing basically but relaxation which is totally my type of vacation.  

I really just got to leave all of my stress behind and relax.  It was really good for me because i needed some good God time and I really got to do that during the week.  I tried to set aside about an hour a day for me and God.  I re-read the Johns: 1, 2, 3 (since I had read them the week before for Josh's taste-test challenge haha) and it was really good to meditate on them and just let the words hit my heart and sink in.  So each day I would try to put into practice whatever i had learned that day in my reading (or the day before because I didn't get to read everyday).  God really spoke to me and I feel like he is shifting my vision and helping me focus on truth and areas of my life that need to be changed.  It was really good to just let God speak to me without the distractions of life which I am constantly bombarded with at home.  I also have been trying to set aside my exercise time as worship time as well (fit for christ inspiration baby!) and so I worked out like four times this past week and just put my ipod on to phil the wickman and just let my focus be on the words of the worship songs.  I really just let those words be my prayers and I feel like God is just starting to work in mighty ways in my life.  I'm just really excited about God right now!

So the fun events of the week!

• Learned how to drive a boat

• found a tiny stop sign which was really high up on a thick pole (ps if you didn't know i love random things like something really big or really small, basically just anything out of place)
  

• i went in the water everyday and tried to help make the 52 degree water a little warmer (if you get what I'm saying--tinkle time)
  
• won an imaginary $60 playing black jack (but this was huge because I almost lost $400...so $60 ain't too shabby) 
  
  
• tried my first oyster (it was okay, but i would personally never order it)
  
  
  
• ate 4 hula pies (I had some help, but always seemed to finish off the last big hunk...exhibit A)
  
  
  
• Got to see my sarah baby! and play and catch up

• ate my first scallion (thanks surah!)

• got bit by a canadian goose

• got sick and threw up five times on the last night (y'all should be glad I don't have a picture of that because you know i'd put it up!)

so it was great!!! but it is good to be home...i suppose.  No but really it is so good to be with Josh again and just to get to share what God has been doing in my life and hear about him and his week and just be together.  I'm also glad to be back and get to see my friends and get some wedding plans done.  

so i'm hoping i don't go crazy again and need to go on vacation, but hey i wouldn't mind round two of tahoe summer!