CON CORRECTO EREGOS SOM: June 2013

So to recap a bit the last few months have been filled with, for lack of better words, AWESOMNESS!!!!!! I mean seriously I've been feeling blessed beyond blessed. It's been a really long time since I've had such a long stretch with no "lows" if you know what I mean. God has been very gracious to me. So I figure I will just go over some of the many highlights!
First and foremost I went on a 2 1/2 week Road trip across America with an amazing young man who also happens to be my cousin! ;p (people along the way where definitely confused about that LOL) but in all fairness he is my friend too not just my cousin. Anyway I thought I would post some pictures from our trip (their at the bottom!).

Also along the way I got to visit with a lot of friends in Ohio (including my Bandit Boy who is a HORSE in case you were wondering) and not to mention both Austin and I got to see our brothers and their families in Washington which was really cool and even some of our cousins in Oregon. All in all it was an incredible trip not only for the adventure side but also for growing and encouraging our faith. to sum it up GOD IS GOOD!

okay so right as I got home I had to leave the next morning for my church's summer camp. The theme for the weekend was REVIVE! Each day we had talks about the heart, and different conditions of it, but always relating the physical to the spiritual. What will it take to get your heart Revived? It was a really sweet time and simply fun. Filled with incredible worship that I was privileged to be a part of on the cajon. It was a special time for sure.

Beautiful skies!

underwater photo shoot!

Horizon's Youth!

After camp I got home and did laundry and SLEPT! (also a very blessed time haha sleeping that is!) it was a much needed catch up. But anyhow there was lots to do, for one my friend Mia's wedding is the 22nd so there's preparations for that, but also the 2 families I nanny for wanted to take me out before I leave for Peru (which was supposed to be around July 5th-ish) they took me out to Benihanas. It was so sweet to be with all of them. hehe and crazy but what do you expect when you have 7 boys ages 3-50ish :) haha the funny thing is we sat 3 girls on one side and then all the boys on the other!!! LOL it was awesome. It still amazes me that with all my insecurities I would think God would just shake his head at me and say "get over it" like most people do but instead he blesses me with people that simply love. No joke they just love on me and they probably will never know how much it means to me.

my [fams]

so besides spending time with my famil[ies] I've been getting to hang out with Mia a ton and getting to pray with her about her future about her marriage to come its just been so (words don't really cut it).

with all that being said I almost forgot I would be leaving for Peru in a couple weeks (NOT READY AT ALL!) it was then that one of my [fams] was like Brandy why don't you stay and go to Tahoe with us (on the annual trip) and I was like no I can't do that I'm supposed to leave for Peru and then they reminded me that I had not bought my ticket yet and that I should come and why not buy my ticket for Peru in August instead then I would have so much more time!

Incredible so here I am now completely relieved! and so looking forward to Tahoe and it's now that I recall advice a wise person once told me... he said remember Ai... he then went on to explain what it meant... If you open up your Bible to Joshua chapter 7 particularly verse 3 but to give you some context I would read chapter 6 as well...
basically Joshua had just lead the Israelites to a great victory when the walls of Jericho came down however in that victory the men grew prideful not remembering that the victory was the Lord's (not to mention someone among their troops had disobeyed by taking some of the artifacts from the battle for himself). So as they marched on they found another city to conquer, the city of Ai. Joshua sent men to spy out the land, those men came back reporting , "We wont need all the troops just send a few" very much in a cocky manner. So as the story goes God was not with them and they had to tuck tail and run away from that battle...

there are a lot of things you can take from this story but for me it is the constant reminder that when you just had a tremendous victory to be aware. To not get full of yourself to give glory where glory is due, but also to remember to always stay on your guard knowing that satan is right there. (1Peter 5:8)

sorry for the novel but its been a while.... and now I want to end by Praising our maker "Jesus thank you for being my Savior! The joy I find in you is in incomparable."

Enjoy the pix!