Yes, I get paid for Havin Fun!

This week at Summer'sCool, it was Carnival Capers Week! We had a Carnival for the kids on Tuesday. It was fun we had a "cookie walk", a bean bag toss station, ping pong toss, and face painting, which was my station! If they completed the station, they got a piece of candy, and after the carnival in the gym, we made a carnival crazy snack mix! The kids liked it, and we made names up for all the kids to wear at the carnival. My name was Hokey Hilary, we had Carnie Carly, and Bozo Britt, which seemed to be perfect names for our crazy carnival!

fun on the fourth

We had a fun fourth of July this year! I was excited as you read in my earlier post of Mike and I getting a picture together with our 4th of July attire on!

In Nitro this month it is CRAZY July weekends and that weekend of course was to wear All red, white, and blue, because it was fourth of July weekend! After church on Saturday night, there was a Party at church with hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, and lots of fun! We hung out with our friends and family, and watched all the crazy kids go in the jump castles.

After the party, we did our own fireworks at Mike's parents house with his family, and our friend Roxi. We had a blast, and our grand finale was the "pink diamonds" fireworks! We liked the name, so we picked those up! we did have my favorite 4th of July accessory, SPARKLERS!

*Our first married 4th of July*

P.S. Our 1 year anniversary is coming up VERY soon! (2 weeks and 3 days to go)

Chelsie and Robbie's Wedding

Mr and Mrs. Denson

The outside setup!

We were unthawing the frozen punch outside!
The beautiful cake
Cocktail tables

The food table with the awesome flower arrangement!

The final Candy Table setup with my little helper Jack!

Blue and Brown Candy Bar!

A blurry picture during the wedding

Me and Allison before the wedding in the chapel!

The awesome DJs

A quick snap with the bride before they left!Have fun in Jamaica!

Happy 4th of July

I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy 4th of July! I love 4th of July because I LOVE LOVE LOVE sparklers (as you can see in the picture above)! We bought some tonight for the 4th of July party tomorrow that Mike and I are going to after church. I am very excited about the party because my family is coming, and a lot of my friends are coming! If you don't have anything to do for the 4th of July, after the 6:15 service at Long Point, we are having a party! I hope everyone will have a safe 4th of July, and don't get stuck on IOP for too long if you go see the fireworks out there! The traffic is always so bad!

Also, this will be Mike and my second 4th of July together, and last year we didn't get any pictures together, so it will be fun tomorrow at the party and I will be sure to take a lot of pictures! The first 4th of July (2006) we were dating he was in St. Louis with his family, and in 2007 I was in Costa Rica on a missions trip, and last year I didn't take pictures!

Today my mom and I both had off work, so we went to the waterpark with Beth(sis in law) and Jack(my nephew). This was us eating lunch, and the second one is Jack eating some oreos, which he loves! We had so much fun! :)

Here are a couple of pictures of the 4th of July in 2006 when my best friend Stephanie lived in Charleston, she has moved to Florida for the past 3 years for school. We went all out the night before, we made halter tops out of tshirts, we painted our toenails, and bought over the top accessories, it was a lot of fun, and we got some great shots! :)

Stephanie, me and Allison

Bethany and myself in 2006

PS- Our trip to Guatemala was AMAZING! I will be blogging about it soon, with a lot of pictures!Thanks for your support and prayers!

Elevation '09: EKHO

This past week we did our summer camp that Seacoast has been doing for I think 8 years now! We packed up 8 school buses full of luggage and students and headed down to Camp Awanita in Marietta, SC! It was so awesome! We saw so many students come to know God for the first time, grow in their walk with Jesus, and fall more in love with Him! Words can't even describe how successful it was because we just wanted the students grow in their walk with Jesus!


This was also a cool experience for Mike and I on our marriage. If you don't go to Seacoast Church, one thing that I think is so cool is the response time at the end of the services. During the response time, there is a chance for everyone to come and take communion, and usually it is the pastor and their spouse giving the communion. Well, at Elevation this year Mike and I were able to give communion together to students. It was such a special thing to me that I was able to do it with Mike. Nothing is more beautiful than giving something away to these studnets that represents what Jesus has done on the cross for us. It was such a neat experience for Mike and I.


Also, We had the chance to baptize students together, and that was so amazing! The three pictures below were of three of the girls in my small group at Elevation. It was so cool to participate in this symbolic act of worship which celebrates a new life in Jesus Christ!

Right before the mega relay that we did amazing at! We beat the 6th graders!

We started out with the coolest team flag, and after a while another team stole it, took the banana off, and eventually it got left outside, and the inflatable monkey was destroyed, we bandaged him up for a little while, but he eventually died! It was fun though!

Zeke loves Pastor Mike!

No, those are definitely not cheetos girls! The boys hanging out!

We won the spirit stick and made it into a 7, but then it broke last minute, so the kids made a cross out of it! (We put glitter on it too!)

Our team was the Chiquita Bananas, 7th grade from LP campus!

Services were awesome, the band did such a great job! We sold over 100 goats to feed families in Africa! It was awesome, one they bought one, they could put it on the map!

Roxi and I needed a lot of sugar and caffeine to keep up with all the students, so we splurged at the concessions getting reeses and mountain dew!!!!

Me and my girls after the last night of service:

Having fun in the Lake:

My AMAZING 7th grade small group girls:

Talent Show between campuses: These were our Randy, Simon, and Paula (in that order):

Hummer Rides: