our lady of lourdes

Monday, April 28, 2008

It was fun flying in a tornado, but landing back home was good too

Hello again,

Sorry for the lack of recent posts. Since the last post we have returned to Yakima. On our first day being back we joined the Guadalupe team on a trip to Seattle to visit WSU's Newman center and participate in their Theology of the Body class. We enjoyed our time up there, and had a fun trip up in the van as you can see in the following pictures.
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The following day we returned to our travels, and visited Oregon to do a retreat there. Unfortunetly I do not have any pictures at this time of the time we spent there but will post pictures later when they are made available. The retreat we did there was a great amount of fun, and being one of the first times in a while we had sunshine, we were able to make great use of it by spending time outside playing games, such as glow in the dark baseball and ultimate frisbee.

Upon our returning to Yakima after this trip we have enjoyed being able to spend time with the community once again. We were able to celebrate birthday's, have praise and worship at the Haven, and have even been able to have a picnic, of which there are pictures following. We also, more recently, put on the Reach Benfit Dinner which was a great amount of fun for us, as well as a great success for the Reach program.

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Of course, beyond the picnics and parties, we've also had fun with some sprite we had at the center.





This past weekend we put on our last retreat as a team in Levenworth, WA. Although we will are now gearing up for work on the Gonzaga conference and the DUB, our indivual team retreats are now over. It's bitersweet knowing that they're over but they were a great amount of fun for us, and we hope the all the retreatants we have encountered enjoyed having us there as much as we enjoyed being there.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Almost home...looking back

Looking back on some of the videos of our past couple weeks on this roadtrip. Enjoy!


Jaci was able to guel gas all by herself!


Some bullriding we were able to see in Glascow


The Gauntlet...


When we went to the natural springs in Great Falls, Bryan decided to taste the water


As we were walking around at the natural spring, Colleen and Meghan realized there were some things they needed to sort out...Reach style.


Michelle, Colleen, and Bryan rocking in the van, and moving the van itself

Hope you enjoy these videos as you get a glimpse into our daily lives.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter

"Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here but has been raised."
Luke 24: 5-6

Let is rejoice not just in the rising of Jesus Christ today, but the opportunity it has given us to rise to new lives with him. Let us be like Mary Magdalene, hearing the words of the angel, "Go quickly and tell and tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead!'" (Matthew 28:7) Let us not be unbelieving at what sounds like nonsense, but believe with full hearts and full spirits. Let us not be like the men on the road to Emmaus, who did not recognize the Lord, but let us recognize Him in all of those around us. "The Lord has risen indeed, Alleluia!" Let us sing that Alleluia with joy as we live our lives anew.


We are celebrating this Easter in Montana, but let us refresh on the trip thus far.
We had the chance to do a retreat in Wyoming, all of which was held in a deacon's house. It was a small retreat, especially when it was followed by the 90+ retreats. We had a bunch of fun over the weekend, and were able to stay at Meghan's grandparents house again, even getting to meet her cousin. We were also able to visit Devil's Tower, and go for a walk around it.

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The punishment for Silent Football

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Our retreat group

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Walking around the Devil's Tower...or as Michelle called it, "El Tower del Diablo!"

As we continued on our trip, we found ourselves in Montana. Our first part of the trip was in Colstrip. We found ourselves doing 4 retreats in four days, some of which overlapped (Thursday and Friday we had elementary schoolers for a couple of hours, Friday evening to Saturday morning we had a high school, Saturday evening to Sunday morning we had middle school). It was an exhausting week, but filled us with much needed fuel. The kids were amazing, and pumped us up to keep doing more. While there we were able to get a tour of the power plant which they had in the town. It was really interesting getting to see how the power plant works, and the privilege of seeing it from the outside.

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Meghan, Michelle and Colleen on a walk around the lake there

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Collen, Michelle, and Jaci on the walk

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Jaci and Michelle sporting the gear necessary for the tour

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The tour group on the top

We now find ourselves in Shelby, Montana this Easter season. We have been able to do a couple of fun middle school retreats, and look forward to doing another retreat tomorrow, and leaving Tuesday morning. While here Jake, Collen and Meghan did the music for the Easter Vigil which turned out beautifully. They were definitely a blessing for the church, and had many thanks for their hard works.

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Michelle and Jaci after the Easter Vigil mass

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Silly Reach girls

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Bryan's model pose

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Us girls.

May the Good Lord bless you this day, and may you make it the first day for the rest of your life.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

I make a habit of never making promises that aren't easy to keep

As I said before, here are the promised videos...


Colleen and Michelle, move along Reach style


Meghan in the van


Our van trip to Kansas...and what happens when we listen to Jake's music