This calls for a Celebration!

Well I should have posted this yesterday. Back in the day (1986) these two fell in love and well Lord willing got married. The date was April 12, 1986. Doing all the adding and subtracting and what have you it seems to my knowledge that these two have been married for 24yrs!!!! Congrats Mom and Dad (Ted and Kathy). To tell you a bit about how they met each other, they met at college and career and my Mom was dating someone and my Dad basically said "I will wait for you" (he did just that) and will here they are today. So this just goes to say that you should not rush into a relationship let the person know your intentions and then wait for them God will bring you together if that is what he has planned for you.

There are three of us kids in the family Jeff, Jason, and James. we used to go by the nicknames Curly,Mo, and Larry. And Hewey, Dewey and Lewey. And various others..... My Mom and Dad have have been all that one could want in parent's and have always been there when you needed someone to talk too.

Just wanted to show my appreciation for them and that If it were not for God being such a crucial part in our family I do not know if things would have turned out so well for us as a family.

Keep God centered in your relationships

Night at an old abandoned house.

So Timo and I went out from 9pm-3am to an old abandoned house too take some pictures with a fella. Using different sources and techniques of lighting is definitely challenging and I have only a select couple photos to show form it. Here they are.

Good cup of Joe for Mo(nickname as a kid)

Coffee. For some it is better known as the substance that keeps you awake when your not so awake. As for me it is something that I have learned too enjoy and not abuse. Coffee is all about the perfect bean. You might ask what is the perfect bean? The perfect bean to me is a bean with low to moderate acidity, medium to dark roast, and smooth and earthy. And of course as freshly roasted as possible being ground just before you brew so that the bean does not lose any aroma or flavor due to it's contact with air.

I remember the days when I would just drink coffee for the heck of it and use it a substance to help keep me awake, I mean I still do this from time to time. But the key point here is that coffee is like a good dark chocolate it has subtle flavors and can be very complex so treat it like something that you enjoy and try not to abuse it. It is here for us to enjoy!

Personally my favorite beans are Bolivian beans, quite delicious.

Trip to the Olympic coast

Well it all started when the rain started to come down, we knew we were in for it. The rain kept coming like as though it`s source was a bottomless bucket. Washington was the place, and there was no backing out now. We had picked up the 6 kids and their fearless leader that morning and were going to be driving 2.5 hrs and hiking 5 miles (talk about a long day). Needless to say the kids joyfully set up their tents that night and went straight to bed not even taking the time to eat some food! I was surprised because they are all between the age of 13-17 and are growing so I was surprised they were not hungry. I do not want to share my entire trip on this post so if you want to learn more about how the trip went come talk to me, I will be more then willing to share. But to wrap up the trip in a couple sentences I will say this. We missed all but one tide and waited many hours for the tides to lower. And ate not so much food, hiked 20.1 miles, and got very wet when we were not prepared for torrential downpours. The trip successfully challenged my servant leadership, requiring lots of patience and perseverance and taught me a lot about leading people on trips. Now I just need to take my little brother on a trip like this to show him some of the world, and too show what REAL hiking is. This is all I have to share right now because at the moment I am having a tough time staying awake. So ask me about the trip, till then bye

Check out this band!!!

http://www.theraa.com/audio/the_RAA-frank_ab.mp3

why have my posts been so negative lately.

I am yearning to see the bright side of things right now but the grieving has started and I have not yet departed. I have not realized how hard this is going too be till I realized how much I love each and everyone of you that I know here at camp and withing eXplore. cherish every moment that you can when your with those you love and hold dear to you. for they will not always be there. I heard someone say that life has chapters and you in an attempt to finish the book need to turn pages. This is by far the hardest page I have had to turn in my life.

Lately I have been bottling things up because I do not know how to approach people about grieving, instead I have been using music and photography as a way to relieve myself of the pain that I am going through.

Dang I really dislike writing posts that are really negative, and not so happy. I wish that I could have something happy change my attitude towards what is going on in my life right now so that you all could hear something good about how I am feeling right now. I am so horrible with relationships, super blunt and un-confident not knowing what to do and what to talk about besides serious things. I only like talking to people about serious things with people and this is why I am very shy around people I do not know much.

I leave for a trip to Olympic national forest for a week to lead some kids with Timo down the shore. It will prove challenging but I know I will grow from it and that God will reveal himself too me.

Anyway I should head to bed and stop typing my random and non understandable thoughts.

With love from a dear friend, Jason.

Futures.

Hmm. where will I be in three years. I know I will be where God wants me too be, but I sure love the idea of being back at Bighorn and working in the kitchen. well sounds good but somewhere in there I want to travel a little, go to culinary school, make more friends and grow in a deeper friendship with those I already have. and lastly I will be 23 so I got to be looking for the perfect person. These thoughts were really just revolving through my head tonight as I sat around a fire people chit chatting around me. so I thought I would share them with all y'all. God is still chipping away at me.