Thanksgiving day!

We had a great afternoon at Shane and Amy's with delicious food and great company. And I think we all loved the delicious homemade bread Amy's mom made along with all the other Thanksgiving food :) And of course it was the perfect opportunity for a family picture, with Stacey's amazing photography skills and Taylor's help I think we got a good one :)

Well I know my dad or Trevor won't be excited about me putting this one up, but I had to for the people who weren't able to be there. Brock was playing with his cousins in Kali's room and before we knew it they had dressed him up (not Weston) in a skirt with matching high heels that he DID NOT want to take off. It was pretty cute but had the men worried ;) It was so cute because they were making their own music too, Brock had fun playing the cymbals

~Cousins~
I was pretty impressed with the smiles I got from all of them :) so cute!

close up!

Sisters! I was so thankful to be home after 2 months and get to see two of my sisters and my parents and I cannot wait to be back home for Christmas next week after finals are done!

~ Picture Time! ~

So here's a few engagement pictures that were taken in Fairhaven and thought you guys might like to see a little preview :) Enjoy!

Date Auction

This years theme was "A Chinese New Years"

So we had Date Auction last night in Royal Brougham, and it was a huge success, SPU raised a TON of money for Sprint & Urban Impact so that was great! They hire an auctioneer and decorate the gym and auction off desserts, and then 14 "date packages" for people to bid on. They had a Christmas Cruise this year (on the canal I think) and ones for SuperBowl Sunday, a day with the Eatons (SPU's president), and so many more, plus a group who did Tai Chi (I have no idea how its spelled) come and perform so that was cool!

Also the benefit of having 45+ girls on one floor I was able to borrow my dress, shoes and a purse :)

They even had a massive dragon!

And...the center pieces were vases with fishes in them!

Me and my small group leader :)

A few freshmen from my floor and I all dressed up

And...my amazing PA, Rachel

More girls from my floor...

And girls from my floor last year...love 1W always

Me, Stacey DeJong and Sara

A Few More Pictures

Halloween in Seattle!

So a few more halloween pictures for you all...

After passing out candy to all the professor's kids and the neighborhood kids that come and trick or treat to the dorms :)

Left to Right

Kayla was a pirate, Emily from the 80's and me: A girl from India

(so original I know ;)

~ Kristina the Hippie ~


And of course...the roommate shot :)

We had dinner at Red Robin with a bunch of girls from our floor - SO GOOD!!!

The first car to arrive

Struck By LIGHTNING!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

So here's some pictures of Shannon & Daves Halloween

The group was literally "Struck By Lightning" and won the best group costume for the night. Dave was the only guy left in the group but he went along with it and stuck it out (with the blacked out teeth and all :) What a trooper!

From left to right its Becky Bos, Rachel Koetje, Lindsey Rutegers, Shannon & Dave

I was impressed with the costumes and hair thats for sure!

Fall at Seattle Pacific University

So I have to admit that I didn't take these, but my SMC (student ministry coordinator) did and I thought they were just gorgeous! Every day we comment on how beautiful Seattle is this time of year so thought I'd give you a little preview :) Plus the colors are just AMAZING and reminds us of God's creativity.

The view of the canal from our floor

And the clocktower by Demaray with blue skies!

Hope you guys are all having a great week!

Midterms are almost done here thankfully

But at the end of this week we will be done with week 4! Crazy how times flies!

But take lots of pictures this Friday of all the kids in their costumes, can't wait to see them :)

Camp Casey

Ashton Retreat 08

So this past weekened our dorm had our retreat at Camp Casey and I knew Aunt Becky would appreciate it so I thought I'd put up a few of our weekend :)

Here are some of the girls on our floor, there were only 5 sophomores that went, so we got to know the freshman a little bit more which was fun. But this is us on the ferry ride over

The girls of 5th East in front of the lighthouse during our scavenger hunt

In the bunkers looking for someone in the dark....(don't worry its part of the scavenger hunt)

I love this girl! She is one of the freshman right across the hall so we can see into each other's rooms and she's pre-nursing and has such a heart for God its so amazing to see! We're working on getting a small group together with girls on the floor, so thats exciting :)

Me and Kristina :) She was on my floor last year and now she's right next door! So great I love her!

It was a gorgeous day! Sunny and blue skies, but still really cold, you can see we were dressed for it though lol

Roommates :)

One of the challenges, making a pyramid w/ everybody....

we left room for the rest of our floor ;)

It was a good weekend with lots of floor bonding and lots of laughs

*Oh and a side note, I'm back volunteering at Children's (well actually they changed their name so its a little bit longer now), but Emily and I get to go there once a week which is a great outlet and study break and its just fun hanging out with kids in a health care setting :)