Rainy ("floody") day!

Yesterday, we had one of the biggest rain storms I have ever seen in Czech. The water was flooding our back yard and it just kept coming and coming!

Since a pictures worth a thousand words...I'll let you see for yourselves how much water we had.


Just kidding! But we did have a lot! Here's some more pictures. Look, it's up to my ankles!

We even got a little rainbow, do you see it in this picture?

The latest happenings!

It's been two weeks since we returned home from being in the States for five weeks. It feels so nice to be home again! I enjoy every single day of just hanging out and not having to do anything in particular(except maybe clean my room...)! I love Summer!

On Sunday, the 20th of July, Tyler had his 18th birthday! We celebrated on Saturday by inviting some friends over for dinner and dessert and then went to go see Get Smart, a new movie with Steve Carrel and Anne Hathaway...I thought it was a funny movie, and overall pretty good.

This past one and a half week we've had some guests staying at our house. Some "former" JV kids (The Jones', Corrie and Hudson) came from the States to do an English camp and brought a couple of their friends over from the States. So we've had Hudson and his friend Seth staying at our house. But now they are leaving and heading back to the States, it'll be a while before we meet up with them again! It's been great seeing and spending time with them, it's like a family reunion! :o)

Now I'm just relaxing, enjoying the laziness of Summer! I love those kind of days!

Gull lake camp

We drove from Chicago to Gull lake, Michigan (a four hour drive), and arrived Saturday evening at Gull lake ministries family camp.

At this camp there were so many things to do, and all free of charge! There's swimming in the lake, jet skiing, inner tubing, rock climbing, zip lining and more! I had lots of fun doing all of those things but I also enjoyed the children's program called High Tide.

High Tide is a group of kids from 12-17. We play games together, have Bible studies and learn more about how to live a life like Jesus. I made some really good friends in High tide. Girls my age were in a small group and I love each and every one of those girls. But I especially connected with girls named Danielle and Ashton. They are both really great girls and I hope we'll stay in touch!

We went to this camp because my dad was invited to speak on the book of Ephesians there. Everyone said he did great(I was in my program during his teachings), and guess what?! He got invited to come again in 2010! It would be AWESOME to go there again!(The view out to Gull lake)

I think that throughout that week, our whole family enjoyed themselves, and we made some really good friends. I can hardly wait to come again in two years!These are my new friends from camp!

Telluride, Colorado!

On Friday morning, I woke up at 2:30Am and we headed to the airport in Katowice, where we caught a plane and started our journey to Colorado. We flew from Katowice to Frankfurt, then Frankfurt to London and London to Denver, where my Uncle Josh picked us up.

From there we drove to my cousin's house in Denver. We stayed at their house until Sunday morning and then all of my family, my Patty grandparents, the Patty family, and the Schroeder family drove eight hours through beautiful scenery, arriving later that evening in Telluride, Colorado. We walked into a beautiful condo and settled in for the night.

When I woke up on Monday morning I looked out my window and saw the most gorgeous view of the mountains. I walked downstairs and just enjoyed the pretty view. All day I just relaxed, talked with my cousins, listened to music and also checked out little Mountain Village (yes, that is the name of the town). The town was just as cute as can be. After walking a bit through the town, we found a climbing rock, which we climbed and then headed back to the condos.


It's been really fun hanging out with family. I love them all so much! :o)

Some random pictures I took of flowers plus one of the family :o)

Hope you enjoyed!

Anetka & Kaca's Birthday!

On Saturday, I went to my first czech birthday sleepover!

It was so so much fun! The girls (Klara, Kaca, Anetka-all Czech's and Lucy-American) are all from my church and are just some of my favorite people. They are really fun, talkative and all around happy girls. Anetka and Kaca were celebrating their 16th birthdays, and they invited me! I was so excited, because this was going to be my first sleepover at a Czech's house!

Lucy and I got to Anetka's house at around four and then from then on, we never stopped laughing and having fun. We ate food, played games, talked...ate more food! (there was a LOT of food :)We gave our presents to them and celebrated with a cake. Then I slept the night along with everyone else, which was also fun...we were awake 'til 2 in the morning!

I'm so glad that they invited me and that I got to know them better. And to Anetka and Kaca....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Going from me to the right:
Claire, Klara(in the red), Anetka, Lucy and Kaca( In the orange)

Horseback riding and Indiana Jones!

Last weekend, we wanted to do something special, so I suggested we go horseback riding!

It was a blast! We went on a trail through the mountains. I rode in the front the whole time, so I really got to see the view. I really love horseback riding!!!

Yesterday, the Till family, the Lobel's, Dad, Tyler and I went to see the new Indiana Jones Movie: Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull. I thought it was pretty good, even though I'm not an official fan of Indiana Jones. (I've never seen any of the other movies:oD)But I thought it was pretty interesting.


Mom and Caleb are getting home on Monday! I'm so glad, and I just thank God for all the help we've had while they were gone. Caleb is taking some pills that are helping with the healing of his intestines and he's already feeling better! Praise God!!!