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my life in pictures

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:50:24 GMT

ok well now for a little update of my life in the form of a few pictures. ive been staying quite busy lately. we had our church campout a few weeks ago which was a lot of fun, and with youth stuff, kids club and work things are very busy. fall is finally upon us in the south which means colors and picture opportunities which you all know i love to do. so anyways here are some of the recent happenings in my life.

i did a photo shoot on the beach on saturday morning of our campout. it was a lot of fun just strolling around taking pictures of whatever caught my eye.

vball

saturday evening we had a time of singing and skits and stuff like that. it was a lot of fun and we got lots of laughs

and of course there were late nights around a campfire. i was messing with the white balance a bit thats why some of these are strange colors

and i took my canoe and had a wonderful time using it. saturday night i canoed out to a small island and slept on the beach. it was awesome. the stars were just amazing.

FWAP our kids club has been going pretty well since we started it up again this fall. im still hoping for more kids to come again.

and finally i walked around our property the other day taking some pictures so i hope you enjoy them.

hopefully in the next couple weeks ill be able to post some pics from the trip im getting ready to go on. my dad and i and my uncle and his boy are going out to north dakota to do some goose hunting and hopefully some fishing too so im really excited about that . catch yall later. Davis

p.s. here is a link to these and a bunch of my other pics. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29411003@N07/

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:21:11 GMT

hey ya'll

well this past weekend in our tiny hometown of westminster. we had the annual apple festival. we normally have a stand for my dads business so we had a gazebo and some furniture set up there. i was watching the stand on friday for a while and i snapped a few random pics then i got some more duing the pathetic parade later in the afternoon.

this is the rafter system of a ten foot red cedar gazebo. i thought it was pretty cool

this building was behind where we were set up

this painting has faded a lot over the past years but its still kind of cool. its on the side of a building in downtown

some students from a local high school during the parade

our south carolina congressman gresham barrett and he is from westminster imagine that

i thought this picture looked like it came straight out of the fifties or something

an awesome old classic truck

my cousins little boy donovan. he didnt want to smile at me

paul and joanna riding horses in the parade

and finally a local replica of the general lee. you can see the hazzard county police car in the background

so anyways thats whats been going on with me this past weekend. ttyl Davis

Monday, August 18, 2008

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:01:50 GMT

wow well im finally gettting around to putting some pictures up. i really hope you enjoy them. my summer was amazing. and its really hard to figure out which pics out of 5 peoples pics to put up. so anyways here you go.

during training week we had many very intense games of fooseball

i wild rose i found and thought was cool

one of the many beautiful sunsets of the summer

jam session after an extended prayer time.

low country boil was awesome

this is one of my campers from teen camp Nathan

Gordon after pulling an all nighter while camping. he slept at meals and everywhere

Delaney

us three guys got necklaces that said mean, meaner and meanest. i got the good end of the deal cause i was just mean and not one of the others.

my co-counsellor Calvin

Me and Charity

Isaiah and Quinton

camp picture

an off day activity that we did a lot. jumping a bike into the lake

hiking back to the corral for chapel and games

a cool shot i got back at the corral

the moose cabin in a tug a war competition

Wallace

Raven

a cute little kid that came with a family to pick up a camper

Jeanie and Trina. im not sure what they are doing here

one of the camping spots. the bay.

Jonathan acting like an old man

me and Ryan my co-counsellor from the last two weeks thought that this was the way it should be. the kids carrying counsellors.

a little angel in drama night. Judith

Keith with an arrow through his head?

the eagles cabin

Ocean and Darla

Mitch being crazy with the archery target

some of the singers at family camp

Courtney

me and Vania, one of my friends from last year

a cute sister and brother at family camp

tearing things down after family camp

the summer staff.

ok well i know thats a lot of pics but believe me there are a lot more than that. but thats all for now. ttyl. Davis

Friday, July 25, 2008

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:16:29 GMT

ok so i know i havent been on here in forever but i have a good reason. im in canada and i just dont get much of a chance to be cruising around xanga. so i dont even know if anyone will actually read this. if you havent been getting my prayer letters, things are going really good. the summer is just flying by. its kind of hard to believe that in 2 weeks ill be back home. so anyways i guess you will have to wait til i get home for pics but i do have a lot of them. keep praying. oh and i just found out that one of the campers i had last year was hit by a train and killed so please pray for his family as well. God bless Davis

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:27:43 GMT

its about time to update but i dont feel very inspired. if i was a good writer i could talk about some of the interesting characters that i help in the shop everyday. like the rich people who can spend 2000 dollars on a few ironwood chairs or the men with black bushes growing out of their ears and many others. oh i have a new pet that i keep in the shop. it is a black widow that i found and put in a container and continue to feed flys that i catch throughout the day. its getting a lot bigger than when i caught her. so anyways last evening we played vball with pickens and shiloh youth so that was fun. i hope we can continue to do stuff with them occasionally. today i mowed the yard cleaned me and tonys bathroom washed and cleaned out my vehicle and helped wash my dads truck so ive stayed pretty busy. in a few weeks im headed back up to dryden ontario to blc for the summer again so im really looking forward to that. i would really appreciate you alls prayers as im up there over the summer. so here are a couple pics from last year.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:27:28 GMT

ive just had an interesting experience. i was sitting at home alone minding my own business shopping on amazon when i get a phone call from a man in our church. he said that there was a big tree down over the road just up the road from my place and nobody could get through. so i packed up our chainsaw and headed up the road in the rain. there was indeed a tree across the road and it was huge. we unpacked the chainsaw and paul started cutting and i started hauling branches out of the way to clear one lane. (im not extremely comfortable running a chainsaw because i havent run one all that much) well pretty soon another young guy from our church shows up on his crotchrocket and helps us out. it didnt take us too long with another couple of guys help and pretty soon another chainsaw to get one lane clear so traffic could move again. the other guy kept cutting and i directed traffic till the hyway dept showed up and moved it over the guardrail with a backhoe. i was there for about an hour and i was soaked but anyways here are a few pics. i only had my phone so they arent that great.

i didnt think of taking pics till we were well on the way to having it cleared but it blocked the entire road.

the backhoe pushing it out of the way.

and this one is really blurry but the tree is safe and sound on the other side of the guardrail.

so if anyone is in need of some good oak firewood i know where you can get some. it might be a little wet but let it season for a while and it would heat a house for a year. its good to be dry again. later. Davis

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:43:15 GMT

wow what a wakeup call. just about a year and a half ago. i was in the center of that red dot. please remember the people that this affects. especially because of all the unreached in this area. my prayer is that God will use this in some way to reach many people.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Tue, 06 May 2008 23:21:46 GMT

we officially have a name now for our kids club. im so glad we finally got it decided. it was either this or C3 (challenging children for Christ) but we decided on this one. i liked C3 but im kind of glad we didnt go with that because i feel like God gave me this name. i was praying for inspiration for a name one day and i happened to think of "fun with a purpose" and i had been wanting an acronym so i put it together and it just clicked. i even visualized how i wanted it written almost immediatly so that was pretty cool. anyways we would appreciate your prayers as we continue in our ministry. oh and if anyone would like to write a theme song or something for us i think that would be cool too so anyways. God bless. Davis

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:36:17 GMT

if you want a great sense of accomplishment you should put together a few pieces of iron wood furniture. for those of you who dont know what iron wood is let me explain it to you. it is an exotic hardwood that comes out of brazil, and its called iron wood for a reason. it is so hard and heavy that it will actually sink in water. also each screw has to be counter sunk for the head and drilled in the length of the screw or it will break the screw off. so anyways to say the least its not a lot of fun to work with but when you get done with a piece it feels great to be done with it and it really feels like you did something. they are also very beautiful chairs as well. a little expensive (325 dollars for a rocker, treated wood is 120) but they will last a lifetime.

so anyways in other news, friday evening i went with my family and the junior and senior homeschoolers for a cookout and i got this picture.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:04:09 GMT

hey well i guess ill update. things are going bout like normal. we are pretty busy this week in the shop. we have been working on a big furniture order and we have to build a gazebo on site and screen it in plus do another furniture order. last evening we had kids club and it was a lot of fun again. im gonna miss it over the summer when im at beaver lake. im not sure what ill be doing this evening maybe go out and do a little fishing after supper. hopefully i dont get lost again. anyways i was listening to my mp3 player today and i heard this song by michelle tumes so i thought it would be cool to let you hear it so enjoy.