blessings at OSR

 

I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the Ohio Homeschool Rendezvous hosted by Michaela and Anna F. they may sounds familiar to some of you fellow bloggers.
I wasn't totally sure what to expect I've seen photos of the event on the both girls blogs and I really felt like it would be wonderful to connect with a group of like minded Christians. I kinda felt the awkwardness of growing up into a different realm of life; aka adulthood.
I didn't take a whole lot of photo........I actually took very little which for me was something odd, but I really just wanted to enjoy my time,embrace it all without lunging around a camera. And seriously this was a 'homeschool' event, so there was a crazy amount of photographers taking photos 24/7,so if/when I get a hold of them they may just surface onto this blog. ;)

Other then the "ball" which was oh, so fun an pretty much the 'big' event for the weekend I really enjoyed the worship and devotions. I felt so encouraged to come to a group without knowing anyone to just sit and talk about God, reading scripture and just worshiping Him together. One of my personal highlights.

                                                            2 new friends!
                                                        Aaron, Rachel and I
                     (I'm going on a black and white photo craze which I'm trying to limit.)


 
       Okay, so this rock was pretty much the purpose of these photos cause we agreed it was a pretty neat rock, worthy of us taking a photo on it! :) So thankful for self timers, stumps, knives and wallets (the knife and wallet served as an assistant tripods.)for taking group photos.

                      The whole OSR group went on a beautiful hike which I thoroughly enjoyed!
                                       I loved the mossy rocks and steep hills with tree roots.
Something about a walk in the woods fills you with peace and awe in Gods creation making you thankful the little things you take for granted.

I was pleasantly surprised to meet Liza aka Jo March from the blog Scraps from my Workbasket!

The whole OSR group was in a big circle and playing get to know you games and I saw her across on the other side of the circle and I just sat there thinking, "Man, that girl looks sooo familiar!" She eventually ended up sitting next to me and said, "Your Blythe right?".... "We're blogging friends."

Me of course being me, my brain still hadn't totally registered who she was, so she had to tell me her name and blog and THEN it clicked!

So very happy you said something and I got to meet you.

I enjoyed playing the violin with you as well. ;)

This girl is so beautiful inside and out, so go stop by her blog and follow her

 

Rachel and I

I was so honored to meet this awesome girl!

After a crazy game the night before in which we all had to go by food names the next morning all I knew her as was 'Skittles', so I had to ask for her 'real' name.

We found we had a strange similarity in both of us having brothers named Aaron and Ethan.

I enjoyed dancing with you, playing volleyball, talking, hiking, and just really hanging out with you.  I'm really sad this girl doesn't live closer to my house for us to meet up sometime, but Lord willing I will see her again soon. ;)