I can't believe it!!!

Wow!! This is nuts!!!
I am currently sitting on the front porch of Jill's house!! Connected to high speed wireless internet!! on my new computer!! ABOUT TO POST PICTURES!! and it's 1 in the morning!! do you know what that means??? that means that i have tomorrow off, so i came home with jill for the night!! THAT MEANS MY FIRST NIGHT IN ALMOST TWO MONTHS NOT AT CAMP!! i just dont know what to do with myself!!!
as of today (today being tomorrow in my mind... saturday) i have exactly SIXTEEN days until my mama gets here and EIGHTEEN days before i see yall!! SO looking forward to walking off that plane, i cant even tell ya!!!
okay okay okay
pictures....
i dont really have any good new ones, but ill post some anyway just because i can!!
I LOVE YALL MORE THAN YOU KNOW!!!!!!!






Since im not too sure exactly how to deal with blogger and picture posting, im just gonna explain the pics in order... the first one is the jimmersons... remember? the family that i fell in love with?? then is natalie and i at McKenzie River Pizza Co where we ate lunch when we were in Bozeman forever ago!! dont you love my lemon face?? Then is Earl... the mouse that we found in our cabin that i was determined to rescue instead of allow Kent to stomp!! The last picture is me at natural bridge next to the falls... this is NOT where i almost died, but isnt it pretty??


My prayers are with you, Sutton family... I love y'all and am thinking about y'all...

talk to yall soon!!!

(and here's who im thinking about right now...)



sweet dreams, all...
*morgan

20 days/22 days...

Hello all!!
So I know I haven’t posted in a while... sorry!! The past week or so has been fun! Last Wednesday our team went down to Four Mile, which is a swimming hole in the river about four miles up the road (what a coincidence!). I didn’t swim because I’m used to my eighty degree water in Georgia and this was somewhere in the forties, but there was a point where you could walk across to a sandbar so I did that! Then Natalie, Kallie, and I decided to hike down the side of the river a ways to some falls… We got there and marveled for a while, but you know I’m never content so I wanted to get to a really cool looking spot ACROSS the river! I got Kallie in on it, and she and I went way back up stream to the shallow part and crossed and bush-whacked our way back down stream to my rock! We didn’t really want to go aaaalllllll the way back up stream to get back to the other side, so we decided to try and find a really rocky point in the river and just cross there! That point just happened to be right above the falls!! (Don’t you just LOVE my stories!!) We contemplated crossing there for about ten minutes because the water was really moving and was really deep in some points. We got a small downed tree that had been smoothed by the river and used it to get to our first rock... Kallie went first and I held her hand as she crossed the tree to stable her, and then she held on to the tree to stabilize it as I crossed. We got to our next rock, and Kallie thought that I was holding on to the tree and I thought that SHE was holding it, so we watched it fall into the river, leaving us too far in to go back and without any aid to finish crossing! Never fear, though! We could handle it!! We strategically crossed the remaining rocks until we got to our last obstacle! The rock that we had to get to was across a mini waterfall, and the water was moving very rapidly!! After contemplating the best way to cross for about 5 minutes and then being too afraid to do what we had to do for about 3 MORE minutes, I finally lunged across the waterfall and grabbed onto our next rock for all I was worth! I then stretched really far across the waterfall, grabbed Kallie’s hand, and pulled her across with me! SUCCESS!! We were so proud of ourselves!! Natalie has video and numerous pictures from our adventure, but you know the connection here, so I can’t get them up!!
Mama ordered my laptop for me, so it should be here in a few days, which is REALLY exciting!! I now have a laptop AND a digital camera! Technology here I come!
I had a really hard night Sunday night... I was having a hard time dealing with one of the girls here and was venting to several others about it… God really convicted me of it at our church service that night so I was in the back crying. I had to get up and sign, and I was like, “God, you know I can’t do this on my own right now, so you’re gonna have to do this through me!” and he was faithful, as usual!! I successfully finished signing and sat down and continued crying because the speaker was really good!! I started to get really homesick and went back to the cabin after the service and called Mr. Tyler and asked him to pray for me. More tears, whaddaya know... I just really wanted to see the people I love (that means you!!)...
Yep, that’s pretty much my week! I had to put up with my first vulgar comment from a guest last night, so that’s no fun, but I told my boss so things are being handled...

I love y’all a TON and I can’t wait to see you in 3 weeks and 1 day!! I get to see Mama in 2 weeks and 6 days!! Horray!!!
*hugs*
Love y’all...
*morgan

So today was a blast!!
Two of Kallie's friends came up, and on our day off the four of us plus Alli went on a couple of hikes!! The first one we went on was pretty short and there wasnt much to see, but after that we went up to Natural Bridge and that was pretty sweet!! We hiked (aka slid) down the side of the mountain so we could get a better look at the falls... it was pretty much straight down. i fell into a "nettle" which is some bush that stings you a lot!! I now have little bumps all over my right hand and on the inside of my left arm that hurt!! anyways, we got down there and i took lots of pictures, as usual. we climbed all over the valley down there and it was so beautiful! as i was crossing the river at one point, i jumped from a tree that extended about half way across the river to a boulder that was right in front of me, but down some and hit my knee really really REALLY hard against the face. yeah. it hurt. my knee is now swollen and very bruised. but thats okay! we were having fun!! at one point kallie, alli and i went off on our own and left the guys sitting in a cave. we crossed the river and climbed up on a cliff and sat there just looking for a few minutes. when we decided to get up to leave, kallie and alli went down the way we came up, but i saw some rocks that i wanted to cross the river on. i only had to get down the side of the cliff i was standing on to get there! i had to get from one level of my cliff to the next, and the difference was about twice my height. i was gonna climb down onto the next level and avoid the really big crack in the rock walls that i could fall into if i stepped wrong (the crack was just big enough for me to fall down into... scary!). as i was climbing down i realized that every handhold i grabbed for was falling off! there was nothing stable to grab! (im a genius, cant you tell??) so here i am stranded on the side of a cliff too afraid to just jump down for fear that i will fall into this crack. what to do? call for help!! i yelled for kallie to come help me up, but she thought that i was just going to show her something, so she took her time. meanwhile i'm hanging on the side of a cliff by one handhold and a small foothold. yeah, doesnt sound too terrifying to you eagle scouts, im sure, but for the inexperiened climber that i am it was horrible! obviously, kallie came to my rescue and i lived to tell the tale.
you remember that hike/slide down the mountain to get into the valley at the beginning? yeah... that was TONS of fun to come back up!! i pretty much did iton all fours.

all in all we had a blast!! very eventful, but that just added to the day.
wish you could have been there... really, i do.

LOVE YOU A TON!!
*morgan

(32 days, dave...)

*sigh*

...my dog died...

mama had to put buddy down. i found out today. he had cancer and was really old and mama couldnt take him to the new house (we're moving, just in case yall didnt know... mama got re-appointed to augusta) and daddy didnt want him.
*sigh*
so i've pretty much been crying all day.
that's all.

i miss yall
send me lots of hugs, cause i need them right now...

*morgan

Update from Montana

Hey y'all!!
Okay, so I know I've been bad about posting lately, I'm sorry... So we had a family reunion last weekend and they were amazing!! Their name was the Jimmersons, and they are a new extension of my adopted family!! They're so much fun... they had jam sessions every night - banjo, several guitars, and LOTS of talented singing!! SO MUCH FUN!!! THey're AMAZING cooks!! They make these cookies that are to DIE for!! I know when their family reunion is next year, and I'm invited! And I'm planning on attending!!
We had a staff day yesterday, so we all went "rafting" (more like floating leisurely down a river... NO rapids at all!!) on the Yellowstone River. I saw two bald eagles!! I'd never seen one before!! It was pretty cool... Afterward we went to Bozeman to go shopping, and that was tons of fun... I, once again, spent more money than I should have. But I got cute stuff!! :)
We don't have any people here this week, and then have a family reunion of about 100 people this weekend. The next week we were SUPPOSED to have a UMC camp, but not enough people signed up, so they cancelled! I just got switched to the afternoon crew (away from Natalie!! *pout*), so I get to sleep in now! I still like the morning crew better... apparently I get to go back to morning crew in two weeks, so that's exciting.
We haven't been hiking in forever!! I swear! It rains EVERY DAY here!! Every afternoon it storms for about an hour, so we don't get to go out and play when we want to! *pout*

That's pretty much all that's goin on here... A slow week after a very hectic two weeks.
Oh, and yesterday was 1 year for me and David, so that's exciting... too bad I couldn't see him... I know God is doing a TON in all of us this summer, so that makes it easier not to see people.

As of today I have been here for 4 weeks and have 5 weeks left. WOW.
Love y'all a ton and miss every one of you...
Sweet dreams, all!!

*morgan

super-homesick!!!

im so homesick... you have no idea.
i have 5 weeks and 6 days until i board that wonderful plane to head back to georgia. im still enjoying camp, but i miss my family (that means pretty much anyone reading this post) way way way more than i thought i would... i definately teared up when i was looking at pictures on peoples blogs today...

ive got to run, we've got bible study in like 10 mins, so i love yall a ton...

(and david! im almost done with the second book!! woo! be proud!)

talk to yall soon...
*morgan