SWID Junior High Camp!

well... this was the first week of camp for before tomorrow and my first camp ever... and let me just say that it ROCKED HARDCORE!!! i had SOOO much fun!! i hope you like the pictures... if you're a camper or counselor and have more pictures you want to put up here just shoot me an email (karajoyburkey@yahoo.com) and i'll get them up here. and if you ARE a camper or counselor... thanks SOOO much for an amazing week of fun and laughs and Jesus. live God outloud in your homes and churches and schools... don't let the fire die that was fueled by camp this week. i love you guys!!! enjoy the pictures!! i'll see you again... either in this lifetime, or in heaven... I LOVE YA!!!!!!! :)
oh and leave me lots of comments!! cuz i like that! ;)

check out the sweet new before tomorrow t-shirts... we have green ones too. tyler was so excited about them! :)

leading worship...




so monday night late i (with the boys help) cooked a huge box FULL of spaghetti noodles for this baby pool. it was amazing... dude, mom... the stove was THE biggest ever!! it was so amazing!! the pots were huge and it had TEN BURNERS!!! and it was gas too... i LOVED it!!! and the strainers and sinks... wow, i coulda cooked myself in that kitchen!!! that right there... prolly one of my favorite parts of the week. :) and what made it even better was that the next day we got to play in it... check them out standing in a pool of OODLES OF NOODLES!!!!! :)


this was my family group for the week... minus dad and me of course... back row left to right to front left to right we've got... joan, hillary (who i keep calling hayley and i'm SOOO sorry hillary. i love you girl!!), rebecca, alex, seth, roberth, sam, emily, star and ashley. they were THE most awesome family EVER!!! i love you guys!!!

ha ha... and here is dad michael!!! :)


my all time favorite part of every day was small group time with the seven girls outside at the picnic table (minus being blinded by the sun). i loved meeting together with them and telling stories about boys and teeth and fat kings and what God is doing in our lives. girls... know that i love you and will continue praying for you. God wants to do great things in your life... just let him, and keep him outside of that box, on display, for all the world to see, 24-7. i love you!!! :)

the boys looking beautiful!! wow, the games we played this week were surely something else. but i LOVED them all!! :) (well except for executioner ball... anyone like that? it confused the daylights outta me!)


big chap... our speaker for the week (jim chapman with big chap ministries) was INCREDIBLE!!! we had such a good time together. here he is holding dino core, our mascot. :)

yeah that's right girls... you go sportin the before tomorrow green tees!! :)

thursday was probably THE greatest day ever... the morning service was really good, and then in the afternoon we played messy games and got egged, fruitified, and shaving cremed from head to foot. i LOVE josh's mohawk. i had one too but it kept falling over so kaila gave me the "i'm bald" look. ha ha!! great fun!! :)

yeah... you better not mess with that if you know what's good for you. he kinda looks like a funny dinosaur. maybe he and dino core aren't just friends... they're really long lost twin brothers... josh is just the white sheep of the family! ;) ha ha.

and then thursday was amazing because it was talent night. this one was definitley my favorite skit... peanut butter in the armpits picks up girls... i still can not believe that i ate peanut butter out of jordan's armpit!! ha ha. so awesome.

josh's group was really cute.


ah tim, or should i say brack... you made me laugh sooo hard i was crying!!! "hi'm forgettable... that's what hi ham... hi'm so forgetable... somethin somethin somethin... HAM" ha ha!



amanda's group was funny... didn't quite catch what happened... but check out the old lady with the saggy front!! sooo funny!!! :) ha!

joe won the miss camp camby contest. and he shaved his legs for it and everything!! i just love joe!! ;)


ha ha... how big chap uses the toilet!!!

our skit was the doctor one... it was really funny there i'm passing my sneezes to alex

emily passes her twitches to him...

hillary gives him lice...

and rebecca's about to have a baby... when alex screams and runs away as fast as he can. y'all did so good you scouting braves!!

our small group of girls did a little mix of songs to camp camby words and motions... it was fun. i think these three pictures are just cute! :)



s'more brack...

joe and jake improving. HILARIOUS!!! :)
oh... no pics of the movie skit, but it was a doozie... and i accidently hit jake in the face with the waterbottle at the end and about knocked him out!! then today i was waving at tim not to leave us in the bus and i punched jake in the nose!! he's taking a beating from me!! i need to chill it out! :)

our final skit was a makeup skit where the boys "kutified" themselves at "kara's kutiful korner"

here we are saying goodbye to big chap



Now go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age!
-Matthew 28:19-20-

GO!!! Be Jesus to your friends, to your family, to strangers. Be strong and courageous! Jesus is right there with you looking out for you giving you the strength to make a difference. Be bold, step out in faith and LIVE GOD OUTLOUD for all the world to see!! I love you!!!

jokes on zdub

so last night we pranked zions wake. it was amazing. tyler and i found an incredible way to break into their bus, then we picked up a bunch of balloons, went to i-hop, and let the blowing begin...we filled their entire bus with balloons!! (among a few other random things like signs we stole from public safety and a couple balloons from a car dealership and a random bicycle). it was sooo awesome and so much fun!!





and here is anthony from zion's wake in the morning... look at that beautiful bus. we freakin' rock!!! :)

google image quiz time!

so check out this amazing quiz...
you do a google search online and can only use a picture from the first search you do for each question. here's what i found...


1. What is your first name?
2. What is your middle name?

3. What is your last name?

4. How old will you be on your next birthday?

5. What is your favorite color?
6. What is your favorite past-time?
7. What is your favorite fruit?
8. What is your favorite animal?
9. What is the last name of your favorite teacher?
10. Who is the one that you love?

jonathan's graduated!! wowzers!! :)

wow!!
my little brother's all grown up and graduated as of yesterday!!! doesn't he look awesome and ready to take a leap into the world!?! watch out cuz here he comes!!! :)

and here are our future olivet boys!! oh i'm sooo stoked!! that's jonathan, jacob and micah.

and here's the family on jobo's big day!! i love you jonathan!!
:)

PREP WEEK!!!!

prep week has begun!!!
and it's SOOO much fun!! i do have some pictures from the last weeks at home... if you want to see them comment and i'll put them up here. but here's some of the past couple of days. tonight we had our first "worship set". it was awesome. i am SOO floored by the glory and the wonder of God. his love is AMAZING!!! i can't even describe what i'm feeling inside. i just feel so treasured and precious and love in spite of my unworthiness and incompetence... and his love is washing over my insecurities and fears and just securing me in himself. it's totally amazing. i wish you could experience what i'm talking about.... although the kewl part of it, is that God loves YOU like that too!! i'm discovering that God LONGS to cover our fears and our self-doubts and insecurities and place instead an awe of his love and a peace and a trust in his steady hand... we just gotta dig deep, get serious, ask him, and ALLOW him the opprotunity to wash over us and change us. wow... even if i didn't go anywhere this summer... i will NEVER be the same after this week. GOD IS SO GOOD!! AND HE LOVES ME!!!!

josh has THE most beautiful voice ever. check him out... he's nailing those high notes!! it is SOOO much fun to sing with him and joe!! :)

josh helping our mascot, dino-core on the bus. he goes to dinner with us and everything. couple nights ago we went to pizza hut and josh said, "9 please" and a little girl at a table said, "8 people and a dinosaur!!" ha ha. it was hilarious. dino-core is famous and well loved... well, that is, by everyone except tim. ;)

singing our hearts out... wow. God is just so good!! :)

ha ha. i LOVE tyler. um... he's TOTALLY making fun of me right here.

ha ha. they look like twins. that's tim and jake looking dazed and confused. :)

yes, brenda and i are holding hands... but what's missing is the rest of the picture... see by my right hand there's a little cardboard ponytail... well these were cardboard cutouts holding hands so we thought we'd join in and get a picture... but anthony kinda zoomed in on us. it's ok though, i forgot to tell him. :) ha ha.

more to come!! be amazed by God's love for you today. I LOVE YOU!!! AND GOD DOES TOO!!! :)

here is where she lies

so i'm at home... been working at lazeza and learning arabic, painting for dad, and scrapbooking with mom. it's been good. and i have a whole bunch of pictures i really wanna put up here... of the end of school, of people, of being home... but these computers in our house just don't upload nicely. so i'll prolly have to wait until next sunday or monday when i'm back at olivet. so... there will prolly be no post until then. take care. keep trusting Jesus, and i'll talk at you on this here bloggy thing some other time. masalama!! :) (goodbye in arabic)

Before Tomorrow!

meet my fellows...
tim eddy . jake smith . jordan bumgarner . me . josh koch . joe mullikin . tyler hull
and prep week is in 2 weeks!!! whoo who!!