girl on a mission

3 beautiful weeks in England in April 2011, with my lovely family including the perfect and gorgeous new nephew; catching up with old friends; celebrating a Royal Wedding and appreciating how beautiful my home town of Cambridge is.

Christmas is not quite the same in the heat of Hawaii, but we put up the tree, decorated the house, sang carols and ate too much good food and spent wonderful time with amazing friends.

After the craziness of the 50th celebrations here in Kona, I headed up the coast with some friends for a little camping adventure. There are few things sweeter than building your own fire, cooking sausages on a stick, watching the sunset on the beach, a sky full of stars and falling asleep to the sound of the ocean just a few feet away.

YWAM celebrates our Jubilee year and the party to end them all in here in Kona, Hawaii ...

A lovely friend hooked me up with a free 2-hr helicopter ride around our beautiful Big Island of Hawaii. I felt queazy the whole time and only had my little iphone camera but got a few good shots. It was an amazing experience.

I made a flying visit to New Zealand in October. With stop overs in Fiji and Christmas Island. I did not take too many photos but it was a great trip and a beautiful land.

I had the best holiday over 10 days in June in Seattle, Washington state. I had a blast catching up with old friends and seeing new places. I did the Space Needle, Pikes Place, a rodeo, hiking in the snow of Mt Rainier, the Edmonds ferry. Yummy food and a lot of laughter. A huge thanks to Amanda & Gabe, Erin & Brandon, Taylor & family, Mo, Jen & Gary and their boys Caleb and Jude that looked after me so well and gave me a ton of memories.

Hadassah is the cutest 3 year old I know. We celebrated her with cake and yummy snacks. Asher had a cool pool party with more yummy cake thanks to wondermum Holly

I had a great time catching up with my friends and family in England in June. I nearly always forgot to document these wonderful times with photos, but did remember occasionally!!

Three beautiful weeks in England in June. I decided to take a tourist perspective on my own country, as it was looking so beautiful. Photos of my home city of Cambridge, our capital London, and a few around the land!

I get to live a life I love with people that amaze and inspire me everyday ... plus I live in Hawaii. We take advantage of that fact when we can, but mainly I simply am thankful for the people.

I went to Haiti to respond to the 2010 earthquake and following crisis. YWAM has had a work in Haiti for over 20 years. We helped with registering the 1000's of refugees flooding to the city and at the emergency clinic. I accompanied patients to surgery follow-up appointments and doing wound care. The devastation was incredible, but there is such a sense of hope that God is doing something amazing.

To get to Haiti we had to fly into the Dominican Republic. From there we had a 10-hour bus drive across the nation. We were struck by how green and colourful the nation was - the houses, the billboards and people.

I lead a team of students from the 2009 PhotogenX DTS to Central America. we visited Panama, Costa Rica and Nicuragua. In Panama we worked with the Embera people to help document their culture and hear their stories.

My whistle stop week in Egypt ... I'd always wanted to see the pyramids, tombs & temples since I was little, so a great week. Also saw Tutankhamun's tomb ... amazing to see in real life. Made all the more amusing by the YWAM men from Montana. Now I can tick off on of the things to see before you die!!