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they say this is their engagement picture

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flash

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skillz

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i really like this picture for some reason

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i'm always the fun car

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rebels

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this is what the moon looked like from my car window

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they wanted a picture to captire their akward hug

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oh ya

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robbie and i are hardcore with chucks in the snow

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i was going to delete this picture because its blurry but melanie is so high off the ground its crazy

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buck buck

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more buck buck

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there were seriously so many people on there

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see

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falling

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then the girls were the base

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yup

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this is pretty much the limit

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they fell

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i wish you could have seen tim and angela running around

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it was really funny

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seriously

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this picture looks kind of akward

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brad looks great here

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i don't really remember why they were doing this

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nick is great

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these were actually pretty good

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my table had a spill

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meghan looks kinda funny

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why are we so attractive?

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i mean seriously, look how good i look

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matt was hard core with a t-shirt in the snow while it was raining

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sledding

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deej smashed into the side of the snow

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kayla looks great here

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i don't remember who won

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throwing snow balls at deej

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i think we hit him this time

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were so hot

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they were cute together

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i acutally spit in the snow where they made these snowballs from....just kidding

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they didn't really make this

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smash and ryan fighting in the snow

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more of ryan snow fighting

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they were throwing snowballs at me

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this is right before matt fell

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ann marie

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i think unfortunately this picture is blurry

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pre

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post

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tim and the ladys

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charlie was eager to get in on the high school girl picture

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tim looked like he was tring to seduce the camera

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warming up

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this really was the match up. won, ryan and maddie versus leo nino, adam drake and sarah

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basketball

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more basketball

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anglea in the middle of the game

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and more basketball

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still playing basketball

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i think i took a lot of basketball pictures

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tim being a gangsta

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basketball again

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i think this is the last one

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she didn't know nate was there

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when she woke up we showed her the picture

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i liked her socks. this is a picture of them.

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i have so freaking many pictures of you two

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seriously, so many

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smash and the freshmen

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nate was doing push ups

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napping

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fighting

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so worth it.

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oops

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caterpillar

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i don't think is pellled that right

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they were so freaking proud of their snow heads

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later we went back and i had meghan kick one of them

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she was about to make a snow angel

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it looked pretty so i wanted to take a picture of it

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she was really posing like this. its a zoomed in picture...

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...of this.

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"lets pretend like were laughing and take a pciture"

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adam drake is great

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the cheif

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this picture isn't focused but look at her jacket

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this junior higher was hardcore, and probably had really cold feet

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this is what happened when i have mandie my camera

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why is she so attractive

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i mean seriously.

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mandie said i didn't have enough pictures of the sophomores

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she took so many pictures

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like its kinda rediculous

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freaking mandie.

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i'm never letting her "see" my camera again

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miriam looks amazing. venessa was too lazy to jump

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gotta love irene in this picture

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darlie and chan (...doesn't sarah look like shes as tall as me)

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this was a nun that we saw waiting for our luggage, we thought it was funny to see a nun with a victorias secret bag.

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waiting in the airport

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venessa stole my camera and took this

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we had way too many people and way too much luggage for the one rental van that we had

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and it pretty much didn't fit

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there is way more inside

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venessa kyle and allison croweded in the van

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i personally thought it was unsafe to have 8 people and 16+ bags crammed in one van

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we were hungry the first night we were there and arbys was the only thing open at 11pm (most food places were destroyed)

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keith and jason

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i started taking pictures out the window to try to capture what we saw, but pictures just don't seem to do it justice

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there were so many cars randomly all over the place

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out of the 25,000 homes in the st bernard perish (like county) only 3 are currently being lived in.

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this is the inside of a pool hall

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this building was destroyed

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so was this one

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cars after the hurricane

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this is the wallmart where the releif tent was set up. the water went up to the top of the T.

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inside the PRC (pastors releif council) releif tent

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waiting to find out what we would be doing for the day

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outside of one of the releif tents

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getting our shirts

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we had to wear the shirts the whole time we were working, they got kinda gross by the end of the week.

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we all worked at the tent the first day. nicole and venessa helped serve hot lunches.

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venessa loves frogs.

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nicole helped people find the right sizes for clothes that they need

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matt helped with lifting heavy stuff

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so did deej

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this is the tent city where we stayed

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this is on the inside of the tent (half of it). that cluster of people is where the boys slept.

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this is the other half of the tent. that closed off part on the back right is the womens quarters

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inside the womens quarters

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the dining hall where breakfast, lunch and dinner was served.

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the tent and all the resources in the tent were free for anyone (that inclused meals, showers, laundry and other stuff)

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i thought it was terrible to have this picture on the wall (of the bathrooms) while people are living in a tent

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this was what was outside of the tent

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my cot collapsed and nicole thought it was funny

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this little boy stayed in the womens quarters with us.

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vincent (the little one in the front) was my little buddy

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i just loved him.

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making silly faces

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more silly faces

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the first night we went out to a jazz club for dinner.

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the music was so good

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the youngest member of the band has been in it for 5 years, the oldest has been in it for 50 years

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matt showing off his muscles

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we went for a walk

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brad smiling

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deej thought this would be a really good picture

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i disagreed and he tried to prove me wrong

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our group inside of the prc tent

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while we were working releif we saw this sign and thought it was horrible, so we took a picture and then fixed it

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deej and dean moved stuff

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i didn't take this picture

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i didn't take this picture either

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nor did i take this picture

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i really don't know who took these last few pictures on my camera

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deej made sure to find me so i could take a picture of him operating the fork lift

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deej and dean operating the fork lift

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meghan working the line

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we got to give people toiletries (meghan was in charge of that part of the line)

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and we could give people food

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and water

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rebecca was serving hot meals

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kyle and i taking a lunch break

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meghan took this of rebecca serving lunch

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meghan took this of brad

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meghan took this of people getting clothes (another item available at the prc tent)

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meghan took this

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meghan took this of the food rebecca served for lunch

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photo by meghan

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photo by meghan

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so josh got stuck trying to cover up the boxes and had to go out the other way

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josh stuck in the boxes

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after our work at the tent we went to see what the other half of our group had been doing at the construction site

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the house next to the house we were working at. there were these Xes on all the houses (the bottom was number dead)

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inside the house (thats a photo album and mold on the walls)

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its wierd to think that it was not just their stuff that was that was destroyed but their memories as well

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the bedroom (untouched since the hurricane)

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the dining room (untouched since the hurricane)

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the pantry in the kitchen

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the kitchen (in the bottom left hand corner you can see a family portrait of the family that lived in this house)

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there was a tree through the back of the house

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so this is the house that our goup had been working on (jessicas house)

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deej and jason standing on a pile of stuff that was pulled out while our tem was gutting the house

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this is how high the pile of stuff was compared to the house

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all of this stuff was pulled out the first day

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this is inside jessicas house. this window looked out into her destroyed back yard

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this was the only room that wasn't gutted the first day because jessica was still trying to find a ring in it

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inside of jessicas house

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part of our team listening jessicas dad (keith) tell stories about katrina

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tony sitting out front of a house on top of some stuff that was pulled out

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after we left jessicas house we got to see some other neighboorhoods

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this was actually taken the last day but i wanted to put all these pictures together

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it was wierd driving through this neighborhood because the houses looked like our houses, like our neighborhood

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completely devistated

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these people had put mary and joseph out infront of their home

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pictures really can't explain what we saw, this is just one home, but it was every home that was affected

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this house had been completely lifted off its foundations and had drifted down the street

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the person that lived here had taken all their guitars and placed them out infront of their house

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a truck resting between two homes

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the sign says "allstate says i only have $7,106 in damage and my home is liveable" the home was completely destroyed

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the american flag hanging off the house that had been lifted off its foundations

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wanted it again in color

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this house had "no wake" spray painted on it cuz the water was so high that when boats would go by water would splash in

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this is my little buddy vincent. we played the fishey game.

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vincent looking cute

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after i would take a picture of him with my camera he would want to take picture too

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playing the fishey game

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we played this game over and over and over

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vincent took this

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the second night we went to the french quarter to hang out

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we got to go the famous cafe du monde

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i was laughing because the person taking this picture couldn't figure out how

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we got to eat beignets

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eating beignets at cafe du monde

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when we would drive to the construction site we would see this car and tim wanted me to take a picture of it

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the van

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it was in the middle of such a random field

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coming back from taking the picture of the van i saw these shells on the side of the road no where near water

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while we were pulling nails out of keiths walls we found this frog

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josh and i rescued it and put it in a water bottle

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we then gave the water bottle with the frog to venessa because she loves (hates/is terrified) of frogs

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matt working on gutting jessicas house

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another of matt gutting jessicas house

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jason helping gut jessicas house

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i kept this picture because all of those little spots are where the flash from my camera made spots on dust in the air

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jason ripping the sheet rock off of jessicas house

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he wore a mask because it was moldy and dusty

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drew helping tear down the insides of jessicas house

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mr lide getting the insulation off the walls

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jill picking up some some of the mess that been created from gutting jessicas house

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brad terres pulling down the celing

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another of him tearing down the celing

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tim gutting the batroom of jessicas house

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another of tim helping gut jessicas house

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alyssa cleaning up what was torn off the walls

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she shoveled it and then dumped in in a pile outside of the house

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venessa also helped clean out the insides of the house

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the smell of the house was terrible because of the mold and rotting and stuff (the mask didn't help)

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so another thing we did on the trip was childcare for the cutest triplets ever

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this was alexis right after she had woken up from her nap

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seriously, she is so cute

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i couldn't stop taking pictures of her

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deej with alyssa and alex

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alex and alyssa (he was telling her to look at my camera)

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they were hugging...it was cute

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alex and alyssa

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deej with alyssa

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i took so many pictures of these kids

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so alyssa kept wanting to wear our masks as hats, it was really quite cute

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trying to figure out how to wear it

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a mask for a hat

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alex playing

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there weren't a lot of places for these kids to play, like no park or anything but they were so well behaved

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i just loved him

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deej and alex

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alex is so cute

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they were so cuddly with us it was adorable

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venessa with alex

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venessa and alyssa

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venessa was making silly faces at them

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alexis in the bed of the truck

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she was so cute...seriously i can't say that enough, i loved these kids (and taking pictures of them)

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they played in the bed of the truck for like an hour

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venessa and alexis

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i love the way alexis is looking at venessa

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i just love this picture

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venessa carried them all around in this bucket thing

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it was cute watching them

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wes scraping the floor so they could tile it

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the tiling crew

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keith laying tile

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kyle and brent laying tile

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keith cutting tile

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another of keith cutting tile

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keith laying the tile he cut

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i really don't know what deej's job was

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deej and venessa tried to switch seats in the car on the way to the french quarter

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but switching seats didn't work and he ended up in her lap so i suqished them to one side so i could have more room

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laura at cafe du monde

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we got a lot of powdered sugar with out beignets

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playing with the powderd sugar

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more playing with the powdered sugar

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eating a beignet

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we made a mess because there was so much powdered sugar

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the mississippi at night

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hanging out at the mississippi

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they wanted me to take this 'tester' shot

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they all had the same hair, it was cute

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so back at jessicas house deej and jason had to unclog the drain so that the water would go out (venessa took this)

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venessa took this one as well

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brent working on pastor randys house

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he was putting in the windows (i think) because they were broken in the flood

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brent measuring

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lunch break

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annmarie decided to take a nap

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cherryl (the triplets aunt/care taker) made us lunch evey day. it was awesome.

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i think they were helping each other get the food off their faces

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matt during the lunch break

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dean and brad terres during lunch

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they finished gutting jessicas house by lunch and this is what it looked like when they were done

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i was on paint crew for the last two (three?) days

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annmarie helping paint

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we painted the inside of the pastors house

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brian painting the celing

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ryan painting

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meghan painting

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i took this picture of myself painting

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meghan wanted me to take a picture where she actually looked like she was working

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but then she looked at the camera

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this is the lake in cherryl and pastor randys backyard

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cherryls backyard

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alex pushing the stroller

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they both wanted to push it and it turned into a bit of an ordeal

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venessa and alexia

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this is one of my favorite pictures

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saying goodbye wasn't very fun

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me and alex

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venessa saying goodbye

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me with lulu from the tent city

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the last night we were there we all went out to dinner, this is me and allison with cherryl and her husband greg

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i was bored on the plane ride home

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this was during our four hour layover in atlanta

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everyone looks a bit depressed and tired

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again...depressed and tired

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we found ways to make the four hour layover more fun

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playing on the walking elevator type things

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everytime anyone would take my camera they took a picture of themselves with it (jen took this)