One of the nice things about growing up in a church and being an active part of a youth group is having your life fairly well documented through pictures. Every now and then one of these old pictures will pop up and someone will send it to me. I suspect that they are probably cleaning up around their house and they stumble upon it and since I’m in the picture they can’t possibly throw it away and therefore they feel compelled to pass it on to me.

When I was in high school I was part of a singing group called Soldiers of Light. SOL, as we liked to call it, comprised of some of the better singers at Hawaii Baptist Academy (we had to audition to get in) and our mission was to spread God’s love through singing. We mainly sang at different churches and other Christian venues and we even went on tour to Kauai and the Big Island.

Every year we were encouraged to audition for the Hawaii All-State Honor Choir. I don’t want to brag, but every year I auditioned I got in. I didn’t go my sophomore year because I didn’t know anyone else going, but I did attend my junior and senior year. It was a blast. For one thing you got to meet people from all over the state. It was really fun going to different places and seeing your friends that you made.

The most fun part about the choir was the camp. For three days straight all we did was sing, sing and dream about singing. We were sequestered in the hills of Makakilo at Camp Timberline being directed by world class choir teacher Dr. Rodney Eichenberger. For a kid from a small, private high school it was a blast!

Well a few weeks ago, my friend Kelehua sent me a picture from our senior year in high school. Although Kelehua went to a different school we went to the same church and knew a bunch of the same people. You’ll notice that we’re wearing the same sweatshirt (from a church camp called Revolution State). Ahh, those were the days.

L to R: Eric, Kelehua, me, Amber, Janel, some dude, Deanna, some girl. Keiko, two other people

I also dug up a picture of my friend Ted when I think we were in 9th or 10th grade. This one is from Ben Parker elementary when we used to have church in the cafeteria. Since we were in a school we had to set up and break down church every weekend. I’m sure this is from a Sunday night when we were breaking everything down.

We were a lot smaller back then (well one of us anyway)

Although this is not super old school it has a lot of old pictures in it. Keao and I celebrate our first wedding anniversary later on this month and since not all of you attended out wedding I thought I’d show you the slideshow that we showed at our wedding. It’s in two parts with mine being first and hers being second. In the upcoming weeks I’ll try to post some pictures from our wedding and our honeymoon since most of you have never seen any of them (they’re hidden safely on a disc somewhere secret). For now enjoy…

Scott’s portion

Keao’s portion