A Slighty Random Photo

GilbertGirl and I at Caddie Woodlawns house on the way back from ChesterCon!

Our Prop Table

At one of our recent Emma practices.

Busyness

WOW, I'm almost to three months inactivity here, tehe (:

Need I say it's been busy? But oh it's been incredible.

Grandparents 50th, CA cousins in town, ballroom dancing, preparations for the TMAH production of Jane Austen's Emma, catechism, madrigal choir, my first job, Shakespeare lit program, latin club, of course some school, John Bosco Youth Day and a thousand other things have kept me most delightedly busy, and led to a sad neglect of this blog. But stay tuned, we have TONS of pictures from the time elapsed since my last post.

Fringspield 08

We just got back last night from an incredible weekend of "cousins and cousins of cousins", dancing, swimming, stories, laughter and of course an absolutely lovely wedding.

Airport Detour

On the way to ChesterCon. Guess who we got to meet!

Happy 4th

Dancing!

There has recently been something of a ballroom dancing revival in our homeschool group (hurrah!), and so my cousin and I have been dancing lately, but this is us about 10 years ago!

Happy Feast Day

Today is the feast day of Blessed Junipero Serra, founder of the renowned California Missions. We were delighted to be able to visit ten of those missions while in California in May, it was awesome! My three favorite of those were (and still are):

Mission San Juan Capistrano

Mission Santa Inez

A quiet, charming place with an incredible view, lovely grounds and a beautiful church. Located more in the country than most of the other Missions, it's a great place to imagine yourself back into the time of it's founding.

Mission San Carlos Borromeo better known as Carmel was absolutely gorgeous. One of my favorite parts was the little side chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of Bethlehem in which Pope John Paul II once prayed!

This woefully inadaquate summary of some of the most beautful missions will have to do for now. Stay tuned for ChesterCon, the Love2Learn gathering and hopefully more regarding our California trip.

San Juan Capistrano

So, I'm a little behind on this blog. (: We've been to California and back, jumped right back into craziness and have had a marvelous time. In CA we visited (among many other things) ten missions. And one of my favorites was San Juan Capistrano, as seen in the two pics. The ruinous church is absolutely breathtaking, and the grounds are delightful. Plus, we got to meet a delightful family there, and so, in case you can't tell, I absolutely loved it.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to post more extensively soon, but for now... a picture's worth a thousand words right? (:

Happy Birthday!!!!

To my mom and to Pope John Paul the Great!

"Don't cry over broken glass".... take pictures of it!

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered, and an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
-G.K. Chesterton