Confirmation and Dance Recitle

(On the same day.)

Sarah, Blake, and Dad before the service. They've had lots of pastors in the past two years, which means there was a kinda rough Confirmation class. They survived, though.

The Confirmation was between the Creed and the Offering. Sarah played the clarinet during the offering.

Afterwards, they said why they wanted to be Confirmed here.

And took Communion with their families for the first time. They took it during class the week before, actually, so they knew what liturgy, wine, and bread were like. I took the same class as they did (for fun) and got to take it with them.

I skipped the celebration to get ready for the recital. Here's the picture of the class and the costumes. Those blurs are from where I erased the name of the studio and stuff.

Afterwards, we went to a restaurant with Mrs. Spenn, the lady who went with us to the recital. Dad was helping with tickets and so couldn't use his seat so we asked Mrs. Spenn to come along. She's one of my friends and is in her 90s.

I also got a flower. It's the first time. Haha. It made the car smell really good. I used my water bottle for a vase on the way home.

The White Tree of Gondor

We have this funny tree in our backyard. It's growing up sideways. (Dad thinks the wind blew it too hard when it was little.)

Mom took some pictures of it when it was scrawny.

It was so scrawny that I named it the White Tree of Gondor. Doesn't it kinda look like the real thing?

(It's really hard to find pictures of the real tree and that was the best I could do.)

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Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

I got a new camera! Mom found it for about 50 dollars and it works really well.

Pretty

This is our altar at church. A church in our denomination in Iowa gave us oil filled candles for free. Oil filled candles normally cost 5 million dollars each. We just had to go pick them up. So they waited at Fort Wayne Semminary for a few months before Mom, Dad, and I went up to pick them up and go to a used bookstore. (The flowers are fake. And that's not the floor that the cross is on--it's the wall. I'm just so short and the cross is so tall that it comes out funny looking in pictures.)

That piece of paper is where Dad reads the prayers.

Happy

I found this cloth at a quilting store near by. They're all fat quarters and for a baby quilt. I'm going to make it after I finish two other quilts. (One for me and one for one of the people Dad visits.) These have ducks playing in the rain, rain drops, umbrellas, and orange fabric. I like the ducks or the umbrellas the best, but there wasn't enough to do a quilt of just ducks or just umbrellas, so Mom and I hunted through the fat quarter bin looking for matching fabric.

Funny

This is Mom's pet squirrel. A friend of ours is a farmer and he gave Mom a five gallon bucket full of corn last fall after she scavenged for corn in his already harvested corn field. (He didn't care because the combine can't get EVERY piece of corn there. It sometimes misses parts.) So the squirrel is getting really fat.

Real

This is the most recent book I've published through CreateSpace. It can be found at CreateSpace or Amazon.

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Viola

I'm learning how to play the viola. Dad knows how (and he can play the violin and the cello). His viola fits me, but it's so heavy. So we got a smaller one. It's 15 1/2 inches instead of 17 inches. (The same size my friend Olivia uses. We're about the same size and strength so used her has a measuring stick. Haha.) We're using Suzuki viola books. They're what Dad taught his students violin and cello with.

Here are pictures of it.


The case is cloth instead of being hard. The pocket thing is where the shoulder rest is.

The cloth cover is to keep the viola from getting beat up. There's rosin in the compartment.

It's shiny and (so far) un-scathed. Felix runs at the sight of it.

That was the least blurry picture.

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

I haven't done this in a while, mostly because I still need to get another camera. Sorry! Today I only have a "pretty" and a "funny".

PRETTY

This is Arane's baby quilt! She's my niece who's going to be born in June sometime. Lizzie and Justin wanted classic Pooh fabric, but it took a long time to find. Mom got some polka-dotted cloth for the backing and some of the squares. (The big brown, yellow, green, and pink polka-dots are on the back, too.)

FUNNY

This is my friend, Anne. (Pronounced like "Annie" but she doesn't use that spelling.) She plays the saxophone, oboe, piano, trumpet, and bass guitar.


For those who are musically embarrassed, the sharp (the side-ways tic-tac-toes) are arranged in a way that makes it a B Natural.

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Pretty, Happy, Funny Real

I haven't done this in a long time...Sorry! I keep meaning to then forget.

Pretty

This is an old skirt that had a hole in the seam. The other fabric is from a skirt Mom made for me. I fixed the hole in the skirt by following the way one of the girls (I don't remember which one) fixed her skirt on Like Mother, Like Daughter. (I looked for the link, but couldn't find it.)

Happy

This set of movies is really cool. I like combat-ish movies, especially old ones.

Funny

Dad's shoes were sitting next to the front door in the dark, I walked past the door, and tripped over the shoes. Mom heard it and started cracking up.

Real

I accidentally washed the camera while Lizzie and Justin were here for Christmas. Justin did some camera first-aid, but it didn't work. The camera is now officially dead. (So I took Mom's camera to take the pictures.)

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You know you're really nerdy when you post about a fundraiser that hardly anybody uses on your blog...

(and split modifiers while at it)

Happy midpoint of the month, Wrimos. I am cooking up some epic congratulations for you in a pep talk, so keep your eyes out for that to show up in your NaNoMail later today.

Here at the HQ, we are busily preparing for tomorrow’s Donation Day festivities: a $100,000 fundraising goal, hourly donor prizes throughout the day, and more eternal gratitude for your support than you could fit into Hermione’s beaded handbag (and that thing’s got an undetectable extension charm on it!).

If we can fill this thermometer 24 hours, we’ll be well on our way to paying for NaNoWriMo and the Young Writers Program!

Accio donations!

Lindsey

That was from Miss Grant who works at the NaNo headquarters. She'd kinda like it if you give a couple dollars to NaNo...But you don't have to. :P