Happy Mother's Day!

Even if you are not a mother. :) Today is a beautiful day!!! We are going hiking today, because that is what my mom loves, and it is so nice. :) Well since we have to go soon, I had better get off, but remember: Today tell all of the important women in your life ( i.e. Mom, Aunt, Grandma, etc. ) Happy Mother's Day! And "Thank you! "

Thanks for reading,

And I'll have pictures later. :)

MG

The Body of Christ...

So today was Arianna's First Communion, and from there we went to Tanya's wedding. From there we went straight to mass again, because we don't have time tomorrow, and my parents think we have to go every Sunday, and apparently this morning didn't count. Out of just today, I am wiped out, and went to church three times! I have a little smidgen of energy left to blog, though. : )

So Arianna's First Communion mass was great, and we weren't supposed to take pictures, but I was like, " Are you serious!?!?!?!" And of course, me being me, I went ahead and took a hundred pictures. Since the lighting in the church stinks, I am going to put a little twist on the post, and make it black and white. Since I absolutely love black and white pictures, I am going to do that. I think it will be neat. :) Since Arianna was in the Children's choir most of the time, and a stupid microphone was in the way, I only got a few pictures of her. Luckily, I got many of other kids. I will put my favorites up.  :)

 This is a family picture we took after mass

 First Communion Girl!

 Arianna and Grace Anne Turner

 Abbie Wolf

 Children's choir

 Fr. Bill

 These are some kids in Arianna's class

 Bringing up the gifts

And You May Now Kiss The Bride!

That's what the priest said at Tanya's wedding. The only slight change was that it was all in Ukrainian, because that's what ethnicity Tanya is. Tanya has been a family friend for a while, and is one of our favorite babysitters who does a great job cleaning the house! She nannies for us three times a week, and she is the sweetest person you will ever meet.  So since the whole service was in Ukrainian, I couldn't really understand anything, same with the reception. It was very different, quite a change for me. But it was still cool, and the food was  . . . interesting. Tanya looked absolutely gorgeous, and I didn't want to take any pictures during the wedding though, since it might be considered rude to the Ukrainians. Since I had my cousins there, ( Tanya works for them too) it wasn't so awkward. We hung out outside, and it was pretty fun. I just can't wait for Tanya to get back!

 The table place( The little box had chocolate rocks in it )

 The stage where Tanya, Roman, the bridesmaids, and groomsmen

 The table ( see all of the food?  )

 One of the chairs

 Tanya and Roman

Some Snapshots . . .

I was just fooling around, and decided to take some pictures of me and Lucianna before mass.  :)

 Haha, she looks like she is flipping me off with the wrong finger. : )

What?! It can't be!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!

Don't worry, nothing extremely bad happened. I am still going to camp, and my family and friends are all safe and accounted for .  :) But it is almost Saturday, May 12th! And I have gotten no entries for my contest!!!!! NOO! Dudes, that's what  I call pathetic. No, you don't have to comment or send me an email saying sorry, ( please don't, actually)  but I just wanted to say that's how lowly and not-viewed-a-lot my blog is! This is why you need to tell people to go on it. and if this is your first time on my blog, remember Pride and Prejudice! If you don't like this post, and think I am some scary ogre that is mean and complains, don't worry! keep reading or look on the sidebar and see my beautiful pictures!

And also, pray for me that I find the cord to charge my camera with. Because my camera is out of battery. And if it is out of battery, I can't take pictures! And if I can't take pictures, then my life is over! ( And I also wont be able to take pictures of camp- GASP! -read about hat below) And if my life is over, then you won't be able to read my beautiful blog! so pray guys! And I wont' be able to download the pictures on my camera that are sitting there, and turst me- you want to see them.

So keep praying!!!

And thanks for reading! ( I love reading..haha random fact)

And tell people about my blog!!!

MG

Talk About Camp....

Well since we are leaving for camp in less than 3 days, I figured  I had better give you the run down of it, so there is no extra long explaining to do when  I get back. I figure, read the stuff and get to the pictures ! So 6th grade camp is a big tradition at our school, and we spend the whole year preparing for it. For most of that part, it is just practicing the square dancing with the 5th graders, but then on February 22nd, the 6th graders went to camp class and the 5th graders went to nutrition.

At camp clss, we learned a little bit about what we are going to do at camp, but it mostly focused on plants, tress, forestry, and water-cycle stuff. We learn how to identify a bunch of plants and trees, and have a big test on it.  We also learn about things like Merits for Manners, a point system in the dining hall at camp. We also all have a camp binder, which is worth HALF of our grade! We have to write paragrahs of about 50 different things we do at camp, and we decorate the front and put dividing sheets in and it is a really big deal. I will actually do a whole post just on camp binders.

At camp we are going to do a variety of activities, and are also going with Maplewood School, and St. Francis Cabrini School. I hope that I have at least one close friend of mine in my cabin, and I hope I meet a lot of friends at camp that I will be friends with for a long time! :) 

We are going to be at camp for 5 days, and will obviously be eating and sleeping there, so I am really excited! We are departing in the bus on Monday morning at 9:45, and the whole school stands on the blacktop waving and cheering, saying goodbye, along with our parents. 

We also have camp sweatshirts, I am wearing mine right now.  :)    ( We got them today)

Good News - It is supposed to be super nice next week, in the 80's on Monday, and 70's throughout the week! We are ususally supposed to bring rain gear and long pants and coats, but they changed some rules and now we can wear shorts!!!! But only for the days when we aren't going hiking where there are needles ( Oh my gosh! Needles hurt SO bad! -notice the sarcasm. ) which includes Monday! So I am wearing shorts on Monday.

 I am all packed and ready for camp, except for a few things, so send your prayers and blessings my way that I have a great week with all of my friends, and don't get sick!!!!! ( And that I am in a cabin with one of my close friends.  :P   )

Over and Out,

MG

What's your "thing? "

Have you ever had that awful, irritated, feeling, where someone goes and copies your fabulous idea? Or when you get something, and you want it to be kind of "your" thing? Like, Sarah's "thing " is Chorus, she is the only person out of my friends that does that, and we all go to her concerts and she is a very skilled singer . ( I actually don't have a friend named Sarah that does chorus ) Or how about if someone starts, let's say, I don't know, Cupcake baking. And they have lots of cupcake supplies and ingredients, and impressive tools and machines and accessories all for making cupcakes! Everyone knows that  cupcakes are that person's " thing " . ( My cousin, Clare, actually does have that hobby, and her cupcakes are quite good. Go visit her blog at littlemisscupcakecutie.blogspot.com ) Well, y'all know how I started the smashboook thing-a-ma-bob? Well, someone asked me to bring it to school, and now a million people have one.

Haha I probably sound like a nag. But still. To make myself not so ....... anymore, I will just post some nice, old, quotes.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. -Hugh Hopper 

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
- Lee Ann Womack

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
- Quentin Crisp



Well now I must go off to school, and remember, I will have posts in about two weeks all about

- Tanya's Wedding ( our housekeeper/nanny )
- Arianna's First Communion
- Camp Osprey
- Mother's Day
-The conference at Kennedy High School

Along with many fabulous, wonderful pictures!!!!!! So so many pictures. : )


Off to school,

Mary Grace

Ehh..

So since I have been very busy I haven't had time to do much blogging, as you probably noticed. I will not be blogging for the next couple of weeks, because I will be soooo busy with camp, my camp binder ( take a LONG time ) the itbs, and homework as well as other things. But when  I come back I will blog enough to make up for everything!

Thanks for understanding,

MG

All the Way From Cincinnati!

Here is the latest letter from Mary catherine....

Hi everyone,

I am writing to you from my hospital bed. I STILL can't eat or drink anything. They are feeding me through an IV (that means there's a needle in my arm with a tube that goes to a plastic medicine bag that has liquid food in it with lots of vitamins and stuff like that). I can't wait to eat pasta - Gino's spaghetti with meat sauce, Trader Joe's mac and cheese and Azteca's rice are my favorites right now.

Dad is awesome. He has let me watch a bunch of Psychs and movies and TV shows, and I got to listen when he prayed the rosary last night.

I'm still pretty tired, but the pain medicine that makes me tired is gone now, so I'm waking up more.

Dad and I played Battleship twice and we're going to play Scrabble or Bananagrams later.

Love you and miss you.

Mary Cat (and Dad)