Musical Monday: Star of the County Down

Long Time No Post

Hi Everyone!!

I am sorry I pretty much vanished for a few weeks. I have been very busy and blogging has been rather low on the priority list.Sorry :/

So let me see, what has happened since I last posted????

On St. Patrick's day I celebrated my 19th birthday with and Irish themed birthday :) Han and mom made me the beautiful chocolate cake in the picture.

 Every day I get an email that tells me what to take a picture of that day. Sometimes I try it other times I don't.

 Spring has sprung here. Everything has bloomed and is now in leaf. I have even gone swimming already. I think it might of hit 100 degrees last week but today it is rather chilly.

 This is our cute little town as viewed from the mountain.

 Last week we celebrated one of Tobin's friend's birthday on a ranch. It was beautiful there. We went fishing and I caught a fish for the very first time!!

 Last week my dear friend, Lacy came and paid us a short visit. We maximized the time and had so much fun together.

Yesterday was Resurrection Sunday!! We had a very nice service and heard an excellent sermon on the resurrection in Acts 2. After church I took a picture of the children from each family. I did the same thing last year. 

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 This is Group 2 for church music. We were really excited to be able to play for Resurrection Sunday!!

 Yesterday was also Tobin's 12th birthday. He had an airplane themed birthday. I can't believe he is 12... that sounds old... at least I remember when that seemed old.

 Did you all do anything special yesterday? Did you have an age that you used to always think seemed so old and grown up?

Musical Monday: Holy Spirit/Gabriel's Oboe

Holy Spirit/Gabriell's Oboe by Keith and Kristen Getty

The prayer that she recites at the end is the most well known of the prayers of St. Patrick of Ireland.

Happy Pi Day!!!!

Happy Pi Day to y'all!!!! If you didn't have pie today don't feel bad because I didn't either ;):) Just out of curiosity; do any of you know why we take note of the day that equals the number Pi???

Irish Dance

Dancing has long been a central part of Irish culture. It was the pastime of choice and accompanied pretty much every social event. Dance teachers were well respected members of society who traveled from town to town teaching dance in return for room and board. In 1893 the Gaelic Leauge was established to promote and protect all aspects of Irish culture.It was around this time when the  Irish dance competition or feis started to become popular. Until 1995 Irish dance was a little known thing outside of Ireland, England and Scotland. It was then the show Riverdance broke into the scene; introducing the world to Irish dance. Since then Riverdance and Irish dancing have gained popularity all over the world. Now there are Irish dance schools and competitions everywhere in the United states as well as many countries throught the world. The World Championships for irish dance, which is taking place at the end of this month, is welcoming dancers from Canada, USA, Ireland, England, Mexico, Scotland, Wales, Austraila, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Africa, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland and Japan.
This is a video of one of my favorite dances from the show, Riverdance.

Some 365 Pictures

Hello Everyone

Here are some of my 365 pictures that show what we have been up to recently.

 

 Two weeks ago Brendan was baptized after becoming a christian in November!!!!!!!!!

 Every year for Dad's birthday we make a big dinner; so food was on my mind thus the pictures ;)

 Doesn't he look so happy about his cake??

 I was experimenting with my depth of field settings.

 Toys of our childhood :)

 My brothers have had one of their friends visiting this week which has been fun. On Sunday the boys are supposed to clean the kitchen but I am not sure what they are doing while Han cleans the dishes ;):)

 Nathan fractured his arm the other day so now he has this cool orange cast.

 And his sister Elli is always ready to take good care of him :)

Meet William

You may (or may not) have noticed the button on the side of my blog that says "Give to William." Since I am assuming that most of you don't know who William is; I am sharing this video one of his friends made for him. I hope you enjoy it :)