Mexico

Hello everyone! I know I haven't posted in a while, but life gets busy. My family got home from vacation in Cancun, Mexico three weeks ago or so. I thought maybe you'd like to hear a bit about it, so, whithout further ado, here we go!

Flying over the Ocean...

Land Ho!

Over the Jungle...

A piece of coral we found washed up on the beach!

What we think are fossils stuck in coral/rock eroded on the beach.

Water rushing in to the palm trees...

Me, being goofy...what can I say?

While there, my family visited a Spanish colonial town dated back as far as the 1500's called Villadolid.

An old convent that we visited.

Inside, It was decorated with the most beautiful frescoes!

A view of the bell tower.

Next, we went to see a large church in the same town.

Only in Mexico!

The outside...

...and a small part of the inside!

We saw much more in Mexico, but, you'll have to wait untill next time for more!

A Poem

A Covered Bridge

I stroll along a bubbling brook,

Exploring every crevice and crook,

Until at last I hap upon,

What you will learn here anon.

A swift step over hill and dale,

Will quickly take me there,

And, like a pigeon flut’ring home,

To the end soon will I roam.

A squatting toad athwart the creek,

Now have I found the thing I seek.

‘Tis white and russet and quite long,

A bridge for me to march along.

With peaking roof and creaking bed,

With beams, so that I bump my head,

And windows, out of which I look,

And spot bellow the bubbling brook.

Book Review: Northanger Abbey

Hello everyone! I've decided to begin doing book reviews, perhaps once a week. You will probably see many classics, or books that you might not be interested in at first glance. I would like to encourage you to branch out!

Title: Nortanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Quote:

" 'You think me foolish to call instruction a torment; but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters, and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.' "

Plot Summary/Discription: This book is one of Jane Austen's earlier novels, so it is perhaps a little less refined then her later works. That aside, it positively oveflows with wit and humor. A heart-warming coming of age story, it tells the tale of 17-year-old Catherine Morland. Catherine is a young, nieve, girl, who is just barely pretty. The first exciting thing that happens in her life is a trip to Bath that she goes on with some family friends. While there, Catherine meets new friends, such as the coquettish Isabelle and her brother and the Tilneys, a rich family of a father, two sons, and a daughter not much older than Catherine. This unusual number of single young people causes love affairs to explode left and right, to all of which Catherine remains blissfully oblivious for most of the story.

Eventually, Catherine is invited to accompany the Tilney's to their country estate, where Catherine, a great reader of horror mystries, thinks she has uncovered a gruesome murder. The series of events leading to this discovery--and eventually to its refution--are full of tongue-in-cheek satire. Haven learned a lesson from this misadventure, Catherine is perfectly ready to enjoy the rest of her stay when something unexpected happens.

Objectionable content: As with all Jane Austen novels, this is pretty mild. However, their are some suggested  cursewords desognated by the first letter of the word followed by a dash.

A Random Post...

DIY:Paperdolls

Hello everyone! I haven't posted for a long time because of technical difficulties that I've been having with blogger. But now, I want to do a fun DIY, on paper dolls.
I adore paper dolls. I hardly ever play with them, but there's just something about cutting out the dolls and putting on the outfits that I find somewhat addicting. Buying them, however, can be expensive, so I've taken to making my own. Here's how:

Supplies:
-paper
-colored pencils or another coloring method
-scissors
-a sharp pencil


1)Draw a person. It can be a totally made-up person, a charater from a book, or a person in real life.

 2)Next, color your person in. With paper dolls, its best to color lightly to give them a nice soft texture.



3)Cut the person out.

4)Trace a basic outline around her body and elaborate it to create clothes. Don't forget tabs!                       

5) You can make more clothes for the doll, as well as more dolls. I traced the first one  to makd the others so that they can all wear the same clothes. 



Happy Independence Day!

Just think, we've been a country for 237 years!

Glorious

To continue from last time.... Its Glory. Not the fleeting fame that we mortals call glory. I'm talking about Glory, the weightiness, mightiness, and total majesty of God. God has created us in such a way that we are not complete without Him. The fact is, we all go through life trying to fill our own little thimble of glory, when we ought to be participating in reflecting God's ocean of Glory. His Glory is so great that Moses, in the book of Exodus begged to see it again. One more point before I go. Jesus is the manifestaion of God's Glory, and, by proxy, the church (as the body of Christ.)Think we ought to be participating in the church.