Christopher - So my taller-although-younger-brother-and-pretty-much-best-buddy is graduating. [as some of you may have guessed based on previous posts and mentioning's of graduation plans.] It has been a completely shocking thing for me... how could my darling-used-to-be-little-brother be graduating high school? Mom has been going through stacks of picture looking for all the perfect ones for the powerpoint... wow! Lots and lots and lots of memories. It makes me feel so responsible for how much life I have already lived. I mean, really, twenty two is nowhere near ancient, but in those twenty two years I have experienced so many people, places and passions - I feel so blessed and the need to cherish the moment and "live to the hilt every situation I believe to be from God" as Jim Elliot said. Anyway, I am so thankful that we have had some warmer days in the last few weeks so I can finish shooting all of Christopher's Senior pictures. We went out for just about an hour or so two weeks ago and had a great time chatting and taking lots and lots of pictures. I think I took almost 300 pictures of him! Goodness gracious. Although it is now down to about 175 favorites. Whew. *grin* After taking all those pictures Christopher took me to lunch and surprised me by taking me to my favoritest place ever - Chick-fil-A! Aren't you jealous? hehe. I am so blessed with such a wonderful brother. Here is a teaser pictures... one Christopher likes and to see the others go here.
Convention - The yearly exhausting-but-rather-fun event that draws most every homeschooler in Indiana and some nearby states available... the Homeschool Convention of course! Yes, it was quite a busy weekend. Even more so than in years past since I was a vendor again and Dad and Mom are now Region Seven Reps! They had all sorts of responsibilities which included but were not limited to: setting up, helping with the art contest stuff, talking to people, introducing speakers, talking with people, running the IACHE booth, talking with people, smiling, etc. etc. etc. It was rather amusing but fun to watch them interact with all the people and see them running around doing their various tasks! My vision of them was limited since I was duty bound to the "Sue Gregg Cookbook" booth. My task was not boring in the least because I was accompanied by two very wonderful little sisters. It was a very slow convention and sales were not nearly what they were when I did it two years ago. But it was still fun to get lots of visiting time in and even lots of teasing and joking with certain adopted-brothers [who happened to be with my brothers] and even rubber band wars with the vendor across the isle from us! [They are good friends of ours who we have known for years... and they started it first. *wink*] It was a very different convention. Lots and lots of young couples with little babies or the wife pregnant with their first or maybe second child. A new generation of homeschoolers, wow!
Celebrating - The Friday night of the convention was the Crisis Pregnancy Center "Banquet for Life". Mom and I went together and I really really wish we would have been able to bring more people. It is always such a lovely evening! So elegant and refreshing! I was so pleased that Mom and I were seated at a table across from my dear Christy and her amazing husband Gary along with my "grandpa-Dick" [WWII Veteran who was accompanied by his lovely wife] and my dear friend and favorite person to laugh with at-CPC Vicki! It was wonderful! Brian Boone, our new CPC President spoke along with Star Parker who had an amazing testimony. Cal Thomas was the main speaker and words simply cannot describe it! I desperately hope they recorded it because it was amazingly powerful!! I got to meet him afterwards, have him sign my brochure and get a picture of course. It was so good to see Christy and Gary! I miss them both.
Creating - On top and in between everything else the last two weeks [everything mentioned above and then vacation to AZ which shall be posted on soon once I sort through about 450+ pictures] I was commissioned [or rather volunteered] to make Christopher's graduation invitations which I was thrilled about!! [FYI: Pretty much any idea that involves creating or working with papercutters, stamps, etc. doesn't need to be forced upon me.] I had so much fun designing the layout and everything. Red and Black are the colors and they look "striking" as someone told me after receiving their invitation. Christopher likes them a lot so I am thrilled! [I still need to take some pictures of the actually invitations instead of just the envelopes and the openhouse inserts.] Thus up until last week I spent the majority of several days for two weeks editing, printing, cutting, assembling, printing, sticking and stuffing! I did enjoy it so much though! Creativity is my "sweet spot". I have about 10 more to finish making today for a few other people Mom wanted to invited and then I am done! Yay! Now I feel like I have had enough prep to even want to even do wedding invitations! *mischievous grin* Although I am sure there is a huge difference between doing about 60 invitations to doing probably twice that many or more for a wedding! Also I spent several hours this afternoon helping Kristin assemble and set up her graduation board. That was lots of fun and it turned out wonderfully! It made me wish I could redo my board from three years ago... I loved seeing all her pictures too. She had lots and lots. Especially of a certain brother of hers who also happens to be an adopted brother and sometimes partner-in-crime.
So I am off to finish several things that must be done today. Thank you note's mostly accompanied by finishing those remaining invitations then I think I shall curl up in a cozy chair and read for an hour or so sometime tonight before bed... I am on the second book in a series I just bought and am loving it!
"I read my eyes out and I can't read half enough! The more one reads the more one sees we have to read!" - John Adams in a letter to his dearest friend, Abigail.
-KM
Comments (6)
Star Parker is so amazing!! :)
You sound so busy... No wonder you're tired! <3
Those invitations are neat! Is that a swirl stamp or did you print it on the computer?
Cal Thomas looks tired.
Star is so inspiring.
Busy! Wow. But I am glad that you are having fun making and doing everything!
Hey, I wasn't able to look at Christopher's other pics....it kept saying Xanga error....
hmmm.....
I took Anthony's senior pics yesterday! I just posted them on our blog if you want to check them out..
Our convention is coming up in June. It is a busy time.
Jessica