Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Renaissance Festival

In my history co-op we are studying the medieval times, which is really awesome! We decided to take a field trip to The Renaissance Festival in Houston. It was AwEsOmE!!! I loved it so much. We learned so much and had such an awesome time! I have a lot of pictures to show you. I'll try to tell you all the stories and facts I learned there :) I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.
God Bless,
Grace Anne

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When we first walked in we saw this huge guy! We are thinking that he is a viking but we're not sure. Isn't he awesome!?!?

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I loved all the colors of the flags.

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These are two brothers who played Celtic like music. They have this joke that's hilarious. They speak with a Irish accent. Here's their joke: "Yes we are two brothers. People usually ask us 'you're actually brothers? Don't you want to kill each other?' and we tell them 'oh well we started out with five brothers'"

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Their buildings were very impressive. Really cool design!

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Hannah got to fire the canon!!! She was so cute out there. The guy asked her "how old are you Hannah?" "I'm ten" "What made you ten?" Hannah sits there for a second trying to think of an answer. she finally says "because God made me ten." "really? Do you think if I asked God to make me ten that He would make me ten?" "If He wanted to." "I like the way you think Hannah." It was really cute! She had such a fun time firing the canon.

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We went on the student day so there were a lot of kids!

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kettle corn!!! It was actually pretty good.

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I think this guy was my favorite! He made this carpenter machine 10 months ago and its all our of wood. It was the neatest thing! He would press down in this peddle thing you see at his foot. There was a bent, big stick above him that goes up and down. A sting connects them and it spins the wood you see that's in the middle and he carves. I hope that made sense but you can see it in the picture. Oh, and the shavings you see on the ground. Well they would use that too smooth the wood like what we would use for sand paper. Also they used every single piece of wood they had for anything. For the fire for the next door neighbor. It was really neat.

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Printing Press!! Abigail got to do the printing press. It was really cool. A Chinese man was the one who invented the printing press first. A man took us through the whole process of how they printed everything. It was really cool. My favorite fact of the day was with the printing press. Does anyone know where upper case and lower case came from?

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Well Gutenberg made this box. Do you see it in the back ground? The one with all the little dividers it. Well all the letters are divided in those little box's. The ones on the upper part of the box are the big "upper case" letters. And the ones on the lower part of the small "lower case" letters. Isn't that awesome?! It's my favorite fact of the day!!!

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This guys root beer was homemade and actually pretty good.

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This is the root beer guy :)

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The cool smithy.

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TuRKEy LeGs!!! and yes we both ate the WHOLE thing!!!! It was so delicious! :D

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There was awesome jousting there. Sad to say I didn't get any jousting pictures. I'm sorry. But they both fell off their horses and started to fight...with swords!! Oh yeah!! Some kid was like "come on! Where's the blood?!?!" It was pretty funny :D but it was quite entertaining. It was England against Spain. England is on the left and Spain is on the right. I was rooting for Spain!!

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We just had to get a picture with King Henry. Although we didn't really like his story with his wives that much and wanted to say "shame on you" but we were good little girls and just smiled :D

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Some more of the awesome buildings.

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Isn't this beautiful? There are benches inside but the outside was really pretty!

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I love the colorful tents! so....colorful :P

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We went to this awesome bird show. They showed us quite a few birds.

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This was a really beautiful hawk! Probably my favorite bird. Although the next one is pretty awesome.

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Say hello to Zues. Isn't that an awesome name for this awesome bird? I love owls, they are so cool.

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More buildings :)

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I really wanted one of these dresses! The costumes there were pretty aWeSoMe!!

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These two guys were really cool. The Indian guy in the kilt cracked me up :D But they sounded really cool together.

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I loved her dress and hat and the basket of flowers. It was so picturesque.

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This was so sweet! I loved they dirty looking man with the flowers was so...sweet :)

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The monks were awesome!

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The little princesses! So CUTE!

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The church and the sun coming through was really pretty.

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Our last stop was this leather store with really, really cool leather journals. I LOVE leather journals!!

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The cool artist! Look it has the classic artist hat :D

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A really cool building :)

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Of course our group picture! We had so much fun!!!!!!!!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Abigail

I was really in the mood for taking pictures. So I grabbed Abigail and took her outside. We were only out there for 10-15 minutes because we were getting eaten alive by mosquitoes! But we were able to get a few cute ones. I LoVe this little girl and hope you enjoy the pictures :)
God Bless,
Grace Anne


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Poor girl, her eyes were in the sun
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This is so sweet!

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Aaron's Birthday/Capitol

Aaron is 18!! It's pretty amazing. Mom and Dad took him out to dinner. His choice of restaurant was Chama Gaucha Brazilian Steak House. It's where you can eat a lot of food...which is perfect for Aaron! :D We had our Grandparent's over as well as Caleb and Lauren. We had an amazing cake and opened presents. I love you Aaron! Here are some pictures of Aaron's Birthday.
God Bless, Grace Anne

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Aaron and Grandma

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I love this picture!

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He's so cute :)

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Aaron got an i-phone

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The little girls sang Happy Birthday to Aaron, it was SO adorable


Today we went to the Texas Capitol. One of my favorite buildings is the capitol. I love it SO much. We went to the Court of Appeals. It was great to be there and learn a little about our government process. I took a lot of pictures of the capitol building so here are a few :)
God Bless, Grace Anne

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I thought that this was really cool with the fog

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Side walk pictures are so much fun :)