Night blooming sirius

Our night blooming sirius bloomed while my Grandparents were here visiting. It was fun watching it bloom. The closer to midnight it got the more the blooms opened. It was cool. I've never seen it bloom before.

First signs of it openning...
The plant was full of blooming buds!
And let me tell you...the fragrance was overwhelming!
Once it had fully openned.

Grandma posing with a bloom that broke off.
Beautiful!!


In other news................


I BOUGHT A CAMERA!!!!

AND

I'M ECSTATIC!!!

I love it!!!!

It's a Canon Digital Rebel XTi!

I unfortunately didn't have it when I took the pictures of the sirius but...

Stay tuned because there are bound to be many photos posted...maybe I'll put them on my "photography blog" though...we'll see!

Word to your mother

In other words...Happy Mother's Day to all you moms!

Here are some pictures from our trip to St.Aug for Jae's baby shower:

Me & Perpetua

Maria (the animal saver) & "Stinky"

Me & Francesca

Megan & Perpetua
Meg showing off Jordan's coal mining face

Jordan doing the "Derek Zoolander"

Christian being a monkey
Anthony's turn
Sleeping Perpetua (so beautiful!)
Brooke's all smiles!
Felicity attacking me with a balloon.
Uncle Steve, Maria & Andrew playing football
Maria & Uncle Steve
Francesca & Andrew
Anthony & Felicity playing football w/ Andrew & Steve

Andrew & Perpetua

Andrew assisting Anthony on making a touchdown

The touchdown

Francesca sayin cheeze

Meg & Francesca

Francesca giving Perpetua kisses

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We had a great time visiting. Hopefully we'll make it up soon for a longer stay.

Meg & I posing with The Simpsons while waiting to watch Spider Man 3 (the longest movie of my life)

We had a great time hangin out on the way to & from the movie with Steve & Andrew. And while waiting in line for the movie. Thanks Steve for letting us crash over there. Thanks Nanny for the platter of goodies.
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A little update on me while I'm here:

• I'm starting my summer classes this week.
• I got my grades back from last semester & I got all A's!
• I went to the Gwen Stefani concert this past week & had a blast. (No hating please!) Here's a fun picture I took there:

Meg & I before dinner with some friends

Lady's night out for Amber's Bday

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• This past weekend I went to a College and Career retreat & while I was there we saw a video called "Indescribable" of a message that Louie Giglio spoke. He referenced a few lyrics from the song Indescribable by Chris Tomlin:

  Indescribable,uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.You are amazing God...

Throughout his message he showed varies pictures of different stars and galaxies that are around the Milky Way. One of coolest things that he showed was this picture....

This is an image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (larger one on the left) and a dwarf galaxy(smaller one at the upper right). Not only is this image amazing because of its beauty and the fact that God created it but there is something very special about the very center of this galaxy......

This is an image of the nucleus of the the Whirlpool Galaxy:

This is what they call the ""X" across the nucleus of M51". Now I don't know about you but it sure doesn't look like an "X" to me it looks more like a cross.

I thought that was so cool. Not only did God make all of these stars and galaxies but (in my opinion)he even placed a little reminder of the love he has for us in the center or should I say heart of one of his beautiful creations.

I just had to share these images because I think they are remarkable. If you are interested in the message by Louie Giglio my remarks on it don't not give it justice you can order it here.