Cathedral

A week ago we started going to our friends World Religions Clep study group, our first field trip was to the Tabernacle and the Cathedral.  I was going to take pictures of the Tabernacle, but it was so rainy and muddy!  Plus I had to hold Henry all the time so either way it wouldn't have worked out. :P  But I got these pics of the cathedral!

The front, this is wear the people have their church service.  Their were TONS of seats!  My church is small and this church is like a castle compared to mine!

Henry and I having a fun time!  He kept thinking the saint statues were baseballs.  Cutie!

This is were the Catholics pray to the saints and burn offerings which usually are candles.

They wanted a buck for a candle that you couldn't even keep!  WOW!!! I thought this was a church NOT a Money maker company!

All the candles, there were so many for each Saint I lost count!

Were you knelt at the Saints feet.

Were the Priest rinsed his hands before praying or preaching.

Then after we had a picnic lunch at this Pizza place! Very fun and cool!

By far a very interesting experience I will remember for a while!  The building was beautiful and some of their ways were just a tad bit awkward, but another religion I learned of in my way to getting college credit!  Have a great weekend everyone!

~Victoria

Mad hatter Tea Room!

 My Uncle treated my family to a fancy tea party in Coon Rapids, Thanks Uncle Mike!  It was simply gorgeous, the whole thing was!  The table cloth, the tea, the desserts..everything!  I enjoyed it immensely!  Here is what our table looked like, doesn't it look so elegant?! 

 My Tea cup! 

 The menu!  We got Vanilla cream and Black tea Mango! Yum! Vanilla Cream was my all time favorite!

 Two lovely ladies having two lovely cups of tea! So sweet!

 Me and my sweet and wonderful Mom! Can you see a little smile in the mirror behind us.  Guess who?

 Zoe pouring the Vanilla cream tea into her cup.

 The yummy pastries we were served!  The white chocolate raspberry cake were my favorite!  Or maybe the cinnamon stick? I don't know..they were all so good! This post is making me hungry just by writing it! lol!

 Sipping my tea! Mmmmm good!

 Kayli enjoying herself!

 Zoe enjoying the cake!

 I shall have no more tea, as Felicity would've said it.

 Writing a Thank you note in the book.  Don't you like my hair! I did it myself, with a little cheat and NO I am NOT going to tell you what I did to cheat! lol!

It's all in the brains with Einstein, as he would've probably said.  Have a great week!

~Victoria

Garage Sale Finds!

This week was a little nerve wrecking because there were so many garage sales, but most of them were total junk!  So my first find was 4 bandannas for $2, but I asked for $1 and she said yes!  I work miracles in bargaining prices for some reason! lol!

Then there was this cute flip flop photo album! I love flip flops and then there was this! CUTE!!! So this was originally $1 but I asked for 0.50 cents and of course she said yes!  I love that word!  Especially coming from a sales person in garage sales!

Then comes the things my mom got me, this flip flop picture frame for 99 cents!  We saw one just like it in a store and we were both drooling over it! It was like $14 bucks, but at the thrift store it's WAY cheaper! :D

Then this vanity!  My wonderful mother bought this one for me and it took a while to get it. It was originally $20, but I asked for $10. I waited and waited until finally she said....how about $12?  My mom said yes and score!!!  It is super cute and you can put pictures in the frames on the side. I already put one!  And then I am going to order my pictures of friends and Theatre productions I did so then I can put them in my flip flop book, and on my new vanity!



So that was my finds for the Big Lake city wide garage sales!  How about you?  What did you find?

~Victoria





Graduation

On Thursday we went to our  co-op's graduation ceremony, it was very good but also tons of people were very emotional.  I have never seen so many Men cry at once! Wow!  I got to hang out with some friends and have cake and treats afterwards. Total Awesome day!

~Victoria



Twin Lakes!

On Wednesday we went to the Twin Lakes with some co-op friends,and it even was a perfect day to swim and play outside!  It was so perfect that after Zoe and I decided to go bike around the lake. :D  Henry and Keilana in the meantime were enjoying making sand castles and sand pies. Cuties!

 The boys decided to bury Jake alive, please welcome Jake the mummy. lol!

 Playing nuekum with them.

Then afterwards Kayli friend, Abby, came over and ate dinner with us and played for a bit.  They had a blast, and boy do they both make some funny stuff up or what! 

 Playing some more!

I had a great day, and I only got a bit sunburned on my shoulders. But everything else is nice and tan!
How do you spend your summer Wednesday?
~Victoria

Wordless Wednesday

Bloggers Block

I have been stuck for the past week on trying to come up with something to blog about.  I really hate bloggers block, it's no fun at all!  Plus my computer is acting bizarre from the evil spam! UGH!  Anyways Kayli made me this jar that has a whole list of things to blog about so I will pull one out right now....and....ooh! Here's a good one!  What has your mother taught you about money?  Oh wow..um she taught me to save of course. But in my case saving is a waste of time!  If I find something that I like, I buy it!  I don't wait for something better to come in hand I just buy it!  No matter what the price is!  But sadly, this habit stinks.  Cause I had tons of Christmas money and now there's garage sales and Birthdays and now I don't have very much money!  AH!!!  I probably have about $5 left.  I know...I stink at saving.  I hope that soon I will not have this habit.  This is why I love garage sailing cause mostly everything is practically cheap , and I love doing it.  So my mom has taught me to be a saver, but instead I am now a shopaholic.  But who cares, that's just the way I am.  I feel bad for those type of people who don't like shopping, because there missing out!  Have a great week!

~Tori

P.S.  I will be doing garage sale posts, but I haven't found anything yet so just hold your horses!  I probably will be doing it on Friday cause Thursday is the Big Lake city wide garage sales! YES!

Twins Game

 Oh yes! This was my very first baseball game I have ever went to!  And can I tell you it was totally awesome!  Our daycare family blessed us with 4 tickets to go see the Minnesota Twins with them!  So here is my Twins shirt I bought, cool right? :D

 Here we are entering Target Field, and as you can see here is bulls eye wagging his tail.

 Me and my momma having fun!

 Here is the stadium, it looks a lot bigger but I couldn't get the whole thing in one picture.  That's proof how big it is!  There was probably up to 35,000 people there!  It was busy!  And the Twins were competing against the Los Angeles Angles.  Some name huh!

 Henry enjoying every bit of attention he was getting! Cutie!

 Here is the view I had and it was perfect!  We sat right above the score board!  Fun!  Perfect seats!

 Keilana and Kayli having a blast and saying "Go Twins!"

 Henry was sticking out his tongue and begging me for the fruit snacks I was eating!

Here is all of us, enjoying the fun game!  Even though they lost at 8 to 3 it was awesome! 

~Victoria

Water Park Of America

 My mom got a groupon pack for Zoe's Birthday to go to Water Park Of America!!!  It was a sweet which is the room we were in.  I have photo's on my camera, but my computer is fryed at the moment so I am using my moms.  So I will post pics soon of the room.  Anyways they have this surfing thing that is so much fun!  So here are pictures of all of us surfing!

 Wee!  Kayli looked like she was having so much fun!

 And Zoe too!  She was so happy to have Anna come along, those two were like peas in a pod. :D

 Here is Anna, surfing like a pro!

 Just came out of the water slide...and as you can see it was totally Awesome!!

 Say cheese!

 Oh yeah, thumbs up to this place!

 The Birthday girl with her friend Anna! 

Group shot of our final day!  If you went to one side of the window it showed to girls wearing an unflattering swim suit, and then if you went to the other side it had an arcade reflection, so we chose the middle.  That way it was safe! Ha Ha!  I had such a great time!  Have you ever been to a place like this before?

~Victoria