{Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real} Octobering

{Pretty}

While the homeschool room is still unfinished (although the painting  plans are in the works!), the fall sunlight has been breathtaking in our peaceful learning space.  Peaceful, that is, before we enter it in the morning! haha

a little french? oui? non?

Aragorn made this poster for the Pro-life poster contest at our parish.  He abandoned it and made a different entry.  I thought it was so beautiful I just couldn't toss it...so it's adorning a window in the school room for a while.

{Happy}

Someone got an early birthday present from her "Nanny" (that's grandma for us!)

Somebody is obsessed with babies these days!  "Nanny's baby" never leaves her side, but sometimes, just Nanny's baby isn't enough:

Two, no, make that three! is better than one!

Maybe still a little obsessed with her curls...wondering how long they'll last...

And...I need a new cell phone.  My camera on my cell phone is totally breaking down.  It takes really dark pictures (maybe you've noticed) and it's absolutely terrible in bad lighting.  Well, if you'll be patient, I have a few from the rehearsal dinner for my brother's wedding last week.  

It was magical.

I love my new sister-in-law.  I love my brother, too, for that matter!  Happy couple!:)

We were blessed to have no less than three priests as wedding guests, as well as my brother, a deacon and monk (to be ordained soon, God-willing!)

{Funny}

Who needs a black cat?

"Zorro" is a black miniature holland lop doe (despite her name).

She is our most shy bunny, but despite that, she is not aggressive.  She is sweet, and in the sun, I think she is very beautiful.
 

{Real}

I'm working on finding a way to post the actual wedding photos that I have on flickr.  I abandoned my efforts of taking pictures with my phone when my sweet little Eowyn decided to be a little terror, um, active and verbal at the wedding.  I was in the very front of church because I was a reader.
So, no beautiful photos yet.  However, I have a great story!  A construction crew hit a gas main and the fire department cut energy to a 6-city-block area just moments before the wedding was to begin.  The upshot? The church had NO POWER: no heat, no light...no electric organ.

The secretary rummaged up every last candelabra in the parish and we had a wedding by candlelight! Ruined? Not a chance. It was dramatic, peaceful, and very very memorable! (I've got to get pictures of this up--if only of the fall leaves that blew in through the front doors, which needed to stay open to let in light in order for the photographer to work at all).

Thank you for stopping by this week! I've been soooo busy, my blogging has taken a big hit.