I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

According to my blog, I'm still in Africa. Which isn't true, haha, since I got back around the beginning of August. And I tried to upload pictures to my blog, but there were 300 of them and blogger uploaded them all out of order and I just got so overwhelmed with the thought of reorganizing them that my desire to do so died.
BUT.
HOPE.
I finally put all of them on flickr, and you can see all ~1200 of them at this link:
Mozambique 2014
For some reason, they're in reverse order. Sorry 'bout that. But it's better than completely random, right?
Anyway, I have a few ideas in the works for new posts, and I'm working on getting a new, strictly-photography blog up and running. Those will be unveiled in the near future (hopefully).

In the meantime, life update:
I DECIDED WHERE I'M GOING TO COLLEGE.
If everything works out as planned, I'll graduate from high school at the beginning of January, and about a month later, I'll be in Minnesota at Rivendell Sanctuary. So that's exciting. Maybe some posts about that will be forthcoming.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Minnesota

Heeeeeey! So what's been happing in my life lately...well, lessee hur.

Last April, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit my big brother, Ethan, at college in Minnesota. I had a blast hanging out with him and his friends. It was my first time flying alone, so that was an adventure. Aaaand, while I was there, one of my best friends from my online school actually drove over from Illinois with her family and we hung out at the Mall of America all day. It was brilliant.

>> TEAVANA. <<

The Mall of America's LEGO store. What. 

THE MALL HAD ROLLERCOASTERS. INSIDE.

left to right: me, my frand Hannah, her brother Noah, and Ethan. (sidenote: also in april, I lost my braces and an inch or two of hair. So I look a bit different now.)

On Sunday, before I left, Ethan took me to this burger place that had nutella milkshakes.
NUTELLA. MILKSHAKES. Yeah they were heaven.

((Coming next: the End of the Year Gathering. WHAAAAAT.))

Fairy Princess

 Hey everyone! I'm not sure what's up with blogger today, but it's making all my pictures look incredibly noisy, and it's messing up with the shadows so some I wasn't able to upload because they looked awful. Anyway, I painted Grace's face again for Halloween last Thursday, and we went out to take pictures. The time of day we had to do it was not very conducive to nicely-lighted photos, but I think I made some of them work.

And I just had to add this picture of Clay. He went as the Tenth Doctor.

Worldview Academy 2013

 I spent last week at Camp Tejas for Worldview Academy 2013. It was phenomenal. To tell the truth, I didn't want to come home, I enjoyed it so much. Now I have to do catch up homework, so I don't have time to explain it all, but if you'd like to check out last year's experience--and see more explanation of the week--click on the "Worldview Academy" tag at the end of this post and scroll down to find last year's post. :)