Another Week

Well...another week goes by...This weekend Andrew and I went to a Creation Conference in our Church. We really enjoyed it, but I was tired! We also nearly have our venue organised. We're hoping to have it at our church in San Fernando Valley, we just need to confirm that June 19th is free. Hopefully our Irish guests will be able to get booking soon!
Here are some recent photos of Andrew and my visit to Griffith Park Observatory on the weekend of our engagement with our friends Erik and Natalie:

Praying Mantis, Bees and Brendan

What a weekend/day...On Sunday I was at a friend's house. He came into the house with this beautiful, rather large, praying mantis. Knowing little about these insects I became quite excited and wanted to take a photograph of it with my phone. I got closer and closer and then it jumped onto me. I was not impressed-the feeling of a rather large insect crawling on me is not too pleasant I must confess. I was quickly relieved of my burden and Andrew and I headed off to spend time with some other friends at Griffith Park. While there I felt something in my hair and went to brush it off only to find a bee attached to my ring finger, stinging me in a most ungracious fashion. Andrew, my knight in shining armour, took the stinger out and I iced my finger, unfortunately my finger proceeded to swell up like a balloon and I still can't get my ring off. Yesterday I got some antihistamine tablets to try to stop the swelling, after taking them I couldn't stay awake. I kept falling asleep all evening. I took one more before bed but then I woke up in the middle of the night with a very upset stomach. I rang in sick for the first time ever and slept for the morning.

On a more serious note I found out today that my inspirational uncle Brendan was in a very serious car accident last night. The Gardai say that he was lucky to come away with his life. He has a broken pelvis, broken ribs and a punctured lung. I thank God that he was watching over him and kept him by His grace.
Feel better soon Brendan!!

Crickets and Grasshoppers

The thing I love most about LA evenings is the sound of crickets. It makes me feel like I'm on holidays at a tropical destination...it's very relaxing.
On Thursday I brought my children for a walk and we saw a grasshopper! And it was hopping like a proper grasshopper! I was so excited-I got all the kids excited too-although they've probably seen many of these -who knows :)
Andrew and I have booked tickets for Christmas, so it looks like we'll be in Ireland from the 27th of December to the 4th of January. I really can't wait to get home again and see everyone. I think it won't be the same without my Grandfather though, but I look forward to seeing everyone else before our wedding in June.

Bronchitis - I think

I feel pretty miserable. Any kind of activity makes me feel like I'm scaling the alps. And next week we have our international fair day so I need to be in work, at least Friday is professional development day so it's a shorter week. Unfortunately our school isn't as grateful to poor old Columbus as most of the rest of America is so we had to work today.
Whine over
Goodnight :)

Los Angeles Jewellery District

I need to do a quick post today because when I get home today I have a bunch of things to do before I go out to have dinner with some of our friends - Calvin and Tiffany. Over the weekend I visited the Jewellery district with Andrew to get my ring resized and to check out some rings for him. The jewellery district is amazing. Street after street of jewellery shops selling diamonds and ring settings and every other kind of jewel and gemstone. The place where Andrew got my ring was in this tall building with a reception area. When you enter you go up in a lift and on every floor there are many jewellery shops filled with people fussing over stones and settings and all this crazy stuff. Dad - you have to visit it!
Also they spell jewellery wrong.