{high school musical}

Recently my old school put on the play "High School Musical" as usual the play was outstanding! My cousin Mary Grace was Taylor McKessie and she was really good she rocked the Johnnie B. look ;) Anyways, I'm finally posting because I got the songs out of my head and here are the pictures.

D.J

Andrea

{homeschool}

It was a "tradition" for my mom to homeschool us when we were in Kindergarten instead of sending us to school for an entire day. Actually, it wasn't really a tradition she started it with my oldest sister who is now almost 16! She is officially done now and Robert is very sad ): We had to take down all the posters off the walls but before we did that Robert wanted a picture.....

                                                           

{almost there}

As it seems every year summer can't come fast enough. I still have around 2 more weeks left of school ): This year I will be graduating 8th grade! Teachers are starting to get annoyed with all of us eighth graders. And although it sounds terrible some kids skimp on homework. It has been raining constantly here in the Pacific Northwest but we have had some sunny days, take a look! Check out my photography Instagram @photosbyclare

                                     

Black Lake and Olympia

Last week my eighth grade class took an overnight trip to Black Lake in Olympia. We got to go to Washington State Patrol, Washington Corrections center, and the Legislative building. On the first day we drove up to the camp in Black Lake, then we went to Washington State Patrol, then we had lunch at McDonald's .... ( I get really carsick on car rides over an hour and the smell of McDonald's makes it way worse let alone eating it because I haven't eaten it in over four years...) I waited outside the entire time we were there, after that we went to Washington Corrections center (prison) and to be honest wasn't that fun. It was followed by more time at the camp when my and my friends Sophia, Grace, and Emily played mini golf. We went to mass at St. Martins University, then to the mall for dinner and shopping. We went back to camp and I felt really sick, not fun. I eventually threw up that night and was overwhelmed when people decided they wanted to stay up until 1. The next day we went to the Legislative building and to the Supreme Court. That was my favorite part and the tour seemed endless :) Pictures aren't that amazing I was having to much fun to even care.

Washington State Patrol

Little Smokey bear

Big Smokey has a donut which made me very hungry

Grace leaning over a waterfall..... and Natalie

Grace and Viki  in a cell

Nathan and Mo

Grace and Emily

                     

                           

Creepin'

                                       

                                                     Thanks for coming on,
                                                          Clare McKenna

The Capital

I got way nicer pictures in Olympia then anywhere else on our trip so I wanted to do a separate post. Also, because it was my favorite part of the trip. I wasn't able to get many photos because the camera was glitching out but overall some turned out pretty nice :) My photos are mainly chandlers I thought they were really pretty.

Selfies in front of the capital.. Ridiculous really...

Some girls in my class

Jack and Hannah in mock trial

Goveners mansion

                                     Thanks for coming on,
                                         Clare McKenna

Hello there

This year for the class auction I was in charge of taking some pictures of all my classmates. It was difficult sometimes people don't want to cooperate. Lets say we took photos in about five different locations including my house! I got permission from a couple kids that were happy when I asked them if I could showcase my work on my blog (to do!) Today, it was my turn I had my little sister take some of me. It was odd I prefer behind the lens and not in front.. oh well.

Personally, I put the most soul in mine :-)
Thanks for reading,
Clare McKenna 

Fulcrum Foundation

Last week was Catholic Schools week! On Monday it was parents appreciation day, Tuesday was open house, Wednesday was teacher appreciation day, Thursday was student appreciation day, and Friday was "Special persons". Unfortunately, I couldn't do many fun activities on student appreciation day. During the week me and several class mates had to leave early for singing rehearsal at St. Joesph school in Seattle! We had to get out of school an hour early. We sang with the St. Joesph middle school choir and select students from St. Bernadette. The songs chosen were "We are the World" "We are singing for the Lord is Our Light" and "Go light your candle". Then on Friday, Febuary 1st 2013 we performed. This isn't some school talent show... there were oh I don't know about 1,300 people there! Overall, it was an amazing opportunity. Everyone sounded great thanks to the director, Mr. Boyle! Some pictures now... ok, so I forgot my camera in the car in downtown Seattle. I was kinda scared someone would break into the car and get my camera... Thank God that didn't happen!

97 kids!

Me in the front row!

Thanks Mrs. Jahns for the pictures!
Clare McKenna