The Pines Camp 2014

This year, I went to the Pines again! This is my third year, and I LOVE THE PINES!!!! It is a truly amazing camp, and I strongly encourage you to go sometime!!!!

Anyways, It was a blast! I had wonderful counselors, awesome cabin mates, grew closer to Christ, and had a great time! I went with my friends Olivia and Claire! Here is me with my cabin mates!

Hannah, Juliana, Emily, Aubrey, Fer (Fernanda), Olivia, Me, and Katie (My friend Claire was there too, but left before we could take this picture ☹)

#lisieuxforlife

(our cabin was named "St. Therese of Lisieux"....all of the cabins have saint names, so we made up this hashtag for our cabin☺)

Love ya girlies!!!! Miss you all a ton!

Schoenstatt Camp

Last week, I went to Schoenstatt Camp in Lamar, Tx! (Never heard of Schoenstatt? Thats ok! You can check out their website here.) It was an awesome, and very unforgettable experience! I had so much fun getting to hang out with so many amazing catholic teenage girls!

I'm in a group called the "Roses Ablaze," and my group and I had the wonderful privilege of being able to make our Covenant of Love to Mary together!

Here are some pics:)

It was a 7and a 1/2-ish hour drive, so we stopped to get some treats:) ICEES!!!!!! 

The property that we were on is GORGEOUS!!! You can see the ocean from just about everywhere, and there are tons of flowers! It's sooooooo pretty!

THE SHRINE!!!!

Isn't the shrine soooooooooooo soooooooo soooooo adorable?!?! It looks like it came out of a fairytale book!!!!

The inside of the shrine is absolutely beautiful! 

Inside of me and Claire's room, we found a little carving of the shrine on the wall…..well, it wasn't a carving, it was actually a natural carving from the wood! Isn't that amazing?!?!

Me and my friends! We're the Roses Ablaze!!!!!

(top: Claire; middle left: Marcy; middle right: Veronica (Roni); bottom left: Cassidy; bottom right: Me!)

Random pic of flowers…yeah I took it! In case you haven't noticed, I LOVE photography, especially nature, and more specifically, trees and flowers! I saw the beautiful white flowers and just had to take a pic:)

Dear Jesus,

Thank-you for such a wonderful week at camp with my amazing friends! Thank you for all of the blessings that you give to me, especially for this opportunity to get to go to such an awesome camp, where I got to grow closer to You, and Your Blessed Mother, Mary! I love you:)

-Madison

Summer Camp

I just got home from a long week of summer camp!!! It was tiring, but very fun! I went with a few of my good friends, Olivia, Grace, and Claire! God even blessed me by letting me make a new friend, Anne!!! I went to the Pines Catholic Camp in Big Sandy Texas! (and trust me, they don't call it "Big Sandy" for nothing!)

Here are some pictures!

Before:

Almost there!!!

Olivia, Me, Grace, and Claire

After:

Me and my friends, and their older brothers, who also came to camp.

All of us doing what I call the "High School Musical Pose"

I had such a wonderful week at camp!!! Thank you Lord for good friends, the Pines, and such an amazing week!