Sara's Mission Trip

Sara left for the church misison trip to LaFayette, LA. They had 124 teens attending in 12 work groups. Each group built wheelchair ramps.

Education in the summer

This is the 4th year that Sara was nominated for the Education In Action program. This year, we sent her. She went to the Houston/Galveston program. They spent 5 days touring, doing group activities, and I don't know what else. They had a huge workbook to work on and she said only the way Sara can "this is like school in the summer"....Yea...get the EDUCATION part?

Yes, Sara's best friend attended with her.

catching up

We finally refinished the chair in the back yard. most of the paint was chipped off during a hail storm a few years ago, and we finally went for it. The color turned out so bright, we had to get cushions to hide some of it.

Mother's day was great. I got flowers, chocolate and cards from my kids and Jeff.

New year photos

I forgot, but on new year's eve, we made drawings on our dry erase board, which is still there. The kids are so creative!

home improvements

Over Memorial weekend, Jeff and I added shelved in the laundry room. Some of the big boxes will be full of school supplies. I but them after school has begun and they are greatly discounted. One thing led to another since as I cleaned out where the supplies were, I found duplicate purchases of kitchen lunch bags, foil, etc. I guess we would not find them, so we assumed that there were none and bought more.
This then led to the discovery of more thing that I no longer use so the stack of donations is growing.


I have decided to finally repaint/paint the woodwork in the house. When we had wood floors added many years ago, the quarter round they added was primed white, but not painted white. Over time, the trim work has chipped and yellowed, so off I go. The hardest is taping off all the area, and the SMELL of the oil based w/ primer paint and the color~~white. It is actually more glossy than the paint now showing, maybe due to aging, but I am going to try to NOT have to do all 18 doors too.

Before

and after. It is not perfect, but it is much better.

God's gift

Today we had a rainbow. Actually it was a double rainbow, but it was hard to get a picture of it. We do not see many rainbows here, maybe because of the hills. We enjoyed it very much.

Soccer ends

Our last game, we tromped over a team 7-1. We had lost to them before, so winning was so sweet. It was a great team and a great season. After one game, coach treated the team to ice cream. We did no win that game, but the girls played their hearts out. Most of the teams at this level are on their high school teams. Sara and two others are younger-"playing up" because they are talented and need the challenge. Sara and her friend will both be trying out for the HS team in the fall.

Sara and her friends were teasing at the ice cream place-Chocolate, Vanilla and strawberry. The kids make such good friends during soccer....I recommend that everyone gets their kids into a sport to keep them active, teach them skills, including how to lose, and making new friends.

Awards

The girls both received end of the year awards. Ruth got hers as the best art studend and the teacher made a speach about how talented she is.

Sara got an award for A honor roll-aka all A's all year. She also got the Cougar Team award. One boy and girl were awarded this on each of the 3 teams as the kindest, best working in the team. Also, a very nice speach by the teachers.

School's over

This is last August when Sara went into 8th and Ruth into 7th.

This is June and they both advance with flying colors. Next year Sara will be in High School and back on the bus, and Ruth will be at her school by herself and I will continue the carpool. Notice the more casual clothing at the end of school. Sara is dressed in her outfit for athletics. They are on color teams and competing this week. Yes, her team is orange. One of the girls is yellow, and one is purple.

This is my wonderful carpool girls. The three middle ones are going on to high school. The other two, Ruth & M, I have been carpooling since first grade and I love to see them grow up.