Day 128 Blooming Flowers

These beautiful star clematis are growing at the back of our house

I just wanted to share some of the flowers that are blooming around our home!  The kids love to point out the new blooms to me as they come into the house after school.  I am grateful for the smiles the Lord shares with us through Flowers.

New blooms of Asian Lillys, red, purple and orange
 in our front flower beds

Unique Callalillies growing in a barrel we have yellow and white

Purple Salvia nd white Shasta Daisies
add color to the front beds

Fox gloves are a great addition to the front!

127 lost tooth

Lydia lost her front tooth today!  so cute!  She has two more loose teeth, the other top front tooth and her lower right tooth!  It's fun to see how excited she gets about the tooth fairy.  I hope the tooth fairy doesn't forget or doesn't get caught by this totally awesome seven year old!

Day 126 Food

I love having pancakes for breakfast!  It's crazy Jessy made pancakes for breakfast.  I love the smell of maple syrup and melted butter and that thin white perfectly cooked pancakes.  But I don't just love one I love 5 or 6, and today I was not going to fall into the pancake trap so I ate special K cereal instead  and the rest of the family who were home ate them.  I give myself one big pat on the back.  Maybe next time I can have the courage to eat only one.

The morning started with great food and the evening ended with great food.  We went to a little, no huge BBQ feast at Dave and Tina's where there was a spread like I had never seen before steak, chicken, big burgers, salads, fruit, and desserts like I had never seen the likes of!  There were a lot of people and the kids had a great time.  I enjoyed the food and the company very much!   It was awesome to get to know some people we had never met before.  I think it's interesting to listen to conversations and join in.  It was such a diverse group with small children teenagers young adults and adults.  Thanks so much Tina and Dave!

Day 125 Prom

Hi guys, This is Emily Ward.  I thought I would tell you about my Senior Prom.

First of all let me give you all a cliff hanger and say that my date and I were nominated for Prom Queen and King by all of my friends.  (Ill let you know the answer at the end)

This was my first school prom EVER!  The theme for the night was Ocean Oasis.  The decorations consisted of blue balloons.  

It was a great night.  I went with my boyfriend Jason and we were part of a group of 14.  We took pictures at the Hylton Preforming Arts Center at George Mason University.  Afterwards we went to Columbus Grill for dinner.  They serve excellent food!!!! I had lemon basil chicken pasta, while many others had variation of seafood.  Very TASTY!! I was able to eat my entire dish while my date, a high school football captain, could not finish his.    Hehehe!

The dance was great.  My date looked adorable!!! 

Everyone was all fancied up, and despite the fact that very few dresses were modest, the evening was quite fun.  

All of the beautiful Ladies!

Near the end of the night the DJ called all the nominees to the center of the floor.  After forcing my way through the crowd, because no one knew who I was, I made it to the center of the floor.  My heart had never beaten so fast and my legs have never shaken so much!  Unfortunately, but fortunately as well, we did not win Prom King and Queen.  After the king and queen were announced the dance floor cleared up and the last few dances were a blast with all the room that we wanted to dance.  It was an Awesome night!!!   

For my first prom ever, it was a pretty amazing night, Thanks to a wonderful guy and a bunch of wonderful friends!  

-Em

Day 124 Mary Kay Party

Hey Kaitlyn check out the mascara!

 Emily wanted to have friends over for facials before Prom, so today, the day before prom, we had a Mary Kay party.  Aseneth was so much fun with the girls.  It brought back memories of doing Mary Kay, but what I like most it brought back Mary Kay products into my life.  I love the feel of my hands after doing satin hands.  They are so soft and smooth.  I love the feel of my face after using the Time wise cleanser and the moisturizer.  The girls loved trying out the eye makeup and bronzer.  It was so much fun I am going to have to get some friends together to have a Mary Kay party!  Aseneth is an awesome consultant!  Thanks so much to Kaitlyn, Reagan, Shilo, Jessica and Emily, for coming and having the party!

Aseneth the awesome Mary Kay consultant

Kaitlyn awesome eyes

Love Reagan!   She looks great !  

Shilo she looks great!

Day 123 Band Concert

Austin is our Trumpet player and today we saw him play in his last concert of the year.  It was the All City Band concert and it started with the 5 grade band, then the 6th grade band, the middle school band, and then the high school band.  The concert wouldn't have been complete without the high school drum line.  They were excellent!  Then the closing number with all the bands playing a number together "We will Rock You"  It's a fun format to see all the bands play in progression and see that they all started somewhere and as they practice they sound very good.  It was great to see Austin play.  He doesn't really want to continue next year in middle school, but we will see.  It was a fun evening we finished it with a trip to Wendys for frostys.  The kids thought that was a great treat!

Day 122 Procrastination

 Today Willy finished writing his paper on the community service he did for his social studies class.  It was a few weeks ago that he completed the service part.  He mowed and trimmed Sister Hickman's yard and then he worked at the Baldwin School beautification day.  He really enjoyed the outdoor work, but waited until today, the day before the assignment was due to complete the written portion of the work.  Willy is a true procrastinator when it comes to something he doesn't like to do.  Willy makes me a little crazy because I cannot figure out how to help him not do this.   I hope that he will learn this important lesson as he enters high school.  Because of his poor choice of waiting until the last minute he missed mutual again.  I wasn't going to let him stay up until midnight to finish because I didn't want to stay up.  He did finish and the project was done completely.  Willy is an awesome kid with so much potential and skill.  I am grateful for Willy!  He makes me laugh and smile.  I know that as he grows up he will understand and learn from the experiences he has had especially in the area of procrastination.