This and That and Catching Up

It seems like there's never enough hours in the day (and night in my case) to get stuff done. I'm way past due on updating you on our happenings so here's a brief picture update for you from the most recent and working backwards.

Yesterday Angie went to "Aunt" Stacy's house and helped her plant flowers. Stacy even got her her own gloves! Stacy told me that she did the whole pot by herself from start to finish. After that Ang was off to play with Stacy's dogs :0) Angie had an earth day project to do so this is what we decided would be fun for her. She loved it. The fun thing is that Angie brought the pot home to me! What a cool surprise!

If you're on the kids' facebook then you have probably seen Prom pictures already. I'm sad because I only got one of Kayla in her dress. She had a SUPER busy day and when she got home she had about 15 minutes to change. I ran her outside and took this picture and then the camera died. (oops, the picture disappeared again. I'll add it again later) No time to change the batteries. Thankfully I had gotten a picture of her hair that morning. She went at 6:30 to get it done. It lasted the whole day thanks to bobby pins and hair spray :0)

Kayla went with a bunch of girls from church. They all went out to eat at a nice restaurant and then after Prom went back to Becca Stout's house (a girl in their group). Becca is the sister of Joel's date, Rachael so both kids ended up at the same house which I was glad for. Larry the dad has been all three of the teens 6th grade Sunday School teacher.

Like I mentioned, Joel took Rachael Stout. I remember way back when we tried out at Oronogo on Spring Break back in 2000 that the Stouts took the kids to the YMCA while we had a meeting so the kids all have been friends for a long time. Joel and Rachael hang out in a big group of friends from church. They went as friends since neither is dating anyone right now. They had a great time. Rachael has a laugh that is catching so she's a lot of fun to be around.

They went to the tux shop together so Rachael could help Joel match her dress and the shop suggested that if she didn't mind (which she didn't) they could use her shawl to make a tie and handkerchief for Joel's tux so they actually matched exactly. They looked sharp :0)

You probably got a notice on my "oops" post. I accidentally hit the wrong button when I was uploading pictures to get ready to post. Kayla has a little girl in her two year olds Sunday school class that she loves. This little one lost her mommy in a car accident this past year so it has especially touched Kayla's heart. Kayla had an art project to do so she took a picture of her and painted it on canvas with her hands. She did not have a brown paint color so she mixed her own brown. The only thing done with a brush at all is the eyebrows, eyelashes and the pupils of the eyes. I just know Grandma McQuistan is smiling from heaven because there's another artist in the family. I just look at her work and am in awe that anyone could do that kind of art.

I don't know if you can tell by the photo, but this is a fairly large canvas. I'm anxious to see what kind of a grade she will get. Her teacher already entered one of her drawings with colored pencil in a contest and she got second place with that.

Please be praying for Ryan. He's going through some REALLY rebellious times right now and we're trying to find the consequence that really gets him. He's so laid back that it's hard to find what works.

I just realized that I didn't do "Gotcha Day" photos so that will have to wait for another post. I've got to get ready for work :0)

Until the Next Grand Adventure,

Yvonne and crew