Congratulations, Landon!

This is the slide show I made for Landon's graduation!



We had a reception/ceremony for him Monday, May 23, at the Hampton where Greg works. I started to type all about that, but I think I'll wait until I get the pictures uploaded. We are leaving tonight for the FPEA convention in Orlando, which starts tomorrow morning. We're all going as Landon will participate in the graduation ceremony Sunday morning. More info on all that later!

Blog Design Change

I've changed my blog background in honor of Landon's upcoming graduation. I can hardly believe that we're here already. He could have graduated in the ceremony with our local community college on May 6. However, we didn't know he'd be eligible to walk (he applied late) until I'd already planned the Passport for Purity weekend for that same weekend. So, we skipped that. One ceremony a year is enough anyway, right?

On Monday, May 23, we will have a reception/ceremony for him at the Hampton where Greg works. Then, on Sunday, May 29, at 10:00am, he will participate in the graduation ceremony with our state homeschool group. We decided to do the reception separately from this because the ceremony is on a Sunday morning (I HATE that!) and is at the resort where the convention is held (which requires attendees to drive to Orlando and pay $10 to park at the resort). We hated to put anyone to that much trouble and expense, so we did it this way. We'll see how it goes and make changes when Gerren graduates.

Please pray for me to not be a sobbing mess at either of these events!

Happy Birthday, Chase!

I'm finally getting Chase's birthday pictures posted. On Thursday, May 5, I became the mother of THREE teenagers! Thankfully, I still have Carys to keep me young. :)

Here's Chase with MOST of her presents.


Here are her two best girlfriends: Sarah and Carys.


Chase's surprise gift was a full-size guitar.


Here are the girls posing.


We always have Mexican food for dinner since Chase's birthday is on Cinco de Mayo. This year we tried a new restaurant: Pepe's. It was FABULOUS! Really authentic Mexican food and inexpensive as well!

We had to sit at two tables, so here's the girls' table.


Carys had to sit by Sarah at every opportunity. Poor Chase!


Carys always has to pose for the camera!

Mother's Day

This blog is a family record, so I get to be brutally honest, right? My husband had the misfortune of marrying someone whose love language is gift giving. Unfortunately, his main character "flaw" (if you would call it that) is procrastination. The two do not go well together!

Chase and I were gone this weekend doing the Passport to Purity program while the boys stayed at home and went through Mark Gungor's Sex, Dating & Relating Teen Edition. Chase tends to have giving as her love language as well, but she wasn't home to do anything about it, I guess. So, Mother's Day consisted of the rest of the family stopping at Kohl's on the way home and buying a gift card and a Hoops and YoYo talking card (which THEY like) and coming home to find Chase and me already home from our weekend. So, no one tells me Happy Mother's Day because they have to sneak in Landon's bedroom to sign the card they just bought. No one writes anything special on it; they just sign their names. I start complaining about the lack of love the kids have for me, so they go and get the card and hand it to me. That's it. Whoohoo! What a great Mother's Day! I think I'll quit. Let them all mother themselves!