Sophie's theater end-of-semester performance

Things were a little different this semester. The piece they originally chose ended up taking much longer to prepare, so they decided to whip up a funny piece and read off scripts. They'll do the more difficult piece end of next semester.
This was a play on The 12 Days of Christmas, putting in their teacher's political pet-peeves. It was hilarious. And for part Sophie played her guitar :)

And a girl and her cat

Christian is 18yo!! And some of Sophie too.

How did my baby boy get to be 18yo?!?!
Sophie has been saving up SwagBucks so she could buy her brother some Japanese things he'd been wanting. She bought the poster, the tablets and the kitty. As part of her present to him she also arranged his whole desk area in his bedroom and also painted him the picture on the wall. SUCH a thoughtful sister!!!
We have been telling him he was getting a GPS when he gets his license, so since he's close to getting it now he got a GPS :) Not shown are a bunch of Japanese language books he'd asked for a few weeks prior to his birthday, which were included in 'birthday presents'.

Poor kitty.... LOL!

 Sophie's desk work area.

 She's very talented! She did this on her own arm.

Sophie's 15th, Mother's Day and July 4th

Wow, it's been a while since I updated!!

Tom and I headed out to his annual awards banquet :)

OHMYGOODNESS! My baby is 15yo!!

 She was sssooo embarrassed with the hat at LaCabana but it was a yummy dinner :)

 Sophie's end of semester performance at theater class. It was a wonderfully funny show about a bunch of teens in a latenight chat room, appropriately called "Insomniacs Society".

Mother's Day at Lifebridge Christian Church. There was a brunch after church.

July 4th. I don't think the hammock was made for 2 teens girls...

 Our new party tent. It has walls but we didn't need them.

 The hammock is much better suited to a 4yo... LOL!

 Sorry, we don't buy top of the line badminton equipment...

Paint, snow and some slippersocks

Wow!!!  The livingroom is finally painted!!  I can put up junk on the walls now :)

We paid Rick to do it. Look, he can talk on the phone while he paints... LOL!

 Tom painted the laundry room area. We obviously still need to put in the new trim there.

We've had a little snow lately...

It's a miracle! I made myself something! There are a couple changes I'd make if I ever made them again... but I don't think I ever will since I'm not totally in love with the pattern. But, they're cute and they help keep my feet warm :)