Kira Jacobs formed a small dance group and Lacey joined. She has had so much fun practicing with them and today we went and saw their first performance. It was a lot of fun and I am excited to see them improve and do more with it.
Lacey joined late and has only been to a handful of practices but I think she did great.
I have been watching some of the video's of Ambers performances this year and I thought I would share them.
Amber and Amanda Mathews celebrated their High School Graduation on Saturday May 22nd.
We just had a simple barbecue and invited anyone and everyone who wanted to celebrate with us to just show up.
Amanda's Aunt Vicky made an amazing cake.
We had a fire out in the fire pit for roasting marshmallows and making smores.
Sage Zach Amber and Luke just had a bast hanging out together. Marty kept mentioning to me how nice it was that they all get along so good. We keep waiting for Luke to "pop the question" everyone is really giving him a hard time. It's kinda fun teasing him about it.
Lacey and a bunch of her friends were climbing the ropes. It was really cool but they had a lot of blisters.
Mr Lock, Ambers History and yearbook teacher, showed up.
Mr Bertucci came. He is the Principal at Warsaw High School. It was a fun time followed by a major clean up that took all of Saturday night and into Sunday. whew!!
Luke showed up a week earlier than he said just to surprise Amber. She though he wasn't going to make it to her graduation. Zachary drove to Chicago to meet him and bring him here. He arrived home seconds before Amber, raced into Zach and Sages room got on the internet and waited. Sage yelled to Amber that Luke was online, Amber frantically raced around trying to get online to talk to him. When they finally started chatting Luke asked if he could give her a hug. She laughed and teased him about crawling through the computer. He walked in the room and she froze, speechless for a bit. Then she was absolutely thrilled!!!
Amber graduates on Sunday. We are having a party for her and Amanda at our home at 5pm on Saturday May 22nd. Everyone is invited!
Last night we went to see Lacey's play. It was about Pinocchio. It was a lot of fun to watch.
She had lots of parts !
Her main speaking part was the cat. She really did a great job. She is a natural. I love watching my kids perform.
Baccalaureate was held at St Peter and Paul's Catholic church this year. It was beautiful. Lexi Stout and Amber Sang "the Prayer" and everyone had goosebumps. It was amazing. The whole service was full of prayer and scriptures. A message was given by Tony Newton to the graduates to study the scriptures daily. He promised them if they would do this they would have more success and happiness. I loved that all of these different religions could get together and teach these amazing kids the same message of remembering the Savior in their lives throughout their lives. It was very uplifting. at the end each of the kids went to the pulpit and announced the plans for their future.
After cookies and drinks at St Peter and Pauls school we went home and had dinner.
Then we went to seminary graduation at our church house. It was the perfect way to end an amazing day. I am so grateful for the gospel in our lives and the hope and joy it brings. These amazing young people have a great future ahead of them and they have started it out right. They have amazing testimony's and it is going to be exciting to see what their future will bring. I am so proud of Amber. She is such a good girl.
Tom Adams was her seminary teacher this year and we are so grateful for him. He really put his whole heart into this calling. The kids loved him and learned a lot.
It has been raining and raining here in Nauvoo. Last week it was so bad a few of the roads I drive my bus on were closed down because they are covered in water. Lots of the corn fields look like lakes. It is sad when it rains so much that it just drowns things instead of helping them grow. We had a pretty significant thunderstorm the other night and it brought with it a hailstorm. Not a lot of damage thankfully but they were pretty good sized hailstones.
