Birthday Cakes

Cerah made our birthday cakes again this year. The theme this time around was our favorite movies. My favorite is Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Robbie's favorite are the Indiana Jones series. She was pretty ambitious as she hasn't really learned how to make characters or any other items so pretty much everything on our cakes was trial and error but I think they turned out pretty good for her first attempt.

Unless you've seen my movie you probably won't get most of these decorations but she incorporated them from different scenes that were important to the movie.

I didn't want fondant for my frosting so that made it a bit more difficult to decorate.

This represents a doll from the movie. It looks pretty good to me.

My favorite quote from the movie

How she managed to make the keyboard stick to the side of the cake is a mystery to me.

These are shoes in case you are wondering. They are central to the storyline.

For Rob's cake she incorporated different scenes from all the movies.

We decided to make the snake the largest part of the cake since there's always one in every movie.

On the side of the cake is the map that always shows up when Indiana Jones is traveling. She also added some bones since he's an archaeologist.

She had some trouble with the fondant cracking. No matter how many times she made it, it cracked every time it was put on the cake. I think the temperature had a lot to do with it.

But, all in all, her dad loved it.

Honor Star Hannah

We had the Kids Award Banquet for our church on Friday night. One of the highlights of the night for this banquet is the crowning of the Honor Stars. These are 5th grade girls who have completed 3 years worth of Stars lessons in our Mpact Girls club. This year there were only two girls who finished although we had five in the class.  I'm the teacher for the honor star girls but for this night I got to be just the mom and enjoy watching Hannah go through the ceremony.

Waiting for the banquet to start. I had to get there a little early to finish getting badges ready

Let's get a more formal picture before we begin.

Our kids pastor, Pastor Randy, giving Hannah an award for BGMC in Sunday School

Miss Rosemary, the kids pastor's wife and woman in charge of our Mpact Girls Club, took over for me and handed out the awards for the Honor Stars.

Hannah and Dad watching a short video Pastor Randy put together of Hannah - it included pictures of her and a voice over by her talking about what Honor Stars meant to her this year.

With her Honor Star sash at the end of the ceremony

We are proud of her. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to finish this program.

This year, because there were only two, they got their names on the cake.

Graduation for Anthony

Anthony finally did it!  We had our doubts and plenty of stressful times but Saturday we watched as he walked across the stage and accepted his high school diploma. YAY!

Right before graduation

School sign above the stage

In case you forgot which school you graduated from

Graduates filing into the auditorium

there were over 650 students who graduated

recognizing the valedictorians

Anthony walking up to the stage

accepting his diploma

walking off the stage

getting formal picture

yes, it's really a real diploma

posing with Papa and Grandma

I'm still in shock - can you tell?

Rob and Anthony still treating it like a joke

O.k, we're happy now

the girls are excited too

New England trip

We spent the Memorial Day weekend in New England letting the kids have a mini vacation.  On our trip we went to Block Island, RI., Six Flags New England, and Coney Island, NY. The kids also got to go to the movies on Sunday afternoon so the trip was busy and fulfulling.

First stop, Block Island. It was gray that day but the smiles made up for it

one sign to show where we were in relation to other places

and one sign just so we know where we are

Then on to Six Flags

cooling off on a hot day

posin' with the superheroes

Last stop, Coney Island and a Nathan's hot dog.

 well we took in some water too but everyone waited for the hot dog

boardwalk before it was busy

quick stop at the NY Aquarium

and then boardwalk after it got busy

throw in a couple of rides

and a picture with a police horse and the day was complete



Time for prom

I'm finally back on here and I have lots of pictures to share! I thought that I would start with pictures of Anthony and Jenny at her Homeschool Prom. There will be more pictures next month after his school prom.

The prom was held at the Cherry Creek Golf Club

in the clubhouse

But we chose to take pictures outside

Don't they both look nice?