Spring Recital 2008 and Mikayla's Graduation Party

The Nephew

The cake

The guests

The balloon

One happy kid

Surprise!!!

Our piano teacher

Mikayla receiving her trophy for piano accomplishments.

So, we have been pretty busy this summer so far. We have had our VBS which went well. I didn't get pics of that. Someone else took pics of that. Mikayla and Nathanael had their spring recital for piano. The videos of that didn't come out very well, but Facebbook users can see the kids playing on my profile there. I can't seem to get videos to upload on the blog. Sorry. They did very well. Lanie has just started piano and voice, so she is excited about that.

We threw a surprise eighth grade graduation party for Mikayla. We down-played her graduation for weeks beforehand, telling her that it was not really that big a deal, and it was just eighth grade and so on. Poor kid!! Meanwhile, I sent out invitations and quietly spoke to all her friends. We planned a big barbecue, cake, gifts and all. Then, on the day of the party, we asked her best friend if she could come over until party time. Of course, they called and asked her to come over and played along with the whole surprise thing very nicely. She had no idea, and the picture by the black SUV is worth a thousand words!