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Last Day of school is Coming

At the end of every school year the kids at ACE do projects, their end of the year character projects. They take the character traits that they have been learning all year long and do a project that reflects that trait. Resourcefulness, Diligence, sincerity, Initiative, Endurance, Dependability, just to name a few. They then make a display of how they showed character in one of these areas. Then at the end of the year they do a Character Fair. Here are the projects that the kids did.

AJ Made an Apple Cake

Character Trait: Obedience

AJ obeyed the directions and followed them well (with the help of his brother Alex)

Here is the completed Apple Cake, by the way, it was an incredible cake, AJ put in all the ingredients and measured each himself.

AJ is carefully putting the cake in the oven, after pre-heating it himself.

Here AJ is measuring the wheat to put into the cake.

Here AJ reads and follows the directions that are written out for him. He did a great job with his project!

Karley fed the cats of a friend of ours for 2 weeks

Character Trait: Dependability

Karley was dependable as she fed and watered the cat of some friends while they were on vacation. Each day, she would plan when to go, open the door herself and feed and water the cat.

Here Karley is getting into the back yard to feed the cats

Here is the cat, Karley has already fed the cat and is placing water by the food of the kitty. What a great worker!

On one of the days Karley noticed the newspaper advertisment in the yard and put it on the back porch, what a great job of being a helper.

Here is where the food was stored, each day she got food out of the box to fill the cats.

Cedar created a dance to show to others

Character Trait: Compassion

Cedar showed compassion to a few shut-in people by performing a dance she created herself. Cedar danced to care and love them.

Cedar danced for our friend Katie. Katie lives in an assited living home and loves whatever visitors she can get. What a treat it was.

Cedar dancing for Katie

Cedar takes her show on the road to the home of Glen and Lucille. Glen has cancer and has been very weak lately but he loved the dance!

Cedar dancing away!

Alex built a fort out of recycled wood from around the house

Character Trait: Resourcefullness

Alex was resourceful by using wood pieces from old projects and from a fence he helped to tear down. He built the walls with old 2x6's, put up used plywood and roofed it with fencing.

Here is the completed play house, Alex is still planning on putting in windows, but he painted it himself.

THis is a picture from the inside before the roof was added. The walls were dividers from the church, so on the inside there is space to write on chalk boards.

Here is the walls and the framing.

Alex showed resourcefulness by using these used pieces of wood. He nailed, cut, and painted the whole thing by himself. This is a great project that will be used for years to come.

Pictures from our trip to omsi

Boys Weekend

Just Men

Alex and I spent a weekend on the beach going through the talk men have with men.  We did the Passport to Purity weekend and had a great time.  We discussed some deep issues about girls and dating.  Then we cruised the beach, had lunch at an awesome dive and chilled out on the way home!

Alex Turns 13

Alex's 13 Year Old Birthday

Alex turned 13 on May 13th.  We had his big party on the 8th, took 6 boys to laser tag, then came home and had an awesome slumber birthday party!  Aunt Dorothy made the boys survival bags for the night, Gatorades with Alex's face on them, snacks and a head band.  

Laser tag was awesome!  We had a great time and loved every second of it, especially when the owner of the business took us through the paintball part and explained a few different parts of the business and the fun.

Birthday Girls

Happy Birthday

Cedar Turns 7

This is Cedar and Becca, two twin sisters from another mother.  Yep, they were born on the exact same day, the exact same year.  May 8th!  They planned their party together, and thanks to the help of aunt Dorothy the tea party was a total success.  They created beautiful hats, decorated their own shirts and enjoyed tea and snacks together.  What a fun birthday.

AJ can't keep himself off the ground

Happy Easter

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  Here is a great picture of the family after services on sunday.  You can see that I didn't even take off my lapel mic for the picture and Abi is trying to hide behind my hand.  Ah well.

I hope you had as great a Resurrection sunday as we did!

Easter Pictures

Happy Easter to all!!

Egg Painting

We all got to paint some eggs the other day for Easter and what fun it was, here is the fun we had:

This was the egg Karley made, it reads:  Jesus rose on the third day!

Abi and Karley working together to make their eggs.

Alex waiting patiently for the green and then I see some yellow over there too.  Looks like and Oregon Ducks Egg in the making.

AJ makes some designs on his egg with a marker.

Mustard

AJ has become fixed on mustard. He loves the stuff. A few weeks ago he even made himself a mustard and Peanutbutter sandwich. Yes, he did eat it ALL and said it was delicious, thank you.

Buy stock in mustard, it's going way up.

Look at Our Nails

Check out these fancy nails. Girls will always be girls, won't they?

Our Trip to Molalla!

This last week we were given a chance to go visit a couple friends of ours in Molalla, Or.  They had purchased some great property in November and had us out for a bunch of brats, hotdogs and lots of horse back riding.  Tony and his wife Cleosa were awesome hosts, (who dares bring out the Earlywine's and those 5 kids) and we left tired and blessed.

Here are some great pictures of our experience:

Tony's beautiful house on top of the mountain, what a view!