Katie's Zipping Along

Katie and I met with someone at Blue Ridge today.  We were very encouraged by what they said!  Because she took 12 credits in the fall and 15 credits this spring, she is going to graduate from high school almost halfway to her associates degree!  Yippee!  Good job, Kates!

North Carolina spring break

Fantastic spring break in Sunset Beach, NC!

The Periwinkle House

Celebrating 70!

Marble Run

Extreme joy at getting Blitz for the first time

Backyard.  Alligators in there!

Love this deck!  Enjoying the sun after winter darkness

Flowers!

See Micah?  He was chilly :)

Beautiful at sunrise

Chocolate Factory

Created by Micah and Chad :)

My bday

Fun evening celebrating my bday at Jer and Dani's lovely home.  Katie made my yummy cake!

Claire's Winning Entry

She's Tall!

Chad took Micah and Parker to a train museum in Hagerstown

The 2nd grade class went to this museum a week or two before, but both Micah and Parker were sick that day-- so Chad took them on a different day.

Chess Club

Book Worm

Micah's First Winning Story!

Micah rather shocked us... none of us had ever seen anything like this come from his pencil! Generally, he will tell you he hates to write anything (except lists or numbers, of course).  So, we just didn't know he had it in him!  Below is his 1st place entry in the Creative Writing contest at school last month.  

 MY DAY AS A SNOWFLAKE                by Micah Donald Wingert

        I would be falling down, down, down, and when I hit the ground, I would be laying there, laying, laying, laying. Poor me, just facing the sky, waiting, waiting, waiting, for a sight, for a sound.

It’s turning, turning, turning into daytime. I’m still sitting, sitting, sitting there. Still I’m waiting, waiting, waiting for something to happen.

But then, right at 6:00 in the morning, BOOSH! Five kids come running out the door! Of course, I got stepped on a lot, but when I saw the kids making snowmen and having snowball fights, I even started having fun.

But then, I got scared to death, because somebody actually picked me up! And then I noticed that they were making me into a snowball! I was so scared because they were going to throw me soon! So then they threw me and I hit someone in the face! It hurt a little bit, but it was fun.

Well, I hit the ground and then I started to melt, melt, melt.