Congratulations!

Today, we drove to Columbus for Malia’s award ceremony and luncheon for winning the Franklin B. Walter scholarship. There was one winner from each of the 88 Ohio counties. Congratulations to this year’s senior scholars! 

2 More Drivers!

These two got their driving permits this week. Congrats, J and J! Now to get 100 hours of driving in before they can be licensed!

Other Recent Events…

 A friend was recently in Ethiopia, and took this photo in Mekele. Several things were super exciting to me about this…first of all, the war in Tigray is finally over, and it has been declared safe to travel there again. Secondly, see the school building in the background of the picture? That is Metekle School, to which we added a second story back in 2016 because so many of you donated to this worthy cause! The building is being put to good use and seeing it again warmed my heart. ❤️ 

Trinity wanted me to get a pedicure recently with her and other members of her family. 

Quintin and I finished another Chosen puzzle…1000 pieces. 

Lots of pretty skies lately:

We celebrated Easter! 

The twins’ track team:

Jalen and Jordan attended their FFA banquet and were awarded their Greenhand degrees:

Florida!

 Last Monday, Chris had to go to Florida for work. I flew down to meet him on Thursday, and we spent a couple of days together for an early anniversary getaway since our baby granddaughter is due at the end of the month right before our anniversary. Chris’s workplace was kind enough to give us free tickets with fast passes to Universal, so we spent half a day at Islands of Adventure. The next day, we drove to St. Augustine and enjoyed walking the streets, visiting shops, touring the fort, playing putt-putt, eating fish tacos, and watching sailboats on the water. 

We stayed at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort.