Karina & Bryce 4-H

Karina's first cake she's ever decorated! Turned out great, and you almost can't tell Bridgette ate one of the ears off of it! She had to decorate 4 practice cakes and then her exhibit cake before Fair.

Bryce with his finished knife sheath. He loved working with Golden Boyce learning leathercraft and wants to continue with it.

Karina also did a garden project. Here are her basil and tomato plants she started from seed clear back in winter.

Karina's final exhibit cake--Holly Hobbie. If she looks a bit tired it's because she was up at 6 a.m. to finish it! It was a rough morning!

Bryce with his finished exhibit. He did such a nice job on his knife sheath and wallet! He's excited to give the wallet to his dad.

Bryce with his ribbons from his leathercraft project. He was soooo excited (even though he was the only one in his class)! We're anxiously awaiting the return of his exhibit from State Fair. He received Grand Champion, Champion, First Place, and Blue Award group for the county fair.

Karina with the ribbons from both of her projects--3rd place and Blue Award Group on her cake; Champion, Reserve Grand Champion, First Place, Blue Award Group on her gardening project; and a First Premium for her tomatoes. Karina's garden project also went to state fair.

Now Mariah wants to be in 4-H too, so we'll have all 3 in it this year. As long as we don't wait until the month before fair to start the projects this year!

KWAKers

The four oldest children, along with their cousins Hannah, Sabrina, and Elizabeth (Bridgette just hopped in for the picture.) participated in a Kids with a King production on May 9th and 10th.
KWAK is a Christian musical production that Delta Christian Church sponsors twice a year. This semester's production was called Camp Koinonia and was a wonderful story about kids going to summer camp and getting stuck inside because of bad weather. They whine and complain but then learn great lessons of people from the Bible who made the best of their difficult situations. Karina had the main part of Crystal, and all the other children (except Elizabeth and Becca who didn't want parts) had short solos in some of the songs. The children loved participating and we loved watching them! This was Karina's last one, so they awarded her with a nice bouquet of flowers. She is so sad to be too old to be in any more! The children put in about 24-hours of practice time for these performances. It has been such a good experience for them!

Karate

On May 2, Bryce tested for his next belt level. He's really coming along with his karate!

Bryce's BD

Bryce turned the big 10 on April 19th.
We celebrated with chocolate cheesecake and by having some friends of his spend the night.

Scout Adventures

Bryce had fun as usual making his pinewood derby car for Scouts. He won 2nd place in his Den and was able to race at districts. He didn't do as well there, but it was a good experience for him.
He also earned his Webelos badge and was awarded that in February.

Each year the Scout Pack here has a cake auction. The boys have to make and decorate the cake without the help of any female. Since Dad was gone working in Denver, Papa graciously volunteered to help Bryce with his cake. That Easter egg looks good enough to eat!