TBQ Meet #1 (2016-17 season)

God's Girlz had their first meet of the season today. They won 3 rounds & lost one. You may notice there is a new God's Girl as one decided to not quiz this year although she is helping out on the assistant coaching "job". 

After the meet, we went to Chick-Fil-A for a belated b-day lunch for our Hannah Bear. Later we watched House of Mouse/Villains & The Great Pumpkin. I've also introduced the kids to I Love Lucy which is so much better than the stuff on tv these days. Gonna go watch that now.....

Hannah's Birthday Get-Together

 Hanging with a few friends

We had a low-key birthday "party" this year. Hannah just wanted to hang out with friends & a favorite place to do this is at Barro's Pizza. There was no theme this year-BIG surprise since I love themes.  Hannah found a yummy vanilla cupcake recipe & chose some simple candy pearls to decorate them with. They were delicious.

Hannah's 17th Birthday!!!

 After the show.

On Hannah's birthday, we went to see a play at GCU that a couple friends were performing in. We went to an early show that morning for school field trips. I got a picture with one friend who knew we were coming but the other girl didn't know we were coming so she went to change quickly. It was called Of Thee I Sing.  Then we went to lunch,came home to watch a few Veggie Tales because 17 is still young, went to Cold Stone for "dinner", & then watched Captain America-Civil War. We'll be going to Barro's Pizza next week to celebrate with a group of Hannah's friends. Hannah found a yummy vanilla cupcake recipe so we'll make those for the party/get together. Joshua will skip that as he doesn't want to sit around while 7-9 girls talk & giggle.

So besides the party, we've got the first TBQ meet of the season near the end of October. They are memorizing Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, & Philemon. Hannah has to take the PSAT Nov. 2nd (yuck). Plus she has auditions for The Little Mermaid Nov. 5th. Phew!

State Fair 2016

 The picture above is not from the State Fair but I added it "just because". It was taken at Grand Canyon University (GCU) when we went there for a tour. Several of Hannah's friends who went to go adulting attend there. This is one. We ran into her by "chance" yet I believe it was a God thing that these two got to see each other for a few moments before they each had to part ways.

 Now begins the State Fair pics.....

 Hannah's beach flag.

 Hannah's Valentine's Day jar. It has a candle inside.

 Hannah's lighthouse. I think it should have been 1st place instead of 2nd. I'm still a bit bitter about this one. It's so cute & she worked hard on it.

 Joshua's beachy birdhouse.

 Joshua's fall jar with a candle inside.

 Hannah's beachy jewelry box.

 Hannah's beachy recycled project.

 Joshua's hedgehog made from folding book pages.

 Joshua's flag.

 Hannah's fairy jar with a candle inside. I'm a bit bitter this one didn't get 1st place too.  It got 3rd. It was easy to make but so darn cute. When it's dark & the votive is turned on, it looks like you caught Tinkerbell.

 Joshua's recycled project. Matchbox cars can park in all those toilet paper tubes.

 Joshua's tic-tac-toe game.

 Hannah & her hymnal page wreath. At least they got this one right!

 Joshua's Mickey wreath.

 Joshua's sunflower.

 Hannah's crocheted necklace with a pretty cross she made for me for my birthday.

 Joshua's beachy windchime.

 Hannah's knitted scarf.

 Hannah's recycle tote. She took an outgrown shirt, cut, & tied some fringe at the bottom to make a purse/tote or grocery bag. However you'd want to use it. It's a great way to upcycle well loved shirts when they're too small. Easily washable too!

 This black blob is a shirt Hannah made that she covered a portion of with a ºoº head with freezer paper & then sprayed bleach over it. After it's dried & you remove the freezer paper, you should have a nice ºoº head surrounded by an orange colored splatter. I would have held it up but there was a "guard" in the section so I didn't want them to tell me not to touch our own stuff.

 Joshua surfing in the rock-n-roll exhibit.

 Remember this MTV icon form when MTV played cool music?

 Hannah walked away & pretended not to notice her family during the above pic.

 We love the wallabies.

 These chicks never did slide down for us:(

 Lots of baby chick pics for Joshua....

We went to the State Fair on Oct 12th. We checked out all of the kids' entries, went through the rock-n-roll exhibit, and checked out the animals as usual. I think Hannah earned $33 & Joshua earned $39 but I don't remember exactly. Something like that.