Reflections Contest

You may remember back on Thanksgiving, Nicholas had access to our family camera (this is the reason we don't have any photos of the family) all day to take pictures for the school PTA Reflections Contest. Nicholas took some beautiful pictures throughout the day. He ended up taking one picture in particular that was really... WOW (the theme of this year's contest). He submitted it and only four students from Red Bug were asked to go on to the county level. Tonight Nick won an award for his photo. He was the only Red Bug student in the photography category honored this evening. He wished he would have gone on to states, but I think he should be proud of his hard work. I am so glad that he was recognized for this beautiful display of God's work.

We are very proud of you Nick!

This is Nick at the beginning of the night. We were so excited to see his work on display. It is the beautiful photo of the sunrise with the silhouette of the tree.

Here I am trying to get a close up of the display.

Nick was very excited to see his Reach/Gifted Teacher come tonight since he worked on the contest in her class as well. He just loves her, he'd spend all day with her if he could.


Before we left for the evening Nick went back with his award to look at his work...

just one last time.

Happy Easter!

We had a very nice Easter together. The boys got some fun things to do in their baskets. Nick ended up with a Wii game that has kept him pretty glued to the TV. Ashe got a fun kid's computer keyboard and game. It is just perfect for little ones. Ashe ended up with a bubble whistle and they both have too much candy for their little bellies. After breakfast, Ashe had an Easter egg hunt here at home. He thought it was so much fun finding candy filled eggs in our yard. Of course, Nick is too cool for this type of Easter fun, but he did help his brother with the hard to find eggs.

As always we celebrated Easter with all the traditional things like church, a large family dinner, and lots of fun.

Aside from the commercial meaning of Easter, what we are most excited about is that we are able to instill the true meaning of Easter to our boys.

We had a blessed holiday and hope your family did as well.