Samantha Robinson's Graduation Open House

Samantha Robinson (one of my girls from Brookdale Christian Center) graduated this year............unbelievable! We went to her open house yesterday.

Samantha & Sonja

Samantha's Cake

Samantha's Student of the Year Award & the cross-stitched picture I made for her.

Samantha's Picture Collage

Sifa & Daima (a couple more of my girls) came as we were leaving.

J.D. & Maddie's Birthday Party

On June 11th, we went to J.D. & Maddie's birthday party. It was a lot of fun! :)

Maddie & Grandma A.

Tyler

Maddie's "Silly Face"

Brenden

Justin

J.D. & Maddie with their Princess Cake.

Here's the cake.

Maddie with the purses that Auntie Ang made for her..........they are crocheted with pony beads. (Evan in the background)

Maddie with the purses that Auntie Ang made for her.

Tyler, Andrew, J.D. & Maddie watch as the candles are lit on the cake.

J.D. blowing out candles.

Maddie blowing out candles.

Tyler, Andrew & Maddie eating cake.

A Nature Center Adventrure

The first weekend in June, we were watching Evan, Luke, Tyler & Maddie. We decided to take them on and adventure at the Springbrook Nature Center.

Tyler & Luke setting off on an adventure.

Maddie, Evan, Luke & Tyler.

Tyler, Evan & Uncle Todd figuring out where we are & where we should go on the map.

Maddie, Tyler & Evan on the trail.

Maddie

We saw this turtle from a bridge.

Crossing the very long bridge accross the lake/marsh.

Maddie, Tyler & Evan on the very long bridge across the water.

New York

On May 29th, our North Heights Chorale had the honor of singing at Carnegie Hall in New York! It is a group that Sonja's mom is in. They needed more people in the Chorale to sing at Carnegie Hall, so Todd & I auditioned & were able to go. It was very hard work to learn the music.....especially Hayden's Lord Nelson Mass...........40 minutes of Latin............but it was well worth it in the end. We took a bus to New York, which was a 22-24 hour drive. We left on May 25th & returned on May 31st.

We had a really nice room with awesome views of New York City & the Hudson River on the 39th floor of The Westin New York at Times Square.


We went to the Empire State Building on Thursday night, our 1st night in New York. We went out on the observation deck way up where the white light is. The view were spectacular from every side.

On Friday afternoon, we went down to Ground Zero & sang two songs.......O Day Full of Grace and The Lord's Prayer.

We decided that Times Square is like the State Fair on steroids!

On Saturday afternoon, we went to Central Park & went on a carriage ride.

A sunset view from our hotel room.

Here it is.......... Carnegie Hall.........it is undergoing some renovations.

Todd & me in front of the concert poster in our concert dress.

After the concert, we went on a 2 hour dinner cruise on the New York Harbor.

Sonja's mom on the cruise.

The hightlight of the cruise was seeing the Statue of Liberty. We all sang God Bless America.

We have a book of our trip with many more pictures that we can show you when we see you.