End of School Awards 05.25.23

Korin's end of school awards were May 25th.

Music Achievement for "Heart of Worship".

Art Achievement for "Rainbow Award for colorful expression".

Good Conduct.

Bible Character Award "Priscilla - teacher by example".

Bible Trophy for memorizing all her assigned Bible verses.

A Honor Roll.

I don't remember what the medal was for. 

We now have an official 2nd grader!

Have a good one!

Future Bull Rider? 05-24-2023

I'm not sure when it started but Kashton is interested in bull riding. I know Vanessa had gotten him the movie of Lane Frost's life for Christmas. I think it was called 8 seconds. 

Evidently Jacob has connections with a bull rider named "Hank the Yank" and made arrangements for Kashton to meet him. Here is the posts from Facebook.

Kashton with "Hank the Yank".

Personally, I hope he loses interest. I don't know that this grandmother can stand to watch him!

This guy was a real class act. Here's what Vanessa's brother had to say about this.

June 3rd Hank the Yank was riding bulls in a near by small community called Santo. Uncle Jake took Kashton to watch him ride. 

Kashton is 2nd from the right (or 3rd from the left).

Kashton sitting on the fence with Hank.

What you don't see is that Hank's hand got caught in the rope. Not sure if he made the 8 seconds. Vanessa had messaged us to pray as she said Kennedy text her to say "he got pretty tore up by the bull and they carried Hank out of the arena." Fortunately, he was seriously hurt.

Here are posts from Facebook from Hank, Vanessa and some comments.

I don't know if I could do that if I were his mom! He's still young. A lot can change between now and then.

I've since been following Hank. I've learned he grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. Which explains his handle "Hank the Yank". He now resides in Texas. Hank is a US Marine Veteran. He became a bull rider while serving in the Marine Corps. He has his eyes set on making it to the National Finals one day. He's also been a firefighter in New York. He moved to Texas in 2018 for bull riding. He worked on many ranches across Texas landing at Coalson Ranch in Parker County (county next to us) where he met Joe Wimberly who became Hank's mentor.  He has three World Final Titles with the Professional Armed Forces Rodeo Association. 2019 Top 10 Bull Rider (#7) 2021 Top 10 Bull Rider (#8) 2022 Top 10 Bull Rider (#4)

He's taken a liking to Kashton. He made a post a couple of days after meeting Kashton.

So..... stay tuned. I think you may be hearing more about this cowboy and his relationship with my grandson!

Have a good one!

Dance Recital 5-20-2023

Kennedy and Korin both performed in this year's dance recital. I don't like amount of people that attend but I do love watching the girls dance.

There was recognition of the dancers who participated in recent competitions.

This performance the girls took to competition and placed.

This performance the girls also took to competition and placed.

Both girls did really well!

Have a good one!

Marked Conference 05-05-23 - 05-06-2023

I attended a Women's Conference with Vanessa and Kennedy at their church May 5-6. I was surprised that Kennedy asked to go. She did really good and seem to have a good time. 

It's called Marked Women's Conference and it was all day Friday and Saturday. The theme was "Evergreen".

It was pretty neat how they set things up. Food trucks were available in the parking lot so you didn't have to leave to get food.

My one complaint was there needed to be a few more trucks to eliminate long lines. Vanessa said there were twice as many trucks the year before so I don't know what might have happened.

Kennedy wanted to get food from this truck so I wanted in line with her.

Just a clip from the worship.

Going into the sanctuary

They also put little signs like on the back of the bathroom stalls. All different but regarding the them of the Evergreen Bride.

I can't tell you how it warmed my heart to catch a glimpse of Kennedy worshiping.

The first night of conference there was what they called an "After Party" in a portion of the parking lot. There was music, ice cream, snack trays of fruit and sweets. They also offered a book signing with the Pastor's wife who had written a book. Kennedy wanted the book and have it signed. 

Kennedy is being a typical "teenager" not wanting Mom to get a picture with her. 😉

Kennedy is holding the book she wants the author to sign.

Vanessa is using my phone to take pictures because her phone died!

Don't you love this face?! (Really Mom?!)

She does comply for a picture with the author Heather Schott.

We stayed overnight Saturday. Keannon, Korin and Kashton joined us for church Sunday morning. The conference was great. I so enjoyed spending it with Kennedy and Vanessa. 

Have a good one!