Family Brinner

We did a breakfast-for-dinner theme last night (pancakes, eggs, bacon, and fresh fruit - yay!) and celebrated Triston's Graduation and Kyndal Faith's Christian Citizenship Award!  This = a fun grad-themed canvas I made for Triston (thanks to the LiveCollage app and Walgreens same-day pickup photo gifts!).  We're laughing about Mom's photo-taking skills, and it's such a real smile from him that makes me happy!! ❤

Closer view of the collage!  The extended fam, the Parrishes, his best friend Reece Barnes, Mrs. King, the speech, Wendy and JoBug, Mrs. Talley, Brooke's side of the fam, and a pic with Reese Kufahl and Kate Smiley (the girls he is closest to in his class).

A fun cookiecake... (his name got messed up when Jace was carrying it in, but I was able to restore it with iPhone's markup feature). lol

Rach bought this book back in 2011 and had every CHA teacher sign it over the past 14 years!  It has some great notes in it, then she added a few Bible verses and photos, so it's a really meaningful gift!

Pic of T and Rach with the book!

Kyndal Faith made up a trivia game for us to play, asking things like her favorite color, movie, song, season, Thunder player, etc. lol

It also included what she wants to be when she grows up, which was definitely the first time I'd heard about the Senator Parrish plan (inspired by their DC trip), but I'm 100% on board for that! =)

Then she and I played a few rounds of Speed while Jace played basketball and Rach made a McDonald's run, then they played a couple rounds of that and another fun card game when Rach got back!

"She tried to cheat, but I still won!!" ~K telling Grandpa all about it

(P.S. Dad's had a tooth pulled and we're all used to it, but I felt like I should explain that here)

Another family dinner to remember - the sun being out longer is my favorite, and I feel like the niece and nephews are all at fun ages with interesting lives and thoughts I love to hear right now.  I made extended slideshows for K-Faith and T-man, which prompted a "Bro, where's MY slideshow!?" from Jace, so I hastily made him one while he was swimming!  We all watched all three of them together on Mom and Dad's huge living room TV, and that was fun times hearing the kids thoughts and commentary!

Here's Mrs. Garner and Tman on his very first day at CHA! ❤

And on his final day at CHA - here's Mrs. Garner with the 8 Senior students who had been there since Pre-K!

❤ ❤ ❤