Goodbye Summer... By: Siobhan

Hello to all of Alma Mater's Readers.  I haven't been keeping up with posts very well this summer, so I'm compiling a huge post with an overview of our whole summer.  Get ready for TONS of pictures. ;)

We started our summer with a few weeks of swimming lessons.  Tert, Rus, Leo and I did them.  Tert completed the preschool level and he and Rus are going to do Level 1 together next summer.  Leo and I did Level 6 and passed, but we will probably still do it again next year because it is the final level before life guarding.

 

 

After swimming lessons came Vacation Bible School at Sovereign Grace Fellowship.  We had a lot of fun there as well.  It was a Medieval Theme which ties in perfectly with this year's school theme,

 

 Just a week after came everyone's favorite part of the summer...

...meeting Alma Mater's latest addition: Little Lux

Thank you so much Steph for the use of your camera!

Lux smiled by the time he was two weeks old.  He loves to stick out his tongue for all of his pictures :P

 

After Lux's arrival came Franklin Area Children's Theatre (aka F.A.C.T) I had so much fun participating in this year's play of Alice in Wonderland Jr. a Junior Broadway Musical. I had 5 parts in it and sung and danced in 18 songs.  

Click here to see pictures of the show. 

 Below is a cake I made for it:

The Queen of Hearts, Alice and the March Hare

My first part was a girl in Alice's world

The costume changes were so fast that I didn't get a picture of my second costume (but the link above does have pictures of it :) )

I was also a sea creature

I was an Un-Birthday Partier

I was also a cardsman

Thank you so much for coming to see it Grandma and Grandpa P., Grandma Z., Aunt Gretchen, Lin, Uncle Tom, Aunt Krista, Lyd, E, Chris and Curt!

Shortly after this Mom's cousin Joli was able to come visit with her baby. It was so fun to see C and Lux meet each other.

When Filia first saw C she said: "Look! Look! She has a meehawk!"

Second cousins

Swapping babies ;)

We have had so much fun at Franklin Falls Dam

The trails are gorgeous and so nice to walk on.

Tert learned to ride his bike (with Dad's help) out on the dam.

Stella worked on her cake decorating skills. She made Uncle Adam's birthday cake.

 

 I also was able to show my friend Asia some cake decorating skills :)

The boys officially doubled the girls in number.

We had some beautiful lake days with family and friends.

 

We also went to the ocean

 

 We were even able to make a couple trips to Beech Hill to eat some yummy ice cream and feed the animals.

Stella sewed some Christmas decorations

We had a pool party with friends from DI

 

 Stella made this cake for the party

At the end of the summer Lux was baptized. Thank you so much Steph for the beautiful family picture.