Quilt Lady

Can you believe two posts in two days?

Lauren's class was in charge of making a quilt for a tree the school is entering in the Festival of Trees this Christmas time. The trees are donated by local schools and businesses. The proceeds go to help different charities.

Anyway, Lauren was so excited about the quilt that they made that she wanted to make one for herself. She and Marsha went to the fabric store to pick out just the right material for the quilt. When she gets into a project like this, there is no stopping her. Marsha didn't have time to help her, so she made the quilt herself. Here are some pictures of the finished product.

Lauren loves to do projects like this. She had another activity at school where the kids could sell goods. She made around friendship bracelets to sell. She sold them all. She is great at stuff like that.

As most of you know, Lauren got a cat this summer. Her name is Tortie (for the tortoise shell fur she has.) She reminds me a lot of Rammy - really skinny and doesn't mind being toted around by kids. Here is a picture of her from the summer. She is a little bigger than that now, but not too much.

Eagle Project

It's been a while since we had a post, so let's get back into it.

This has been a long time in the works, but Mark has finally finished the work on his Eagle Project. His project was to paint red curbs by fire hydrants to mark them as no parking zones. It took a while to get going on the project because the prep work included talking to the Fire Chief and getting donations from local businesses (like Home Depot and Kwall Paint.) For those of you who know Mark, he would rather get teeth pulled than talk to people on the phone. It took a while to get in gear, but he finally got going. Mark got a donation of paint from Kwall Paint and supplies from Home Depot. He started the project during a Tuesday night activity. The Teachers and Priests were lined up to help out. About 22 people in all showed up to help. It was really windy that night and we didn't get very much done (about 7 curbs.) The project continued that Saturday and about 10 people showed up to help. We painted about 15 curbs that day with half the people in the same amount of time. There were six curbs left to do. We finished them up on Saturday. Mark has now finished his Eagle Project!!!!! Hooray for Mark!!!! Now he just has to finish up one requirement on three merit badges and do his Eagle paperwork.

Here are some of the pictures we took for the before and after photos required for the project.

In addition to the Eagle Project, Mark has been studying hard. He is getting good grades and is doing well in his AP Chemistry class that he was a little worried about at the beginning of the year.

He also had a performance evaluation in piano. Performance evaluation is where you go play for a judge and they evaluate your performance. Mark played "Danza del gaucho matero" by Alberto Ginastera. He did well and was invited to perform at an honors recital at the end of this month.