Lilly's Drawings

More May Randomness

Lilly's cinco de Mayo picture she brought home from school. 

I love it! 

 Jarrett took this picture after church was over and they were waiting for people to stop talking to me and telling me their problems.  Just kidding.  Kind of.

Anyways I think its a cute picture.

 This was Mother's Day lunch at my Mom's house.

All the grandkids.

No one is even crying yet!

 Max and Grandpa.  

 Lilly and Ya-Ya!

 Self explanatory

 Lilly showing Grandma her piano skills.  

 My cousin Eric came out for a visit

 Found some books Max is interested in that aren't Halloween.  Not there is anything wrong with Halloween.  Trust me, I of all people LOVE Halloween, but he has not wanted ANY and I mean ANY books from the Library unless they are about Halloween.  Skateboarding.  That mixes things up.  Sad thing is these books shown here are the only ones about skateboarding.

This is going to old really fast.

At The Chocolate

Max's Art

I was cleaning out my church bag one day when I found this picture Max had colored in Primary.  

I laughed so hard. 

Blue beard the Zombie.

I love that he made her eyes open when they are supposed to be closed. 

Kiddo's Art work

Max drew himself as a skateboarding stunt boy.

Found this cute drawing in Lilly's backpack.

They have been talking about drugs and smoking at school and how they are bad for you. I assume this  has something to do with that.

I told you they loved that cake.

Kiddo's Art Work

The first 5 are Max's.

I was teaching Max crayon resist and he was experimenting with it. 

This Last one is Lilly's.

She made it in school.

Maxo's drawings

Um, not sure.  A vampire for sure.  

Santa with his Reindeer.  Rudolph is in the lead.

Santa and his elves

Reflections Contest Winner

 About 3 weeks after Lilly turned in her reflections submission (HERE) She came home from school with a generic invitation to come to the school Thursday night at 7 for an awards ceremony.

The year she won, they called us and told us she had done so.  So I assumed she hadn't won anything.

We arrived at the school and went to look at the display of pictures and drawings.

Lilly's wasn't there.

She was starting to a get a little worried and they were about to start, so we had no time to ask why her picture wasn't there.

Once we sat down I noticed her picture up by the table, sticking out of a rubbermaid container.

They announced her name first as not only first place in her age category, but first place overall in show!!!

Her best friend Kodie who also entered (and helped push Lilly to enter I might add) didn't submit any paperwork and consequently didn't win a place.

She was a little let down but was a good friend and congratulated Lilly many times.

I took this photo of them both and somehow cut out Kodie's ribbon.

Lilly's picture moves on to the District level.

We were told that they might not accept her painting the way it's matted. (The real way I might add)

They said they would double check, but the PTA lady said she thought the picture had to be glued to a piece of matte board.  

What????

So you want us to ruin it, is what you are saying.

First of all it isn't a piece of paper, it's nice Watercolor paper and unless we use superglue or rubber cement , it isn't going to stay glued to a piece of matte board, which will buckle when it get as wet as it will need to be to have a piece of watercolor paper glued to it.

Thus making it so it can never be matted the right way again or hung.

Not sure what to do if this is the case.

She doesn't want her piece ruined and we've already spent money on the nice  (correct) matte form.

I read all the instructions and I didn't see anything about ruining glueing your work.

If this is the way it is supposed to be, why wasn't it put on the form?

Anyways enough about that.

We are proud of Lilly and the work she did. 

Proud of her for sticking to her idea (even though Mom though she should do something else.)

She's pretty headstrong. (I wonder where she gets it?)

Reflections Contest

Lilly entered the Reflections contest when she was is Kindergarten and we haven't seen or heard anything about it since, until this year.
Maybe I should clarify.  She won a few awards in the contest she entered in Kindergarten.
The last 2 years though we haven't heard anything about the Reflections contest.
This year Lilly came home and said she saw posters in the school about the Reflections Contest so we went to the office and got an application and more info.

The theme was "The Magic of A Moment"

I did my best to try and explain to Lilly what this meant, and this is the painting she came up with and submitted.

She said "it's magic that the cats can see their faces in the clouds"

We'll find out in about a month how she did!

Kiddo's Art work v.2

 This first one is Max's.  It'a a graveyard...of course.

This one is Lilly's.  It's a sunset.

Kiddo's Art work

The first two are Lilly's and are pretty self explanatory,  and the second two are Max's (as always) Halloween themed drawings.

A little shack in the mountains

The B.F.G with really, long hair like Rapunzel.

Spooky woods with a graveyard and a Zombie (on the left with blood)

Once again the SCARECROW THEME and apparently a "Dogo"