orientation

UH orientation is tomorrow!

I'm going with my friend Brenda, here we are at her graduation party.

We had a lovely time celebrating her graduation from Cy-Fair . Brenda, Vanessa (check out the picture below!) and I took a biology class together last fall and we've become great friends.

and the beat goes on

I like bullet points so here it goes:

• God was gracious and I finished this semester with all A's!! He is very good :)




• Summer school will start in a week or so and I will be taking a computer class and world literature(yay!) class. I'm not looking forward to the computer one, but world lit should prove to be interesting :)




• My little brother graduated!!! Check it out at Allyson's blog! Congratulations, Chris!




• Chris and I will be going to the University of Houston this fall! He in Engineering(Chemical, I believe?) and I will be getting my Political Science degree!




• I think you should go check out Allyson's blog. She has become quite the photographer!




• Work is going well, I am now working with Junior Kumon, which is another department of Kumon that works with preschoolers through I love it! It's a challenge working with some of the more rambunctious ones, but one that I enjoy. I can't wait to have my own kids to teach :) I am sad that I will not be able to continue into the fall, but I've loved (almost) every moment there :)



• The family has been gardening!! They've got some squash, peppers, tomatoes and a host of other yummy stuff out there!



• In three days, Allyson and I are leaving for Next! I will be updating my blog from my phone :) So check back for updates! Pray that God would do a mighty work there!!

That's all for now! I'll be back soon! :)

Celebrating...

Why not post this Wednesday about something that happened last Wednesday!?

To celebrate several graduations, all the girl's from
the history co-op that we attended, gathered for a little party. All but three of us, are now graduated and are already in college or will be leaving this fall.

Here we are!

We gathered at Sweet Tomatoes for lunch, then headed over to the Miller's for ice cream cake:

We had quite a time trying to cut the frozen hard cake, sooo what's a girl to do?

Why blow-dry it of course!

It was delicious, I love cake! :c)

We opened gifts and cards, talked about college stuff and watch a slideshow Emily and Jessica made for the graduates. It was lovely. Emily, Leah, and Leslie will be leaving this fall and I am sad. I'm looking forward to holiday breaks!

Love you, girls!

Class of 2008!

A little over a week ago, we got to celebrate the graduation of two of my very close friends.


After partying the night before, we attended the homeschool ceremony, which was pretty neat. I'm so blessed to have Kiana and Cassia in my life, they are both dear friends who I have had the pleasure of growing with them spiritually .





Kiana and Cassia: I love you both and I pray that as we move on to bigger things that our friendship and relationship with the Lord would just grow stronger!

Allyson with Cassia:

Kamyl, Allyson, Kiana, and Me:

One Step At A Time..

Ok, I think the best way to get back into this blogging thing is to take little baby "post" steps, I'm not going to post one loooog update, just a little at a time.

The place I think is best to start is: {drum rolls} Finals are over! It's been a tough last couple of weeks, especially in Honors English. I have been working this semester on a White Paper titled:"The Future of Conservative Leadership". A White Paper is a name for a paper that argues a specific position or solution to a problem. My paper explored the history of Conservatives in American politics and then provided some recommendations for improving Conservative leadership in the future. This has been one of the most challenging projects. Last Friday, I presented my paper at the Cy-Fair Student Symposium, I was extremely nervous, but I got through it. I'm just glad it's ALL over!

Graduation is just a week away and my anticipation is growing! I'm so glad, that I'm having the opportunity to participate in a ceremony with my friends and other homeschoolers. I'm so grateful to my family, especially my incredible mother, for the way they have been working to get everything ready for the celebration!

Yesterday, a few seniors from my "graduating class" decided to hang out yesterday, so we went to the lunch and the movies. I got the privilege to see Expelled. This movie provided an alternative view to the fight between Intelligent Design and Evolution. Though the movie did not take a stand on a particular view, it explored American Science and the way that views that questioned Darwin's Evolution were given no creditability. The idea that stood out most to me was the fact that many scientist that pushed evolution believed that one could believe in evolution and still believe in God, but this movie exposed the stories of many evolutionist who turned their back on the faith as a result of exploring and believing in Evolution. My little review doesn't do it justice. So get some buddies and go see it!

More blogging coming soon!

Love,

Adrienne Renea

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

-Martin Luther

Graduation Goodies!

Today, we visited the Graduation Store with my graduation group to get fitted for caps and gowns. It was a long process, we have about 20 graduates and it was a small store! So I spent the time visiting with some friends from debate. I really lucked out to be able to graduate with so many of my friends from debate.

We got to choose the color of our tassels, so I started with blue and brown, but sadly, they didn't have it. Then I tried pink and brown..no...black and pink? No. Ahhh...oh well! I ended up with light blue and white...ahh...I was trying to be unique! Oh well...I'm happy with end results!

Hello!

So I haven't done any real "updating" blogging in a while so here goes:

Graduation things are coming together: we've got invitations coming in. They look like this ---------->


This Friday, Mrs. Axelson will be taking my senior pictures along with Kiana and Cassia, who are graduating this year.
Allyson is sitting next to me brainstorming ideas for the reception after the graduation and scrapbooking. She likes planning and she comes up with some creative ideas!


March madness has been very entertaining. I was rooting for both Memphis and Texas in the Sweet Sixteen, momentaily forgetting if they both won, they would have to play each other! Happily, they both won! Unfortunantly, I had to choose between the "home team" : Texas or my Dad's favorite and my Mom's alma mater: Memphis. Well Memphis won out quite easily, I've been a fan of theirs for several years and there are personal ties. So today I proudly wore my Memphis basketball jersey as Texas was soundly beat by the Memphis Tigers!


On another note, Allyson's favorite team(I admit, I had a soft spot for them too!) and Tournament Cinderella story, Davidson, narrowly lost to Kansas. It's been a great tournament and it contunially is a testament to the fact that NCAA basketball is much more exciting than NBA!

Chris has been cooking around here. He really into finding new things to cook and bake! Last month he made a Peanut Butter Cheesecake. It was fabulous! It tasted like something from The Cheesecake Factory! For the Superbowl he made a wonderful beef stew and a couple of weeks ago, baked some pork chops. He's become quite a chef! For dinner today he made roasted chicken, mint and onion peas, and roasted potatoe wedges. Ah, it was good! Great Job, Chris!


School and work are going well. English homework is kinda heavy, but all our smaller assignments will culminate in to a big portfolio/research paper at the end of the semester. Only 5 weeks 'til Finals!!! YAAY!


I'm loving my job. It's so wonderful to work with kids. Every work day brings some interesting happenings and its so rewarding to see kids learn! My co-worker are awesome and they make any rough days, smooth. I look forward to one day having kids of my own to teach!


Well there's always some kind of homework assignment due, so I better hop to it and go find out what's coming up for the week!


Christ is the Great Light of the World! He has opened our eyes and given us new life! Hallelujah!


Love, Adrienne Renea