LPA Regional: Day 2

For day 2, there was an activity room provided for the little-little's for the parent's to attend the various meetings planned for the day. There were a lot of little-little girls! The boys took over in the teenage department!

The girls with one of the informative and helpful

The adults on the Cessna tour

Ready for food and fun!

Taking some time to enjoy the weather before the DANCE!!!!

And, the most popular girl was...Lilah! Ok, so I'm biased, but she was a hit! I am SO thankful that the Sunflower chapter was able to host this regional, we both had an absolute blast!!!

LPA Dance

Check out the link above for a news review on the conference and dance

It's raffle time!!!

Carson, our Chapter President! For being such a super hero and making it through the dance and for all the support and help he gave to the chapter!

LPA Regional: Night 1

This year, the Sunflower Chapter was excited to host an LPA Regional meet for District 7! Our area has not hosted one in Wichita for almost 7 years! The hotel we were at worked very well with the needs of those who were attending the conference. We had a blast both days of the conference and I know I am looking forward to many more LPA Regional, District, and National events. Lilah is at the prime age where she is able to gain information from other LP's at the conferences.

I have been waiting to take her to larger Regional and National events because I believe they would have benefited me more than her because of her understanding of knowledge. I have relied heavily on our POLP groups and social networks to handle situations on my end as a parent, but now that she is older, I believe she will want to know their are others who are just like her in stature. She will be able to talk with other LP's, relate to stories and various issues that I will not be able to relate to.

This conference really opened up my little girl socially! She is growing up so fast!!!

Petey, reading a personal story to the girls.

There was a quartet competition in the hotel the same weekend we were there. This group GRACIOUSLY sang for us not once, but twice during the weekend! They were excellent and it was fun for both the adults and children!

My runner!

Taking some time to walk the River and take pics

Katie showing the other girls how to do cart wheels. Looks painful, but she managed to do this for hours! Lilah is practicing to be just like Katie- ahhhh!!! *Can we say mom's pulling her hair out at the sight of this?!*

This is an AWESOME chair that was made available for the silent auction, which I bid upon and won! This is a pretty awesome chair that holds up to 160 lbs., which means Lilah will have it for a very long while!

Girl power! They had so much fun together! 

Hutchinson Salt Mine and Underground Vault

Wow, I so much dislike when I get on a roll with posting blogs and then they fall to the wayside do to life expectancies! Instead of boring you with details of the past few months, I shall overload you all with photos! Besides, who really takes the time to read what I have to say, most want to look at Lilah anyways! 

In early May, we met up with the Sunflower Chapter of LPA for some food and fun! We met up at a local restaurant (the name escapes me because it has been so long!) for some great home cooking and conversation before heading to the Salt Mines.

Lilah and her friend Katie Scheer. Fortunately for us, the Scheers live close, and the girls are only 2 years difference in age, Lilah is 3 and Katie is 5. 

We visited the Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson, KS. Although I live less than 45 minutes from this place, this was the first time I had ever been here, and I was VERY happy that we made the trip to see this place! It was a great place to learn and explore. The girls had so much fun and looked so cute in their hard hats!

Look at that cute miner! ;)

This was one lesson in history. If you look closely to the left of the photograph you can see where it says "Our loss, Great National Tragedy, Death of the President" The price of this paper was 20 cents!!!

I thought this was pretty funny, having a Miss Salt Queen Pageant. How would you liked to be crowned the Queen of Salt, almost has the same ring to it as The Queen of Corn as held by Birdee Pruitt!

Taking a nice tour through the Salt Mines. We were lucky enough to stop and pick up some large salt rocks of our own to take home. This was the part I think Lilah enjoyed the most!

I don't think anyone wanted to be photographed wearing their hard hats! *Thus why I stayed BEHIND my own camera!!! Clever!*

Lilah looking for the rocks she wanted to take home with her. Side note: As an embarrassing reflection of my childhood, I used to collect rocks. It did not matter how plain they were or if they were cement, I would come home with my pockets full of rockets, which would then be placed in my junk drawer or if I really liked them, on my book case. I have since passed such collecting on to my child!

We had a blast hanging out with our LP Chapter and can't wait to get together again before the school year starts!

LPA Christmas Party

Yes, I am WAAAY late on my postings, but the end of this year has been a very busy one! Over the holidays I was working, going to class and trying to deal with all the stresses that is NOT suppose to come with Holiday Spirit and Joy!

In the meantime, our family blog was left to sit and collect 'dust' to say the least! Let me catch you up, blog by new blog, massive amounts of photos and as few words as possible! :o)

To start off with, since we moved back to Kansas, we have been enjoying everything that our local LPA chapter has to offer! In San Antonio, there was a surrounding chapter, but not as close to home as we have here. In early December, we went to the Scheer's house for our annual Sunflower Chapter LPA Christmas party, where Lilah had a blast! *As did all of us!!!* We were able to catch up with families that we missed over our nine month stay in San Antonio!

Here is my observer, Lilah, watching Katie and Blake take hits at the stacking cups.

There goes Katie, speeding up the stairs another time!

... and Lilah trying her hardest to keep up with Katie. The whole time going up she was saying, "Katie, wait! Katie, hold on! Katie!" It was so cute, and you can see Katie waiting for her!

Blake, showing me how much time I have left to take his photo!

Lilah found this cute shopping cart full of hand puppets and stuffed animals....

and this is what she picked out! No smile because it was getting late, over an hour past bedtime!

Duane and Misty (Blake's mommy) watching the kiddo's play with a toy garage set. They were so nice and knowledgeable! I felt like I was playing 20 questions with them, asking if I should do this with Lilah, not do that, what works, what doesn't work and all almost anything else you can imagine! They gave me great advice for her, for now and later in life-so sweet and understanding!

Maddie, Katie's sister, and Ashley-they tried to sneak out of having their picture taken! HA, gotcha girls!

Oh, did I mention there was a game on that night?! So where was my daddy and Dan Scheer (Katie's dad)? Yep, lounging watching the game!

And another picture of my Daddy, with Carson in the back-I think he was trying to get out of a picture as well!!!

This was one of the better pictures we were able to capture at the end of the night!

Denise Hayes, Misti Morley, Duane Jewett, Carson Hayes, Blake Morley, Gary Boykins, Myself *bleh!*, Lilah, Dan Scheer, Maddie Scheer, Ashley Sayer, Katie Scheer and Kate Scheer

We were so happy to be able to celebrate the holidays with our extended family!!!