Shawn Jr. asks Morgan Thomas to Heath Homecoming

Tonight Shawn Jr. asked Morgan Thomas to Heath Homecoming.   The preparation was a family affair with Brittany and Noelle doing a significant amount of work.  The letters were cut from poster board and put into the ground with wooden rods.  The basket on the end was filled with things Morgan likes including chocolate covered strawberries (made by Noelle).   Nice work Helms Family!  It made for a special moment.

If you can not hear from the video - she said yes.  Good work Shawn.

After she said yes.

Preparing for the question.

The big moment.

Shawn's Chemistry Project

Shawn had a chemistry project where he had to write a word out of elements on the periodic table. He chose Coca-Cola.

Brittany's Parking Spot

Every year the Heath girls basketball program does a fundraiser where they sell parking spots for the juniors and seniors to paint. The kids love getting to design their own spot as well as having a guaranteed parking spot each day instead of having to fight the near 3,000 other students also wanting a spot each morning.
This is Brittany's spot for senior year. On the left is the word Rejoice in eight different languages in honor of the Bible verse Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in The Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice!"

Reese "volunteered" to help paint - more like Brittany made him. The compensation for helping paint was that Reese was allowed to paint a small Pikachu popping up behind one of the petals (bottom left corner).

Below is the inspiration behind her spot. She found it on Pinterest.

Misty's New Car

About 6 years ago we purchased a new Chevrolet Suburban for Misty.  After about 170K miles, the Suburban (named Sally) finally gave up.  It was time to retire her.  We needed a new car fast.  After searching and test driving about 8 different cars, we settled on a 2012 Audi Q7 with 19K miles.  It is a terrific car.  It seats 7 people, looks like new and is fully loaded.  Below are a few pictures.

Brittany's New Car

Brittany needed a new car.   After looking around, we landed on a Volkswagen CC.  This is a cool car.  I did not know anything about the CC before we started looking for Brittany.  It is the big brother of the Passat.  It is a little bigger and sportier than the Passat.  But after doing some research and driving a few cars, Brittany and I really liked this car.  We got a great deal on a 2012 model, with about 25K miles that is fully loaded (two-tone leather seats, navigation, sunroof, etc.).  It is a great, German engineered car that looks like new.  Below are a few pictures.