Kansas City to the MAX

  Destiny got home from our Florida winter in time to compete in a Nazerene youth competition called Extreme.  We found out the rules last minute, and realize the things we prepared over the winter, weren't going to work after all.  YIKES!

  We quick ran outside with the camera for 2 shots, one landscape and one portrait, and hoped for the best.  It was VERY brown in Kansas at the time, so we had to work with what we had. Bleh.

   I had her use my "big" camera, and after a quick photoshop tutorial, let her go to town.  She did great!

 Then the song, we went round and round and round, and at the last minute, she came up with Francesca B. "This is the Stuff" since she knew all the words from the radio.

  Here goes nothing......
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You can watch the video here.
https://www.facebook.com/daleandtonya/videos/10158469140160230/

  She was super nervous and swayed alot, hee hee, but still got a 1 rating on both her photo entries and the song and moved on to MAX, the regional competition in Olathe.  YAY!

  We decided to make a fun weekend of it, go to IKEA, book some essential oil classes and see our friends in the area.

  I fell in love with these lamps from IKEA for our retro kitchen.  LOVE the pop of orange! 
  We got this HUGE hanging one, and the matching lamp one that will be altered for hanging above the sink.

  To give you an idea of how huge and awesome this one is, let me share another pic with the kids in it, for perspective!

  On to the FERCHOS for some F U N!

  Remember the RV family we met last Spring?  I LOVE that the Lord orchastrated all the details for this amazing meeting.  Dale and Dawson met, then Tiffany and Tonya, Sophie and Summer the dogs, and all those fun kids that fell stair step to each other and got along AMAZINGLY from the start. 

www.rvoilers.com/blog/meandering-the-midwest

  It was a Ferguson Fercho reunion!  :)  We went to church together, hung out at their house several days, just talking and catching up while the kids played.

  We drove in to watch the competition several times throughout our stay.....

​  Avery found her photo right away!

  We got to hear the College choir sing, that was super awesome!

 https://www.facebook.com/daleandtonya/videos/10158619012745230/?l=5483768151054113180

  Here is Destiny's performance:

https://www.facebook.com/daleandtonya/videos/10158618999545230/?l=3461767273288885427

  We found out at the end of the weekend, that she got 2 perfect scores from 2 different judges on the Avery photo, the log one also got a 1 and her singing got a 1. YAY Destiny!  

  Now that we had our girl back, we planned to hang out with Fercho's and get all caught up!  Tiff took us to the Freezing Moo, a super COOL rolled up ice cream place!

  I got the Pink Lady, which was vanilla base with graham cracker, fresh strawberries and sweetened condensed milk. I got to pick 3 toppings so I just did those 3 again, SUPER yum!

  Watch how they do the ice cream rolling here:

https://www.facebook.com/daleandtonya/videos/10158618924670230/?l=3876085257283225106

  They had a printer so you could print your rolled ice cream selfie.

  We also got to go enjoy a day at the Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead.  Free after 2pm during the week and SO DARLING!

  It was a gorgeous warm spring day, and perfect for goat feeding, enchanted forest walking and playing on the barn playgrounds. They had so many cool animals, and exhibits too!

  The old school room was really neat too! 

  Check out these CRAZY rules for teachers of 1872!!!!!

  The GIANT wind chimes in the Enchanted Forest was my favorite part.  They sounded amazing! I made sure to get a video of it, but its on facebook, so use this link to go take a listen. 

www.facebook.com/daleandtonya/videos/10158618997645230/?l=419352533112005713 |

​  Is that not the BEST sound?!

  Hope you all had an amazing weekend and start to your week!  Sending blessings and hugs from the Fergusons...

~T