ACE Convention 2010 - Part II

Small Ensemble -- Back Row (L to R):  Ray Garcia, Austin Albaugh, Kevin Gonzalez, Gio Suarez, Talon Cooper & Luis Martinez

Front Row (L to R):  Britnee Derscheid, Melissa Watson, Megan Brubeck & Jenny Gonzalez

They brought home a 2nd place medal for this event : )

Gio, Talon, Luis & Britt

Austin, Britt & Melissa

Kevin & Megan

Ray receiving his 2nd place ribbon for this event!

 Austin, Talon & Luis receiving their medals for this!

Ashley receiving her 4th place medal for her Poetry Recitation!  In my opinion, she should have placed higher than this, but...I guess the judges probably don't want my opinion : )

Jenny receiving her 3rd place medal for her Poetry Recitation!

Dalton after receiving his 1st place medal in Table Tennis, WAY TO GO DALTON!!!

Jordan & Janae Waggoner receiving his 6th place ribbon for Table Tennis!

Austin Albaugh receiving his 1st place medal for his Color Photo-Still Life, YEA AUSTIN!!!

Megan receiving her 4th place ribbon for her Black & White Photo-Charcater Trait

Ashley Fulton receiving her 6th place medal for her and Jenny's duet!

Janae Waggoner receiving her 5th place for her Wood Working!

Jordan Waggoner receiving his 4th place for Wood Working!

Janae receiving her 4th place for her Clay work!

Talon performing his clown act!

Talon finishing his clown act!

Talon receiving his 2nd place medal for his clown act! : )

Britnee won 2nd place for the C.A.P. award this year, this is a VERY special award that only 6 people receive out of the 100's of students that participate!  You have to be a "well-rounded" individual to receive this award, and that she IS!  You must enter the following catergories in-order to be up for this award and earn medals in each of them as well:  Music, Art, Platform & Writing.  This is based on a point system and she earned 57 points out of a possible 60 (I think).  WAY TO GO BRITT, we are SO proud of you!!!!

Mr. Coleman, our principal, receiving an award for our school!  We earned a 2nd place for our Music participation and 3rd place for our Sports participation!  This is based on the places your total group earned in these areas!

The whole FCA gang--the students, sponsors and guests!

Yajaria & Talon being crazy! : )

Kevin, Britt, Missie & Gio showing off their medals : )

Me and "my girls" - Yajaria, Bobbie, me, Melissa & Britt

You all were a GREAT group to be "in-charge" of!  I'm so glad we got all the worlds problems solved, your kid's names figured out and that we only had on night of hearing "here comes the big one", LOL : )  I am SO proud of all of you and I know God has great things in store for you!  --Thanks for helping out Bobbie!

Jerry, Talon & myself

Talon--We are SO proud of you and are so happy that we were able to be a part of your first

ACE Convention!  It was AWESOME to watch you perform and to succeed in many of the categories that you entered!  You are a VERY talented, young man and we KNOW God has GREAT things in store for your life!  We can't wait to see how well you do with your first Internationals in May and at your future conventions you attend.

WE LOVE YOU!!!

ACE Convention 2010 - Part I

Well what a wild and crazy week it has been at the 2010 Heatland Student Convention!!!  We spent the week at Ball State University with our school, Frankfort Covenant Academy, participating in over 50 categories!  Our kids did GREAT and we are SO proud of all of them!!!  I must brag on Talon, after all, he is my very own, so...he entered 10 catergories and brought home medals in 7 of those catergories, YEA!!!  We, Jerry and I, are SO proud of you Talon!!!  He received the following: 1st place with the Radio Broadcast team, 2nd place with the Small Ensemble, 2nd place in the1600 Meter Run, 2nd with his Clown Act, 3rd with the Mixed Quartet, 4th with the Boy's Basketball Team & 6th with the Boy's 400 Meter Relay team!  Enjoy this first part of many, many pictures -- I will try to get the rest of what I plan on putting on here, by early next week.

This was our Mixed Quartet checking in and getting ready to sing!  L to R:  Jenny Gonzalez, Missie Watson, Gio Suarez and Talon

The judges praying with the group before they begin!

And their off, singing "Give Me a Vessel"

Gio and Talon receiving their 3rd place medals for this Mixed Qt. 

Here's my boy getting ready to start the 1600 meter (1mile) run! 

Talon giving it all he's got at the finish line!!!

Talon receiving his 2nd place medal for the 1600 meter!  He ran it is 6 mins. 26 seconds, the first place was only 4 seconds ahead of him, ugh!  We are SO proud of his accomplishments on this event!

Austin getting ready to start the Boy's 100 Meter Dash

Dalton finishing the Boy's 100 Meter Dash

Yajaria Baltierra running the 200 meter dash!  She took 2nd in this event, whoo hoo!

Britnee Derscheid getting ready to participate in the Girl's 400 Meter Relay!

Britt handing the baton off to Margaret, go girls!!!

Last leg of the Girl's 400 Meter Relay--Yajaria handing it off to Ashley!  The girls took 2nd in this.

Alex getting ready to start the 1st leg of the Boy's 400 Meter Relay!

Talon getting ready for the hand-off from Alex!

Last leg of the Boy's 400 Meter Relay (Kevin handing it off to Gio) we took 6th in this because one of our guys got his hand caught and dropped the baton : (  I'm sure they would have finished at least 2nd if this hadn't happend, but...such as life!

3 of our 4 guys - 400 Meter Relay guys (Talon, Kevin & Gio)

Our Boy's 400 Meter Relay Team - L to R:  Geo Suarez, Alex Fry, Talon Cooper & Kevin Gonzalez

Talon & Gio receiving their 6th place ribbons for the Boy's 400 Meter Relay

Miss Britt doing her "Second Chance", Dramtic Monolgue.  She took 2nd in this I believe, she had to write it and perform it, it was very good!!

Missie Watson & Britnee Derscheid performing their Female Duet, they did an EXCELLENT job on this, in my opinion! : ) 

Missie & Britt all smiles after realizing they took 2nd place with their Female Duet, WAY TO GO GILRS!!!

Britt & Kevin giving each other a high-5 after hearing that their Mixed Trio (Megan Brubeck, Kevin Gonzalez & Britnee Derscheid) had placed 2nd!

Talon participating in the Soccer Kick, he didn't place in this one.

Ray Garcia doing the Soccer Kick

Luis Martinez doing Soccer Kick, he took 5th place in this!

Britnee realizes she has just won the 1st place for her Website Design!

Britnee Derscheid receiving her 1st place medal for her Website Design!  Check it out at:  writing4him.us

Melissa Watson getting ready to receive her 5th place medal for her Short Story, way to go Missie!

Missie all smiles after receiving her 1st-ever ACE medal!!!

Our Radio Broadcast team getting ready to receive their 1st place medal, YEA!!!  This was written by Jordan Waggoner and the actors/actresses were:  Jordan Waggoner, Alex Fry, Talon Cooper, Janae Waggoner & Megan Brubeck.  This is the 2nd year our Radio Broadcast has taken 1st place,
whoo hoo!

Jenny Gonazlez doing her Poetry Recitation, she did a GREAT job!!!

Jenny receiving her 5th place medal for her Poetry Rec.

Kevin Gonzalez all smiles after taking 1st place for his Oratory, great job Kevin!!!

Alex Fry taking 6th place for Spelling!

Watch for Part II next week! 
I took over 200 pictures, so it is really hard to decide which ones to put on here, ugh!

"At the Cross" Talon's Clown Act

I thought I would put this in a post of its own, since Talon was the only one that entered in this category.  He loves to be a clown and he thought this would be something he would really enjoy.  After weeks and months of not having a clue what to do for this, one of our freinds/neighbors, Marlene, "hooked us up" with a retired hobo clown.  We took what he shared with us and adapted it so it would fit into the time frame and criteria of the Clown Act guidelines.  Talon wanted something funny and full of life, BUT...since he/we couldn't think of anything, it ended up being a mime act with a rather serious story-line.  We told him there is always next year to create something funny.  There were only 3 clown acts and he took 2nd place with his act, so we were proud of him and his accomplishments for his first-time trying.

Talon A.K.A. Boxcar, beginning his clown act!

Cleaning up the place and discovers;  a bottle of beer, a box of cigs and some playing cards.  He figures

no one is looking and these are things he needs in his life, so he sticks them in his bag for later use.

He can't figure out why these dice are laying at the foot of the cross???  He throws them away, not knowing   they were left there, representing the gambling that was done for Jesus life. 

This "word-less" book was at the foot of the cross as well.  Not knowing what it was all about, he throws it away with the trash too.

He can't figure out what this "red stuff" is runing down the cross, so he attempts to clean it off.

Finally figuring out what all of this is about, he kneels "At the Cross" and asks for God's forgiveness, making him a new creature in Christ!

Talon receiving his 2nd place medal for his clown act!