Kaylee's 15th Birthday

Our sweet Kaylee is 15 years old today. In honor of her birthday, I took her first thing this morning to get her permit. She has one year and 50 hours of driving between her and her license. We're very excited to have another driver in the family to help us keep up with our crazy schedule!

Kaylee Baylee is a sweet girl, who is quickly turning into a mature young woman. Here is a bit about her:

• School- Kaylee is very academic. She is currently taking three honors classes including Biology, English and Geometry. She is super smart, getting straight A's in school. She currently has no idea what she wants to be when she grows up, but knows that she wants to go to college and is leaning towards Olivet Nazarene. 
• Friends- Kaylee has been blessed with many good friends over the years. She continues to keep in good touch with Brittney Comer, Lily Ford, and Chloe Flender from Iowa. Her new friends in Florida includes a group of five girls including: Camryn Nelson, Lilly Hass, Lilly Doster, and Delaney Eagen. She also attends youth group with Faith Cunningham. Friends having become a big part of Kaylee's life, as her weekends are filling up with her social calendar. 
• Basketball- Kaylee loves basketball and has made tremendous progress over the last year. Kaylee played for the Jupiter Jaguar Travel Team last Spring and hopes to play with them again this Spring. Kaylee is also getting ready to start her JCS basketball season and hopes to be a starter on Varsity. Kaylee is a great defensive player and rebounder. Her offensive game keeps improving, but she lacks confidence and has to be coaxed to shoot. 
• Volleyball- Kaylee enjoys the game of volleyball and just wrapped up her JCS season on the JV team. Kaylee was one of two setters. Kaylee is very aggressive and is all over the court. Kaylee struggles to serve, so rotates out when it's her turn. Kaylee is a hard worker though and keeps working to improve her skills. She is considering going out for beach volleyball in the Spring to help her all around game improve.
• Youth Group- Kaylee still misses her Oakland Church Youth Group in Iowa. Kaylee has tried hard to get plugged into our Calvary Church Students, but it has been a struggle. There is a huge homeschool population and they tend to keep together. Kaylee has slowing made some friends in her small group, but still prefers to bring her own friends with her. Faith and Lily Hass often attend youth group with Kaylee, so that has made it more fun. 
• Hobbies- Kaylee has always loved to read and continues to do so. She also enjoys exercising and watching TV/movies. She is all about the teeny bopper shows like Twilight, Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Divergent series.
• Kind Hearted- Kaylee is very thoughtful and mature for her age. She loves Jesus and is a great friend to others. She gives really great hugs too!
• Baking- Kaylee loves to bake and especially enjoys making chocolate chip cookies and banana bread. 
• Hard Worker- Kaylee is a great worker and will do well at whatever job she chooses in life. She has started babysitting lately and is enjoying the extra money, which she has been spending on clothes.
• Shopping- Kaylee used to hate shopping, but now that is one of her favorite things to do with her friends. They enjoy going to the mall together and trying on fancy clothes and taking pictures of each other...

In order to celebrate her birthday, Kaylee invited Lilly Hass, Lilly Doster, Delaney and Camryn over to our house for her favorite penne pasta dish and homemade hot fudge sundaes. Following dinner, they went bowling. They then wrapped up the night by staying up late, watching movies and having a slumber party.