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She bought some new jams and wanted to put on her hat with them.

This is her face when we saw the neighbors dog when we were walking outside that night before going to bed. She only likes animals!

A friend of mine recently gave birth to a child, and she also has a one-year-old child and a two-year-old child they are raising. I went to spend an afternoon with her children so that she could have a little free time. I played a tea party and had a lot of fun with her daughters. When Kierstyn was two years old, it made me very excited!

I flew to Little Rock that day and recorded some family life radio interviews about my book, Love-centered parenting. This is my first business trip in a year and a half, and it feels very strange! But being able to record a subject that I am passionate about in the studio is so vital!

At the end of the interview, one of the moderators, Ann, asked if she could pray for me. This is such a special moment, and it makes me very lucky-I am very happy that someone in the sound studio took a picture!

This summer, Silas joined a tournament team and loved it. He must cast one of his games in his last game. This is his favorite game!

A week ago, we went to Paducah, Kentucky, Branson, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas for summer road trips. We stopped in Clarksville, Tennessee to let Jesse try the new Black Rifle Coffee Company store!

One of the best ways to keep young children in a hotel room: let them look out the window, watching all the cars and people!

In Paducah, we went to this highly recommended donut shop-Reds Donuts.

Its delicious-a box of 12 different doughnuts is only $8!

We also visited Pipers Tea & Coffee-this is also our recommendation!

He is such a good traveler! But he always acted very happy, getting up from his car seat, being hugged or lying on his stomach in the hotel room!

We went to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri-one of our favorite places! Jesse and I both grew up there, so it left us with a lot of special memories!

Very important first stop: cinnamon buns!

Jesse is not really a roller coaster fan, so I love to ride some bigger roller coasters with the girls.

Kierstyn started her first ride!

At first she was not sure what to think, but in the end she enjoyed it!

Some Harlem globetrotters are in Silver Dollar City, so we must go to see their performances.

After spending a day in Silver Dollar City, we went to Wichita, Kansas to visit our family.

Kierstyn really likes hanging out with Uncle Stephen.

She also likes grandma and grandpas dogs!

One morning, my mother and I went to Bramble Cafe on Eldersley Farm.

She bought me this goat cheese there (its delicious!)

Speaking of deliciousness, the one KS restaurant I always miss in Tennessee is Braums. So we had to stop for some frozen yogurt and burgers!

Caitlin can skate on the skating rink in Kansas, and my mother has to come and see her day.

Kierstyn likes hanging out with her cousins!

We finally went to Chicken N Pickle!

I met a friend I havent seen in 17 years! ! (She drove to pick me up from Oklahoma in the afternoon!)

My parents also invited a group of our friends to a grand picnic in one evening!

We are all going to visit my grandpa (Kierstyn loves his dog!)

We ended our time in KS and took some trolleys in Jesses house!

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Linda Kember, Malcolm Clarkson, Shirley Tucker, Raven Wyntre-Clarkson, Polly Vaughan, Ralph Wimmer, Andrea Ochave celebrate Shirley Tuckers 104th birthday. (Susan Walker photo)

Shirley Tucker turned 104 last month

Shirley Tuckers shouting tea party for her 103rd birthday was so nice, she did it twice. Though, provincial health orders were truly to blame for both.

Named by the birthday girl herself, Tuckers first shouting tea party marked her birthday May 9, 2020, when provincial health orders put the kibosh on traditional celebrations. Even her son was trapped in California and couldnt be present as usual.

A decision was made to hold a tea party on the lawn, where guests could be physically distanced.

This year the same group of friends and relations gathered on the Weald Road lawn for a shouting tea party and to toast Tucker on her 104th birthday.

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Tucker graduated from Victoria High School before attending Victoria College when it was at Craigdarroch Castle. She received degrees from the University of Washington and Columbia University. After retiring from teaching in 1981, Tucker returned to Victoria and joined the Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club in 1984.

Tucker continued to bowl into her 90s.

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U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Texas State Chairman of the Republican Party Allen West as he arrives at Midland International Air and Space Port in Midland, Texas, U.S., July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Allen West, the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas and a conservative firebrand, said on Friday he was resigning after less than a year on the job.

A former one-term Florida congressman and darling of the Tea Party movement, West will remain in his role until a new leader is chosen next month, the state's Republican party said in a statement. No reason for his resignation was given.

West, a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, has sharply criticized other Republican leaders in Texas during his tenure as party chairman, including Governor Greg Abbott.

West has said he is mulling a challenge against Abbott next year, despite Abbott having earlier this week won the endorsement of Trump for his reelection bid. There is speculation that West may also try for a congressional seat or the lieutenant governor spot.

The Republican Party of Texas said in its statement that West "will take this opportunity to prayerfully reflect on a new chapter in his already distinguished career" and hailed him as a "bulwark against progressive socialism."

Last weekend West delivered remarks at the "For God & Country Patriot Roundup" in Dallas that featured Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and other proponents of the Q-Anon conspiracy theory.

West, who has lived in Texas since 2014, spent 22 years in the Army and was a battalion commander during the Iraq war. He was relieved of his command in 2003 and fined $5,000 after firing a gun near an Iraqi man's head during an interrogation.

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Participating in a three-day campaign called Make the Wave activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Scotland will hold creative performances on June 7 to raise awareness of the increase in flooding and sea level rise expected due to climate change.

The action begins in Scotland but will travel down the UK to Cornwall where the 47th G7 Summit is taking place in June between 11 and 13.

Performances lined up in Scotland include an Edwardian tea party in Forres, a business suit G7 summit tea party in Dundee and wild swimmers wearing costumes highlighting sea level risk in Edinburgh.

On Findhorn beach, Forres, the XR activist group will be dressing up in hand-made Edwardian period costumes to have dinner and drinks at a table on the beach.

As they dine, the group will be submerged by the rising tide to satirise what they group claims is the political classs inaction on climate change.

The table cloth banner will read Drowning in Promises.

At the V&A in Dundee, a group of rebels will be having a tea party dressed in business attire to mimic the G7 summit.

They will vote down climate policies and drink oil out of teacups and champagne flutes.

This action hopes to highlight the failures of G7 leaders to tackle the Climate and Ecological Crisis.

They will have a banner reading G7 Fossil Fuels = Sea Level Rise.

On Portobello beach, XR Edinburgh will be swimming in the Firth of Forth near Portobello Leisure Centre with placards and costumes highlighting the risk rising sea levels represents to the coastal suburb.

Other creative performances include XR Inverness dropping a banner outside Invergordon Boating Club with North Sea oil rigs in the background.

They will be drawing attention to the threat of sea level rise to Inverness and many communities around the Moray and Cromarty Firths which are at risk of flooding.Elliot Blaauw, 68, a pensioner from Alness, said: Im doing this for my grandchildren. If we dont act now to stop global warming from pollution, we will all suffer.

"Young people should not have to pay for our mistakes.

In Glasgow, a group named the Blue Rebels who symbolise rising water as a consequence of the climate crisis will perform outside the SSE Hydro where the UN climate change conference COP 26 will take place in November.

An Extinction Rebellion spokesperson said: Their silent presence embodies both the grief and sorrow we feel in this climate emergency, but also reminds us of the power that lies in all of us to face it together.

On Gairloch beach, activists will be swimming in the sea to highlight the risk of sea level rise related flooding with placards saying Act Now Swim Later, Fossil Fuel = Sea Level Rise, Drowning in Promises - Act Now, and banners saying Fossil Fuel = Extinction and G7 Act Now.

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Costumed climate change protesters are planning a tea party in the sea on Cleethorpes seafront to highlight the dangers of rising sea levels in coastal areas.

A demonstration by Extinction Rebellion Grimsby/Cleethorpes and North East Lincolnshire 4Climate (NEL4Climate) is planned to take place between 4.30pm and 6pm on Tuesday at Brighton slipway near the lifeboat station.

Costumed protesters are set to parade down the seafront and have a tea party in the sea as the tide comes in to protest at the danger of sea level rise due to the climate crisis.

Activists are planning to give information to passers by about the rising sea levels and the high level of risk in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Lincolnshire.

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Jaime Armour, a local business woman from Cleethorpes, said: Our family businesses including ReefRash and the Helm are close to the seafront in Cleethorpes.

"Im really worried about the impact flooding will have on the family business. Will we even be able to get insurance in the future? The government needs to take drastic action to cut CO2 emissions now.

The groups say that sea level rise is already happening but will only get worse along with the chance of extreme weather and storm surges if the county doesn't keep within the Paris Climate agreement.

South Lincolnshire and the Fens, an area hugely important to the country for food production, will also be severely affected according to the activists.

They say that while many people are aware of air pollution and wildfires, they do not realise that flooding will be one of the climate-induced disasters most likely to affect the UK.

Cleethorpes resident Mary Horobin said: Im very worried about the climate emergency and think it should be made much clearer to people how serious the situation is.

"Any event to raise awareness is worthwhile. There are millions of climate refugees, and its just going to get worse. Cleethorpes could easily be under water in a few decades.

"Action needs to be taken. Things need to change very quickly

The action in Cleethorpes is part of a national day of protest called Make Waves happening in more than 80 coastal communities over the four days leading up to the G7 summit conference in Cornwall.

G7 is a meeting of the leaders of seven of the wealthiest democracies in the world who have all agreed that there is a climate crisis but the protest groups claim are not taking enough action.

NEL4Climate and Extinction Rebellion hope to send a clear signal to Boris Johnson and G7 summit delegates that ordinary people demand greater, immediate action to tackle the climate and ecological emergency.

The actions focus is on sea level rise and the groups say that building higher sea defences is not the answer, they want more to be done to tackle emissions, especially continued dependence on fossil fuels.

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