Today is the last day of school! Last day of second and eighth grade. Last day of Junior year. Mitch finished his Freshman year at the U a few weeks back.
Mitch did great at the U. First semester was a little rough but the last one was better, he will be glad to have that year done when he gets home from his mission. He is a really good artist and is thinking about being an architect, but that could change. He helped coach Jacob's baseball team with Kevin. Right now he is working at the Elementary Charter school as a sanitation engineer (Janitor) and is bored stiff with all of his best buddies already on their missions. Two more months to wait for his adventure.
Maddi had a great Junior year! She was on the yearbook staff and she was a member of the Dance Co. She was selected to go to Philadelphia with the Freedoms Foundation and had the time of her life! She will be busy working this summer at Salt City Burger Co. which used to be Su Casa (they have killer sweet potato fries!!!), saving money for a car (since Beyonce died)and attending dance camp with the Dance Co. She is excited to be a returning dancer with the Dance Company for her Senior year! Senior year! Wow how did that happen!!! Last night was the yearbook party and the annual girls sleepover at our house. Such cute girls.
Thomas is the funnest, craziest kid around. He had a fantastic year. He did great in school even though he thinks his English teacher is Satan. He will be in 9th grade next year and has already been to a meeting for the high school swim team. They don't know yet that he swims faster than any one on the team! Thomas is a little absent minded at times so it is a good thing we can check grades on line to help him keep up to speed. I think he will get two B's and the rest A's, Also he is quite the ladies man, we can't go any where without hearing " Hi Thomas" from a group of giggling girls. This summer he will be mowing lawns for his job and getting ready to swim in the State Junior Olympics, attending swim camp at the University of Texas and going to scout camp.
Jacob is so cute! He has loved second grade. We were a little scared switching him back from a charter school but he LOVED his teacher and did really well in school and wasn't too bored. The teacher let us know at one of his parent teacher conferences that on his reading test she found out he is reading at a high school level. Wow! He will be having a great summer being outside(his favorite) and swimming and going to Lagoon. Hopefully he will be playing baseball too, he will be trying out for the All Star team in baseball next week. He is SO good! He is the best hitter! He also wants to go to basketball camp and he brought home a flyer about football camp that he is thinking about ( I am not thinking about it, It cost's too much to do all of this!!!)he also wants to sign up for soccer again. He is our little sportsman!
I think back to last summer and what a bummer it was and am so excited to be able to go out and do the fun things we didn't get to do last year. Other than dreading sending Mitch away, I am really looking forward to this Summer!!!
