April 2012

Wow...this year is flying by so quickly. Here's a brief update:

Erin - Erin is completely taken with the Hunger Games books. Erin took 5 days and read all three books in the series. She is now re-reading the books. If she gets out a bow and arrow and says that she is Katniss, I'm gonna run away. Erin was really excited because she was one of the top 10% of students this 6 weeks for her AR points. Her reward is she gets to go eat pizza for lunch away from school. She wants to be in the top 3 for total AR points by the end of the year. She and Dad had an agreement...if she could get to 200 AR points by the end of the year, she could get a Kindle Fire. Dad thought this was pretty safe since she only had 64 points at the time. Well, Erin has 238 points now and is reading another book on her Kindle.

Emily - Em finished track and had a rough time. Second practice, the coaches didn't stretch them well and Em pulled her hamstring. She had a difficult time at all the meets. Her hamstring was feeling better for the district meet but not completely healed. She did win both hurdle races she was in but had a lower time than she would have liked. She was happy enough to be the district champ in the 100M and 300M hurdles. Em is going to try tennis next. She has never played, so this should be fun.

E - we finally got done with the Belle Ball. E had so much fun with everything around the Ball it was great to see her light up the room with her smile all night. We were lucky enough to have Tia Jill come from California to enjoy the Ball with us. E was super surprised when Tia Jill was in the car to pick up the girls from school that day. We are beginning our first college visit with Elizabeth. The first school on the list in Texas A&M. We are going on monday to meet with admissions, tour the school, and check out the dorms. I thin our next visit is to the University of Texas. Not sure when we will get that one done.

Melinda - Melinda is doing great at Academy. She is lucky enough to have some great teachers to work with in 5th grade. She has really enjoyed having Erin in a couple of her classes. Academy feels pretty lucky to have her too.

Eric - Eric is driving more for work than ever. Gives him plenty of time to do some car karaoke with the 80's channel on satellite radio.

The family at the Belle Ball